Rocco Perri, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Age, Net Worth, Biography

Rocco Perri (Italian: ['r?kko 'p?rri]; born Rocco Perre; December 30, 1887 – disappeared April 23, 1944) was an Italian-born organized crime figure in Ontario, Canada in the early 20th century.
He was one of the most prominent Prohibition-era crime figures in Canada, and the spouse of Bessie Starkman. Perri was born in the Italian town of Platì in Calabria, and immigrated to the United States, and later to Canada in 1908.
In the early 1910s, Perri started work in construction and in a bakery.
Perri and his wife began a business in bootlegging in 1916, when Ontario restricted the sale of alcohol.
Starkman dealt mainly with the finances of the business.
He began a career exporting liquor from distilleries, such as Gooderham and Worts, to the United States, and became known as "The King of the Bootleggers".
Perri was charged with perjury after a Royal Commission testimony, and served five months in prison.
In 1930, Starkman was ambushed in her garage and killed; no one was charged with her murder.
In 1940, Perri was arrested and sent to internment at Camp Petawawa as part of the Italian Canadian internment; he was released three years later.
Perri disappeared in Hamilton on April 23, 1944, when he went for a walk to clear his head; his body was never found.

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