Peter Panto Union Reform Leader Murdered By Albert Anastasia

Pietro Peter Panto was a union leader who tried unsuccessfully to remove mob control from the loading docks of the Brooklyn shipyards. In July 1939 Panto disappeared after saying goodbye to his girlfriend one morning. He told her he was meeting two men that he didn't trust. Within weeks she contacted the Brooklyn Eagle, requesting that Kings County District Attorney William O'Dwyer find her man. Newspaper columnist and radio announcer Walter Winchell surmised that the body of Peter Panto was at the bottom of the East River.