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About Anthony J. Biase
- Anthony Joseph Biase (September 6, 1909 – September 21, 1991) was an Omaha mobster who had a long career in gambling and narcotics and briefly headed the Omaha, Nebraska, crime organization.
- Born in Omaha, Biase's rap sheet went back to 1922.
- It included several burglary and assault charges.
- Biase and his brother Benny owned a cigar store that served as a front for a bookmaking operation.
- During the 1930s, Biase was arrested on charges including bookmaking, burglary, and armed robbery.
- He eventually became involved in illegal gambling operations in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and later on mob-owned casinos in Las Vegas.
- Biase later became an associate of New York Genovese crime family boss Vito Genovese as he extended his criminal operations in the West.
- In 1959, Anthony Marcella, boss of the Omaha organization, was convicted on charges of narcotics and tax evasion.
- Biase succeeded him as boss.
- In March 1960, Biase was indicted on several narcotics charges, based on information from Kenneth Bruce Sheetz, a minor drug dealer in his organization.
- In June 1960, Sheetz was ambushed and nearly killed by two members of the Omaha organization.
- It was rumored that Biase had ordered a $5,000 murder contract on him.
- In December 1960, Biase was convicted on the narcotics charges and sent to Leavenworth Federal Prison in Leavenworth, Kansas for 15 years.
- Paroled in 1970, Biase maintained a low profile for the rest of his life.
- His only other arrest was a misdemeanor gambling charge in 1986.
- On September 21, 1991, Anthony Biase died of natural causes in South Omaha, Nebraska.
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