To maintain order & suppress union activity at its Dearborn MI plant during the late Prohibition Era the #Ford Motor Company began relying on local #Mafia leader Joe #Tocco and associates. Tocco formed a close relationship with Ford executive Harry Bennett. That relationship may have saved Tocco's life ... for a while.

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Assassination of Wyandotte beer baron Tocco | American Mafia

Joe Tocco survived Detroit Mafia wars to become a Downriver underworld power. His 1938 killing may have been the work of rival mobsters or close relatives.