Amato was born in Sicily in 1893 and after arriving in America he moved to Pittsburgh were he became a naturilazed citizen in 1922. During prohibition he was a bootlegger and extortionist. During that time he was arrested twice for murder but each time the charges were dropped. Later on he muscled in on the family's gambling operations and used his bootleg profits to invest in vending machine rackets. Amato died of natural causes in 1973. His son Frank, Jr. also became a member of the Pittsburgh LCN family and died in 2003.
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