One of three men featured during the Valachi hearings as Lieutenants in the Windsor Ontario faction of the Detroit Outfit. Nick Cicchini was sort of an underworld Jack of all trades participating in counterfeiting, Extortion and Mayhem. His arrest record consisted of entries detailing his envolvement in multiple murders, robberies, burglaries and drug trafficking. Cicchini ranked third in the Windsor Faction of the Detroit family behind Joe Cantalonotte and Onofrio Minaudo. Cicchini role was that of operations supervisor following Minaudo and Catalanotte's move to Cuba in the late '50s. Prior to this move, consecutive indictments "in 1950 and 1952," and ultimately the conviction of Cantalonotte and his hand picked successor Vincent "Jimmy" Finazzo by Canadian authorities in 1960 led to Cicchini being chosen to oversee the partners Canadian interests. Cicchini's involvement in the death of suspected informer Albert Aguechi came to light after Cicchini offered to sell an undercover narcotics agent $100,000 worth of counterfeit $50 bills. The deal fell threw after Cicchini's supplier Aguechi was arrested in New York on drug charges. Aguechi later disappeared in October of 1961 but his mutiliated remains were located in a Rochester, New York field a month later. Cicchini escaped prosecution on the drug charges but was sentenced to serve a prison term in Canada related to his counterfeitting actions. Prior to his rise in Windsor, Cicchini had been the manager of the Erie Baking Co. (673 E. Erie St., Windsor Ontario Canada) from 1953 to 1959. This establishment was owned by Pete Corrado and his sons Anthony and Dominic.
