Aniello Ercole doubled as a fight manager and gambling supervisor of the New York docks. He was closely associated with mobsters Albert Anastasia and Joe Adonis. Anastasia attended lightweight Pat Marcune's fights while the boxer was managed by Ercole. Adonis was heavily involved in mob gambling activities. In 1958 Aniello Ercole was one of 69 hoodlums who operated a betting ring in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Most of the perpetrators were apprehended during an early morning raid carried out by the New York Police Department. However, Ercole became the object of a sweeping police search..