I have no picture of this man Bob Kessler and that is because he became a Federal witness.
Bob Kessler was a tall lanky, well dressed man with jet black hair like Superman. The other thing about Bob
was his huge feet, they were like snowshoes! Bob was an associate of Mike Rizzi. Mike Rizzi had brought
him to the Animal and before long Bob was integrating himself with the Animal and his brother. Bob would
stop by the Animals house in Beverly Hills every morning with fresh bagels from Nate and Al's. Mike Rizi had
asked the Animal if there was anything that he could put Bob to work with. So the Animal put him with a
Shylock customer of Theirs down in the garment Center Bernie Bayda. Bernie bought and sold close outs,
so the Animal had Bob watching out after their interests to make sure Bernie gave them the right count.
The money they were making in the close out business was huge at this time.
The Animal began to trust Bob so much that Bob became his sounding board. The Animal even sent Bob
along with Fat Steve to slap around a debtor who owed 15 large. Bob delivered the message to the man "
Never be late with Anthony again" The guy called the Animal and said you didn't have to send Frankenstein
to send me the message. Bob gave the FBI a detailed description of the inside of the Animals home so that
the FBI could bug his place. Bob even told the FBI about the traps the Animal had to see if anyone had
been inside his home. The reason Bob turned was because Mike Rizzi slapped him around one day and
Bob never forgot. He was responsible for turning the Animal who took down the LA family, then he helped
turn John Bronco who made other guys flip...etc..
Bob went over the Animals head one night and set up a meeting with LA Capo Louie Gelfuso. The meeting
was with Bob's friend a movie producer who wanted help with the Unions. When they arrived at the Meeting
Albie Louie Gelfuso's gofer gave Bob a hug and felt the brick sized recorder. He told Louie but by the time
they search Bob he had ditched the recorder. Albie went straight to Shakes Milano who ordered Bob killed.
Shakes sent Rusty and John Vaccaro to see this movie producer at his hotel. They found this producer with
a call girl. They were really FBI agents.... Then in a really funny twist, the Animal saved Bob's life by
informing the FBI that they all wanted Bob dead. That was it for Bob he was off in the program to Seattle.
Bob knew no limits to his informing he went to see a guy in prison who was a close friend. The guy asked
Bob to dig up two kilo's he had so he could sell them and pay Mike to whack out a witness. Bob went to the
FBI instead. The guy died in prison.