Though the actual Frank Costello was incarcerated for tax evasion in the 1950s, this sentence began many years before the Apalachin Meeting, which doesn't match the timeline in the movie.

Frank Costello, 82, the retired “prime minister of the underworld,” who survived a gangland execution attempt and successfully defied efforts by the U.S. government to deport him to his native ...

Robert De Niro plays gangsters Frank Costello and Vito Genovese in Barry Levinson's real-life Mafia drama 'The Alto Knights.' ...