Samuel Nalo

Samuel "The Arab" Nalo (October 18, 1931 Detroit, Michigan - October 1988) was a successful and well-known New York City hijacker and large scale burglar. He is better known than his brother Robert Nalo, and of Iraqi descent.

Donald "Tony the Greek" Frankos thought that he was perhaps the most accomplished stick-up man of his time. Samuel and his Rochester, New York partner stole $1 million in jewelry and currency from the Sherry Netherland Hotel and made other scores at the Regency, Drake, Carlyle and St. Regis. Nalo was on a prisoner football team with Joe Sullivan and Comfort. On October 11, 1970 Nalo and Bobby Comfort robbed Sophia Loren at gun point in her Manhattan Hampshire House apartment, taking over $2 million in jewels.

Samuel "the Arab" Nalo lived in New York City and owned part of the restaurant "Port Said," a popular Middle-Eastern nightclub on 28th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Each night the nightclub featured singers and belly dancers from Egypt. The nightclub offered gourmet meals. On weekend evenings Colombo crime family and Genovese crime family members, including Tony Salerno, packed the seventy-odd tables that surrounded a bandstand. The clientèle also included Telly Savalas, Anthony Quinn, Peter Falk and Martha Raye.

The Pierre Hotel Robbery

Samuel later organized the Pierre Hotel robbery with known Mafia hitman Donald "Tony the Greek" Frankos, "Bobby G," a French-Canadian mobster who dealt drugs for the Lucchese crime family, Ali-Ben, a Turkish friend of Nalo's, American Alan Green from Harlem, New York, "Petey," a jewel thief and old prison buddy of Tony Frankos, and Alphonse Visconti, a Lucchese crime family associate.

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