Yes, and plenty of other mobsters, too. Mobsters are greedy and stupid. Paying taxes is as obnoxious to them as having someone make off with their goumads. But tax evasion is a perfect trap. The government doesn't have to prove that you earned your money illegally, and it doesn't even have to explain how you made your money to a jury. All the prosecution has to prove is that you are "living beyond your means." Neil Dellacroce, Carlo Gambino's underboss, got five years because he lost $60k in a Puerto Rican casino at a time when he claimed he only "earned" a "legitimate" $10k/year. He was still in jail during Gambino's terminal illness, which probably cost him his shot at being named the new Don (the nod went to Paul Castellano instead). A prosecutor can bring even a weak tax evasion case to trial because it's easy for him to make a jury hate a "tax cheat." He points to the defendant and says, "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: do you know why you're being crushed by the burden of high taxes? Because of criminal tax-cheats like the defendant--they laugh at honest taxpayers like yourselves." By the time the prosecutor gets through, the defendant feels lucky he wasn't strung up and hanged.