an Arizona neighbor with New York City mobster Joe Bonanno. In the 1996 HBO movie Sugartime Roemer appears as a CIA agent who recruits Sam Giancana to assist the US in killing Fidel Castro. That is artistic license because Roemer worked for the FBI, not the CIA, and that is not how the CIA recruited the Mafia. The movie Sugartime is based on Roemer's 1989 book, Man Against the Mob. On June 14, 1996, two days before his 70th birthday, Bill Roemer Jr died of natural causes at his home in Tucson, Arizona. He was cremated in Arizona. A plaque in his honor is located at the Cedar Grove Cemetery, St. Joseph County, Indiana. Family Roemer was uncle to Tim Roemer, an American diplomat and politician. Bibliography Roemer, William F. Jr. (1989) Roemer: Man Against the Mob, New York : D.I. Fine, Roemer, William F. Jr. (1990) War of the Godfathers: The Bloody Confrontation Between the Chicago and New York Families for the Control of Las Vegas, New York : D.I. Fine, Roemer, William F. Jr. (1994) The Enforcer: Spilotro, The Chicago Mob’s Man Over Las Vegas, New York : D.I. Fine, Roemer, William F. Jr. (1995) Accardo: The Genuine Godfather, New York : D.I. Fine, Roemer, William F. Jr. (1994) Mob Power Plays: The Mob Attempts Control of Congress, Casinos, and Baseball References External links http://www.ipsn.org/roemer.php 1926 births 1996 deaths Federal Bureau of Investigation agents Organized crime memoirists Military personnel from Indiana Non-fiction writers about organized crime in the United States University of Notre Dame alumni Writers from Indiana United States Marine Corps personnel of World War II United States Marines