Settimo Accardi was once a big time Mafia enforcer, narcotics distributor, and smuggler who knew every major racketeer in the U.S. Accardi was extradited from his native Italy to America carrying his personal possessions in a brown paper bag. He was known to be one of the major importers of heroin into the States, and he controlled the rackets in northern New Jersey for many years, as well as a leader of organized crime in the New York areas. As an enforcer, Accardi kept other gangsters in line, punishing those who strayed outside the Mafia's strict control.

Though never indicted for murder, he was a suspect in several mob slayings. Accardi was serving one year in prison when the Internal Revenue Service filed jeopardy tax assessments of $159,363 against him. Accardi had admitted to two arrests at the naturalization hearing and at the revocation hearing. He stated he could not have been expected to tell immigration authorities about all of his undisclosed criminal records because he would have been violating his Fifth Amendment rights. Accardi was arrested several times on charges of atrocious assault and battery against other gangsters. He pled guilty when he and sixteen others were accused of running a 600 gallon a day still in midtown Manhattan.
Work History
1951 Accardi was running a 600 gallon a day still in midtown Manhattan.

September 28, 1955 after jumping his $92,500 bond, Accardi fled to Italy, he smuggled narcotics from there to the U.S. and Canada, then living for a while in Toronto, directing heroin traffic into the US. During WWI he was in the business of gas-stamp black-marketeering.