Rocco Pantaleo
Rocco Pantaleo (9 September 1956 – 26 March 2010) was an Australian businessman.
Born in Calabria, Italy, he emigrated to Australia in 1977 to find work. In 1985 he co-founded the La Porchetta restaurant chain. By the time of his 2010 death it had grown to 80 restaurants.[1]
In 1996, he shot dead Keith Lane. Lane had confronted Pantaleo over allegations he had indecently assaulted a teenage waitress, Lane's niece. The court found that Pantaleo had acted in self-defence, but he was convicted of indecently assaulting the waitress. [1]
Pantaleo died on 26 March 2010 in a motorcycle accident in St Kilda, Victoria. He was fifty-three.[2]