“Suitcase” Fidler is one of the best Mob nicknames ever in Boston.

It was the moniker of Allen Leavitt Fidler, who was described in a 1970 FBI report as a “well-known hitman from the Boston area.” He was so good, in fact, that the local Mafia — “In Town” — sent Suitcase and another local contract killer “to the San Francisco area and, according to informants of this office, (they) were supposed to be making the trip to harm someone in that area.”

That would be Joe “the Animal” Barboza. Suitcase didn’t find him, but it says something about his stature in the underworld that he got the contract first.

So why am I bringing up Suitcase today, almost 30 years after his passing?

Because the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, especially in Charlestown. And now, after all these years, Suitcase’s grandson is coming up for trial, in the Teamsters extortion case.

Meet John Fidler, age 52. He’s a chip off the old block — call him “Valise.” He’s one of the five local thugs accused of threatening the “Top Chef” television crew that was taping in Milton back in 2014. They’re charged with trying to arrange some jobs — jobs, as opposed to work. After all, they’re from Local 25.

According to federal documents, John “Valise” Fidler is the thug who terrified the star, Padma Lakshmi, reaching inside her van and shrieking:

“Lookee what we have here!” he reportedly yelled, before addressing her directly: “I’ll smash yer pretty little face!”

Somewhere, Suitcase must be smiling. “That’s my boy!”

Consider the fact that Valise has already spent approximately 16 years in prison. In 1985, he was convicted of stabbing several people in Boston. In 2004, he went to prison for selling cocaine while “working” as a laborer on the Big Dig — a hack job.

How Charlestown is it? Again, somewhere Suitcase is beaming.

So Valise, after his release from Club Fed in August 2008, went into the trade yoon-un movement in Charlestown. And now he is about to go on trial — “Lookee here!”

Of course, it’s not a real Mob column unless you mention the name “Bulger,” so here we go. Back in the 1960s when Suitcase was doing a bit, his family went to a local Townie hack named Jackie Birmingham and asked him to arrange, not a job, but some welfare. (Again, how Charlestown!)

The DA found out that Jackie Birmingham had committed welfare fraud. He was in a jam, so he went to another connected hack, a local lawyer named … Billy Bulger, from South Boston. Billy straightened it right out for Jackie. Billy even bragged about it in his book, on page 287. After all, Jackie B. and Billy B. had so much in common — Billy’s brother was a gangster, and so was Jackie’s.

Tom Birmingham was shotgunned to death in a Charlestown rooming house at age 42 by parties who turned out to be unknown. The dead thug’s nephew and namesake, Jackie’s son Tom, became the protege of Bulger (Billy, not Whitey) and was elected to the state Senate.

Eventually, the gangster’s nephew succeeded the gangster’s brother as president of the Senate.

How Charlestown is that?

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