Tom was the nickname of a low-level mafia enforcer in Las Vegas in the 1990s. He and his brother, nicknamed "Jerry," were associates of Lucky Goshen and John Flanagan. All were employees of Joey Marks. Tom and Jerry were large Samoan men whose names were too difficult for his associates to pronounce, earning them nicknames based on the Hannah-Barbara cartoon.
In September of 1996, Tom and Jerry, along with Flanagan, held Eleanor Wish hostage as leverage against LAPD detective Harry Bosch and as a test of Goshen's loyalty to Marks.