Bosses(Camorra)
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James 'Big Jim' Colosimo
(? - 1920) |
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Arrived from Consenza, Italy in 1895 at 17, Big Jim soon decided to start a life of crime. He got bigger and better in 1902 when he married the Madam of one of his bordellos. By controlling several whorehouses he soon became a millionaire. He got the help of his nephew from New York John Torrio, but Torrio wanted later to get into bootlegging. When Big Jim told his nephew he was content with his empire, Torrio had Frankie Yale shoot him dead in his cafe on May 11, 1920. |
John Torrio
(1920 - 1925) |
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Had his own uncle murdered to seek the top, Torrio along with Al Capone were members of Lucky Luciano's Five Pointers Gang so ties with New York were accomplished. Torrio faced problems with an Irish gangster Dion O'Banion. O'Banion suckered Torrio into losing half a million dollars and so Torrio had him murdered. But O'Banion's successor, Hymie Weiss, wanted O'Banion's death to be avenged at had Torrio shot on January 24, 1925. Being so close to death, Torrio retired and turned all his operations to a young 26 year old hoodlum he recruited six years ago named Al Capone. |
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| Before becoming real big time and leading the Chicago Mafia, Al succeeded Johnny Torrio in the Neopolitan Camorra. In 1928 he was approached by Joe Masseria. The Sicilian Mafia had been having a problem with Chicago's Boss Antonio Lombardo, if he could "get rid of him" he would
initiated in the Mafia and become the Capo of Chicago. He took Masseria's offer and on September 7, 1928, Tony Lombardo was shot on the sidewalk. The Camorra and Mafia in Chicago were now merged under the leadership of Al Capone. |
Bosses (Mafia)
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Anthony D'Andrea
(? - 1921) |
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One of the earlier bosses of the Chicago Mafia, D'Andrea was shot to death during the early morning hours while returning from a card game on May 12, 1921. Mike Merlo took over. |
Mike Merlo
(1921 - 1924) |
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Probably had D'Andrea murdered to seek the top, he reigned as boss for three years, dying of natural causes on November 8, 1924. |
Antonio Lombardo
(1924 - 1928) |
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Took over after Merlo's death, he ran the family with an iron fist. What lead him to his end was Al Capone. He was not part of the Mafia, so Joe Masseria made him pay a $50,000 contribution. Lombardo told him not to pay, when the Governo Central learned of this, they took action. Lombardo was murdered on September 7, 1928 on a downtown sidewalk along. The Camorra boss Al Capone was told if he had Lombardo killed, he could take over Lombardo's faction which is what resulted. |
Alphonse Capone
(1928 - 1931) |
| The most notorious gangster in history. Capone was more into violence than peace, he was responsible for the St. Valentine's Day massacre in which he gunned down the O'Banion gang. In 19Capone hosted the 1931 meeting in which the "Commision" was established in which he held Chicago's seat as one of the seven original members. Although never charged for any of his murders, Capone met his end by the IRS, charging him with tax evasion and in 1931 got an 11 year sentance. |
Frank 'The Enforcer' Nitti
(1931 - 1943) |
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Nitti was the successor of Al Capone. When some of the Chicago family got indicted for after an enormous shakedown in the movie industry, Paul Ricca thought Nitti should take the fall for everyone. Nitti had done 18 months once for tax evasion and did not want to go back to jail. Everyone got pissed off at him, saying he screwed up this whole Hollywood deal. So on March 19, 1943, Nitti took a pistol and took his own life by blowing his brains out. |
Felice DeLucia
a.k.a.
Paul 'The Waiter' Ricca
(1943 - 1945) |
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A short reign or not? It is a belief that Paul 'The Waiter' Ricca was in fact, secretly the boss during Nitti's reign right after Al Capone. The press dubbed Nitti the boss and Nitti may have believed it. Ricca didn't mind people thinking he wasn't the boss. After Nitti took his life though, he would become the official boss of the Outfit. But the same year, Ricca got ten years in jail for his complicity in a Hollywood extortion racket, the same thing Nitti took his life over. After his appeal was denied, he chose Tony Accardo as boss in 1945 and himself as Consigliere. |
Anthony Accardo
(1945 - 1957) |
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'Joe Batters' as he was called, Chicago born Tony Accardo was recruited to become a soldier for Al Capone in 1926 and eventually became boss after Ricca was sentenced to prison. Joe Batters accomplished more than any other Boss in Chicago, but he just got bored with his life. But one could not lose such an important leader. He decided to semiretire and to be available for consulation on important matters. He was the real power in the family until his death at Palm Springs in May 27, 1992. He never spent a night in jail. He turned his reign over to Sam Giancana. |
Salvatore Giancana
(1957 - 1966) |
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'Momo' as Giancana was called loved to be in the limelight. Not keeping his head down as his predessessor Accardio did so well. In 1965, the FBI granted Giancana immunity but he refused to testify to a grand jury and got locked up for a year. But the Outfit was convinced all this harrassment was due to his high profile. Giancana agreed to leave and moved to Mexico in 1966, but was later assassinated on June 19, 1975 at his home in Chicago when he refused to let Chicago in on his new Gambling Empire. He is believed to have had a part in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. |
Sam 'Teets' Battaglia
(1966 - 1967) |
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A good choice to succed Giancana, but his reign was short. In May 1967 he was arrested for bribing public officials. He was released on August 29, 1973 because of a terminal illness and died September 7, 1973, but with him in jail, the Outift needed another leader. |
Felix
'Milwaukee Phil'
Alderisio
(1968-1969) |
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Became boss after Battaglia went to jail, this once top hit man for the mob had a tough, but short, hit free reign. In 1969 he was arrested for conspiring to defraud a Chicago suburb bank. He got nabbed for other charges and died at the Marion Penitentiary on September 25, 1971. |
John 'Jackie' Cerone (1969-1970) |
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Tony Accardio's protege, some saw him as the greatest Mob Boss ever. He met his end when an angry employee Lou Bombacino got his revenge over a petty dispute by turning in evidence. He went to jail for three years on racketeering charges. After his release in 1973, he would become the Underboss. |
Joseph "Doves" Aiuppa
(1970 - 1986) |
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Starting his reign with Accardio and Gus Alex, the latter two decided he was a confident ruler and took control in the early 70's. He had an active reign especially with the Outfit's casino's in Las Vegas. He sent Tony 'The Ant' Spilotro to oversee Las Vegas. And made a lot of examples. He got a lot of attention with the murders of Sam Giancana and Jimmy Hoffa. In 1985, Aiuppa and Cerone, who had returned to the scene ten years earlier, were convicted for skimming two million dollars from a casino. Aiuppa went to jail at age 78. He would later become Consigliere of the Outfit after the death of Accardo in 1992. |
Joseph Ferriola
(1986-1989) |
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Took control after Aiuppa got sent away. He ordered the hit for Tony Spilotro and his brother Michael and had them buried in a cornfield in Indiana. But Ferriola was suffering with incurable cancer and gave his operations to Sam Carlisi. Ferriola died of his cancer on March 11, 1989. |
Sam 'Wings' Carlisi
(1989-1993) |
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Ran Ferriola's operations when he got cancer, Sam 'Wings' Carlisi ran the shot's from the late 80's until he got put away in Decmeber 1993 for charges of racketeering, gambling, extortion, arson, conspring to murder, tax fraud, and loan-sharking. He died in prison on Jabuary 1, 1997. |
Joey "The Clown" Lombardo
(1993-Present) |
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Since the Chicago Outfit has kept low for such a long time, it is unsure of who is boss of the Outfit today. Recently the Crime Commision named John DiFronzo boss of the Outfit, but many think Joey Lombardo is boss. "The Clown" cannot get "materially involved" since until his parole runs out after he was released from prison in 1993. Joey Lombardo is the most qualified to run the Outfit. But since he'll be in violation of parole if he's seen with any known members of the Outfit, he runs it through his cousin Joe Andriacci, the Capo looking over the West Side and Dupage County. This way he could be discussing "family" business. He's too smart to go back in the can. The Outfit is now heavily involved in the importion of narcotics. Upon on the death of Tony Accardo in 1992, the Outfit sent its members throughout the world to establish contacts. The upper echelon mob members serve as a bank for financing large purchases of narcotics and the lower level members are generally involved on the street to make extra money for themselves without official approval by mob hierarchy. Other rackets that the Outfit are involved in is gambling, prostitution, pornography, labor racketeering, auto theft, sports betting, loansharking, and public corruption. The Outfit has started to form alliances with other ethinc groups in Chicago and still has men in Nevada, Florida, California, and Arizona. It is believed that the Outfit may now have the most power in the country, and the only one with any real Teamster or Las Vegas power anymore. There is said to be around 70 "made" members and about 700-1200 associates in the Outfit today. |
Underbosses
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John Philip "Jackie the Lacky" Cerone
(1973-1986)
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| When Cerone was sent to prison in 1970, he lost his spot as the top man in Chicago. But when he was released in 1973, he would become the Underboss of the Outfit. Once released, he immediately took care of the guy who put him in jail when he had him blown up in Arizona. Cerone would play a major role in the Outfit's success in the 1970s. The Accardo, Aiuppa, and Cerone trio would make the Outfit the most powerful in the country. But his success could not go on like Accardo's. He would go to trial for Casino skimming on September 23, 1985 and would be convicted on March 25, 1986. He was sentenced to twenty five and half years in prison. Not expected to make through his sentence, he would be released on July 16, 1996. Jacky Cerone died July 22, 1996, six days after he was paroled from prison. He was 82 |
Ernest "Rocky" Infelice
(1986-1991)
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| Ernest Inflelice was a very powerful man in the Outfit. He started his life of crime when he became an associate of Jimmy "The Turk" Torello. When World War 2 started, Rocky was drafted into the military and volunteered for the paratroopers. He joined the 101st Airborne and went behind enemy lines and fought. Once he got out of the military, Ernest became one of the top jewel thieves in Chicago. But he was then convicted for heroin dealing. Drug Dealing was banned in the Outfit and it was because Ernest was not "made" and that he was not directly involved in the the Outfit that he was not killed. Another reason he wasent kill was that he was married to the daughter of Tony Capezio, a very close friend to Tony Accardo. In the 1960s, Rocky moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas and opened up a bookmaking joint there. He would return in 1966. Once he returned he would be convicted of hijacking and would be released in 1972. When he returened, Ifelice would be suspected in many murders and would soon be "made" and given the West Side to run. After the imprisonment of Cerone in 1986, he became the Underboss. He would make a lot of money for the Outfit because of his ruthlessness. But in 1991, he was indicted for RICO charges. Former mob member, William "B.J." Jahoda testified and helped bring Infelice down. Infelice was convicted and sentanced to 63 years. |
Consiglieres
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Paul "The Waiter" Ricca
(1945-1957)
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| After Ricca found out that there was no way for him to get out of jail any time soon, he picked Tony Accardo as boss and he would became the Consigliere. He could of continued to be boss but he didn't want all the heat. After his release on August 13, 1947, he would become for involved in the Outfit. Ricca would help make important decisions like to pick Sam Giancana as boss. After Tony retired as boss in 1957, Ricca would officially retire and have Tony become the Consigliere. But he would continue to help Accardo when Accardo would ask for advice. Even after his retirement, Ricca survived a attempt to deport him in the late 1950s and again in 1965. Ricca died of natural causes on Oct. 11, 1972. After his death, Tony Accardo said "he was the best friend any man could have." |
Anthony "Joe Batters" Accardo
(1957-1992)
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| Even when Tony Accardo retired from running the day to day operations of the Outfit in 1957, he still held the most power in the Chicago Outfit. Tony Accardo did something that no other Mob boss did before him, he created a Outfit structure that would rule supreme in Chicago. He would pick a street boss to run the day to day operations while he would be the brains behind everything. After he retire as street boss, Tony Accardo would make a big decision and give Sam Giancana the positions as street boss of the Chicago Outfit. Accardo would be present at Apalachin in 1957 and was one of the gangsters who escaped. In 1960, Accardo was convicted and sentenced to six years on charges of tax evasion but he would get that conviction overturned. At the second trial in 1962, he would be acquitted. After the imprisonment of Giancana, Accardo would pick the successors of Sam Giancana with carefulness. Always picking the best man fit for the job. In the early 1970s, Accardo would return as street boss of the Chicago Outfit. It was Accardo who made the decisions to kick Giancana out of the top spot and to have him killed in 1975. When burglars broke into his house in January of 1977, Tony Accardo would make sure that all would be killed. All six of the burglars would be found dead with their throats slit or they were found stuffed in a trunk. While many LCN bosses were being sent away to prison, Accardo was in Chicago or Palm Springs running his Outfit. Tony Accardo would dodge one of many bullets in 1984 when he wasn't charged with perjury when he refused to answer questions for the Senate Subcommittee. In his last years, Tony Accardo would spend his days in Palm Springs and still be "The Man" in the Outfit. Tony Accardo died on May 24, 1992 of cancer. He was 86. Tony Accardo death brought a blow to the Outfit. There never will be another Tony Accardo. Accardo was by the far those powerful gangster ever.
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Joseph "Doves" Aiuppa
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Joseph Aiuppa would become the consigliere when Accardo died in May of 1992. Like the Consiglieres before him, he was a former boss. He would continue to be Consigliere from his prison cell unil his death on February 22, 1997 at Elmhurst Memorial Hospital. He was 89 and was identified as the last of the prohibition day gangsters. |
Angelo "The Hook" LaPietra
(1997-1999)
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| Angelo LaPietra was one of the most fear men in the Chicago Outfit. His arrest record dates back to 1938, including charges of murder, kidnapping, and narcotics convicting in 1943. A native of Cicero, Angelo earned a reputation as a mob enforcer who participated in the stolen car racket and burgalaries. He started to become a top organized crime figure in the 1970s. In 1977 he constructed a fortress-like home at Princeton Avenue and 30th Street, near Comiskey Park. It was surrounded by a six foot high brick wall and bathed in spotlights at night. This was just a sign pg how powerful he has become. Six months after the construction, he was named by state authorities as a key figure in the syndicates juice racket and was believed by them to be the new leader of the stolen auto operations. In 1986, he was among several mobsters convicted of participating in a scheme to skim $2 million in untaxed gambling profits from a Las Vegas casino. Two years later in 1988, while in a federal prison in Connecticut, he was back in the headlines when it was learned that some associates were sneaking in his favorite Italian food for him. When "The Hook" was released in 1997, LaPietra would be named the Consigliere of the Chicago Outfit under Joey Lombardo. After his release, Undercover F.B.I. informant Robert Cooley said "he was a fear person, absolutely, totally feared individual". Along with Lombardo and DiFronzo, it was this three that would help hold the Chicago Outfit together in the late 1990s. But LaPietra would not last long after his release. He would die in March of 1999. A new Consigliere has not yet been identified.
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Caporegime
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James "The Turk" Torrello
(1970s-1979)
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| James Torrello was born in Chicago in December of 1930. Torello's first arrest dates back to 1945. He would rise up the latter in the Outfit and would become a Caporegime in the 1970s. Many considered him a contender to become boss in the future. Torello ran rackets that included gambling, loansharking, and pornography in parts of the west side and south side. But Torello would not become boss because he died of cancer in April 1979 at the age of 48.
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Joseph "Little Caesar" DiVarco
(19??-1986)
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| Joe DiVarco was the capo in charge of the Rush Street area on the near North Side. He was basically under the rule of Ross Prio. DiVarco was said to have performed many gangland hits for Sam Giancana. DiVarco, along with Jimmy Alegretti watched over the Outfit owned night clubs, gambling, and brothels on Rush Street. After Giancana was murdered, DiVarco's power waned. In 1985, DiVarco was convicted of running a sports betting operation and sentenced to 10 years. He would die a year later in 1986. |
Albert Caesar Tocco
(19??-1986)
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| Albert Caesar Tocco was a Greek-American mob capo who watched over the the Southern Suburbs of Chicago, which was all territory south of 95th Street. Tocco was a vicious murderer who violated rules of the Outfit by harming the victims families. His wife, Betty, called him a sociopath. Tocco collected "street taxes" from the proprietors of stolen car "chop-shops", houses of ill-repute, and gambling operations in the southern corridor of Cook County. His base was in Chicago Heights. He controlled extortionist and killers who kept everyone in line. Tocco would make sure that there were no informers in his crew and if there were they would be killed. Tocco was responsible for the killings of William and Charlotte Dauber. Tocco considered Dauber a traitor and an informer. Tocco was also linked to the 1975 murder if Milwaukee gangster August Maniaci and the 1978 shooting of Dino Valente, who owned a vending machine company. Valente was killed because he was trying to muscle in on Tocco's territory. Tocco was one of the guys who helped kill the Spilotro brothers in 1986. Tocco also planned on killing his wife ,Betty, for cooperating with the Feds. When Tocco was indicted for extortion, conspiracy to commit racketeering and other federal offenses, Tocco fled to Greece. But in August of 1988, he was arrested in Greece. He would be returned to Chicago in January 1989. He was convicted and received 200 years.
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Soldiers
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Harry "the Hook" Aleman
(Early 1970s-1997)
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| Harry Aleman was one of the most effective hitman in the Outfit's history. Aleman started building his reputation in the early 1970s when he, William Petrocelli, and Gerald Scarpelli started to muscle independent mob bookmakers and started to force them to pay a tax to the Outfit. Those who refused were killed. He was charged and later acquitted in 1977 before Judge Frank Wilson on charges of murdering Teamster union steward William P. Logan on Sept. 27, 1972.He was convicted of racketeering in 1977 and received 30 years but was paroled in 1989. On Oct. 23 1991, he plead guilty to extorting money from two independent bookmakers and received 12 years. He was expected to be out in 7 or 8. In 1993 Aleman was reindicted for the killing of William Logan and the retrial started in 1997. He was found guilty and given 100-300 years in jail. Aleman was suspected of about 20 gangland hits. |
Charles Nicoletti
(1950s-1977)
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| Charles Nicoletti was the top hitman for the Outfit in the 1950s and 1960s and was said to have plaid a role in atleast 40 gangland killings since the 1950s. He was also active in gambling and was a protege of Sam Giancana. After the killing of Giancana, Nicoletti began to break with the Outfit. On March 30, 1977, Nicoletti was shot three times in the head by someone sitting in the back seat of his car. He was found in the parking lot of a restaurant in Northlake, Ill, and died the next morning without regaining consciousness. He was 70 years old.
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Charles Carmen "Chuckie" English
(1930s-1985)
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| Chuckie English was a man of respect when Sam Giancana was boss of the Chicago Outfit. He was also one of the top enforcers for the Outfit. He was a North Side racketeer who specialized in juke boxes and vending machines. During Sam Giancana's reign, he was considered a lieutenant. English's criminal record dates back to 1933 and includes arrest for extortion, robbery, loan-sharking, counterfeiting phonograph record trademarks, and hijacking. During the McClellan Committee Hearings, English pleaded the fifth Amendment no fewer than fifty-six times. Chuckie had much influence over the politicians controlling the West Side's Twenty-ninth Ward. English was also a syndicate point man in Arizona when Giancana wanted to move the Outfit out West. When Giancana was killed in 1975, English's power in the Outfit fell. It was said that it did because he had refused to kill Giancana. He then moved to Florida were he worked as a street bookie. He would return to Chicago in the early 1980s and work as a foot soldier for Joey Lombardo. But English kept on bad mouthing the successors of Giancana. English was shot to death in a Chicago restaurant in February of 1985.
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Victor Spilotro
(1970s-1997)
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| Victor Spilotro was the older brother of Las Vegas mobster Tony Spilotro. It wasent until the 1980s, that Victor started to get public attention. In 1980, Vicotor was convicted of gambling and tax fraud charges in connection with an illegal bookmaking operation disguised as a racetrack messenger service. Victor was sentenced to 18 months and was out in 13 months. In 1986 Victor's brothers, Tony and Michael, were found dead in a Indiana cornfield. A year later, he was recognized as a member of the Chicago Outfit. In 1987 he was tried on fraud and extortion charges, accused of accepting $40,000 in protection money between
1981 and 1984 from the National Credit Card Service, an illegal credit card
company that processed payments made to prostitutes. The firm actually was set
up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a probe of vice in suburban
Chicago. Spilotro, fifty-two, was found Guilty but received a light penalty
from a judge who commented, "It is a troublesome case. If your name wasn't Spilotro, you wouldn't be here." On July 17, 1987, Victor was sentenced to six months of work release and five years probation. Victor P. Spiltro died in January of 1997 in a Wheeling health-care facility.
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Francis John "The German" Schweihs
(1950s-Present)
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Like many other hitmen in the Chicago Outfit, Frank was not Italian. He was of German background. A judge once described Schweihs as "one of the most violent people ever to come before my court." By the 1980s, Schweih's was the top hitman in the Chicago Outfit. He was a suspect in the murders of Anthony and Michael Spilotro in 1986, Charles English in 1985, Allen Dorfman in 1983, Richard Cain in 1973, Sam Giancana in 1975, Sam DeStefano in 1973, and Chuck Nicoletti in 1977. Other murders he was suspected in include Paul Gonsky, a porno operator, Patrick "Patsy" Ricciardi, he operated porno movie houses, Alan Rosenberg, a juice loan collector, and the 1962 murder of a young manicurist name Eugenia Pappas. Her body was found in the Chicago River with a gunshot wound to the chest. Before her death, she had known to keep company with Schweihs. "The German" was thought to have negotiated the $12,000 a month street tax for the Chicago and Pittsburgh LCN from the On Leong Chinese Merchants Association of Chicago. The On Leong Chinese Merchants Association wanted to open a gambling houses in Chicago and had the backing of the Pittsburgh Family. The gambling houses would later be closed down by James LaPietra. In 1989 Schweihs indicted for collecting a "street tax" of $1,100 a month from a adult video store. In 1990, he was convicted and sentenced to 13 years. But in 1992, the federal appeals in Chicago set aside the sentence imposed on Frank. The sentence was reduced, and as of 1999, Schweihs is 69 and is back on the streets.
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Associates
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Sam "Mad Sam" DeStafano
(1920s-1973)
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| "Mad" Sam Destafano was just that..mad as in insane. He was a well known associate of the Chicago Outfit. He was never a made man because he was considered by Tony Accardo, to be to insane. The only reason the Outfit excepted him as a friend was the Paul Ricca was good friend of him. His first arrest dates back to 1927, which included rape, assault with a deadly weapone, possession of confeit suger stamps, and a bank robbery. Sam was also a veteran of the "42" gang. When Sam Giancona ordered the killing of "Mad Same's" younger drug addict brother, Michael, "Mad Sam" was suspected of doing the deed. When police asked him about this, he just started laughing. In the 1960s, Sam soon rose to be the biggest loansharker in Chicago. He also was into narcotics trafficking. He
sponsored Spilotro for entrance into the Chicago family.
Destafano was infamous hit man and did a ton of dirty work for the Outfit.
It was said that his choice of murder was using an ice pick through the ear
of his victim. He was also known to make bodies "disappear" (ie
dismemberment). Sam was said to have a sound safe basement so his family couldnt hear the screams of his victims. Apparently Spilotro and DeStafano took a liking to each
other in their shared thirst of violence. Eventually, as Spilotro moved up
the ranks in th mafia, DeStafano would killed because of an upcoming trial that the "Outfit" thought would bring to much attention. He was shotgunned to death in his garage before the trial started. Tony Spilotro and Sam's brother,Mario, were suspected of doing the deed. His death is
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Leonard "Lenny" Patrick
(1920s-1992)
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| Leonard Patrick was a Jewish gangster who got his start in the end of prohibition. In 1933, Lenny was convicted of bank robbery and received 10 years. Lenny was suspected in the murder of sports racing wire James Ragen. He was also said to be friends with Jack Ruby. Lenny was at first given the Lawndale Jewish section of Chicago's West Side to run, but when the Blacks took over the neighborhoods, Lenny moved up to the North Side of Chicago and Wisconsin. He ran a very good gambling operation. In 1975, Patrick was given four years for refusing to testified against crooked cop, Ronald O'Hare. But when Lenny and long time partner, Gus Alex were indicted, Lenny decided he didn't want to die in jail. He carried a wire when Gus and him had a meeting on an extortion act. This helped convict Gus. Lenny Patrick, was said to be the most important mobster to flip. After he helped convict Alex, he had another trial coming up in San Diego. In the Alex trial, he testified that he had killed six people and had premeditated it. But in the San Diego trial, he had said he had not premeditated it. This got Lenny in big trouble and he was given an extra year for this to add on to his other sentence he had received. All together he got seven years. He was released in 1997 and is on his own, not in the WPP. |
William "Action" Jackson
(19??-1961)
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| William "Action" Jackson was a 300 pound juice collector for the Chicago Outfit. He worked for mob capo Willie "Potatoes" Daddano. Jackson also did some work for Sam DeStefano. In 1960, Bill Roemer, an F.B.I. agent, approached Jackson trying to get him to become a informant. Jackson refused to even sit down with him. The Outfit started to suspect that Jackson was a informant. In 1961,Jackson was taken at gun point to a meat rendering plant of the Southwest Side of Chicago. He was then put onto a meat hook through his rectum and tied around the hook so he wouldn't fall off. Jackson was questioned in intense pain on what his relationship was with the F.B.I. He didn't confess because he didn't have a relationship with the F.B.I. They then took a cattle prod, a electrified stich used to move cattle, and applied it to his penis. When they didn't get the result they wanted, they poured water on the prod to make it even more painful. Jackson still kept to his word. Jackson's kneecaps were smashed and an ice pick was used on him. It was then that Jackson passed out because of the intense pain and never to wake up again. His body would be left on the meat hook for three days and then taken off and put in a trunk of a car. When the trunk started to smell because of the decaying flesh, someone finally opened it to see him. Sam DeStefano and Tony Spilotro were some of the men suspected in the killing. Years later, a hit crew was over heard on a hidden bug talking about the killing of Jackson. |
Allan Dorfman
(1970s-1983)
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| Allan Dorfman's was the son of Paul "Red" Dorfman, the guy who brought Jimmy Hoffa to the attention of Murray "The Camel" Humphreys, winning Chicago mob support for Hoffa's rise as Teamsters Boss, when Hoffa was but a Detroit Teamsters upstart. Hoffa would soon put Allen Dorfman as head of the Central State's Pension Fund, in return. Dorfman would help the Outfit infiltrate the Las Vegas Casinos with the pension fund. He was well liked by the Outfit but when he was indicted in for the Pendorf case, the Outfit thought he couldnt withstand the long prison sentence, even through he did complete a prison sentence earlier. Dorfman was killed outside the Hyatt Hotel, in the northwest of Chicago, on January 20, 1983. Joey Lombardo and Tony Spilotro were suspected in the killing.
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Ken "Tokyo Joe" Eto
(1950s-1983)
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| Ken Eto was the highest ranking Asian in the Chicago Outfit ever. Since the 1950s, Eto controlled the bolita, an illegal lottery, in Chicago. His major asset was a shuttered Lyons' restaurant called Marilou's. A Korean, Eto made a fortune on the multimillion-dollar gambling racket. But his downfall would be because of gambling. In 1983, Eto was indicted and convicted of illegal gambling. While still awaiting a sentence, a maximum of 10 years, Joseph Aiuppa thought that Eto couldn't do the sentence and ordered him to be killed. Eto needed some money soided to sell Marilou's. Shortly after he was convicted, North Side gambling lieutenant, Joseph DiVarco told Eto to meet with Jasper Campise and John Gattuso, a Cook County deputy sheriff, in Maeilou's parking lot where he would be introduced to a potential buyer for Marilou's. Eto drove to the meeting site only to be told by Campise and Gattuso that he was late and the buyer had already left. On the morning of Feb. 10, 1983, Eto met with DiVarco and Joseph Arnold. Eto was instructed to meet Campise and Gattuso that evening and the three friends would talk at a West Side restaurant with North Side gambling boss Vincent Solano. After pulling into the Montclare Theater, 7129 W. Grand Ave, and shutting off the engine, Gattuso pulled out a .22 caliber pistol and shot Eto in the head three times. Eto slumped down and played dead. The gun powder was bad so the bullets did get the full affect on his head. After going to the hospital, Eto started talking to the F.B.I. He told of the mob secrets. He would testify against his former friends in 1985 President's Commission on Organized Crime while wearing a hood to protect his identify. As for Gattus and Campise, after receiving bail Campise was stabbed to death and Gattuso was stabbed and strangled to death in in March of 1983. Both were stuffed in the trunk of Campise's car and found four months later in a parking lot of a Naperville condominium.
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John Serpico
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| John Serpico is a longtime powerful labor leader who is chairman of the Illinois International Port District. Serpico, a onetime city truck driver, has been close to Organized Crime figures since his childhood. In a testimony before the President's Commission on Organized Crime in 1985, Serpico acknowledge that he was a friend of virtually every important organized crime leader in Chicago. But he also said once that those friendships were the result of the fact that they all grew up in the same neighborhood and that he had never engaged in any criminal activities. He has been a member of the Illinois International Port District since 1979, when he was appointed by then-Gov. James Thompson. In 1990, Serpico and Maria Busillo, a associate of Serpico, was said to have used their influence to get two union pension plans, as well as the International Union of Allied and Novelty Production Workers, to lend money to the developers of a complex. In 1996, he was ousted from his position with the Laborers International Union as part of a move to purge the union of mob influence. In August 1999, John Serpico, 68, along with Maria Busillo,53, was indicted for using at least $5 million in personal and business loans, principally from Capitol Bank. He has not gone to trial yet.
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