- 6/27/2025
Exploring the origin of Chicago's organised crimes in the 1800s, with the start of racing rackets.
Uncover the intricate web of criminal enterprises, from notorious mob families to high-stakes heists, as we delve into the compelling stories behind the criminal masterminds and law enforcement efforts to bring them to justice.
Uncover the intricate web of criminal enterprises, from notorious mob families to high-stakes heists, as we delve into the compelling stories behind the criminal masterminds and law enforcement efforts to bring them to justice.
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00:00:00The
00:00:27story I am about to tell you
00:00:29is about the outfit rackets
00:00:31the men who ran them
00:00:33why they lost them
00:00:34and who controls them today
00:00:36and also includes
00:00:38my story
00:00:40One of the earliest gambling rackets
00:00:57to be organized into a multi-million dollar racket in Chicago
00:01:01was policy gambling
00:01:03Policy gambling was introduced to Chicago by three men
00:01:11a white man named Patsy King
00:01:14an Asian named King Fu
00:01:16and a black street hustler named Policy Sam Young
00:01:20who arrived in Chicago
00:01:22in 1885
00:01:23They set up shop in the black community of Bronzeville on the south side
00:01:28Players tried to guess three numbers from 1 through 78
00:01:33that were drawn from a tumbling drum
00:01:36or a wheel
00:01:37A two-number betting combination was called a saddle
00:01:41and a three-number combination a gig
00:01:44and a four-number combination a horse
00:01:47and the odds were high on the four-number combination
00:01:51and bets were taken at cigarette stores
00:01:55garages, barbershops, and apartments
00:01:58Policy offices were set up
00:02:01anywhere they could find space
00:02:03The game flourished
00:02:06and by 1938
00:02:0718 million a year was being bet on Chicago policy wheels
00:02:12It was estimated that there were 4,200 policy stations
00:02:16and 100,000 people played
00:02:19on the west and south sides of the city
00:02:21It was big business
00:02:23There were many policy kings across Chicago over the years
00:02:29Here are just a few
00:02:30John Mushmouth Johnson
00:02:33became known as the black gambling king of Chicago
00:02:36Johnson was involved in gambling for nearly 25 years
00:02:41He organized and expanded the policy racket here in Chicago
00:02:45He opened his own nickel gaming house
00:02:49on Clark Street in the 1880s
00:02:51and he amassed a fortune running illegal gambling operations
00:02:55including policy
00:02:57from the mid-1880s through 1907
00:03:01He was a nightclub owner and a savvy businessman
00:03:04and a political operator
00:03:06He was smart
00:03:08He dumped his illegal income into legitimate businesses
00:03:12and he bought protection from politicians
00:03:15He amassed a fortune
00:03:17and the outfit and the government were watching
00:03:20the massive amounts of money being made
00:03:23off policy gambling
00:03:25The Jones brothers were also policy kings
00:03:30They were the best organized
00:03:32and were by far the biggest policy operators in the city
00:03:36And these are their names
00:03:38Edward Big Ed Jones
00:03:41George Jones
00:03:43and Mac Jones
00:03:44In 1946
00:03:46The Jones brothers sat at the top
00:03:49of a $25 million a year policy syndicate in Chicago
00:03:53And along with all the money
00:03:56came some really bad things for the brothers
00:03:59Kidnappings
00:04:00death threats
00:04:02corrupt politics
00:04:03violence
00:04:04and jail time
00:04:05were a big part of the brothers lives
00:04:08And because of their immense wealth
00:04:10It shed the light on the brothers
00:04:13and the feds were watching
00:04:14And in 1941
00:04:16they made their move
00:04:17All were arrested
00:04:19But Ed Jones took the fall for his brothers
00:04:22And was sentenced to 18 months
00:04:24in prison on tax evasion
00:04:26And jail is where he met Sam Giancana
00:04:30And Sam Giancana and him became friends
00:04:34And Jones taught Giancana everything about the policy business
00:04:39And when they got out of prison
00:04:41Jones staked Giancana a hundred grand
00:04:44And they went into business together
00:04:47Over the next couple of years
00:04:49Giancana made a fortune for himself in the outfit
00:04:52And this pushed Giancana up the ladder
00:04:56within the outfit
00:04:57Greed got the better of Giancana
00:05:01And he decided friendship meant nothing
00:05:03And years later
00:05:05He forced Eddie Jones and his brothers
00:05:07out of the policy business
00:05:09Giancana threatened Jones
00:05:12and told him
00:05:13Take the money
00:05:14and go to Mexico
00:05:16or else
00:05:18And that's exactly what he did
00:05:21Because the outfit at that time
00:05:24was just too powerful
00:05:25In the 1950s
00:05:29Ricardo and Giancana
00:05:30decided they wanted it all
00:05:32And the Chicago outfit
00:05:34started aggressively moving in
00:05:36on policy gambling
00:05:37on the south and west sides
00:05:39Tony Ricardo gave Sam Giancana the nod
00:05:44And Giancana sent thugs
00:05:46like the Caifano brothers
00:05:47Cerrone
00:05:49and many others out to wage war
00:05:51on policy makers
00:05:52This war went on for years
00:05:56And by the early 1950s
00:05:58And by the early 1950s
00:05:58the Jones brothers were long gone
00:06:00and threatened into retirement
00:06:03And the only one left standing
00:06:05was Teddy Rowe
00:06:06Rowe was the last member of Chicago's
00:06:10Big 12 policy syndicate
00:06:12organized in 1932
00:06:14He fought the outfit tooth and nail
00:06:17And when Giancana and Rowe met
00:06:19for the first time
00:06:20It was clear they hated each other
00:06:22And after their second meeting
00:06:25Rowe and his men killed
00:06:27one of Giancana's men
00:06:28in a gunfight
00:06:29on the south side
00:06:30after the outfit's botched
00:06:33kidnapping attempt
00:06:34A few months later
00:06:36the outfit retaliated
00:06:38and gunned down Rowe
00:06:39And in 1952
00:06:41the war was winding down
00:06:43and it was won by the outfit
00:06:45Or so they thought
00:06:47Less than two weeks
00:06:49after Rowe's killing
00:06:50Tony Accardo and Jake Guzik
00:06:53were indicted by the U.S. attorney
00:06:55for failure to pay income tax
00:06:57on their policy revenue
00:06:59Some speculated
00:07:01it was one of two reasons
00:07:02Teddy Rowe was killed
00:07:04One for killing Giancana's bodyguard
00:07:08or two because Rowe informed the feds
00:07:11on how to catch outfit policy operators
00:07:14evading taxes
00:07:15Rowe testified at the Kefauver hearings
00:07:18and named prominent wheel operators
00:07:20that included two Chicago outfit mobsters
00:07:24When Rowe was killed
00:07:26it signaled the end of an era
00:07:28The rule of black policy kings
00:07:31was over in Chicago
00:07:33Theodore Rowe, a.k.a. Robin Hood
00:07:38was laid to rest at Lincoln Cemetery
00:07:41on the south side
00:07:42The politicians in Springfield
00:07:48seen the money being made by the outfit
00:07:50And in 1974
00:07:53policy came to an end
00:07:55And the state lawmakers
00:07:57took it away from the outfit
00:07:58when they launched the Illinois State Lottery
00:08:01And just like that
00:08:03the state became the new landlords
00:08:04of the policy game here in Illinois
00:08:06And the state overzealously expanded it
00:08:11into a dozen different games
00:08:13and scratch-off ticket games
00:08:15In the first year
00:08:17the state brought in $150 million
00:08:20And this was just the beginning
00:08:22In 2019
00:08:24the lottery generated approximately
00:08:27$3 billion in revenue
00:08:29And over the past 47 years
00:08:32it has brought in over $100 billion
00:08:35for the state of Illinois
00:08:36The three men that created policy
00:08:43were very smart men
00:08:44They didn't have a product
00:08:47and yet they made millions
00:08:49They didn't have to create a product
00:08:51store a product
00:08:53or ship a product
00:08:54like you would with cigarettes
00:08:56alcohol
00:08:57or drugs
00:08:58And what they did was
00:09:01they set up one spot
00:09:03to take the bets and the money
00:09:04and another spot
00:09:06to pay out the winners
00:09:07And there weren't very many winners
00:09:09And a lot of policy
00:09:12millionaires were created
00:09:14during this time
00:09:15And a lot of them
00:09:17were black policy millionaires
00:09:19And that's why the outfit took it
00:09:21And that's now why
00:09:23the state has it
00:09:25By the turn of the century
00:09:32Chicago had become
00:09:34the center
00:09:35of the horse racing world
00:09:37Betting on horse racing
00:09:40is one of the oldest vices
00:09:42and one of the most corrupt sports
00:09:44in the history of Chicago
00:09:46Residents first started watching
00:09:48the sport in the early 1830s
00:09:50And by the 1930s
00:09:53spectator horse racing
00:09:54became a huge attraction
00:09:56And by the mid-1930s
00:09:59the city of Chicago
00:10:00had six racetracks
00:10:02more than any other city
00:10:04in the country
00:10:04There was Lincoln Fields
00:10:08Aurora Downs
00:10:11Harlem Racetrack
00:10:14Washington Park
00:10:17Garfield Park
00:10:19and Hawthorne Park
00:10:22And over the next couple of decades
00:10:25some would disappear
00:10:26and were replaced
00:10:28with new more modern tracks
00:10:30like Sportsman's Park
00:10:31Belmoral Park
00:10:34Maywood Park
00:10:36and Arlington Park
00:10:38In the early years of racing
00:10:42in September of 1891
00:10:45the Chicago police raided
00:10:47Garfield Park Racetrack
00:10:49They arrested jockeys
00:10:51bookmakers
00:10:52bettors
00:10:53and managers
00:10:5433 people were arrested
00:10:56in this raid
00:10:57Three days later
00:10:59on September 5, 1891
00:11:02500 cops came back
00:11:04and raided the park again
00:11:06and arrested 125 people
00:11:09for gambling
00:11:10The next day
00:11:12the mob killed
00:11:13two police officers
00:11:14and a horse owner
00:11:16and a horse owner
00:11:16was killed
00:11:17Tempers flared
00:11:19and because of this
00:11:20the track was closed
00:11:21by reformed mayor
00:11:23Republican
00:11:24Hempstead Washburn
00:11:25in early 1892
00:11:27and because of the violence
00:11:30and race fixing
00:11:31but mainly the race fixing
00:11:33horse racing was banned
00:11:35in Illinois
00:11:36from 1905
00:11:38till 1927
00:11:40when a bill
00:11:41legalizing
00:11:42power mutual racing
00:11:43was passed
00:11:44by the Illinois legislature
00:11:46Hawthorne Park
00:11:49opened in 1891
00:11:51it was a home
00:11:53away from home
00:11:53to Al Capone
00:11:54when Capone
00:11:56was chased out of Chicago
00:11:57in 1924
00:11:59by reformed mayor
00:12:00William Emmett
00:12:01Capone took over
00:12:03the town of Cicero
00:12:04and set up headquarters
00:12:06at the Hawthorne Hotel
00:12:07the hotel was a little
00:12:10over a mile away
00:12:11from Hawthorne Park
00:12:12Capone and his bodyguards
00:12:15would regularly
00:12:16hop in the car
00:12:17and off to the track
00:12:18they would go
00:12:19Capone spent a lot
00:12:22of time gambling
00:12:23at the park
00:12:23in the gold cup room
00:12:24it was rumored
00:12:26Capone was connected
00:12:27to the track owners
00:12:28and was involved
00:12:30in the building
00:12:31of Sportsman's Park
00:12:32it was built
00:12:33right next door
00:12:34to Hawthorne Park
00:12:35Capone was sending
00:12:37suitcases of cash
00:12:38to the contractor
00:12:39building Sportsman's
00:12:41into a horse track
00:12:42but it started out
00:12:45as a dog track
00:12:46and was run by
00:12:47Al Capone
00:12:48in the mid 1920s
00:12:49Capone used to
00:12:51fix the races
00:12:52by feeding
00:12:52greasy hamburgers
00:12:54to every greyhound
00:12:55but the one
00:12:56he planned to bet on
00:12:57Sportsman's sometimes
00:13:00held boxing matches
00:13:01between races
00:13:02up on the third floor
00:13:03dog racing was illegal
00:13:06and the track
00:13:07was quickly shut down
00:13:08and in 1932
00:13:10horse racing started
00:13:12at Sportsman's Park
00:13:13Capone never got to see
00:13:16the horses run
00:13:17at Sportsman's Park
00:13:18because he was imprisoned
00:13:19for tax evasion
00:13:21in 1931
00:13:23the involvement
00:13:25and consistent
00:13:26fixing of races
00:13:27by gangsters
00:13:28is what led
00:13:30to the state
00:13:30getting involved
00:13:31or so they said
00:13:33decades later
00:13:35we now know
00:13:36this was a lie
00:13:37because the race
00:13:38fixing continued
00:13:39and decades later
00:13:41it was clear
00:13:42this was all
00:13:44about the money
00:13:44mainly the massive
00:13:46tax revenue
00:13:47being collected
00:13:48by the state
00:13:48in 1927
00:13:51Illinois lawmakers
00:13:52became the racetracks
00:13:54partners
00:13:54when they legalized
00:13:56betting
00:13:57the state now
00:13:58had control
00:13:59of licensing fees
00:14:00and regulations
00:14:01and they also had
00:14:03the tracks
00:14:04levy a tax
00:14:05on winners
00:14:06and some of the
00:14:08politicians of the
00:14:09times
00:14:09invested in these
00:14:11tracks
00:14:11because up until
00:14:131990
00:14:14it was the only
00:14:15place to gamble
00:14:16in the Chicagoland area
00:14:18publicly
00:14:19and legally
00:14:20the tracks
00:14:22were packed
00:14:22with people
00:14:23spending money
00:14:24for over 94 years
00:14:26and the state
00:14:28made a fortune
00:14:28in tax revenue
00:14:30and capitalized
00:14:31all the way around
00:14:33by forcing
00:14:34racetrack owners
00:14:35to fill
00:14:36political campaign
00:14:37coffers
00:14:38with cash
00:14:39it was a win-win
00:14:42for politicians
00:14:43and a win-lose
00:14:45for the betters
00:14:47prohibition made
00:14:57the outfit millions
00:14:58and this led to
00:14:59the modern structure
00:15:00that lasted
00:15:01for nearly
00:15:02a hundred years
00:15:03the rise of the
00:15:09Chicago outfit
00:15:10started on
00:15:11January 17th
00:15:121920
00:15:13and what ended
00:15:15up being
00:15:15one hell of a
00:15:16New Year's present
00:15:17for what would
00:15:18soon become
00:15:19the Chicago outfit
00:15:20the federal government
00:15:22gift wrap
00:15:23prohibition
00:15:24for the mob
00:15:24in the package
00:15:26was hundreds
00:15:26of millions
00:15:27of dollars
00:15:28in revenue
00:15:28from booze
00:15:29and along with
00:15:31that came
00:15:32casino gambling
00:15:33slots
00:15:34sports betting
00:15:35policy betting
00:15:36prostitution
00:15:38and drugs
00:15:39big Jim
00:15:42Colisimo
00:15:43was one of
00:15:43the outfit's
00:15:44first bosses
00:15:44he reigned
00:15:46from 1910
00:15:47to 1920
00:15:48a total
00:15:49of 10 years
00:15:50the violence
00:15:53started months
00:15:54after prohibition
00:15:55kicked off
00:15:56when gang boss
00:15:57Johnny Torrio
00:15:58and Al Capone
00:15:59decided to kill
00:16:01big Jim
00:16:02Colisimo
00:16:02aka Diamond Jim
00:16:05for not allowing
00:16:06Torrio and Capone
00:16:07to expand
00:16:08into the manufacturing
00:16:09end of the bootlegging
00:16:10business
00:16:11in May of 1920
00:16:13the two brought
00:16:14in a hitter
00:16:15out of New York
00:16:15Brooklyn crime boss
00:16:18Frankie Yale
00:16:18to do the job
00:16:20this takeover
00:16:22was the opening
00:16:23salvo
00:16:23in what would
00:16:24become
00:16:2413 years of hell
00:16:26for the city
00:16:27of Chicago
00:16:28over the 13 years
00:16:32of prohibition
00:16:33hundreds were
00:16:34murdered
00:16:34and over 100
00:16:35people were killed
00:16:36in bombings
00:16:37street warfare
00:16:39became part
00:16:40of everyday life
00:16:40here in Chicago
00:16:41it was in fact
00:16:43Johnny Torrio
00:16:44that purchased
00:16:45the first Tommy guns
00:16:46used in the street
00:16:48warfare here in Chicago
00:16:49to enforce territory
00:16:51disputes
00:16:52related to
00:16:54operational expansion
00:16:55the big money
00:16:57was in the bootlegging
00:16:58aspect
00:16:59taking control
00:17:00of abandoned breweries
00:17:01warehouses
00:17:02and trucks
00:17:03were essential
00:17:04to feed the appetite
00:17:05of the thousands
00:17:07of speakeasies
00:17:08set up across the city
00:17:09at first
00:17:11there were dozens
00:17:12upon dozens
00:17:13of gangs
00:17:13operating independently
00:17:15throughout the city
00:17:16and violence
00:17:17was the only way
00:17:18to consolidate
00:17:19the gangs
00:17:20under one flag
00:17:21the Capone flag
00:17:23and along with
00:17:25the millions
00:17:25of dollars
00:17:26came massive
00:17:27corruption
00:17:27police corruption
00:17:29and political
00:17:30corruption
00:17:30that had not
00:17:32been seen
00:17:32before
00:17:33or after
00:17:34prohibition
00:17:35a forgotten
00:17:38figure in gang
00:17:39history
00:17:39was the head
00:17:40of the Chicago
00:17:41branch
00:17:41of the Sicilian
00:17:42Union
00:17:42Mike Merlo
00:17:44he was a bootlegger
00:17:46who used his
00:17:46position at the union
00:17:47to mediate disputes
00:17:49among the Chicago
00:17:50gangs
00:17:51and he kept the peace
00:17:53for the first
00:17:53four years
00:17:54of prohibition
00:17:55when Merlo
00:17:57died of cancer
00:17:58on November 8th
00:17:591924
00:18:00his death
00:18:01reignited warfare
00:18:03across the city
00:18:04Lombardo
00:18:06a Capone ally
00:18:07became the new
00:18:07head of the Chicago
00:18:08branch
00:18:09Lombardo
00:18:10was no Mike Merlo
00:18:11and because Capone
00:18:13got his guy in
00:18:14it angered
00:18:15Aiello
00:18:16and years later
00:18:18Joe Aiello
00:18:19would take action
00:18:21against
00:18:22Tony Lombardo
00:18:23over the next
00:18:27nine years
00:18:28high profile
00:18:29killings of rivals
00:18:30like Dean O'Banion
00:18:31and many others
00:18:33would become
00:18:34the norm
00:18:34here in Chicago
00:18:35on November 10th
00:18:381924
00:18:39Frankie Yale
00:18:40found O'Banion
00:18:42clipping chrysanthemums
00:18:43in the back room
00:18:44of his flower shop
00:18:45Frankie Yale
00:18:47walked up
00:18:48introduced himself
00:18:50and shook his hand
00:18:51he held his grip firm
00:18:53and gunmen
00:18:54John Scalise
00:18:55and Albert Anselmi
00:18:57fired two bullets
00:18:58into O'Banion's
00:18:59chest and throat
00:19:00one of them
00:19:02fired a single
00:19:03shot in the back
00:19:04of his head
00:19:04as he laid on the floor
00:19:06the killing of O'Banion
00:19:08sparked years
00:19:09of bad blood
00:19:10that would run red
00:19:11through the streets
00:19:12of Chicago
00:19:12The reason O'Banion
00:19:15was killed
00:19:16was because he set up
00:19:17Torrio
00:19:17during a brewery purchase
00:19:19In January of 1925
00:19:24retribution for the O'Banion
00:19:26killing came
00:19:27Capone was ambushed
00:19:29at the Hawthorne Hotel
00:19:31leaving him shaken
00:19:32but unhurt
00:19:3312 days later
00:19:35on January 24th
00:19:38Torrio
00:19:38was returning
00:19:39from a shopping trip
00:19:40with his wife
00:19:41when he was shot
00:19:42several times
00:19:43by Hyden Wright
00:19:44both Moran
00:19:45and Gucci
00:19:46after recovering
00:19:49he resigned
00:19:50and handed control
00:19:51to Capone
00:19:52Johnny Torrio
00:19:54reigned as boss
00:19:56from 1920
00:19:57to 1925
00:19:59a total of 5 years
00:20:01Capone became
00:20:03the new boss
00:20:04and just like that
00:20:06a 60 million dollar
00:20:07a year organization
00:20:09fell into his lap
00:20:11Al Capone reigned
00:20:14as boss
00:20:15from 1925
00:20:16to 1931
00:20:18a total
00:20:19of 6 years
00:20:20The new Northside
00:20:24gang leader
00:20:25Jaime Weiss
00:20:25demanded vengeance
00:20:27for O'Banion's death
00:20:29and he went after
00:20:30Capone allies
00:20:31he started
00:20:32with the Jenna brothers
00:20:33on May 26th
00:20:361925
00:20:37Angelo Jenna
00:20:38was shot
00:20:39by 3 Northside
00:20:40gang members
00:20:41and died
00:20:41in a hospital
00:20:42as he lay dying
00:20:44he refused
00:20:45to name his shooters
00:20:46and Mike Jenna
00:20:48was killed
00:20:48by police
00:20:49a few weeks later
00:20:50while Anthony Jenna
00:20:52was murdered
00:20:53by the Northside gang
00:20:54a couple of months later
00:20:55Angelo's brother-in-law
00:20:58Henry Spignoli
00:20:59was killed
00:21:00the following year
00:21:01and that was it
00:21:03the rest of the
00:21:04Jenna's
00:21:05fled Chicago
00:21:06and returned
00:21:07to Sicily
00:21:08Jaime Weiss
00:21:12the new leader
00:21:12of the Northside gang
00:21:14was killed
00:21:15on October 11th
00:21:161926
00:21:17Weiss and his entourage
00:21:19were pulling up
00:21:20in a car
00:21:21and were crossing
00:21:22the street
00:21:23next to
00:21:23Holy Name Cathedral
00:21:24when machine gunners
00:21:26from across the street
00:21:27up on the second floor
00:21:29opened fire
00:21:31Weiss was shot
00:21:32ten times
00:21:33and later died
00:21:35at a hospital
00:21:36five were shot
00:21:38in this incident
00:21:39and two were killed
00:21:40The next
00:21:43Northsider
00:21:44to be killed
00:21:45was Vincent
00:21:46the Schemer
00:21:47Drucci
00:21:47He was killed
00:21:49by cops
00:21:49on April 4th
00:21:501927
00:21:52Drucci was killed
00:21:54sitting in a squad car
00:21:55by Detective
00:21:56Dan Healy
00:21:57Some say
00:21:59Dan Healy
00:21:59was on the Capone
00:22:00payroll
00:22:01and his job
00:22:02was to get rid
00:22:03of opposing mobsters
00:22:04In fact
00:22:06Healy
00:22:06who hated
00:22:07all gangsters
00:22:08probably had
00:22:09some rough remarks
00:22:10in the car
00:22:10towards Drucci
00:22:11who probably
00:22:12went ballistic
00:22:13and tried
00:22:14to get Healy's gun
00:22:15It resulted
00:22:17in Healy
00:22:17wrestling the gun
00:22:18from Drucci
00:22:19and shooting him
00:22:20to death
00:22:21Tony Lombardo
00:22:25head of the
00:22:25Sicilian Union
00:22:26was killed
00:22:27on September 7th
00:22:281928
00:22:29Joseph Lillardo
00:22:31was suspected
00:22:32in the slaying
00:22:33of Tony Lombardo
00:22:34He was a bodyguard
00:22:36for Lombardo
00:22:37They claim
00:22:38he set it up
00:22:39He claims
00:22:41he was shooting
00:22:41at the shooters
00:22:42as they were
00:22:43shooting at Lombardo
00:22:44Joseph Ferraro
00:22:46was also killed
00:22:47in this incident
00:22:48Eight years
00:22:52after Frankie Yale
00:22:53murdered
00:22:53Big Jim Colosimo
00:22:55On July 1st
00:22:571928
00:22:58Frankie Yale
00:22:59was killed
00:22:59in New York
00:23:00He was chased down
00:23:02by five Capone
00:23:03gunmen
00:23:04in his car
00:23:04When he crashed
00:23:06they opened fire
00:23:07on him
00:23:07killing him
00:23:08Cops repeatedly
00:23:10questioned Capone
00:23:11about the Yale murder
00:23:13but nothing ever
00:23:14came of it
00:23:15Yale's murder
00:23:18was never solved
00:23:19This was the first time
00:23:20that the Thompson
00:23:21submachine gun
00:23:22was used
00:23:23in a New York
00:23:24gangland hit
00:23:25Yale's killers
00:23:27were said to be
00:23:28Capone gunmen
00:23:29Tony Accardo
00:23:31Fred the Killer
00:23:32Burke
00:23:33Gus Winkler
00:23:35George Shotgun
00:23:37Ziegler
00:23:38Louis Little
00:23:39New York
00:23:40Compagnia
00:23:41Most of these
00:23:42hitmen are believed
00:23:43to have participated
00:23:44in the St. Valentine's Day
00:23:47Massacre
00:23:47seven months
00:23:49later
00:23:49By far
00:23:53the biggest
00:23:54bloody climax
00:23:55of Prohibition
00:23:56related killing
00:23:57came on
00:23:58February 14th
00:23:591929
00:24:00when seven
00:24:02associates
00:24:02of the Moran
00:24:03gang
00:24:04one of Capone's
00:24:05longtime enemies
00:24:06were shot
00:24:08to death
00:24:08by two men
00:24:09dressed as
00:24:09policemen
00:24:10and two
00:24:11dressed as
00:24:12gangsters
00:24:13the St. Valentine's
00:24:23Day Massacre
00:24:24remains an
00:24:25unsolved crime
00:24:26and was never
00:24:27officially linked
00:24:28to Capone
00:24:29Bugs Moran
00:24:31and the Moran
00:24:31gang faded away
00:24:33after this
00:24:33and that was
00:24:35the last major
00:24:35hurdle for Capone
00:24:36it was said
00:24:39these Capone
00:24:40gunmen
00:24:40were responsible
00:24:41for the killing
00:24:42of these seven men
00:24:43Tony Accardo
00:24:45Fred the Killer Burke
00:24:47Gus Winkler
00:24:48and George
00:24:50Shotgun Ziegler
00:24:51over the years
00:24:54there have been
00:24:55disputes between
00:24:56law enforcement
00:24:57and historians
00:24:58as to the
00:24:59participation
00:24:59by Tony Accardo
00:25:01in the murder
00:25:02of Frankie Yale
00:25:03and the murder
00:25:04of seven
00:25:05on St. Valentine's Day
00:25:06the men
00:25:08the men that were
00:25:08directly connected
00:25:09to these events
00:25:10are all dead
00:25:11and because of this
00:25:12we will never know
00:25:14for sure
00:25:14the two
00:25:18Tommy guns used
00:25:20in the St. Valentine's
00:25:21Day Massacre
00:25:22and the one used
00:25:23in Yale's murder
00:25:24were found in the
00:25:25possession
00:25:26of Fred the Killer
00:25:27Burke
00:25:28the guns were
00:25:29definitively
00:25:30ballistically linked
00:25:31to both of these crimes
00:25:33and they were found
00:25:35in Burke's hideout
00:25:35after he was arrested
00:25:37for killing a Michigan cop
00:25:39he pled guilty
00:25:41to the cop killing
00:25:42and kept his mouth shut
00:25:44and never admitted
00:25:45to anything related
00:25:47to Yale
00:25:47or the massacre
00:25:49he never stood trial
00:25:51for either of these crimes
00:25:52and died in jail
00:25:55in 1940
00:25:56the last high profile
00:26:01killing
00:26:02of the Prohibition era
00:26:03was Joe Aiello
00:26:05he was killed
00:26:07on October 23rd
00:26:081930
00:26:09he was a Chicago
00:26:11bootlegger
00:26:11who had a long
00:26:12standing blood feud
00:26:13with the Chicago
00:26:14outfit
00:26:15and boss
00:26:16Al Capone
00:26:17Capone gunman
00:26:19ambushed him
00:26:20as he exited
00:26:21a Chicago apartment
00:26:22building
00:26:22where he had been
00:26:24hiding out
00:26:24they shot him
00:26:2659 times
00:26:27it is said
00:26:30Louis Compagnia
00:26:32is suspected
00:26:32of putting together
00:26:33the hit
00:26:34on Aiello
00:26:35some say
00:26:36he was the shooter
00:26:37we'll never know
00:26:39Joseph Aiello
00:26:43was killed
00:26:44because he was
00:26:45the chief architect
00:26:46in the murder
00:26:47of Sicilian Union
00:26:48boss
00:26:49Tony Lombardo
00:26:50on October 17th
00:26:551931
00:26:56Capone was found
00:26:57guilty on 22 counts
00:26:59of federal income
00:27:00tax evasion
00:27:01and was sentenced
00:27:02to 11 years
00:27:03in federal prison
00:27:04he was sent
00:27:05to Atlanta
00:27:06federal prison
00:27:07first
00:27:07and then sent
00:27:08to Alcatraz
00:27:09on November 16th
00:27:121939
00:27:13Al Capone
00:27:14was released
00:27:15after having
00:27:16served 7 years
00:27:176 months
00:27:18and 15 days
00:27:20he paid all
00:27:22his fines
00:27:22and back taxes
00:27:23and Al Capone
00:27:25never returned
00:27:26to Chicago
00:27:27suffering from syphilis
00:27:30he had deteriorated
00:27:31greatly during
00:27:31his confinement
00:27:32once released
00:27:35once released
00:27:35from the rock
00:27:36Capone went
00:27:36to his Florida
00:27:37home
00:27:37on Palm Island
00:27:38and 8 years later
00:27:40on January 25th
00:27:421947
00:27:43he died
00:27:44Al Capone
00:27:48never returned
00:27:48to Chicago
00:27:49alive
00:27:49but his body
00:27:51was sent back
00:27:52to Chicago
00:27:52and he was buried
00:27:54at Mount Olivet
00:27:55Cemetery
00:27:55and later moved
00:27:57to the family plot
00:27:58at Mount Carmel
00:28:00over Al Capone's
00:28:0312 year involvement
00:28:04with the outfit
00:28:05authorities claim
00:28:07he is responsible
00:28:08for hundreds
00:28:09of murders
00:28:10politicians realized
00:28:16outlawing alcohol
00:28:16was a failure
00:28:18on many levels
00:28:19some claim
00:28:20the murders
00:28:21and corruption
00:28:22played a role
00:28:22in the reversal
00:28:24in policy
00:28:24that took place
00:28:26on December 5th
00:28:271933
00:28:27when the
00:28:3021st Amendment
00:28:31was ratified
00:28:32in this proclamation
00:28:33from President Roosevelt
00:28:35the 21st Amendment
00:28:37repealed the 18th Amendment
00:28:38of January 16th
00:28:401919
00:28:41ending the unpopular
00:28:44nationwide
00:28:45prohibition of alcohol
00:28:46when prohibition
00:28:49officially ended
00:28:50the gangsters
00:28:52had the trucks
00:28:52warehouses
00:28:54and in some cases
00:28:55the breweries
00:28:56some sold
00:28:58their equipment
00:28:58for pennies
00:28:59on the dollar
00:28:59and others
00:29:01opened legitimate
00:29:02distributorships
00:29:03because booze
00:29:05was big business
00:29:06politicians
00:29:07also became
00:29:08big investors
00:29:09in these distributorships
00:29:11and this was based
00:29:13on their own policy
00:29:15and over the next
00:29:1670 plus years
00:29:17the outfit
00:29:18was completely
00:29:19pushed out
00:29:20of the alcohol
00:29:21business
00:29:22this is where
00:29:30the outfit's
00:29:31future leadership
00:29:31came from
00:29:32the 42 gang
00:29:34these guys
00:29:35would run the
00:29:36rackets across
00:29:36Chicago
00:29:37for decades
00:29:39the 42 gang
00:29:45is one of the
00:29:45oldest gangs
00:29:46in Chicago
00:29:47it was a
00:29:48teenage street gang
00:29:49that started
00:29:50during prohibition
00:29:51the 42 gang
00:29:53served as a
00:29:54teen farm team
00:29:55for future members
00:29:56of the Chicago
00:29:58outfit
00:29:58these are just a
00:30:01few of the
00:30:0142 gang members
00:30:03including future
00:30:05upper echelon
00:30:06members
00:30:06of the Chicago
00:30:07outfit
00:30:08Sam Mooney
00:30:11Giancana
00:30:12Sam Teets
00:30:14Bataglia
00:30:15Luigi
00:30:17Cockey
00:30:17Louie
00:30:18Frotto
00:30:18Felix
00:30:20Milwaukee
00:30:21Phil
00:30:21Eldoricio
00:30:22Mad
00:30:24Sam
00:30:24DiStefano
00:30:25Charles
00:30:27Chucky
00:30:27Nicoletti
00:30:28Fiori
00:30:30Fifi
00:30:30Buccieri
00:30:31William
00:30:32Smokes
00:30:33Aloisio
00:30:34Frank
00:30:35Skid
00:30:36Caruso
00:30:36William
00:30:38Willie
00:30:38Potatoes
00:30:39Dead Adano
00:30:40Joey
00:30:42DeVarco
00:30:42Marcelo
00:30:44Caifano
00:30:45Mario
00:30:47DeStefano
00:30:48Bruno
00:30:49Tassion
00:30:50Jackie
00:30:52Cerrone
00:30:52and Butch
00:30:54Blassie
00:30:54In 1931
00:30:58of the original
00:30:59members
00:30:59over 30
00:31:00had been killed
00:31:01or imprisoned
00:31:02on a variety
00:31:03of charges
00:31:04including murder
00:31:06armed robbery
00:31:07and sexual
00:31:08assault
00:31:09The gang
00:31:11operated
00:31:11and had members
00:31:12in Italian
00:31:13neighborhoods
00:31:13across the city
00:31:14The gang
00:31:16became notorious
00:31:17for committing
00:31:18every crime
00:31:18on the list
00:31:19and the 42
00:31:21gang soon
00:31:21emerged as
00:31:22one of the
00:31:22most violent
00:31:23gangs in the
00:31:24city
00:31:24but they
00:31:26suffered heavy
00:31:27losses due
00:31:27to wars
00:31:28with rival
00:31:28gangs
00:31:29The gang
00:31:30also had
00:31:31a high rate
00:31:32of arrests
00:31:32for murders
00:31:33of robbery
00:31:34victims
00:31:34suspected
00:31:35informants
00:31:36and police
00:31:37officers
00:31:38In 1928
00:31:41a number
00:31:42of 42
00:31:42gang members
00:31:43were being
00:31:44held at the
00:31:45Illinois State
00:31:45Boys Reformatory
00:31:47in St.
00:31:48Charles
00:31:48One day
00:31:50William Butler
00:31:51commander
00:31:52of the facility
00:31:53received the
00:31:54following threat
00:31:55from a gang
00:31:55member
00:31:56Unless you
00:31:57let our pals
00:31:58go
00:31:58we will come
00:31:59down there
00:32:00and kill
00:32:00everybody we
00:32:01see
00:32:01We've got
00:32:03plenty of men
00:32:04and some
00:32:04machine guns
00:32:05Butler was
00:32:07going to
00:32:08dismiss it
00:32:08but Chicago
00:32:10police officials
00:32:11advised him
00:32:11to take it
00:32:12seriously
00:32:13After this
00:32:15Butler called
00:32:16up to
00:32:16Illinois National
00:32:17Guard
00:32:17to defend
00:32:18the reformatory
00:32:19Several days
00:32:21later
00:32:21three juvenile
00:32:22gang members
00:32:23led by
00:32:23Crazy Patsy
00:32:25Stefanelli
00:32:25were caught
00:32:27outside the
00:32:28reformatory
00:32:28walls
00:32:29Once they
00:32:31were taken
00:32:31into custody
00:32:32the boys
00:32:33bragged that
00:32:33they were a
00:32:34scouting party
00:32:35sent to
00:32:36infiltrate
00:32:36machine gunners
00:32:37into the
00:32:38facility
00:32:38In 1930
00:32:40Crazy Patsy
00:32:42Stefanelli
00:32:42was killed
00:32:43by the
00:32:44Chicago police
00:32:45The St.
00:32:46Charles
00:32:47incident
00:32:47was widely
00:32:48covered
00:32:48by the
00:32:49Chicago
00:32:49press
00:32:50and many
00:32:51critics
00:32:51called for
00:32:52a tougher
00:32:52stance
00:32:53against
00:32:53juvenile
00:32:54offenders
00:32:54The Chicago
00:32:56Tribune
00:32:57declared
00:32:57that the
00:32:57only decision
00:32:58facing
00:32:59authorities
00:32:59was whether
00:33:01to sentence
00:33:02gang members
00:33:03to Joliet
00:33:03prison
00:33:04or send
00:33:05them
00:33:05to the
00:33:06electric
00:33:07chair
00:33:07When I
00:33:11was a
00:33:11young man
00:33:12I used
00:33:12to work
00:33:12with my
00:33:13grandfather
00:33:13and
00:33:16one of
00:33:17his friends
00:33:17was an
00:33:18original
00:33:1942 gang
00:33:20member
00:33:20and he
00:33:22was a
00:33:22heavyweight
00:33:23in the
00:33:24outfit
00:33:25He ran
00:33:26the neighborhood
00:33:26of Bridgeport
00:33:27for a long
00:33:27time
00:33:28and his
00:33:30name was
00:33:30Frank Caruso
00:33:32and his
00:33:34street name
00:33:35was Skid
00:33:35When I
00:33:37was a
00:33:37kid
00:33:38we had
00:33:38a shop
00:33:39my cousins
00:33:40had a shop
00:33:40in the
00:33:41garage
00:33:42in the
00:33:42back
00:33:42and that
00:33:44was
00:33:44a few
00:33:45doors
00:33:45down
00:33:46from
00:33:46Mr.
00:33:47Caruso's
00:33:47house
00:33:48and my
00:33:50grandfather
00:33:50used to
00:33:51go over
00:33:51there
00:33:51and do
00:33:51a little
00:33:52work
00:33:52My
00:33:53grandfather
00:33:54would walk
00:33:54in and he
00:33:55would greet
00:33:55him and be
00:33:56happy to
00:33:56see him
00:33:56and then he
00:33:57would see
00:33:58me
00:33:58behind him
00:33:59lugging his
00:34:00tools
00:34:00and they
00:34:02would talk
00:34:02while he
00:34:02would work
00:34:03and he
00:34:03would watch
00:34:05us
00:34:05and he
00:34:07always
00:34:07told me
00:34:10that
00:34:11I should
00:34:13get an
00:34:14honorable
00:34:14profession
00:34:15and he
00:34:16always said
00:34:17my grandfather
00:34:18was an
00:34:18honorable
00:34:18man
00:34:19and that
00:34:21word
00:34:21honorable
00:34:22didn't mean
00:34:25much to me
00:34:25back then
00:34:26but it
00:34:26means something
00:34:26to me
00:34:27today
00:34:27he used
00:34:30to tell
00:34:30me
00:34:31your grandfather
00:34:33is an
00:34:34honorable
00:34:34man
00:34:34being a
00:34:37craftsman
00:34:38carpenter
00:34:39is an
00:34:40honorable
00:34:40profession
00:34:41you should
00:34:43listen and
00:34:43learn from
00:34:44him
00:34:44because he's
00:34:45the best
00:34:46and he
00:34:49always used
00:34:49to give me
00:34:50you know
00:34:5020 bucks
00:34:51every time
00:34:51I'd go there
00:34:52which was a
00:34:53handful of
00:34:54times
00:34:54over the
00:34:54years
00:34:55between him
00:34:56and my
00:34:56grandfather
00:34:57I think
00:34:58Mr. Caruso
00:34:59was born
00:34:59in 1911
00:35:00my grandfather
00:35:01was born
00:35:01in 1915
00:35:02so they
00:35:03lived through
00:35:04the Capone
00:35:06era
00:35:06Nitti
00:35:07Giancana
00:35:09and nobody
00:35:12knew better
00:35:12than Mr. Caruso
00:35:13what it was
00:35:14all about
00:35:14and I think
00:35:17he was trying
00:35:17to warn me
00:35:18about the
00:35:18influences
00:35:19that were
00:35:21taking place
00:35:22in the Bridgeport
00:35:22community
00:35:23because there
00:35:23were gangsters
00:35:24everywhere
00:35:24in the 70s
00:35:25when I was
00:35:25growing up
00:35:25and all the
00:35:28young guys
00:35:28wanted to be
00:35:29like them
00:35:29and I'm
00:35:33thinking back
00:35:33now
00:35:34that it was
00:35:35a warning
00:35:35that it was
00:35:37a warning
00:35:38to stay
00:35:40away from it
00:35:40because I
00:35:41believe
00:35:41in his old
00:35:42age he had
00:35:43a change
00:35:43of heart
00:35:44and my
00:35:46grandfather
00:35:47wanted to
00:35:48teach me
00:35:49because
00:35:50he didn't
00:35:53want that
00:35:53for me
00:35:54and he
00:35:55took a lot
00:35:56of time
00:35:56and patience
00:35:57to teach
00:35:57me a lot
00:35:58of things
00:35:58I didn't
00:36:00go quite
00:36:01down the
00:36:01road
00:36:01they thought
00:36:02I would
00:36:03when my
00:36:05grandfather
00:36:06died
00:36:06I regretted
00:36:08that I
00:36:09did not
00:36:10take the
00:36:12time to
00:36:13finish learning
00:36:14from the
00:36:14greatest
00:36:15teacher I
00:36:15would ever
00:36:15have
00:36:16they were
00:36:20both right
00:36:21and I
00:36:24wish now
00:36:24I had
00:36:24listened
00:36:25that's for
00:36:26sure
00:36:26it was a
00:36:28warning
00:36:28that went
00:36:29unheeded
00:36:30prohibition
00:36:37ended
00:36:38and nitty
00:36:38shifted
00:36:39towards drugs
00:36:40and the
00:36:41extortion
00:36:41racket
00:36:42and lost
00:36:43big
00:36:43Frank
00:36:47Nitty
00:36:47was the
00:36:48boss
00:36:48of the
00:36:48Chicago
00:36:49outfit
00:36:49from
00:36:501931
00:36:51to
00:36:521943
00:36:52he
00:36:54held
00:36:54the
00:36:54longest
00:36:55term
00:36:55as
00:36:55outfit
00:36:56boss
00:36:56in
00:36:56Chicago
00:36:57to
00:36:57date
00:36:58lasting
00:36:5912
00:37:00years
00:37:00in
00:37:051931
00:37:06both
00:37:07Nitty
00:37:07and Capone
00:37:07were convicted
00:37:08of tax
00:37:09evasion
00:37:09and sent
00:37:10to prison
00:37:11Nitty
00:37:12received
00:37:12an 18-month
00:37:13sentence
00:37:14while Capone
00:37:15was sent
00:37:15away
00:37:15for 11
00:37:16years
00:37:16while
00:37:19Frank
00:37:19Nitty
00:37:19was gone
00:37:20Paul
00:37:20the waiter
00:37:21Rika
00:37:21held the
00:37:22reins
00:37:22and when
00:37:24Nitty
00:37:24was seated
00:37:24he immediately
00:37:26encountered
00:37:26problems
00:37:27on the
00:37:29afternoon
00:37:30of December
00:37:3019th
00:37:311932
00:37:32Mayor
00:37:33Cermak's
00:37:34special
00:37:34police
00:37:35detail
00:37:35headed
00:37:36by
00:37:36detectives
00:37:37sergeants
00:37:38Harry
00:37:38Lang
00:37:38and Harry
00:37:39Miller
00:37:39raided
00:37:41Nitty's
00:37:41headquarters
00:37:42Lang
00:37:43fired
00:37:43five
00:37:44shots
00:37:44hitting
00:37:45Nitty
00:37:45three
00:37:45times
00:37:46Nitty
00:37:47would
00:37:47survive
00:37:48but he
00:37:49was charged
00:37:50with attempted
00:37:50murder
00:37:51Lang
00:37:52actually
00:37:53shot
00:37:53and grazed
00:37:54himself
00:37:54in the
00:37:55neck
00:37:55to make
00:37:56it look
00:37:56good
00:37:56lucky
00:37:58for
00:37:58Nitty
00:37:58it was
00:37:59later
00:37:59exposed
00:38:00at
00:38:00trial
00:38:00as a
00:38:01setup
00:38:01by
00:38:02Lang
00:38:02and his
00:38:03crew
00:38:03on
00:38:04orders
00:38:05from
00:38:05Mayor
00:38:05Anton
00:38:06Cermak
00:38:06was
00:38:08never
00:38:09charged
00:38:09in
00:38:10this
00:38:10shooting
00:38:10and
00:38:11Nitty
00:38:11now
00:38:12knew
00:38:12the
00:38:12mayor
00:38:12wanted
00:38:13him
00:38:13dead
00:38:13and
00:38:14sent
00:38:14the
00:38:14cops
00:38:14to
00:38:15try
00:38:15and
00:38:15kill
00:38:15him
00:38:15there
00:38:17was
00:38:17another
00:38:17hard
00:38:17lesson
00:38:18Nitty
00:38:18would
00:38:18learn
00:38:19no
00:38:20one
00:38:20man
00:38:21is
00:38:21more
00:38:21important
00:38:21than
00:38:22the
00:38:22preservation
00:38:23of
00:38:24the
00:38:24outfit
00:38:24months
00:38:28later
00:38:28on
00:38:29February
00:38:2915
00:38:301933
00:38:31Mayor
00:38:32Anton
00:38:33Cermak
00:38:33was
00:38:33attending
00:38:34a
00:38:34campaign
00:38:34event
00:38:35for
00:38:35Roosevelt
00:38:35in
00:38:36Miami
00:38:37Florida
00:38:37Cermak
00:38:39was
00:38:39standing
00:38:40next
00:38:40to
00:38:40Roosevelt
00:38:41and
00:38:41Cermak
00:38:42was
00:38:42gunned
00:38:42down
00:38:43and
00:38:44on
00:38:44March
00:38:446
00:38:44he
00:38:45died
00:38:45from
00:38:45his
00:38:46wounds
00:38:46this
00:38:48incident
00:38:48was
00:38:49reported
00:38:49by the
00:38:50press
00:38:50to be
00:38:50an
00:38:50assassination
00:38:51attempt
00:38:51on
00:38:52Roosevelt
00:38:52Chicago
00:38:54reporter
00:38:55Walter
00:38:55Winchell
00:38:56claimed
00:38:56the
00:38:56outfit
00:38:57sent
00:38:57Zangara
00:38:58to
00:38:58kill
00:38:58Cermak
00:38:59for
00:38:59trying
00:39:00to
00:39:00kill
00:39:00Nitty
00:39:00and
00:39:02also
00:39:02wanted
00:39:02to
00:39:03send
00:39:03a
00:39:03message
00:39:03to
00:39:04all
00:39:04politicians
00:39:05that
00:39:05did
00:39:06not
00:39:06want
00:39:06to
00:39:06fall
00:39:06in
00:39:07line
00:39:07after
00:39:08Cermak's
00:39:09death
00:39:09the
00:39:10message
00:39:10was
00:39:10sent
00:39:11loud
00:39:11and
00:39:11clear
00:39:11and
00:39:12no
00:39:12Chicago
00:39:13mayor
00:39:13would
00:39:14publicly
00:39:14condemn
00:39:15outfit
00:39:15leaders
00:39:16their
00:39:16politicians
00:39:17judges
00:39:18or
00:39:19cops
00:39:1914
00:39:21days
00:39:22after
00:39:22Cermak's
00:39:23death
00:39:23assassin
00:39:24Giuseppe
00:39:25Zangara
00:39:25was executed
00:39:27in the arms
00:39:27of old
00:39:28Sparky
00:39:28the famed
00:39:30electric chair
00:39:30at the
00:39:31Florida State
00:39:32Prison
00:39:32at Rayford
00:39:33it was one
00:39:34of the
00:39:35quickest
00:39:35trials
00:39:35and
00:39:36executions
00:39:37in
00:39:38American
00:39:38history
00:39:38there's
00:39:42a strong
00:39:42possibility
00:39:43there was
00:39:43no
00:39:44involvement
00:39:44in
00:39:44Cermak's
00:39:45death
00:39:45by the
00:39:46Chicago
00:39:47outfit
00:39:47and
00:39:48boss
00:39:48Frank
00:39:48Nitti
00:39:49either
00:39:50way
00:39:50the
00:39:50outfit
00:39:51benefited
00:39:51from
00:39:52people
00:39:52thinking
00:39:53they
00:39:53had
00:39:54killed
00:39:54Cermak
00:39:55and
00:39:56this
00:39:57put
00:39:57fear
00:39:57into
00:39:57all
00:39:58politicians
00:39:58in
00:39:59Chicago
00:39:59for
00:40:00decades
00:40:00to
00:40:00come
00:40:01their
00:40:02motto
00:40:02was
00:40:03go
00:40:04along
00:40:04or
00:40:05else
00:40:06Mayor
00:40:10Cermak
00:40:11was laid
00:40:11to rest
00:40:12at
00:40:12Bohemian
00:40:13National
00:40:13Cemetery
00:40:14on the
00:40:15north
00:40:15side
00:40:15of
00:40:16Chicago
00:40:16after
00:40:21Cermak's
00:40:22death
00:40:22Nitti
00:40:23immediately
00:40:23expanded
00:40:24operations
00:40:25and set
00:40:26out to
00:40:26fill the
00:40:27void
00:40:27in the
00:40:28lost
00:40:28revenue
00:40:28from
00:40:29booze
00:40:29so he
00:40:31turned
00:40:31the
00:40:31outfit's
00:40:32focus
00:40:32to the
00:40:32labor
00:40:33unions
00:40:33mainly
00:40:34in
00:40:34California
00:40:35Nitti
00:40:37and other
00:40:37bosses
00:40:37over the
00:40:38next
00:40:3860
00:40:39years
00:40:39would
00:40:40keep
00:40:40the
00:40:40old
00:40:40school
00:40:41rackets
00:40:41intact
00:40:42they
00:40:43still
00:40:43had
00:40:43casino
00:40:44gambling
00:40:44the
00:40:45sports
00:40:45book
00:40:46slot
00:40:47machines
00:40:47prostitution
00:40:48and
00:40:49drugs
00:40:50and
00:40:50they
00:40:50were
00:40:51making
00:40:51headway
00:40:51into
00:40:52the
00:40:52labor
00:40:52unions
00:40:52here
00:40:53in
00:40:53Chicago
00:40:53in
00:40:56the
00:40:56early
00:40:561940s
00:40:57Nitti
00:40:58made
00:40:58a
00:40:58big
00:40:59mistake
00:40:59when
00:41:00he
00:41:00took
00:41:00the
00:41:00Capone
00:41:00reputation
00:41:01to
00:41:01Hollywood
00:41:02in
00:41:03a
00:41:03failed
00:41:03attempt
00:41:03to
00:41:04extort
00:41:04the
00:41:04film
00:41:04studios
00:41:05Nitti
00:41:08convinced
00:41:08the
00:41:09outfit
00:41:09leadership
00:41:09his
00:41:10takeover
00:41:11plan
00:41:11would
00:41:11work
00:41:12Chicago
00:41:14mobster
00:41:14Johnny
00:41:14Roselli
00:41:15gained
00:41:16control of
00:41:16the
00:41:16projectors
00:41:17union
00:41:17and threatened
00:41:19the studios
00:41:19with strikes
00:41:20and other
00:41:21labor problems
00:41:22if they did
00:41:23not pay
00:41:23up
00:41:24after the
00:41:26projectors
00:41:26union
00:41:26takeover
00:41:27was complete
00:41:28Nitti
00:41:29sent
00:41:29Willie
00:41:30the
00:41:30pimp
00:41:30B
00:41:30off
00:41:30to
00:41:31Hollywood
00:41:31to
00:41:32start
00:41:32extorting
00:41:33the
00:41:33film
00:41:33studios
00:41:34B
00:41:36off
00:41:36immediately
00:41:36got himself
00:41:37in
00:41:37trouble
00:41:37and
00:41:38to
00:41:38stay
00:41:39out
00:41:39of
00:41:39jail
00:41:39started
00:41:40cooperating
00:41:41with
00:41:41law
00:41:41enforcement
00:41:42and
00:41:43that
00:41:43resulted
00:41:43in
00:41:44indictments
00:41:44against
00:41:45several
00:41:45high-ranking
00:41:46members
00:41:46of the
00:41:47Chicago
00:41:48outfit
00:41:48in
00:41:521943
00:41:53the
00:41:54upper
00:41:54echelon
00:41:54of
00:41:54the
00:41:55Chicago
00:41:55outfit
00:41:56was
00:41:56indicted
00:41:56for
00:41:57extorting
00:41:58the
00:41:58Hollywood
00:41:58film
00:41:59industry
00:41:59Phil
00:42:00D'Andrea
00:42:01Louis
00:42:02Little
00:42:03New York
00:42:03Compagnia
00:42:04Nick
00:42:06Cercella
00:42:06Charles
00:42:08Cherry
00:42:08Nose
00:42:08Gio
00:42:09Rika
00:42:10and
00:42:11Johnny
00:42:12Roselli
00:42:12were
00:42:13all
00:42:13accused
00:42:14of
00:42:14extorting
00:42:14money
00:42:15from
00:42:15the
00:42:15movie
00:42:16studios
00:42:16including
00:42:18Columbia
00:42:18Pictures
00:42:19Metro
00:42:20Goldwyn
00:42:20Mayor
00:42:21Paramount
00:42:22Pictures
00:42:23RKO
00:42:24Pictures
00:42:24and
00:42:2520th Century
00:42:26Fox
00:42:27On
00:42:29March
00:42:2918th
00:42:301943
00:42:31Rika
00:42:32and
00:42:32the
00:42:32outfit
00:42:33leadership
00:42:33met
00:42:34with
00:42:34Nitti
00:42:34Since
00:42:35the
00:42:35movie
00:42:36studio
00:42:36racket
00:42:37was
00:42:37Nitti's
00:42:37idea
00:42:38Rika
00:42:39and
00:42:39the
00:42:39outfit
00:42:39leaders
00:42:40demanded
00:42:41that
00:42:41Nitti
00:42:41plead
00:42:42guilty
00:42:42to
00:42:43extortion
00:42:44charges
00:42:44to
00:42:45save
00:42:45them
00:42:45from
00:42:46prison
00:42:46and
00:42:48reality
00:42:48smacked
00:42:49Nitti
00:42:49in the
00:42:49face
00:42:50when
00:42:50he
00:42:50found
00:42:50out
00:42:50he
00:42:51really
00:42:51wasn't
00:42:52the
00:42:52boss
00:42:52and
00:42:53was
00:42:53just
00:42:53a
00:42:54figure
00:42:54head
00:42:54after
00:42:56the
00:42:56meeting
00:42:56Nitti
00:42:57decided
00:42:57he
00:42:57was
00:42:58not
00:42:58going
00:42:58to
00:42:58do
00:42:58another
00:42:59stint
00:42:59in
00:42:59prison
00:43:00some
00:43:01some
00:43:01say
00:43:01it
00:43:01was
00:43:01due
00:43:01to
00:43:02his
00:43:02severe
00:43:02claustrophobia
00:43:03and
00:43:04others
00:43:04claim
00:43:05he
00:43:05was
00:43:05dying
00:43:05of
00:43:05cancer
00:43:06Nitti
00:43:07shot
00:43:08himself
00:43:08to
00:43:08death
00:43:08the
00:43:09next
00:43:09day
00:43:09and
00:43:10Rika
00:43:10now
00:43:11became
00:43:12the
00:43:12official
00:43:12boss
00:43:12of
00:43:13the
00:43:13outfit
00:43:13and
00:43:14Louis
00:43:14Compagnia
00:43:15became
00:43:15underboss
00:43:16and
00:43:17Tony
00:43:17Accardo
00:43:18became
00:43:19the
00:43:19enforcement
00:43:20chief
00:43:20Willie
00:43:26the
00:43:26pimp
00:43:26Bioff
00:43:27was
00:43:27placed
00:43:27in
00:43:28the
00:43:28witness
00:43:28protection
00:43:28program
00:43:29but
00:43:30resurfaced
00:43:3112
00:43:31years
00:43:31later
00:43:32in
00:43:32Vegas
00:43:32under
00:43:33the
00:43:33name
00:43:34William
00:43:34Nelson
00:43:35he
00:43:36was
00:43:36recognized
00:43:37and
00:43:37the
00:43:38outfit
00:43:38quickly
00:43:38took
00:43:39its
00:43:39revenge
00:43:39for
00:43:40ratting
00:43:40them
00:43:40out
00:43:41a
00:43:42bomb
00:43:42was
00:43:42placed
00:43:42in
00:43:43his
00:43:43car
00:43:43and
00:43:44there
00:43:44was
00:43:44nothing
00:43:45left
00:43:45of
00:43:45him
00:43:45or
00:43:46his
00:43:46car
00:43:47on
00:43:49December
00:43:5030th
00:43:501943
00:43:51Rika
00:43:52and
00:43:53his
00:43:53associates
00:43:53were
00:43:53convicted
00:43:54of
00:43:54extortion
00:43:55and
00:43:55sentenced
00:43:56to
00:43:5610
00:43:56years
00:43:56each
00:43:57in
00:43:57federal
00:43:57prison
00:43:58Rika
00:43:59began
00:43:59his
00:44:00sentence
00:44:00at
00:44:01the
00:44:01federal
00:44:01penitentiary
00:44:02in
00:44:02Atlanta
00:44:02and
00:44:05Frank
00:44:06Nitti
00:44:06a
00:44:06very
00:44:06powerful
00:44:07man
00:44:07in
00:44:07the
00:44:07Chicago
00:44:08outfit
00:44:08died
00:44:10sitting
00:44:10in
00:44:10the
00:44:10grassy
00:44:11mud
00:44:11of
00:44:11an
00:44:11Illinois
00:44:12central
00:44:12railroad
00:44:13line
00:44:13in
00:44:13North
00:44:14Riverside
00:44:14on
00:44:15March
00:44:1619th
00:44:171943
00:44:18he
00:44:19was
00:44:1962
00:44:20years
00:44:20old
00:44:21Frank
00:44:23Nitto
00:44:23aka
00:44:24Frank
00:44:25the
00:44:25enforcer
00:44:25Nitti
00:44:26was laid
00:44:27to rest
00:44:27at
00:44:27Mount Carmel
00:44:28Cemetery
00:44:29in
00:44:29Hillside
00:44:30Illinois
00:44:30Sam
00:44:38Giancana
00:44:39was the
00:44:39frontman
00:44:40that led
00:44:41the
00:44:41policy
00:44:41takeover
00:44:42and opened
00:44:43the door
00:44:43to the
00:44:44Teamsters
00:44:44bank
00:44:45and used
00:44:46it
00:44:46to expand
00:44:47gambling
00:44:48internationally
00:44:49for the
00:44:50bosses
00:44:50Sam
00:44:54Giancana
00:44:54was the
00:44:55boss
00:44:55of the
00:44:55outfit
00:44:56for nine
00:44:56years
00:44:57from
00:44:571957
00:44:58to
00:44:591966
00:45:00after the
00:45:03death
00:45:04of Nitti
00:45:04Rika
00:45:05with the
00:45:05assistance
00:45:06of
00:45:06Accardo
00:45:07ran
00:45:08the
00:45:08outfit
00:45:08into
00:45:08the
00:45:091950s
00:45:10as
00:45:10the
00:45:1150s
00:45:11began
00:45:12Rika
00:45:12started
00:45:13passing
00:45:13more
00:45:13of the
00:45:14day
00:45:14to
00:45:14day
00:45:14operation
00:45:15of the
00:45:16outfit
00:45:16to
00:45:16Accardo
00:45:17in
00:45:181957
00:45:19Rika
00:45:20suddenly
00:45:21told
00:45:21Accardo
00:45:21that he
00:45:22wanted
00:45:22Sam
00:45:23Giancana
00:45:24a Rika
00:45:24protege
00:45:25to take
00:45:26Accardo's
00:45:26position
00:45:27Accardo
00:45:29was facing
00:45:29tax evasion
00:45:30charges
00:45:31and Rika
00:45:32allegedly
00:45:32wanted him
00:45:33to disappear
00:45:33from the
00:45:34public
00:45:34view
00:45:35although
00:45:36unhappy
00:45:37with the
00:45:37demotion
00:45:38Accardo
00:45:38accepted
00:45:39it
00:45:39joining
00:45:40Rika
00:45:40semi
00:45:41retirement
00:45:42however
00:45:43it
00:45:44was
00:45:44understood
00:45:44that
00:45:45Giancana
00:45:46had to
00:45:46get
00:45:46Accardo
00:45:47and Rika
00:45:47approval
00:45:48for
00:45:49all
00:45:49major
00:45:49transactions
00:45:50particularly
00:45:52hits
00:45:53Giancana
00:45:57joined
00:45:58the
00:45:5842
00:45:58gang
00:45:59it
00:46:00was
00:46:00a
00:46:00juvenile
00:46:00street
00:46:01crew
00:46:01and
00:46:02he
00:46:02worked
00:46:02for
00:46:02political
00:46:03boss
00:46:03and
00:46:03gangster
00:46:04Joe
00:46:05Esposito
00:46:05Giancana
00:46:07was
00:46:07considered
00:46:08to be
00:46:08a
00:46:08great
00:46:08wheel
00:46:09man
00:46:09a
00:46:10big
00:46:10earner
00:46:10and
00:46:11a
00:46:11vicious
00:46:11killer
00:46:12after
00:46:13Giancana
00:46:14murdered
00:46:14his
00:46:14boss
00:46:15Esposito
00:46:15the
00:46:1642
00:46:17gang
00:46:17became
00:46:18an
00:46:18extension
00:46:18of
00:46:19the
00:46:19outfit
00:46:20the
00:46:21outfit
00:46:21leadership
00:46:21was
00:46:22very
00:46:22weary
00:46:23at
00:46:23first
00:46:23of
00:46:24the
00:46:2442
00:46:25members
00:46:25they
00:46:26thought
00:46:26they
00:46:26were
00:46:27a
00:46:27bit
00:46:27too
00:46:27wild
00:46:28but
00:46:30Giancana's
00:46:31reputation
00:46:31got him
00:46:32noticed
00:46:32by
00:46:33Frank
00:46:33Nitti
00:46:34Paul
00:46:34Rika
00:46:35and
00:46:36Tony
00:46:36Accardo
00:46:37Giancana
00:46:39did
00:46:40multiple
00:46:40prison
00:46:41terms
00:46:41in
00:46:42Joliet
00:46:42Leavenworth
00:46:44and
00:46:44Terre Haute
00:46:45Federal
00:46:45Prison
00:46:46by the
00:46:47time he
00:46:47was 20
00:46:48years old
00:46:48he was
00:46:49the prime
00:46:49suspect
00:46:50in
00:46:50three
00:46:50murders
00:46:51over
00:46:52his
00:46:53criminal
00:46:53career
00:46:53he is
00:46:54suspected
00:46:55in
00:46:55ordering
00:46:56and
00:46:56participating
00:46:57in
00:46:58dozens
00:46:58of
00:46:59murders
00:46:59and
00:47:0032
00:47:01years
00:47:01later
00:47:01he
00:47:02would
00:47:02become
00:47:03the
00:47:03boss
00:47:03of
00:47:04the
00:47:04Chicago
00:47:05outfit
00:47:05in
00:47:091957
00:47:10Giancana
00:47:11was
00:47:11now
00:47:11the
00:47:12head
00:47:12of
00:47:12the
00:47:12outfit
00:47:12and
00:47:13his
00:47:13first
00:47:14priority
00:47:14was
00:47:14to
00:47:15consolidate
00:47:15illegal
00:47:16lottery
00:47:16rackets
00:47:17in
00:47:17Chicago
00:47:18he
00:47:19did
00:47:19this
00:47:19successfully
00:47:20and
00:47:21filled
00:47:21the
00:47:21outfit's
00:47:22pockets
00:47:22with
00:47:22millions
00:47:23Giancana
00:47:25did
00:47:25this
00:47:26through
00:47:26murdering
00:47:27those
00:47:27who
00:47:28did
00:47:28not
00:47:28go
00:47:28along
00:47:28with
00:47:29the
00:47:29program
00:47:29Giancana
00:47:32was a
00:47:32natural
00:47:32born
00:47:33killer
00:47:33he
00:47:34was
00:47:34a
00:47:34bit
00:47:34more
00:47:35sadistically
00:47:35violent
00:47:36than
00:47:36Capone
00:47:37and
00:47:37Nitti
00:47:37combined
00:47:38the
00:47:39first
00:47:40disaster
00:47:40for
00:47:40Giancana
00:47:41took
00:47:42place
00:47:42when
00:47:42he
00:47:42attended
00:47:43the
00:47:43national
00:47:43summit
00:47:44of
00:47:44mob
00:47:44bosses
00:47:45held
00:47:46in
00:47:46Appalachian
00:47:46New
00:47:47York
00:47:47he
00:47:48was
00:47:48the
00:47:48outfit's
00:47:49representative
00:47:49at
00:47:50the
00:47:50summit
00:47:50that
00:47:51ended
00:47:51up
00:47:51exposing
00:47:52the
00:47:52heresy
00:47:53of
00:47:53the
00:47:53nationwide
00:47:54syndicate
00:47:54that
00:47:55Hoover
00:47:55claimed
00:47:56did
00:47:57not
00:47:57exist
00:47:58after
00:47:59the
00:48:00raid
00:48:00Buffalo
00:48:01crime
00:48:01boss
00:48:02Stefano
00:48:02Magadino
00:48:03and
00:48:03Giancana
00:48:04were
00:48:05overheard
00:48:05on a
00:48:06wiretap
00:48:06saying
00:48:07the
00:48:07meeting
00:48:08should
00:48:08have
00:48:08occurred
00:48:08in
00:48:09the
00:48:09Chicago
00:48:09area
00:48:10Giancana
00:48:11claimed
00:48:12that
00:48:12the
00:48:12Chicago
00:48:13area
00:48:13was
00:48:13the
00:48:14safest
00:48:14place
00:48:14in
00:48:15the
00:48:15world
00:48:15for
00:48:16a
00:48:16major
00:48:16underworld
00:48:17meeting
00:48:17because
00:48:18he
00:48:18had
00:48:19several
00:48:19police
00:48:19chiefs
00:48:20on
00:48:21his
00:48:21payroll
00:48:21Giancana
00:48:26frequently
00:48:26spent
00:48:27time
00:48:27away
00:48:27from
00:48:27Chicago
00:48:28and
00:48:29invested
00:48:29in
00:48:30Las
00:48:30Vegas
00:48:30as
00:48:31well
00:48:31as
00:48:32in
00:48:32offshore
00:48:32casinos
00:48:33in
00:48:33Iran
00:48:33Cuba
00:48:35and
00:48:35Great
00:48:35Britain
00:48:36following
00:48:37the
00:48:37death
00:48:37of
00:48:38his
00:48:38wife
00:48:38Angeline
00:48:39in
00:48:391954
00:48:40Giancana
00:48:42was linked
00:48:42to a
00:48:43series
00:48:43of
00:48:43attractive
00:48:44women
00:48:44including
00:48:45the
00:48:45singer
00:48:46Phyllis
00:48:46Maguire
00:48:47and
00:48:48call
00:48:48girl
00:48:49Judith
00:48:49Exner
00:48:50a
00:48:51woman
00:48:51who
00:48:52he
00:48:52allegedly
00:48:52would
00:48:53share
00:48:53with
00:48:54the
00:48:54future
00:48:54president
00:48:55John
00:48:55F
00:48:56Kennedy
00:48:56claims
00:48:58have
00:48:58been
00:48:59made
00:48:59over
00:48:59the
00:48:59decades
00:49:00that
00:49:00Sam
00:49:00Giancana
00:49:01and
00:49:01the
00:49:01outfit
00:49:02were
00:49:03responsible
00:49:03for
00:49:04handing
00:49:04the
00:49:04presidential
00:49:05election
00:49:05to
00:49:06John
00:49:06F
00:49:07Kennedy
00:49:07because
00:49:09of
00:49:09his
00:49:09father's
00:49:10past
00:49:10ties
00:49:10to
00:49:10Chicago
00:49:11during
00:49:12Prohibition
00:49:13nothing
00:49:14could be
00:49:14further
00:49:15from
00:49:15the
00:49:15truth
00:49:16the
00:49:16outfit
00:49:17leadership
00:49:17hated
00:49:18the
00:49:18Kennedy
00:49:19brothers
00:49:19and
00:49:20viewed
00:49:20them
00:49:21as
00:49:21spoiled
00:49:22rich
00:49:22kids
00:49:22that
00:49:23couldn't
00:49:23be
00:49:23trusted
00:49:24to
00:49:25leave
00:49:25them
00:49:25alone
00:49:25the
00:49:27outfit
00:49:28backed
00:49:28Richard
00:49:28Nixon
00:49:29for
00:49:29president
00:49:30and
00:49:30when
00:49:31Kennedy
00:49:31won
00:49:31big
00:49:32problems
00:49:33came
00:49:33for
00:49:33the
00:49:33outfit
00:49:34but
00:49:35one
00:49:35of
00:49:36President
00:49:36Kennedy's
00:49:37first
00:49:37steps
00:49:37when he
00:49:38took
00:49:38office
00:49:38was
00:49:39to
00:49:39appoint
00:49:40his
00:49:40mob
00:49:40hating
00:49:40brother
00:49:41Robert
00:49:42Kennedy
00:49:42to
00:49:43attorney
00:49:43general
00:49:44and
00:49:45one
00:49:45of
00:49:45Robert's
00:49:46priorities
00:49:46was
00:49:47going
00:49:47after
00:49:48Ricardo
00:49:48Rika
00:49:49Giancana
00:49:50and
00:49:51all
00:49:51top
00:49:52echelon
00:49:52mobsters
00:49:53about
00:49:55the
00:49:55same
00:49:55time
00:49:56that
00:49:56Bobby
00:49:56Kennedy
00:49:56was
00:49:57waging
00:49:57war
00:49:57on
00:49:58the
00:49:58outfit
00:49:58Giancana
00:50:00and
00:50:00another
00:50:01mob
00:50:01boss
00:50:01Santo
00:50:02Traficante
00:50:02were
00:50:03contacted
00:50:04by the
00:50:04CIA
00:50:05in a
00:50:06complex
00:50:07plot
00:50:07to
00:50:07assassinate
00:50:08Cuban
00:50:08leader
00:50:09Fidel
00:50:10Castro
00:50:10Castro
00:50:12kicked
00:50:12the mob
00:50:13out of
00:50:13Cuba
00:50:13after
00:50:14his
00:50:141959
00:50:15revolution
00:50:16Chicago
00:50:18outfit
00:50:18associate
00:50:19Johnny
00:50:20Roselli
00:50:20was also
00:50:21involved
00:50:22and
00:50:22he
00:50:23was
00:50:23the
00:50:23go
00:50:23between
00:50:24in
00:50:24the
00:50:25CIA
00:50:25plot
00:50:26during
00:50:30Giancana's
00:50:31reign
00:50:31the
00:50:31violence
00:50:32escalated
00:50:32and
00:50:33for
00:50:33years
00:50:34cops
00:50:34kept
00:50:35finding
00:50:35people
00:50:35murdered
00:50:36in
00:50:37the
00:50:37trunks
00:50:37of
00:50:37their
00:50:37cars
00:50:38it
00:50:39was
00:50:39in
00:50:40fact
00:50:40Giancana
00:50:41that
00:50:41started
00:50:41leaving
00:50:42the
00:50:42bodies
00:50:42in
00:50:42the
00:50:42trunks
00:50:43of
00:50:43cars
00:50:43after
00:50:45the
00:50:45outfit
00:50:45tortured
00:50:46and
00:50:46murdered
00:50:46the
00:50:46victims
00:50:47and
00:50:48others
00:50:48were
00:50:48being
00:50:49blown
00:50:49up
00:50:49in
00:50:49car
00:50:50bottles
00:50:50these
00:50:51terror
00:50:51tactics
00:50:52were
00:50:52used
00:50:52a lot
00:50:53during
00:50:54Sam
00:50:54Giancana's
00:50:55term
00:50:55as
00:50:56boss
00:50:56under
00:50:59the
00:50:59reins
00:50:59of
00:51:00Nitti
00:51:00and
00:51:01then
00:51:01Giancana
00:51:02the
00:51:02bodies
00:51:03just
00:51:03kept
00:51:03piling
00:51:04up
00:51:04the
00:51:07first
00:51:07documented
00:51:08involvement
00:51:08by the
00:51:09Chicago
00:51:09outfit
00:51:09in
00:51:10Las
00:51:10Vegas
00:51:10started
00:51:12with
00:51:12enforcer
00:51:12Marshall
00:51:13Caifano
00:51:14in
00:51:15the
00:51:151940s
00:51:16Caifano
00:51:16was sent
00:51:17to
00:51:17Los
00:51:17Angeles
00:51:17by
00:51:18Paul
00:51:18Rica
00:51:19and
00:51:19Tony
00:51:20Accardo
00:51:20this
00:51:21started
00:51:22the
00:51:22Las
00:51:22Vegas
00:51:23partnership
00:51:23between
00:51:24the
00:51:24Chicago
00:51:24outfit
00:51:25and
00:51:26the
00:51:26New
00:51:26York
00:51:26mob
00:51:27and
00:51:28it
00:51:28started
00:51:28at
00:51:28Virginia
00:51:29Hills
00:51:29Beverly
00:51:30Hills
00:51:30home
00:51:30with
00:51:31Caifano
00:51:32associate
00:51:32Alan
00:51:33Smiley
00:51:34Smiley
00:51:36was there
00:51:36when
00:51:36Siegel
00:51:37was shot
00:51:37to death
00:51:38by another
00:51:38man
00:51:39and
00:51:40soon
00:51:40after
00:51:41Gus
00:51:41Greenbaum
00:51:42the
00:51:42Chicago
00:51:43outfit's
00:51:43chief
00:51:44bookie
00:51:44arrived
00:51:45at
00:51:45Siegel's
00:51:46Flamingo
00:51:46Hotel
00:51:47in
00:51:47Las
00:51:47Vegas
00:51:48and
00:51:48said
00:51:49we're
00:51:49taking
00:51:50over
00:51:50and
00:51:51the
00:51:51outfit
00:51:52now
00:51:52had
00:51:52their
00:51:52foot
00:51:53in
00:51:53the
00:51:53door
00:51:53Marshall
00:51:55Caifano
00:51:55ran
00:51:56the
00:51:56juice
00:51:56loans
00:51:56and
00:51:57street
00:51:57rackets
00:51:57in
00:51:58Las
00:51:58Vegas
00:51:58for
00:51:59nearly
00:51:59two
00:51:59decades
00:52:00and
00:52:01he
00:52:01was
00:52:01suspected
00:52:02of
00:52:02several
00:52:03unsolved
00:52:03killings
00:52:04including
00:52:05the
00:52:051950
00:52:06murder
00:52:06of
00:52:07former
00:52:07Chicago
00:52:08police
00:52:08lieutenant
00:52:09William
00:52:10Drury
00:52:10and
00:52:11the
00:52:121952
00:52:13strangulation
00:52:13murder
00:52:14of
00:52:14mobster
00:52:15Russian
00:52:16Louis
00:52:16Strauss
00:52:17and
00:52:18and the
00:52:181973
00:52:19shotgun
00:52:20killing
00:52:20of
00:52:20police
00:52:21officer
00:52:21Richard
00:52:22Kane
00:52:23in
00:52:251943
00:52:26Caifano
00:52:27associate
00:52:27Nick
00:52:28Surcella
00:52:28was facing
00:52:30an extortion
00:52:30trial
00:52:31Surcella's
00:52:32girlfriend
00:52:33Estelle
00:52:34Carey
00:52:34a former
00:52:35dice girl
00:52:36was about
00:52:37to cooperate
00:52:37with federal
00:52:38prosecutors
00:52:39days later
00:52:41her burned
00:52:42battered
00:52:43and ice
00:52:43picked
00:52:44body
00:52:44was found
00:52:45in a
00:52:45north side
00:52:46apartment
00:52:46building
00:52:46at 512
00:52:48west
00:52:48Addison
00:52:49Caifano
00:52:50was a prime
00:52:51suspect
00:52:52in this murder
00:52:53but the case
00:52:54was never
00:52:55solved
00:52:56in the 1950s
00:53:00Giancana
00:53:00and Caifano
00:53:02pushed out
00:53:02the last
00:53:03black policy
00:53:04king
00:53:04Theodore
00:53:05Rowe
00:53:05Giancana's
00:53:07guys tried
00:53:08to kidnap
00:53:08Rowe
00:53:09and killed
00:53:10Caifano's
00:53:10brother
00:53:11in the process
00:53:12Leonard
00:53:13Fat Lenny
00:53:14Caifano
00:53:14Leonard
00:53:16Caifano
00:53:17was Sam
00:53:17Giancana's
00:53:18boyhood
00:53:18pal
00:53:19and
00:53:19bodyguard
00:53:20Teddy
00:53:22Rowe
00:53:22and four
00:53:23of his
00:53:23bodyguards
00:53:24three of
00:53:25which were
00:53:25off-duty
00:53:25Chicago
00:53:26cops
00:53:27were forced
00:53:28off the
00:53:28road
00:53:28by Lenny
00:53:29Caifano
00:53:29with him
00:53:31was his
00:53:31brother
00:53:31Marshall
00:53:32Caifano
00:53:33and Vincent
00:53:34Lally
00:53:34Lenny
00:53:36Caifano
00:53:37pulled a
00:53:37gun
00:53:38and a
00:53:38gun
00:53:38battle
00:53:39ensued
00:53:39and Rowe's
00:53:40bodyguards
00:53:41pulled out
00:53:42shotguns
00:53:43and ended
00:53:43up killing
00:53:44Lenny
00:53:45Caifano
00:53:45after
00:53:48Fat Lenny's
00:53:48murder
00:53:49Sam
00:53:49Giancana
00:53:50with the
00:53:51full power
00:53:51of the
00:53:51outfit
00:53:52behind him
00:53:53led a
00:53:53month-long
00:53:54terror
00:53:54campaign
00:53:55through the
00:53:55black
00:53:56neighborhoods
00:53:56of Chicago
00:53:57where Rowe
00:53:58was hiding
00:53:59out
00:53:59dozens
00:54:00were shot
00:54:01at
00:54:01or
00:54:02blackjacked
00:54:02a lot
00:54:03of black
00:54:04hoodlums
00:54:04simply
00:54:05disappeared
00:54:05and others
00:54:06just left
00:54:07town
00:54:07forever
00:54:08Rowe
00:54:10was holed
00:54:10up in his
00:54:11mansion
00:54:11on South
00:54:12Michigan
00:54:12Avenue
00:54:13protected
00:54:14by a
00:54:14small
00:54:14army
00:54:15of
00:54:15bodyguards
00:54:16but it
00:54:17was over
00:54:17and he
00:54:18knew it
00:54:18and on
00:54:19August 1st
00:54:201952
00:54:21Rowe
00:54:22was told
00:54:23by doctors
00:54:23that he
00:54:24had
00:54:24incurable
00:54:25cancer
00:54:25and after
00:54:26that
00:54:27Rowe
00:54:27stopped
00:54:28hiding
00:54:28he
00:54:29dismissed
00:54:30his
00:54:30bodyguards
00:54:31and on
00:54:31August 4th
00:54:321952
00:54:33he dressed
00:54:34in a
00:54:35three-piece
00:54:35suit
00:54:35and a
00:54:36hat
00:54:36and
00:54:37strolled
00:54:37down
00:54:37Michigan
00:54:38Avenue
00:54:38they
00:54:39killed
00:54:40him
00:54:40with
00:54:40eight
00:54:40shots
00:54:41to the
00:54:41head
00:54:41before
00:54:42he
00:54:42reached
00:54:42the other
00:54:43side
00:54:43of the
00:54:43street
00:54:44and
00:54:45Marshall
00:54:45Caifano
00:54:46was the
00:54:47prime
00:54:47suspect
00:54:47in this
00:54:49killing
00:54:49and many
00:54:50other
00:54:51unsolved
00:54:52killings
00:54:53by the
00:54:571950s
00:54:58more outfit
00:54:59connected
00:55:00casinos
00:55:00began to
00:55:01pop up
00:55:02on the
00:55:02strip
00:55:02there
00:55:03was the
00:55:04sands
00:55:04the
00:55:05dunes
00:55:05the
00:55:06Riviera
00:55:06the
00:55:07Tropicana
00:55:08and the
00:55:08Stardust
00:55:09most of
00:55:10these
00:55:11casinos
00:55:11were
00:55:11financed
00:55:12or
00:55:12refinanced
00:55:13with
00:55:13millions
00:55:14of
00:55:14dollars
00:55:14in
00:55:14loans
00:55:15from
00:55:16the
00:55:16mob
00:55:16dominated
00:55:16Teamsters
00:55:17Central
00:55:18States
00:55:18Pension
00:55:18Fund
00:55:19Moe
00:55:20Dalitz
00:55:21was close
00:55:21to
00:55:22Teamsters
00:55:22Union
00:55:22President
00:55:23Jimmy
00:55:23Hoffa
00:55:24and
00:55:25Moe
00:55:25played
00:55:25an
00:55:26instrumental
00:55:26role
00:55:26in
00:55:27helping
00:55:27secure
00:55:28some
00:55:29of
00:55:29these
00:55:29early
00:55:29loans
00:55:30to
00:55:30mob
00:55:31families
00:55:31across
00:55:32the
00:55:32country
00:55:32Moe
00:55:33was
00:55:34referred
00:55:34to
00:55:34as
00:55:34Mr.
00:55:35Las
00:55:35Vegas
00:55:35he
00:55:36would
00:55:36usher
00:55:37the
00:55:37mob
00:55:37into
00:55:37the
00:55:3820th
00:55:38century
00:55:39in
00:55:39Vegas
00:55:40in
00:55:41the
00:55:41late
00:55:411960s
00:55:43Caifano's
00:55:43legal
00:55:44troubles
00:55:44caught up
00:55:45with him
00:55:45and this
00:55:46would force
00:55:47Rika and
00:55:48Accardo
00:55:48and Giancana
00:55:49to replace
00:55:50Caifano
00:55:51with
00:55:52enforcer
00:55:52Anthony
00:55:53Spilatro
00:55:54in 1971
00:55:56and
00:55:57this
00:55:57was
00:55:58the
00:55:58beginning
00:55:58of
00:55:59the
00:55:59windfall
00:56:00that
00:56:00was
00:56:00to
00:56:00come
00:56:00for
00:56:01the
00:56:01outfit
00:56:01over
00:56:02the
00:56:02next
00:56:03decade
00:56:03and
00:56:03a
00:56:03half
00:56:04Giancana
00:56:08had
00:56:08become
00:56:08a
00:56:08problem
00:56:09for
00:56:09the
00:56:09bosses
00:56:09he
00:56:10was
00:56:10fast
00:56:11becoming
00:56:11a
00:56:11celebrity
00:56:12of
00:56:12sorts
00:56:12and
00:56:13he
00:56:13was
00:56:14out
00:56:14in
00:56:14the
00:56:14public
00:56:14view
00:56:15shoulder
00:56:17to
00:56:17shoulder
00:56:17with
00:56:18stars
00:56:18and
00:56:19his
00:56:19face
00:56:19was
00:56:20in
00:56:20the
00:56:20papers
00:56:20every
00:56:20day
00:56:21and
00:56:22this
00:56:22violated
00:56:23Ricardo
00:56:24Enrique's
00:56:25low-key
00:56:26policy
00:56:26in
00:56:281965
00:56:29Giancana
00:56:30was
00:56:30convicted
00:56:31of
00:56:31contempt
00:56:31court
00:56:32he
00:56:33served
00:56:33one
00:56:33year
00:56:34in
00:56:34prison
00:56:34after
00:56:35his
00:56:36release
00:56:36from
00:56:36prison
00:56:37Giancana
00:56:38fled
00:56:38to
00:56:39Mexico
00:56:39and
00:56:40in
00:56:401974
00:56:41he
00:56:42was
00:56:42deported
00:56:42to
00:56:43the
00:56:43United
00:56:43States
00:56:44and
00:56:44then
00:56:45returned
00:56:45to
00:56:45Chicago
00:56:46after
00:56:51Giancana's
00:56:52return
00:56:53to
00:56:53the
00:56:53United
00:56:53States
00:56:54police
00:56:55sent a
00:56:55detail
00:56:56to
00:56:56guard
00:56:56his
00:56:57house
00:56:57because
00:56:58the
00:56:58next
00:56:59day
00:56:59he
00:56:59was
00:56:59to
00:56:59be
00:57:00taken
00:57:00to
00:57:00Washington
00:57:01by
00:57:01federal
00:57:01agents
00:57:02to
00:57:02testify
00:57:03before
00:57:03the
00:57:04church
00:57:04committee
00:57:04which
00:57:05was
00:57:05investigating
00:57:06the
00:57:06CIA
00:57:07and
00:57:08mob
00:57:08activities
00:57:09someone
00:57:10didn't
00:57:10want
00:57:11him
00:57:11back
00:57:11in
00:57:11Chicago
00:57:12and
00:57:13they
00:57:13surely
00:57:13didn't
00:57:14want
00:57:14him
00:57:14testifying
00:57:15at
00:57:15the
00:57:15church
00:57:15hearings
00:57:16there
00:57:17were
00:57:17many
00:57:17reasons
00:57:18the
00:57:18bosses
00:57:19wanted
00:57:19Giancana
00:57:20dead
00:57:20on
00:57:22June
00:57:2219
00:57:221975
00:57:24a
00:57:25gunman
00:57:25secretly
00:57:26entered
00:57:26his
00:57:26home
00:57:26and
00:57:27shot
00:57:27Giancana
00:57:28in
00:57:28the
00:57:28head
00:57:28and
00:57:29neck
00:57:29seven
00:57:30times
00:57:30with
00:57:30a
00:57:31.22
00:57:31caliber
00:57:31pistol
00:57:32Giancana's
00:57:34caretaker
00:57:35found his
00:57:36body on
00:57:36the floor
00:57:37of the
00:57:37basement
00:57:37kitchen
00:57:38where he
00:57:38was frying
00:57:39sausage
00:57:39and
00:57:40peppers
00:57:40he
00:57:41let
00:57:42somebody
00:57:42in
00:57:42he
00:57:43knew
00:57:43and
00:57:44they
00:57:44claim
00:57:45that
00:57:45somebody
00:57:45was
00:57:46Tony
00:57:46Spolatro
00:57:47others
00:57:48claim
00:57:49it was
00:57:49Giancana's
00:57:50driver
00:57:50Butch
00:57:51Blassie
00:57:52within
00:57:53days
00:57:53of
00:57:53Giancana's
00:57:54murder
00:57:55an
00:57:55FBI
00:57:56wiretap
00:57:57picked
00:57:57up
00:57:57Michael
00:57:57Corbett
00:57:58the
00:57:59corrupt
00:57:59police
00:57:59chief
00:58:00of
00:58:00Willow
00:58:00Springs
00:58:01and
00:58:02mobster
00:58:02outfit
00:58:03capo
00:58:04Salvatore
00:58:04Bastone
00:58:05discussing
00:58:07Tony
00:58:07Spolatro's
00:58:08role in
00:58:09the murder
00:58:09of
00:58:09Giancana
00:58:10Sam
00:58:12sure
00:58:12loved
00:58:12the
00:58:12little
00:58:13guy
00:58:13in
00:58:13Oak
00:58:13Park
00:58:14talking
00:58:15about
00:58:15Tony
00:58:15Spolatro
00:58:16yeah
00:58:17he was
00:58:18effing
00:58:18crazy
00:58:19about
00:58:19him
00:58:19Sam
00:58:20put
00:58:21Tony
00:58:21on
00:58:21the
00:58:21map
00:58:22thought
00:58:22he
00:58:23was
00:58:23gonna
00:58:23be
00:58:23a
00:58:23big
00:58:24effing
00:58:24man
00:58:24someday
00:58:25did
00:58:26you
00:58:26know
00:58:26that
00:58:26after
00:58:27Marshall
00:58:27Caifano
00:58:28got out
00:58:28of
00:58:28Las
00:58:28Vegas
00:58:29it
00:58:30was
00:58:30Sam
00:58:30who
00:58:30wanted
00:58:31Tony
00:58:31Spolatro
00:58:32out
00:58:32there
00:58:32even
00:58:33even
00:58:33even
00:58:33even
00:58:33lately
00:58:34with
00:58:34all
00:58:34the
00:58:34problems
00:58:35with
00:58:35the
00:58:35skim
00:58:35and
00:58:36all
00:58:36Sam
00:58:36always
00:58:37stood
00:58:37behind
00:58:38the
00:58:38guy
00:58:38Tony
00:58:39was
00:58:39over
00:58:39to
00:58:40Sam's
00:58:40house
00:58:40all
00:58:40the
00:58:41time
00:58:41he
00:58:42lived
00:58:42right
00:58:42by
00:58:43there
00:58:43did
00:58:44you
00:58:44know
00:58:44Tony
00:58:45even
00:58:45figured
00:58:45out
00:58:45a
00:58:46way
00:58:46where
00:58:47he
00:58:47could
00:58:47get
00:58:47in
00:58:47through
00:58:47the
00:58:48back
00:58:48of
00:58:48Sam's
00:58:48place
00:58:49without
00:58:49anybody
00:58:50seeing
00:58:50him
00:58:51he
00:58:52go
00:58:52through
00:58:53other
00:58:53people's
00:58:53yards
00:58:54go
00:58:54over
00:58:54fences
00:58:55all
00:58:55sorts
00:58:56of
00:58:56crap
00:58:56when
00:58:58Corbett
00:58:59asked
00:58:59for
00:58:59the
00:58:59reason
00:59:00for
00:59:00the
00:59:00murder
00:59:00Bastone
00:59:01said
00:59:02there's
00:59:03never
00:59:03just
00:59:03one
00:59:03reason
00:59:04for
00:59:04what
00:59:04happened
00:59:04to
00:59:05Sam
00:59:05there's
00:59:06a
00:59:06million
00:59:06of
00:59:06them
00:59:07let's
00:59:08just
00:59:08say
00:59:08Sam
00:59:09should
00:59:09have
00:59:09remembered
00:59:09what
00:59:10happened
00:59:10to
00:59:11Bugsy
00:59:11Siegel
00:59:12and
00:59:14that
00:59:14was
00:59:14it
00:59:15for
00:59:15Sam
00:59:16Mooney
00:59:16Giancana
00:59:18Sam
00:59:20Giancana
00:59:21was
00:59:21interred
00:59:22next
00:59:22to
00:59:22his
00:59:22wife
00:59:22Angeline
00:59:23in
00:59:24the
00:59:24family
00:59:24mausoleum
00:59:25at
00:59:26Mount Carmel
00:59:27Cemetery
00:59:27in
00:59:28Hillside
00:59:29Illinois
00:59:29the
00:59:33next
00:59:34chapter
00:59:34covers
00:59:35the
00:59:35outfit
00:59:35bosses
00:59:36and
00:59:36the
00:59:36murder
00:59:36of
00:59:37their
00:59:37top
00:59:37loan
00:59:37shark
00:59:38and
00:59:39a
00:59:39rogue
00:59:39outfit
00:59:39burglary
00:59:40crew
00:59:40that
00:59:41robbed
00:59:41the
00:59:41wrong
00:59:42man's
00:59:42house
00:59:42and
00:59:43covers
00:59:44the
00:59:44outfit's
00:59:45multi-million
00:59:46dollar
00:59:46chop shop
00:59:47racket
00:59:47that
00:59:48caused
00:59:48an
00:59:48internal
00:59:49war
00:59:49that
00:59:50cost
00:59:50many
00:59:51lives
00:59:52and
00:59:53the
00:59:54other
00:59:55do
00:59:56move
00:59:57or
00:59:58an
00:59:58comment
01:00:00or
01:00:00the
01:00:01house
01:00:01or
01:00:02the
01:00:02house
01:00:03or
01:00:03the
01:00:04house
01:00:05or
01:00:06the
01:00:07house
01:00:07and
01:00:07the
01:00:07house
01:00:09who
01:00:09or
01:00:10and
01:00:10else
01:00:10will
01:00:11see you
01:00:12in the
01:00:12house
01:00:14and
01:00:15they
01:00:16and
01:00:16they
01:00:17will
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