Chicago Outfit

The Chicago Outfit (also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia,
the Chicago Mob, the South Side Gang, or The Organization) is Chicago Outfit
an Italian-American organized crime syndicate based in Chicago,
Illinois, which dates from the 1910s. It is part of the American Mafia
originating in South Side, Chicago.

The Outfit rose to power in the 1920s under the control of Johnny
Torrio and Al Capone, and the period was marked by bloody gang
wars for control of the distribution of illegal alcohol during
Prohibition. Since then, the Outfit has been involved in a wide range
of criminal activities, including loansharking, gambling, prostitution,
extortion, political corruption, and murder. Capone was convicted of
income tax evasion in 1931, and the Outfit was next run by Paul
Ricca. He shared power with Tony Accardo from 1943 until his death
in 1972; Accardo became the sole power in the Outfit upon Ricca's
death and was one of the longest-sitting bosses of all time upon his
death in the early 1990s.
Former Chicago Outfit leader Al
The Outfit did not have a monopoly on organized crime in Chicago, Capone
but it was the most powerful, violent, and largest criminal Founded 1910
organization in the Midwest. Its influence at its peak stretched as far
Founded by Big Jim
as California and Florida. Higher law enforcement attention and
Colosimo
general attrition has led to its gradual decline since the late 20th
century. From 1997 to 2018, the Chicago Outfit was believed to be Founding location Chicago,
led by John DiFronzo.[8] Illinois, United
States
Years active 1910–present
Contents Territory Chicago
metropolitan
History
Origins area,
surrounding
Prohibition and Capone
midwest.
From Nitti to Accardo
Other
1930s–1950s
territories in
1960s–1990s
Las Vegas,
21st century
Phoenix,[1]
Historical leadership Florida,
Bosses Burbank,
Street boss Hollywood,
Underboss and areas of
Consigliere the San
Current family members Fernando
Administration Valley[2]
Capos Ethnicity "Made men"
 Soldiers are of Italian
descent, with
Government informants and witnesses
28 made
In popular culture
members,[3]
Film
100+
Television
associates of
See also various
References ethnicities
Citations Criminal activities Racketeering,
General references bribery,
External links conspiracy,
burglary,
coercion,
History labor
racketeering,
police
Origins corruption,
hijacking,
The early years of organized crime in Chicago, in the late 19th and loansharking,
early 20th centuries, were marked by the division of various street drug
gangs controlling the South Side and North Side, as well as the Black
trafficking,
Hand organizations of Little Italy.
fencing, rum
Big Jim Colosimo centralized control in the early 20th century. bootlegging,
Colosimo was born in Calabria, Italy, in 1878, immigrated to Chicago fraud, money
in 1895, where he established himself as a criminal. By 1909, with the laundering,
help of bringing Johnny Torrio from New York to Chicago, he was murder,
successful enough that he was encroaching on the criminal activity of torture, illegal
the Black Hand organization.[9][10] gambling,
extortion[4]
Prohibition and Capone Allies Five Families
Detroit
In 1919, Capone also left New York for Chicago at the invitation of Partnership
Torrio. Capone began in Chicago as a bouncer in a brothel, where he Cleveland
contracted syphilis. Timely use of Salvarsan probably could have
crime family
cured the infection, but he apparently never sought treatment.[11]
St. Louis
When Prohibition went into effect in 1920, Torrio pushed for the gang crime family
to enter into bootlegging, but Colosimo stubbornly refused. In March Kansas City
1920, Colosimo secured an uncontested divorce from his wife crime family
Victoria Moresco.[12] A month later, he and singer Dale Winter Patriarca
eloped to West Baden Springs, Indiana. Upon their return, he bought crime family
a home on the South Side.[12] On May 11, 1920, Torrio called and Denver crime
told Colosimo that a shipment was about to arrive at his restaurant. family
Colosimo drove there to await it, but instead he was ambushed and Los Angeles
shot to death.[13]
crime
With the start of Prohibition in the United States, Al Capone saw an family[5][6]
opportunity for himself and the Outfit in Chicago to make money and C-Notes[7]
to further expand their criminal empire by racketeering small
businesses. With Capone taking the role of an actual businessman and Rivals Various
partner of the owner, the Outfit had a legitimate way to source their Chicago
money, which prevented incrimination and unnecessary attention from gangs
law enforcement.[14]

Torrio headed an essentially Italian organized crime group that was the biggest in the city, with Capone as his
right-hand man. He was wary of being drawn into gang wars and tried to negotiate agreements over territory
between rival crime groups. The smaller North Side Gang led by Dean O'Banion (also known as Dion
O'Banion) was of mixed ethnicity, and it came under pressure from the Genna brothers who were allied with
Torrio. O'Banion found that Torrio was unhelpful with the encroachment of the Gennas into the North Side,
despite his pretensions to be a settler of disputes.[15] In a fateful step, Torrio either arranged for or acquiesced
to the murder of O'Banion at his flower shop on November 10, 1924. This placed Hymie Weiss at the head of
the gang, backed by Vincent Drucci and Bugs Moran. Weiss had been a close friend of O'Banion, and the
North Siders made it a priority to get revenge on his killers.[16][17][18]

In January 1925, Capone was ambushed, leaving him shaken but unhurt. Twelve days later, on January 24,
Torrio was returning from a shopping trip with his wife Anna, when he was shot several times. After
recovering, he effectively resigned and handed control to Capone, age 26, who became the new boss of an
organization that took in illegal breweries and a transportation network that reached to Canada, with political
and law-enforcement protection.[19] In turn, he was able to use more violence to increase revenue. An
establishment that refused to purchase liquor from him often got blown up, and as many as 100 people were
killed in such bombings during the 1920s. Rivals saw Capone as responsible for the proliferation of brothels in
the city.[18][20][21][22]

Capone was widely assumed to have been responsible for ordering the 1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
in an attempt to eliminate Bugs Moran, head of the North Side Gang. Moran was the last survivor of the North
Side gunmen; his succession had come about because his similarly aggressive predecessors Vincent Drucci
and Hymie Weiss had been killed in the violence that followed the murder of original leader Dean
O'Banion.[23][24][25]

Capone was convicted on three counts of income tax evasion on October 17, 1931,[26][27][28] and was
sentenced a week later to 11 years in federal prison, fined $50,000 plus $7,692 for court costs, and was held
liable for $215,000 plus interest due on his back taxes.[29][30][31][32] Capone would later die of heart failure as
a result of apoplexy on January 25, 1947.[33][34]

From Nitti to Accardo

1930s–1950s

In 1931, Nitti was also convicted of tax evasion and sent to prison; however, Nitti received an 18-month
sentence.[35] When Nitti was released on March 25, 1932, he took his place as the new boss of the Capone
Gang.[35] Some revisionist historians claim that Nitti was a mere "front boss" while Paul "The Waiter" Ricca
was the actual boss of the Chicago Outfit.[36]

Over the next decade, The Outfit moved into labor racketeering, gambling, and loan sharking. Geographically,
this was the period when Outfit muscle extended to Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin, Kansas City, and
especially to Hollywood and other California cities, where The Outfit's extortion of labor unions gave it
leverage over the motion picture industry.
In the early 1940s, a handful of top Outfit leaders went to prison because they were found to be extorting
Hollywood by controlling the unions that compose Hollywood's movie industry, and manipulating and
misusing the Teamsters Central States Pension fund.[37] In 1943, the Outfit was caught red-handed shaking
down the Hollywood movie industry. Ricca wanted Nitti to take the fall. However, Nitti had found that he was
claustrophobic, years earlier while in jail for 18 months (for tax evasion), and he decided to end his life rather
than face more imprisonment for extorting Hollywood. Ricca then became the boss in name as well as in fact,
with enforcement chief Tony Accardo as underboss—the start of a partnership that lasted for almost 30 years.
Around this time, the Outfit began bringing in members of the Forty-Two Gang, a notoriously violent youth
gang. Among them were Sam "Momo" Giancana, Sam "Mad Sam" DeStefano, Felix "Milwaukee Phil"
Alderisio, and Fiore "Fifi" Buccieri.

Ricca was sent to prison later in 1943 for his part in The Outfit plot to control Hollywood. He was sentenced
to 10 years in prison, along with a number of other mobsters. Through the "magic" of political connections,
the whole group of Outfit mobsters was released after three years, largely due to the efforts of Outfit "fixer"
Murray "The Camel" Humphreys. Ricca could not associate with mobsters as a condition of his parole.
Accardo nominally took power as boss, but actually shared power with Ricca, who continued behind the
scenes as a senior consultant—one of the few instances of shared power in organized crime.

Accardo joined Ricca in semi-retirement in 1957 due to some "heat" that he was getting from the IRS. From
then on, Ricca and Accardo allowed several others to nominally serve as boss, such as Giancana, Alderisio,
Joey Aiuppa, William "Willie Potatoes" Daddano, and Jackie "the Lackey" Cerone. Most of the front bosses
originated from the Forty-Two Gang. However, no major business transactions took place without Ricca and
Accardo's knowledge and approval, and certainly no "hits." By staying behind the scenes, Ricca and Accardo
lasted far longer than Capone. Ricca died in 1972, leaving Accardo as the sole power behind the scenes.

1960s–1990s

Along with the voting allegations, the Outfit was involved in a Central Intelligence Agency–Mafia collusion
during Castro's overthrow of the Cuban government. In exchange for its help, the Outfit was to be given
access to its former casinos if it helped overthrow Fidel Castro in Operation Mongoose or Operation Family
Jewels.[38] The Outfit failed in that endeavor and faced increasing indictments under the administration of
President John F. Kennedy (JFK). The Outfit is the subject of some theories regarding the JFK assassination
and that of JFK's brother Robert Kennedy.

The Outfit reached the height of its power in the early 1960s. Accardo used the Teamsters pension fund, with
the aid of Meyer Lansky, Sidney Korshak, and Jimmy Hoffa, to engage in massive money laundering through
the Outfit's casinos. The 1970s and 1980s were a hard time for the Outfit, as law enforcement continued to
penetrate the organization, spurred by poll-watching politicians. Off-track betting reduced bookmaking profits,
and illicit casinos withered under competition from legitimate casinos. Activities such as auto theft and
professional sports betting did not replace the lost profits.

The Outfit controlled casinos in Las Vegas and "skimmed" millions of dollars over the course of several
decades. Most recently, top mob figures have been found guilty of crimes dating back to as early as the mid-
1960s. It has been rumored that the $2 million skimmed from the casinos in the Court case of 1986 was used
to build the Old Neighborhood Italian American Club, the founder of which was Angelo J. "The Hook"
LaPietra.

Allen Dorfman, a key figure in the Outfit's money embezzlement operations, was investigated by the
Department of Justice. In 1982, the FBI wire-tapped Dorfman's personal and company phone lines and was
able to gather the evidence needed to convict Dorfman and several of his associates on attempts to bribe a state
senator to get rid of the trucking industry rates. If Dorfman succeeded, the Outfit would have seen a huge gain
of profit. This was known as Operation Pendorf and was a huge blow to the Chicago crime syndicate.[39]
Operation GAMBAT (GAMBling ATtorney) proved to be a crippling blow to the Outfit's tight grip on the
Chicago political machine. Pat Marcy, a made man in the Outfit, ran the city's First Ward, which represented
most of downtown Chicago. Marcy and company controlled the circuit courts from the 1950s until the late
1980s with the help of Alderman Fred Roti and Democratic Committeeman John D'Arco Sr. Together, the
First Ward fixed cases involving everything from minor traffic violations to murder.

Attorney and First Ward associate Robert Cooley was one of the lawyers who represented many mafiosi and
associates in which cases were fixed. As a trusted man within the First Ward, Cooley was asked to "take out"
a city police officer. Cooley was also an addicted gambler and in debt, so he approached the U.S. Justice
Department's Organized Crime Strike Force, declaring that he wanted to "destroy Marcy and the First Ward".

Cooley was soon in touch with the FBI and began cooperating as a federal informant. Through the years, he
maintained close ties to Marcy and the big shots of the First Ward. He wore an electronic surveillance device,
recording valuable conversations at the notorious "First Ward Table", located at "Counselor's Row" across the
street from Chicago City Hall. The results in Operation Gambat (Gambling Attorney) were convictions of 24
corrupt judges, lawyers, and cops.

Accardo died in 1992.[40] In a measure of how successfully he had managed to stay out of the limelight, he
never spent a day in jail (or only spent one day, depending on the source) despite an arrest record dating to
1922. Chicago's transition from Accardo to the next generation of Outfit bosses has been more of an
administrative change than a power struggle, distinct from the way that organized crime leadership transitions
take place in New York City.

21st century

Higher law enforcement investigations and general attrition led to the Outfit's gradual decline since the late
20th century. The Old Neighborhood Italian American Club is considered to be the hangout of Old Timers as
they live out their golden years. The Club's founder was Angelo J. LaPietra "The Hook", who was the main
Council at the time of his death in 1999.

On April 25, 2005, the U.S. Department of Justice launched Operation Family Secrets,[41] which indicted 14
Outfit members and associates under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO),
including Joseph Lombardo, Nicholas Calabrese, Frank Calabrese Sr. and James Marcello. U.S. District Court
Judge James Zagel presided over the Family Secrets trial. The federal prosecutors were Mitchell A. Mars, T.
Markus Funk, and John Scully.

As of 2007, the Outfit's size is estimated to be 28 official members (composing its core group) and more than
100 associates.[3]

Jim Distler (aka Jimmy Gambino) was released from federal prison in July 2015 after serving a sentence for
money laundering, racketeering and bank fraud. Distler (Gambino) is an associate of the Chicago outfit crime
syndicate and also has ties to the Russian mafia.[42]

Historical leadership

Bosses
 Name and
Image Tenure Notes
nickname(s)

Vincenzo Colosimo
1910 1920 Murdered on May 11, 1920.
Big Jim, Diamond Joe

John D. Torrio
1920 1925 Retired in 1925 after an assassination attempt.
Papa Johnny, The Fox

Alphonse "Al" Capone

1925 1931 Sentenced for tax evasion in 1931.
Al Brown, Scarface

Frank Nitti
(Born Francesco Nitto) 1931 1943 Committed suicide in 1943.
The Enforcer

Paul Ricca
(Born Felice DeLucia) 1943 1947 Sentenced for extortion in 1943; stepped down in 1947.
The Waiter

Anthony "Tony"
Accardo[43] Stepped down in 1957, becoming a "shadow executive" of
1947 1957
(Born Antonino Accardo) the mob.
Joe Batters, Big Tuna

Salvatore "Sam"
Fled to Mexico to avoid imprisonment in 1966; deposed by
Giancana 1957 1966
Ricca and Accardo.
Mooney, Mo, Momo

Samuel Battaglia
(Born Salvatore Battaglia) 1966 1967 Sentenced for violating the Hobbs Act in 1967.
Teets

Felix Alderisio
1967 1971 Sentenced for extortion in 1967–1969, deceased in 1971.
Milwaukee Phil

Joseph Aiuppa
Joey Doves, Joey 1971 1986 Sentenced for skimming in 1986.
O'Brien

Joseph Ferriola
1986 1989 Deceased from heart troubles in 1989.
Joe Nagall, Mr. Clean

Samuel Carlisi Sentenced from racketeering in 1993–1994 and 1996,

1989 1996
Sam Wings, Black Sam deceased in 1997.

John DiFronzo Semi-retired in 2014, deceased from Alzheimer's disease in

1996 2014
No Nose 2018.

Salvatore DeLaurentis 2014 Present

 Solly D

Street boss

The street boss is a high-ranking member appointed to run the outfit's daily activities for the boss. The position
was created to protect the boss from federal investigations.

1996–2007: James "Jimmy the Man" Marcello – sentenced in 2007, imprisoned for life in 2009.
2007–2012: Michael "Fat Mike" Sarno – sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2012.
2012–2016: Louis "Louie Tomatoes" Marino
2016–present: Albert "Albie the Falcon" Vena

Underboss
1910–1920: John "Papa Johnny" Torrio – became boss in 1920.
1920–1925: Alphonse "Scarface Al" Capone – became boss in 1925.
1925–1931: Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti – became boss in 1931.
1931–1943: Louis "Little New York" Campagna – arrested in 1943, deceased in 1955.[43]
1943–1947: Tony "Joe Batters" Accardo – became boss in 1947.
1947–1957: Salvatore "Mooney Sam" Giancana – became boss in 1957, murdered in 1975.
1957–1964: Frank "Strongy" Ferraro – died in 1964.
1964–1966: Samuel "Teets" Battaglia – became boss in 1966, deceased in 1973.
1967–1986: John "Jackie the Lackey" Cerone – imprisoned in 1986, deceased in 1996.
1986–1992: John "No Nose" DiFronzo – became boss in 1992.
1992–1996: James "Jimmy the Man" Marcello – became street boss in 1996.
1996–2006: Anthony "Little Tony" Zizzo – disappeared and probably murdered in 2006.
2006–2009: Joseph "Joe the Builder" Andriacchi – retired briefly due to illness.
2009–present: Salvatore "Sammy Cards" Cataudella

Consigliere
1925–1928: Antonio "Tony the Scourge" Lombardo – murdered in 1928.
1928–1947: Charles "Trigger Happy" Fischetti – retired in 1947, deceased in 1951.[43]
1947–1957: Paul "The Waiter" Ricca – retired in 1957, deceased in 1972.[43]
1957–1992: Tony "Joe Batters" Accardo – deceased from natural causes in 1992.
1992–1999: Angelo J. LaPietra[43] – deceased from natural causes in 1999.
1999–2007: Joseph "Joey the Clown" Lombardo – sentenced in 2007 and imprisoned in 2009;
died on October 19, 2019, at the age of 90.[44][45]
2007–2009: Alfonso "Al the Pizza Man" Tornabene – deceased in 2009.
2009–2016: Marco "The Mover" D'Amico – asked to step down so that Andriacchi could help
advise the power shift from DiFronzo to DeLaurentis.
Acting 2012–2016: Joseph "Joe the Builder" Andriacchi – retired in 2016.
2017–2020: Marco D'Amico – deceased from natural causes in 2020.
Current family members

Administration
Boss: Salvatore DeLaurentis[46]

Street Boss: Albert "Albie the Falcon" Vena[47] – born in 1949. Part of the new
administration following the retirement of John DiFronzo.[48] Vena was once a powerful capo of
the Grand Avenue crew and replaced Joseph Lombardo after his 2007 conviction of a 1974
murder.[49] FBI investigators from the August 2006 disappearance case of Anthony Zizzo
considered him a suspect.[50] In 1993, Vena was acquitted of the November 4, 1992 murder of
Samuel Taglia who was shot twice in the head and had his throat cut with a knife, his body was
dumped in the trunk of his 1983 Buick car. His most trusted confidantes were reported to be
Joseph Andriacchi and James Inendino.

Underboss: Salvatore "Sammy Cards" Cataudella[46]

Consigliere: Vacant

Capos
James Inendino – Cicero
Peter DiFronzo – Elmwood Park; born in 1933. He is the younger brother of Chicago Outfit
boss John DiFronzo.[51] In 1965, he was sentenced to 10 years at Leavenworth Prison after he
and two Outfit affiliates robbed a warehouse in Forest View, Illinois, of cigarettes, razor blades,
and ladies hosiery.[52] According to a report from an Illinois Gaming Board officer in 2005,
DiFronzo and his brother John had obtained contracts for a waste-hauling business in Chicago
through illegal payoffs and intimidation.[53]
Frank "Toots" Caruso – 26th Street

Soldiers
Michael Carioscia: born 1933. In December 1950, he was arrested on charges of armed
robbery and was sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment, he was released in 1954. He was
sentenced to 5 years' imprisonment in October 1961 on narcotics charges after he and
Armando Pennacchio made three sales of large quantity of heroin to an undercover FBN
officer.[54][55] He has a brother named Frank.
Robert "Bobby the Boxer" Salerno: Salerno was a former boxing trainer who knew Ernie
Terrell. In 1995, he was sentenced to life in prison for murder.[56]
Robert Bellavia: former member of the Ferriola crew.[57] He was involved in the February 7,
1985 murder of bookmaker Hal C. Smith, the body was recovered 3 days later in the trunk of his
car.[58][59][60] In 1990, he was indicted and later convicted in the Good Ship Lollipop case, a
large-scale racketeering and murder indictment alongside Ernest Infelice, Solly DeLaurentis,
Harry Aleman, James Nicholas and William DiDomenico.[61] He was released in 2016 after
serving 25 years in prison.
Paul Carparelli: born 1969. Current Outfit soldier and member of the Cicero crew. In 2016,
judge Sharon Johnson Coleman sentenced him to 3½ years in prison on extortion charges
meanwhile prosecutors sought after at least 11 years' imprisonment. The extortion conspiracies
were allegedly based around Chicago, Las Vegas, Wisconsin and the East Coast. He was a
former firefighter in Bloomingdale, Illinois.
 Michael "Jaws" Giorango: former associate of the Chicago Heights crew.[62] He pleaded
guilty to operating a bookmaking ring in the suburbs of South Chicago in 1989 and used threats
of violence to collect unpaid debts including threats of beatings, bombings and robbery. In
1990, he was sentenced to prison and served 4 years. In 2010, reports linked him and Alexi
Giannoulias, the 72nd Democratic Illinois treasurer, to a $11–20 million loan.[63][64][65] In 2004,
he was sentenced to six months of intermittent confinement and three years of probation for
prostitution charges in Miami. He was granted early release from probation in 2008. In 2010, he
filed for bankruptcy protection and listed assets and liabilities between $500,000 and $1
million.[66] His case was dismissed in 2013.
Frank Orlando: born in 1968. It was alleged he made threatening demands towards an unpaid
debt of $200-500,000.[67] At his trial, the FBI alleged Orlando introduced printing firm owner
Mark Dziuban to Paul Carparelli to discuss extortion attempts.[68] In 2014, he was sentenced to
almost 4 years in prison on extortion charges.[69][70]
Nicholas "Nick" Ferriola: born in 1977. He is the son of Joseph Ferriola. He was sentenced
by U.S. District Judge James Zagel in 2008 to 3 years in federal prison for his role in the Family
Secrets case, he was accused of extortion and illegal sports gambling charges over an 8-year
period, Ferriola admitted to earning over $150,000 per month.[71] He served as a trusted
confidante to Frank Calabrese Sr. during the operation including after Calabrese's life
imprisonment sentence in 2009.
Michael "Handsome Mike" Talerico: Talerico is related to Anglo LaPietra and was a small-
time bookie. He was also once married to former Chicago Outfit hitman Frank Schweihs's
daughter.[72]
Tony Saviano: Saviano was involved in an Outfit gambling operation during the 1980s. Pete
Rose placed bets with his organization when in Chicago.[73] Authorities speculate that his
nephew Tony Saviano out of West Chicago had great influence in the operation.
Sam Sei: Sei and his nephew Keith had great influence in Melrose Park, Illinois and controlled
the town after Rocky Infelice was convicted during the 1990s.[74]
Robert Panozzo: Panozzo is a former member of the C-Notes street gang and soldier of the
Grand Avenue crew. He was sentenced to 18 years on state racketeering charges on January
8, 2019.

Government informants and witnesses

Frank Cullotta – born in December 1938. He was a former associate and friend of Tony
Spilotro, and was involved in his Hole in the Wall gang based in Las Vegas. In 1982, Cullotta
was imprisoned, and was approached by the FBI with a wiretap of Spilotro talking with
someone about "having to clean our dirty laundry", which Cullotta took as an insinuated
contract on his life.[75] Due to this, in July 1982, Cullotta finalized an agreement with the
prosecutors.[76]
Leonard Patrick – born in October 1913. Former associate heavily involved in illegal gambling
rackets active in the North Side of Chicago. In June 1933, he was sentenced to 10 years in
prison for robbing a bank in Culver, Indiana. He came to the attention of the U.S. Attorney in
1958 as a Chicago Outfit affiliate. In 1975, Patrick was convicted for contempt after he refused
to testify under immunity against Chicago police lieutenant Ronald O'Hara and admitted to
payoffs of $500 per month to O'Hara.[77] Patrick was released in July 1978.[78] He pleaded
guilty to criminal charges in April 1992. It is alleged the Outfit ordered the bombing of Sharon
Patrick's car outside her home in Rogers Park, Chicago in May 1992, as a result of his guilty
plea. In September 1992, he testified against the Chicago Outfit. He died in 2006.

Ken Eto – born in 1919. He was a former Japanese-American Chicago Outfit associate.[79] He
arrived in Chicago from Washington in 1949. Eto's criminal record dates back to 1942 for
violating a wartime curfew. In February 1983, Eto survived an assassination attempt on his life
by Outfit hitmen Jasper Campise and John Gattuso after 3 bullets ricocheted off of his skull, he
immediately joined protective custody and turned informant against the Outfit, Outfit captain
Vincent Solano ordered the attempt. The assassination attempt is believed to be revolved
around paranoia towards Eto following his guilty plea on illegal gambling charges, which
provoked the Chicago Outfit to believe the possibility of Eto being easily persuaded to
cooperate with the government against the Outfit. The hitmen, 68-year-old Jasper Campise and
47-year-old John Gattuso were offered government protection and declined, they were both
found strangled and stabbed in July 1983 inside of the trunk of a 1981 Volvo registered to
Campise.[80] The FBI estimated his criminal earnings of between "$150,000 to $200,000" per
week and bribe payoffs of $12,000 per month to Chicago policemen. He died in January 2004
at the age of 84 from natural causes.[81]

Louis Bombacino – born in 1923. He was a former bookmaker.[82] Between 1965 and 1967,
Bombacino contacted the FBI while in prison awaiting trial on a robbery charge.[83] He
admitted to involvement in a large-scale bookmaking operation under the control of Jackie
Cerone and Fiore Buccieri.[84] He was murdered in Tempe, Arizona on the morning of October
6/7, 1975 by the Chicago Outfit while hiding under the alias "Joe Nardi", Paul Schiro and Tony
Amadio were suspected in the car bombing.[85][86][87] His testimony against Cerone resulted in
5 years' imprisonment in May 1970 and he relocated to Arizona and secured a warehouse job
before his murder.[88]
Richard Cain – born in October 1931. He served as Chief Investigator for the Cook County
Police Department. Cain joined the Chicago Police Department (Vice Squad) in 1956 until
1960.[89] In June 1961, Cain was allegedly met by a CIA staffer in Mexico City, he was
deported from Mexico in 1962 for carrying a loaded gun and brass knuckles, violating his tourist
permit by working and impersonating a Mexican government official.[90] He was released from
prison in October 1971. On December 20, 1971, he was shot and killed on orders of the
Chicago Outfit. Harry Aleman, Joey Lombardo and Frank Schweihs were suspected of killing
him.
Gerald Scarpelli soldier (1988)
William "B.J." Jahoda – former associate. He operated a sports bookmaking ring with Sam
Sammarco between 1976 and 1979. Jahoda later began a partnership with Rocco Infelise in
1979 through to 1988, the operation allegedly earned over $8 million in profits. He operated an
illegal parlay card business with Michael Sarno, James Damopoulos, Salvatore DeLaurentis
and Infelise from 1979 to 1983 in Lake County, Illinois and other parts of Chicago. He also
operated the Rouse House casino in suburban Libertyville, Illinois in 1982 which generated
approximately $500,000 in profits, during this time he paid Infelise $1500 monthly payments to
bribe the Lake County Sheriff to get advance notice of law enforcement raids.[91][92] By the fall
of 1988, Infelise told Jahoda that he was paying $10,000 to the Cook County Police
Department Sheriff for protection and that he used undersheriff and former Cook County
Republican Party chairman James Dvorak as the intermediate, Dvorak was sentenced to 3½
years in prison in April 1994 for accepting bribes.[93][94] In September 1989, Infelise confirmed
that he was paying $35,000 altogether to incarcerated Outfit members and Chicago police
officers.[95][96] In early 1990, the government alleged Infelise and Jahoda gave out a $50,000
loan to an undercover IRS agent under the identity of "Larry Weeks" who Infelise instructed to
bribe a Wisconsin zoning official to gain favourable selection in their efforts to get
commercial/industrial property near Lake Geneva, Wisconsin as residential property.[97] He
died in 2004.
Nicholas Calabrese – born in November 1942. He is a former soldier in the Chicago Outfit. He
was the brother of Frank Calabrese Sr. and uncle of Frank Calabrese Jr. and the star witness of
 the Family Secrets case. Calabrese was convicted for his involvement in 14 murders and
sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment by District Judge James Zagel.

Frank Calabrese Jr. associate (2005)

The Outfit is notable for having had other ethnic groups besides Italians as high-ranking associates since the
family's earliest days. A prime example of this was Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik, who was the top "bagman"
and "accountant" for decades until his death. He was a Polish Jew. Others were Murray Humphreys, who was
of Welsh descent, and Ken Eto (aka Tokyo Joe), who was Japanese-American.

Another well-known associate of the Outfit is Jewish New York City mobster Benjamin Siegel. Siegel was a
childhood friend of Capone.[98] Siegel's organization in Las Vegas and Los Angeles was an ally of the Outfit
from 1933 to 1961, when the family boss, Mickey Cohen, was imprisoned and the family was decimated.

In popular culture
The Chicago Outfit has a long history of portrayal in Hollywood as the subject of film and television.

Film
Little Caesar (1931)
Scarface (1932)
Chicago Syndicate (1955)
The Scarface Mob (television film, 1959)[99]
Al Capone (1959)
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)
Point Blank (1967)
Bullitt (1968)
The Outfit (1973)
Capone (1975)
Thief (1981)
Raw Deal (1986)
The Untouchables (1987)
Midnight Run (1988)
Next of Kin (1989)
The Firm (1993)
Casino (1995)
Payback (1999)
Road to Perdition (2002)
Public Enemies (2009)
Chicago Overcoat (2009)
Gangster Land (2017)[100]
Capone (2020)

Television
The Untouchables (1959–1963)
The F.B.I. (1965–1974)
 Crime Story (1986–1988)
The Untouchables (1993–1994)
Sugartime (TV film) (1995)
The Rat Pack (1998)
Prison Break (2005–2009)
The Chicago Code (2011)
The Firm (2012)
Mob Wives: Chicago (2012)
The Mob Doctor (2012–2013)
Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014)
The Making of the Mob: Chicago (2016)

See also
Joe Aiello – rival to Al Capone during Prohibition; was also allied to Salvatore Maranzano
during the Castellammarese War[101]
Grand Rapids Hotel
Hired Truck Program scandal
North Side Gang – a rival gang to Al Capone
Timeline of organized crime in Chicago
George "Babe" Tuffanelli
Unione Siciliane

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General references
Binder, John (2003). The Chicago Outfit. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-2326-7.
Cooley, Robert (2004). When Corruption Was King: How I Helped the Mob Rule Chicago, Then
Brought the Outfit Down. ISBN 0-7867-1583-9.
Cooley, Will (2017). "Jim Crow Organized Crime: Black Chicago's Underground Economy in
the Twentieth Century", in Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in
Chicago, Robert Weems and Jason Chambers, eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 147–
170. ISBN 978-0252082948.
Lombardi, Mark; Richards, Robert Carleton & Hobbs, Judith Richards (2003). Mark Lombardi:
Global Networks (https://archive.org/details/marklombardiglob0000hobb). Independent
Curators. ISBN 0-916365-67-0. (Published for the traveling exhibition of Lombardi's work, Mark
Lombardi Global Networks).
Nolan, John Matthew. 2,543 Days: A History of the Hotel at the Grand Rapids Dam on the
Wabash River.
Russo, Gus (2002). The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern
America (https://archive.org/details/outfitroleofchic00russ). Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 1-58234-
279-2.

External links
"The Chicago Syndicate" (http://www.thechicagosyndicate.com/). thechicagosyndicate.com.
(Mob news archive)
"The FBI" (https://www.fbi.gov/). fbi.gov. (Historical archives)

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