by PolackTony » Fri Jun 21, 2024 2:33 pm
Patrickgold wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2024 12:52 pm
PolackTony wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2024 9:18 am
Patrickgold wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2024 7:18 am
I know this place has been mentioned before on this thread as being an Outfit run place. I believe Jimmy I’s relative runs it? Right in the heard of the grand Ave crew. Chicago Illusions Dungeon seem to be in a little of trouble for taxes these days.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchd ... ritz-kaegi
The owner of the building is Frank Cangelosi, while the guy running the actual sex dungeon business is named Anthony Vaughn. Looks like he has some prior experience in the tying-people-up-and-beating-the-shit-out-of-them business:
Chicago Illusions opened in the Grand Avenue building in August 1992, according to Vaughan, shortly after he finished serving probation for a conviction of using violence to collect debts owed to a Fulton Market meat distributor. According to a court filing that described him as tall and burly, Vaughan would hand out business cards bearing a drawing of a funeral wreath and the words: “We guarantee results.”
I’m not aware that either Vaughn or Cangelosi are related to the Inendinos (not saying that it isn’t true, just that if it is it’s not evident to me). The Cangelosis, I believe are related via marriage to the Cozzos, however. Cangelosis are a Sicilian family with a long history on Grand Ave (they were from Cefalù, so they were paesani of Frank Cullotta’s family).
Also note that the property was previously owned by Louie Panozzo, Bobby P’s dad. After he died in 2004, Frank Cangelosi acquired it. Cangelosi was able to qualify the building as a residential property and get a big tax break on it, hiring a law firm run by the son of the guy who worked in the Cook County Assessor’s Office under mobbed-up disgraced former Assessor Joe Berrios (in other words, The Chicago Way). Seems like someone dropped the dime on Cangelosi and now the new Assessor is investigating him.
I believe Vaughn is related to Jimmy I somehow. Maybe through marriage?
Ah, interesting, thanks. I tried looking into it but couldn’t find anything specific, though with contemporary people this kind of info isn’t always easy to find.
The article noted that he lives in Itasca. He is Anthony Vaughan (that spelling), about 61 years old and had prior addresses in Mt Prospect and Arlington Heights. I think there’s a good chance that’s he’s half ital, as his mother, if I’m right, may have been a woman with the maiden name Menno, whose family also lived in Arlington Heights. He is also publically connected to people named Maltese and Lampugnano. The Menno and Lampugnano families are old school Taylor St people, while Maltese *could be* connected to the Cicero Malteses (though it’s a common surname). The Lampugnanos were intermarried with the Scalzittis (Richard Cain’s family), while the Mennos may well be related to the Menno brothers (aka Manno, aka “Manning), who were notorious outfit-connected guys back in the day. If he had close familial tied going back to Taylor St and was involved in collections as a younger guy, he would certainly at least fit the MO of someone you’d expect to have some ties to Jimmy I.
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I know this place has been mentioned before on this thread as being an Outfit run place. I believe Jimmy I’s relative runs it? Right in the heard of the grand Ave crew. Chicago Illusions Dungeon seem to be in a little of trouble for taxes these days.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2024/06/21/sex-dungeon-property-tax-breaks-chicago-illusions-anthony-vaughan-frank-cangelosi-dominatrix-bdsm-fritz-kaegi
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The owner of the building is Frank Cangelosi, while the guy running the actual sex dungeon business is named Anthony Vaughn. Looks like he has some prior experience in the tying-people-up-and-beating-the-shit-out-of-them business:
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Chicago Illusions opened in the Grand Avenue building in August 1992, according to Vaughan, shortly after he finished serving probation for a conviction of using violence to collect debts owed to a Fulton Market meat distributor. According to a court filing that described him as tall and burly, Vaughan would hand out business cards bearing a drawing of a funeral wreath and the words: “We guarantee results.”
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I’m not aware that either Vaughn or Cangelosi are related to the Inendinos (not saying that it isn’t true, just that if it is it’s not evident to me). The Cangelosis, I believe are related via marriage to the Cozzos, however. Cangelosis are a Sicilian family with a long history on Grand Ave (they were from Cefalù, so they were paesani of Frank Cullotta’s family).
Also note that the property was previously owned by Louie Panozzo, Bobby P’s dad. After he died in 2004, Frank Cangelosi acquired it. Cangelosi was able to qualify the building as a residential property and get a big tax break on it, hiring a law firm run by the son of the guy who worked in the Cook County Assessor’s Office under mobbed-up disgraced former Assessor Joe Berrios (in other words, The Chicago Way). Seems like someone dropped the dime on Cangelosi and now the new Assessor is investigating him.
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I believe Vaughn is related to Jimmy I somehow. Maybe through marriage?
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Ah, interesting, thanks. I tried looking into it but couldn’t find anything specific, though with contemporary people this kind of info isn’t always easy to find.
The article noted that he lives in Itasca. He is Anthony Vaughan (that spelling), about 61 years old and had prior addresses in Mt Prospect and Arlington Heights. I think there’s a good chance that’s he’s half ital, as his mother, if I’m right, may have been a woman with the maiden name Menno, whose family also lived in Arlington Heights. He is also publically connected to people named Maltese and Lampugnano. The Menno and Lampugnano families are old school Taylor St people, while Maltese *could be* connected to the Cicero Malteses (though it’s a common surname). The Lampugnanos were intermarried with the Scalzittis (Richard Cain’s family), while the Mennos may well be related to the Menno brothers (aka Manno, aka “Manning), who were notorious outfit-connected guys back in the day. If he had close familial tied going back to Taylor St and was involved in collections as a younger guy, he would certainly at least fit the MO of someone you’d expect to have some ties to Jimmy I.