by Antiliar » Tue Dec 07, 2021 9:31 pm
According to one informant, Giancana was sponsored by Frank Nitto and Louis Campagna, and made just before he went to prison. He went to prison in 1939 and was released in 1942. He would probably need a couple years in a management position to prove himself, but not necessarily. The top brass of the Outfit went to prison at the end of 1943, so someone was designated the acting boss. Then from 1946 to 1956 Accardo was the day-to-day Outfit boss (but Ricca and Campagna outranked him) and from either all or part of that time Giancana was his underboss. Maybe there was an underboss before him, or maybe he was the underboss for the entirety of Accardo's rule. That's the information we have. We can only guess what his rank was when Roe was killed in 1951. Was he the underboss or a capo? We don't know.
According to one informant, Giancana was sponsored by Frank Nitto and Louis Campagna, and made just before he went to prison. He went to prison in 1939 and was released in 1942. He would probably need a couple years in a management position to prove himself, but not necessarily. The top brass of the Outfit went to prison at the end of 1943, so someone was designated the acting boss. Then from 1946 to 1956 Accardo was the day-to-day Outfit boss (but Ricca and Campagna outranked him) and from either all or part of that time Giancana was his underboss. Maybe there was an underboss before him, or maybe he was the underboss for the entirety of Accardo's rule. That's the information we have. We can only guess what his rank was when Roe was killed in 1951. Was he the underboss or a capo? We don't know.