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RushStreet wrote: ↑Mon Mar 24, 2025 8:48 am 1st photo is Leo Caruso. Great photos by the way!

Yea, looks a lot more like a younger Leo than Bruno

New podcast called crookcounty. It’s supposedly about a Chicago hit man nobody knew about. His name is Kenny “the kid” Tekiela. Anybody hear of him? They mention, IIRC, he started working in the early 80's for a made guy who was the son of Chicago's Chop Shop king. Who would that be? Whose son? Al ...

Tony, did you ever get a chance to look into the Gironda connection from that bust a few weeks ago? Thanks for the reminder on this. It's the perfect Chicago story: McPier, snowplow contract kickbacks, and guys from Bridgeport. I believe that the Dominick Gironda currently under Federal indictment ...

Tony, did you ever get a chance to look into the Gironda connection from that bust a few weeks ago? Thanks for the reminder on this. It's the perfect Chicago story: McPier, snowplow contract kickbacks, and guys from Bridgeport. I believe that the Dominick Gironda currently under Federal indictment ...

A great project would be to weed out the dogs shit from those threads. Maybe when Im old and retired. The format was soooo awful tooo half the time you couldn't follow who was responding to whom. Remember when all of the comments wouldn't show and you had to keep expanding? The worst! Fosco was cer...

Per my guy: Phil Cozzo was a member of a gang called 'ChiWest' that mainly pushed drugs. Phil was one of the leaders of ChiWest in his neighborhood, while Ron Ignoffo led the overall gang in the 1960s/early 70s. Ignoffo was called the 'Beast' and would go on to work for DeVarco and Northside crew a...

FWIW I can tell you Spilotro was never a C-Note. This came up some years ago in an old chatroom where someone asked if he was a Gaylord. A family friend who grew up with Tony confirmed he was already a criminal and thief as a teenager. He was working his way up the gangster ladder.

Was he the guy collecting for Pete Difronzo or was it someone else? I forget. The guy in the photo with Pete fishing as i recall? A lot of this stuff gets hazy after awhile lol That was Mickey Davis you’re thinking of. He was an associate of Pete DiFronzo and was sent to collect on a debt from RJ S...

Was he the guy collecting for Pete Difronzo or was it someone else? I forget. The guy in the photo with Pete fishing as i recall? A lot of this stuff gets hazy after awhile lol That was Mickey Davis you’re thinking of. He was an associate of Pete DiFronzo and was sent to collect on a debt from RJ S...

Was he the guy collecting for Pete Difronzo or was it someone else? I forget. The guy in the photo with Pete fishing as i recall? A lot of this stuff gets hazy after awhile lol That was Mickey Davis you’re thinking of. He was an associate of Pete DiFronzo and was sent to collect on a debt from RJ S...

Sounds like Bobby Dominic has more going on than we realized. Yep. I was thinking the same thing. His name hardly comes up in any conversation. What a lot of people forget is these guys don’t retire. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was made. I would say at this point the educated guess would say you'...

Sounds like Bobby Dominic has more going on than we realized. Yep. I was thinking the same thing. His name hardly comes up in any conversation. What a lot of people forget is these guys don’t retire. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was made. I would say at this point the educated guess would say you'...

Sounds like Bobby Dominic has more going on than we realized. Yep. I was thinking the same thing. His name hardly comes up in any conversation. What a lot of people forget is these guys don’t retire. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was made. I would say at this point the educated guess would say you'...

Good episode, I enjoyed it. Would love to know who else was made in the '88 and '89 ceremonies. Louie Marino? I assume Chiramonti was among that group as well. Since Marino was at the Spilotro killing he may have been made before June 1986. It's likely that everyone present was made since it was su...

I was sent the same. This is the same club that was held up Sopranos style during a card game in 2012. My assumption is they were doing blow in there, not crack. Says they found straws so they were probably doing lines. Do you happen to have that article of the robbery from 2012? I was thinking tha...