The Panda Express Derailed: Turncoat Chicago Mob Enforcer Killed On Golf Course In ’09, Per New CST Report

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The Panda Express Derailed: Turncoat Chicago Mob Enforcer Killed On Golf Course In ’09, Per New CST Report

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 Scott Burnstein
February 1, 2022

February 1, 2022 — Former Chicago mafia debt collector Jimmy (Panda Bear) La Valley was killed on the 15th hole of a golf course while in the Witness Protection Program in 2009, according to a multiple-sourced report in a Chicago Sun-Times article this past weekend. The slaying had never been confirmed nor written about before Sunday.

LaValley would have been 65 at the time of his death. Rumors of LaValley’s passing and how it occurred have circulated in Windy City gossip circles since the 2000s. Some said “Jimmy the Panda” committed suicide. Others claimed they heard he was murdered in a gangland-style hit.<

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Back in the 1970s and 80s, LaValley served as an enforcer in the Chicago mob’s Northside crew under Jewish Outfit skipper Lenny Patrick and the Outfit’s “fixer” and crew boss in the Loop, Gus (Slim) Alex. Both Patrick and LaValley flipped in the early 1990s and became federal informants and star witnesses at Alex’s trial. Alex died of a heart attack in prison at age 82 in 1998, six years into a decade-and-a-half sentence for racketeering and extortion.

In Sunday’s Chicago Sun-Times, scribe Rob Miech reflected on the Outfit’s glory days with one-time bookie John Murges in a feature about one of the Northside crew’s many sports-betting operations back in the pre-cell phone and internet days. Murges was brought into the Patrick regime’s bookmaking business by LaValley in 1983. According to LaValley’s own testimony, he was tasked with all of the Northside crew’s toughest collection assignments.

[Jeff]

If true, wouldn't La Valley be the first person murdered while in the witness protection program?

[Captbony1999]

Furio do the CO still skim in the casinos?

[Captbony1999]

Furio do the CO still skim in the casinos?

[SolarSolano]

If true, wouldn't La Valley be the first person murdered while in the witness protection program?

Chicago Outfit blew up a guy in Arizona who was in the witness protection program in the 50s - Bombacino. I also believe Joe Barboza from Boston was in witness protection when he was hit.

[davidf1989]

If true, wouldn't La Valley be the first person murdered while in the witness protection program?

Chicago Outfit blew up a guy in Arizona who was in the witness protection program in the 50s - Bombacino. I also believe Joe Barboza from Boston was in witness protection when he was hit.

I think that you are referring to Willie Bioff who testified against Nitti, Ricca and Rosselli about their Hollywood scam according to the article below. Frank Nitti ended up shooting himself before he could be tried.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct- ... story.html

[Snakes]

Both Bombacino and Bioff were killed by car bombs in Arizona, I'd I remember correctly. Coincidentally, we were just talking in another thread about the Outfit always having had a strong presence in that state.

[davidf1989]

Both Bombacino and Bioff were killed by car bombs in Arizona, I'd I remember correctly. Coincidentally, we were just talking in another thread about the Outfit always having had a strong presence in that state.

Here's the background information about Bombacino and his connections to the Outfit.

https://mafiahistory.us/rattrap/infbombacino.html

[Adam]

If true, wouldn't La Valley be the first person murdered while in the witness protection program?

Chicago Outfit blew up a guy in Arizona who was in the witness protection program in the 50s - Bombacino. I also believe Joe Barboza from Boston was in witness protection when he was hit.

Barboza was not in witness protection when he was killed. He left the program and went out on his own.

[davidf1989]

If true, wouldn't La Valley be the first person murdered while in the witness protection program?

Chicago Outfit blew up a guy in Arizona who was in the witness protection program in the 50s - Bombacino. I also believe Joe Barboza from Boston was in witness protection when he was hit.

Barboza was not in witness protection when he was killed. He left the program and went out on his own.

I think that Barboza killed one guy in witness protection which led to him being arrested