With the recent discussion about the Bonannos working with other families, I was revisiting the story of Elmo Almarante’s strip club in Harvey. I noted this excerpt about a New York guy with a cousin with Chicago (unclear from this if either were made), from the account of Ron Goldstock, former head of the NYS OC Task Force:
http://www.americanmafia.com/News/5-14- ... _Ties.html
Some 20 years ago, Goldstock said, an FBI wiretap in Chicago picked up a New York mobster phoning his cronies in the Big Apple.
The FBI wire tap was running on the phone of the New Yorker's cousin. The Chicagoan was a member of the Outfit, Goldstock said.
The resulting tap provided only mere laughs for federal authorities, he said.
"The New Yorker calls his friends back home. He tells them he took a walk around town," Goldstock said. "They asked him what Chicago was like and he responds, 'It's unbelievable. They got a (expletive) ocean here.'"
Besides the quote being some classic New Yorker-visits-Chicago shit (lol), I was wondering who this guy was and who his cousin in Chicago would’ve been. 1980s, looks like, so a quick name that comes to mind could be Dom Cirillo. Given his ancestry from Potenza province, Basilicata, I would assume he very likely could’ve had some family in Chicago and was identified in the 90s as Genovese liaison to Chicago. Any other info about this ever come out?
On the subject of Amarante, also worth noting that Harvey (apart from being a general shithole), was the Chicagoland HQ of the Hells Angels at that time. As the Bonannos have had some links to the HAs in the past, IIRC, this could possibly be relevant.