General Chicago Outfit Info Dumping Ground

[Snakes]

We’ve gone over this quite a bit in the past and no new sources of evidence have surfaced since those prior discussions. Sometimes these Chicago discussions start to feel like Groundhog Day.

Hmm. Perhaps it might be a good idea for someone to make a Chicago FAQ? (I mean someone competent, not me. )

Could just compile the most common questions that keep coming up (literally frequently asked questions) and sticky them in the main forum. If someone asks one of the common questions you could just link the FAQ instead of having to type out the answer again (which, don't get me wrong, is appreciated).

Might save you guys work over time.

I agree. I feel some potentially good conversations get lost with the same questions over and over. For example this potential Russian Organized Crime shaking down massage parlors along with the Bobby Dominic and Weiss connection is fascinating and is getting lost with this consigliere question that comes up often.

Totally agree. Again, not putting anyone down but we've got new info on legit Outfit activity and its getting lost in the fifteenth discussion on whether Accardo answered to Ricca.

There are also a couple 3 hour videos made by posters from this board out there talking about it, too.

[Coloboy]

We’ve gone over this quite a bit in the past and no new sources of evidence have surfaced since those prior discussions. Sometimes these Chicago discussions start to feel like Groundhog Day.

Hmm. Perhaps it might be a good idea for someone to make a Chicago FAQ? (I mean someone competent, not me. )

Could just compile the most common questions that keep coming up (literally frequently asked questions) and sticky them in the main forum. If someone asks one of the common questions you could just link the FAQ instead of having to type out the answer again (which, don't get me wrong, is appreciated).

Might save you guys work over time.

I agree. I feel some potentially good conversations get lost with the same questions over and over. For example this potential Russian Organized Crime shaking down massage parlors along with the Bobby Dominic and Weiss connection is fascinating and is getting lost with this consigliere question that comes up often.

Totally agree. Again, not putting anyone down but we've got new info on legit Outfit activity and its getting lost in the fifteenth discussion on whether Accardo answered to Ricca.

There are also a couple 3 hour videos made by posters from this board out there talking about it, too.

Right on. Can you point me in the right direction?

[Snakes]

We’ve gone over this quite a bit in the past and no new sources of evidence have surfaced since those prior discussions. Sometimes these Chicago discussions start to feel like Groundhog Day.

Hmm. Perhaps it might be a good idea for someone to make a Chicago FAQ? (I mean someone competent, not me. )

Could just compile the most common questions that keep coming up (literally frequently asked questions) and sticky them in the main forum. If someone asks one of the common questions you could just link the FAQ instead of having to type out the answer again (which, don't get me wrong, is appreciated).

Might save you guys work over time.

I agree. I feel some potentially good conversations get lost with the same questions over and over. For example this potential Russian Organized Crime shaking down massage parlors along with the Bobby Dominic and Weiss connection is fascinating and is getting lost with this consigliere question that comes up often.

Totally agree. Again, not putting anyone down but we've got new info on legit Outfit activity and its getting lost in the fifteenth discussion on whether Accardo answered to Ricca.

There are also a couple 3 hour videos made by posters from this board out there talking about it, too.

Right on. Can you point me in the right direction?

Sure, there is a thread on it with links: viewtopic.php?t=9526

[cavita]

I was curious if any of our Chicago researchers have heard of the names Frank Cornacchia and Anthony Coronna, both born about 1912. They were arrested in Rockford on October 14, 1930 on suspicion of being Chicago liquor runners. The two had reported their auto stolen and police found it on South Wyman Street, two blocks from where they were registered at a hotel. The auto smelled strongly of alcohol and police theorized that due to some unknown trouble the two men abandoned the machine and reported it stolen. Cornacchia gave his address as Chicago while Coronna said he was living at 1621 Huffman Boulevard, which was the address of boss Tony Musso. An interesting tie in is that Coronna was the maiden name of Musso's mother Vincenza so I suspect there was a relation somehow.

[cavita]

I was curious if any of our Chicago researchers have heard of the names Frank Cornacchia and Anthony Coronna, both born about 1912. They were arrested in Rockford on October 14, 1930 on suspicion of being Chicago liquor runners. The two had reported their auto stolen and police found it on South Wyman Street, two blocks from where they were registered at a hotel. The auto smelled strongly of alcohol and police theorized that due to some unknown trouble the two men abandoned the machine and reported it stolen. Cornacchia gave his address as Chicago while Coronna said he was living at 1621 Huffman Boulevard, which was the address of boss Tony Musso. An interesting tie in is that Coronna was the maiden name of Musso's mother Vincenza so I suspect there was a relation somehow.

Further research indicates that Cornacchia's mother was a Coppola. Knowing that Musso was from Partinico, Sicily and Francesco "Three Fingers" Coppola was also from there and active in the Rockford area in the early 1930s, this is very interesting.

[PolackTony]

I was curious if any of our Chicago researchers have heard of the names Frank Cornacchia and Anthony Coronna, both born about 1912. They were arrested in Rockford on October 14, 1930 on suspicion of being Chicago liquor runners. The two had reported their auto stolen and police found it on South Wyman Street, two blocks from where they were registered at a hotel. The auto smelled strongly of alcohol and police theorized that due to some unknown trouble the two men abandoned the machine and reported it stolen. Cornacchia gave his address as Chicago while Coronna said he was living at 1621 Huffman Boulevard, which was the address of boss Tony Musso. An interesting tie in is that Coronna was the maiden name of Musso's mother Vincenza so I suspect there was a relation somehow.

Further research indicates that Cornacchia's mother was a Coppola. Knowing that Musso was from Partinico, Sicily and Francesco "Three Fingers" Coppola was also from there and active in the Rockford area in the early 1930s, this is very interesting.

Frank Cornacchia was born in Chicago in 1912 and died in Elmwood Park in 1996. He was not Sicilian, however. His father, Salvatore Cornacchia, was Avellinese, while his mother, Carmella Coppola, was born in Chicago in 1891 to parents from Brienza, Potenza province. The family was from from the Taylor St neighborhood and I haven’t seen anything else about Frank Cornacchia aside from the arrest that you posted about from 1930.

The Anthony Coronna arrested with Cornacchia in 1930 could be Gioacchino “John Anthony” Caronna, who was born either 1911 or 1913 in Bisacquino and arrived in Rockford as a kid in 1916. He died in Rockford in 1971.

[cavita]

Well that's disappointing about Cornacchia... I dug a little more and found an Anthony Coronna living down the street on Campbell Avenue from Cornacchia in the 1940 census. This Coronna had a wife Mary and children Rosalie and Anthony, Jr. Which one is the real one? No clue, but I was hopeful for my previous thoughts.

[NorthBuffalo]

We’ve gone over this quite a bit in the past and no new sources of evidence have surfaced since those prior discussions. Sometimes these Chicago discussions start to feel like Groundhog Day.

Hmm. Perhaps it might be a good idea for someone to make a Chicago FAQ? (I mean someone competent, not me. )

Could just compile the most common questions that keep coming up (literally frequently asked questions) and sticky them in the main forum. If someone asks one of the common questions you could just link the FAQ instead of having to type out the answer again (which, don't get me wrong, is appreciated).

Might save you guys work over time.

I agree. I feel some potentially good conversations get lost with the same questions over and over. For example this potential Russian Organized Crime shaking down massage parlors along with the Bobby Dominic and Weiss connection is fascinating and is getting lost with this consigliere question that comes up often.

Do you guys know any potential connections of this corrupt CPD officer John Adreani? His name is also surfacing on this thing. From my read of the Outfit, its often the sons and relatives of mob guys who get caught with corruption - like the Amabile grandson in Melrose Park who was taking bets as a cop.

[PolackTony]

Well that's disappointing about Cornacchia... I dug a little more and found an Anthony Coronna living down the street on Campbell Avenue from Cornacchia in the 1940 census. This Coronna had a wife Mary and children Rosalie and Anthony, Jr. Which one is the real one? No clue, but I was hopeful for my previous thoughts.

Good find. This has to be the “Coronna” who was arrested with Cornacchia, given their residence in the same section west of the Taylor St neighborhood (Chuckie Nicoletti also grew up nearby on Campbell, so presumably these two knew him).

Anthony Caronna was born in 1912 in Elizabeth, NJ, to Antonio Caronna and Rosalia Carmeci of Partinico. The family relocated to Chicago in the 1920s, where Rosalia died in 1930 and Antonio in 1944. Anthony Caronna moved to CA later in life and died in Los Angeles in 1984.

Now, Antonio Caronna’s parents were Antonio Caronna and Margherita Musso of Partinico. It’s thus likely that the Chicago Caronnas were relatives of Tony Musso; hopefully these names will match Musso’s genealogy. I’d think that Anthony Caronna just used the Rockford address to give to police at the time of his arrest.

[cavita]

Well that's disappointing about Cornacchia... I dug a little more and found an Anthony Coronna living down the street on Campbell Avenue from Cornacchia in the 1940 census. This Coronna had a wife Mary and children Rosalie and Anthony, Jr. Which one is the real one? No clue, but I was hopeful for my previous thoughts.

Good find. This has to be the “Coronna” who was arrested with Cornacchia, given their residence in the same section west of the Taylor St neighborhood (Chuckie Nicoletti also grew up nearby on Campbell, so presumably these two knew him).

Anthony Caronna was born in 1912 in Elizabeth, NJ, to Antonio Caronna and Rosalia Carmeci of Partinico. The family relocated to Chicago in the 1920s, where Rosalia died in 1930 and Antonio in 1944. Anthony Caronna moved to CA later in life and died in Los Angeles in 1984.

Now, Antonio Caronna’s parents were Antonio Caronna and Margherita Musso of Partinico. It’s thus likely that the Chicago Caronnas were relatives of Tony Musso; hopefully these names will match Musso’s genealogy. I’d think that Anthony Caronna just used the Rockford address to give to police at the time of his arrest.

Nice, nice, nice research! This fits a little better to the information. It looks as if Cornacchia and Coronna were running alcohol perhaps between Rockford and Chicago and that Musso was involved in this. Perhaps the two were living at Musso's address for a short time because of Coronna's relation to Musso. It also appears a no-brainer that Coronna moved to Los Angeles given that Musso had connections there and his father-in-law's family lived there for a time.

[funkster]

We’ve gone over this quite a bit in the past and no new sources of evidence have surfaced since those prior discussions. Sometimes these Chicago discussions start to feel like Groundhog Day.

Hmm. Perhaps it might be a good idea for someone to make a Chicago FAQ? (I mean someone competent, not me. )

Could just compile the most common questions that keep coming up (literally frequently asked questions) and sticky them in the main forum. If someone asks one of the common questions you could just link the FAQ instead of having to type out the answer again (which, don't get me wrong, is appreciated).

Might save you guys work over time.

I agree. I feel some potentially good conversations get lost with the same questions over and over. For example this potential Russian Organized Crime shaking down massage parlors along with the Bobby Dominic and Weiss connection is fascinating and is getting lost with this consigliere question that comes up often.

Do you guys know any potential connections of this corrupt CPD officer John Adreani? His name is also surfacing on this thing. From my read of the Outfit, its often the sons and relatives of mob guys who get caught with corruption - like the Amabile grandson in Melrose Park who was taking bets as a cop.

Where did you see that? I know i've seen the name before, im sure there's been discussion on him but it is obviously hard to keep track of all the minor players over the years.

[PolackTony]

We’ve gone over this quite a bit in the past and no new sources of evidence have surfaced since those prior discussions. Sometimes these Chicago discussions start to feel like Groundhog Day.

Hmm. Perhaps it might be a good idea for someone to make a Chicago FAQ? (I mean someone competent, not me. )

Could just compile the most common questions that keep coming up (literally frequently asked questions) and sticky them in the main forum. If someone asks one of the common questions you could just link the FAQ instead of having to type out the answer again (which, don't get me wrong, is appreciated).

Might save you guys work over time.

I agree. I feel some potentially good conversations get lost with the same questions over and over. For example this potential Russian Organized Crime shaking down massage parlors along with the Bobby Dominic and Weiss connection is fascinating and is getting lost with this consigliere question that comes up often.

Do you guys know any potential connections of this corrupt CPD officer John Adreani? His name is also surfacing on this thing. From my read of the Outfit, its often the sons and relatives of mob guys who get caught with corruption - like the Amabile grandson in Melrose Park who was taking bets as a cop.

Where did you see that? I know i've seen the name before, im sure there's been discussion on him but it is obviously hard to keep track of all the minor players over the years.

Both you and Patrick have actually brought up John Adreani here on the boards previously. As a refresher, Adreani was dismissed from CPD in 2015 along with Sgt Robert Bondi after wiretaps caught them socializing and discussing gambling with Dorian Lukaj. Lukaj, who was pinched in 2010 as the head of a major narcotics trafficking ring, was a big time Albanian cannabis distributor (his charges alleged that he distributed 600lbs a month in the Chicagoland area) based out of suburban Woodridge. Wiretaps also caught Lukaj discussing potential real estate contacts with Adreani and Bondi, as well as Lukaj contacting them to enquire as to money that was seized from him by investigators.

In 2019, the Tribune reported on Weiss being linked to Adreani’s company, V.S.S., Inc, which was involved in the payments to Rep Arroyo for his lobbying efforts to the City to pass sweepstakes machine legislation:

Figures emerge in probe of Arroyo

By Jason Meisner, Hal Dardick and Dan Hinkel

State Rep. Luis Arroyo’s foray into the shady world of sweepstakes machines is at the center of the federal bribery case alleging he agreed to pay off a state senator in exchange for support on legislation that would benefit the largely unregulated industry.

Now other players linked to the alleged scheme are emerging, including businessman James Weiss, the son-in-law of former Cook County assessor and county Democratic Party boss Joseph Berrios, and an ex-Chicago cop who was fired for consorting with a drug trafficker, the Chicago Tribune has confirmed through state records and a source with knowledge of the probe.

The FBI raided Weiss’ business offices Friday after the charges were filed against Arroyo under seal, the source told the Tribune.

State business records show Weiss is connected to the former cop, John Adreani, through a complex web of corporations, many of which list the same address in a south suburban strip mall as their headquarters.

Adreani was fired from the Police Department four years ago for associating with a major drug trafficker after he was captured on a wiretap discussing gambling and drinking excursions and real estate ventures with him, according to Chicago Police Board records.

Adreani and his company, V.S.S. Inc. — identified in the charges only as Company B — inked a deal in 2018 to pay Arroyo $2,500 a month to lobby City Hall on proposed legislation allowing sweepstakes machines to operate in the city, lobbying records filed with the city Board of Ethics show. The language of the contract signed by Arroyo’s lobbying firm, Spartacus 3, matches details outlined in the criminal complaint word for word.

Since the contract was signed, V.S.S. has paid Arroyo at least $30,000, including most recently in mid-October, records show.

The attorney listed in the contract, Pericles Abbasi, said Wednesday he’d done no work for Adreani and did not know why he was named as a lawyer for his company.

In August, Arroyo was captured on an undercover FBI recording telling the state senator there was good money in it for him if he’d help shepherd pro-sweepstakes legislation in Springfield, according to the complaint against Arroyo unsealed Monday.

“If I’m doin’ okay, you’re gonna do okay,” Arroyo allegedly told the undisclosed senator, who was secretly wearing a wire for the FBI. “We’ll talk to each other to make sure that you’re rewarded for what you do. … Same way I’m getting paid, I’m getting paid 2,500 dollars a month.”

The Tribune has identified the senator — referred to in the charges only as CW-1 — as Democrat Terry Link of Vernon Hills. Link has vehemently denied any involvement.

Neither Weiss nor Adreani has been charged with wrongdoing.

Weiss, 40, is married to Berrios’ daughter, former state Rep. Toni Berrios, who was Arroyo’s colleague in the state Capitol for more than a decade. He answered the door of their brick bungalow in west suburban River Grove this week but declined to comment on his role in the investigation, saying, “I have no idea what’s going on.”

When a reporter asked for his cellphone number, Weiss said, “They took it.” He then shut the door.

Adreani, 49, could not be reached for comment. No one appeared to be at his house in the city’s Belmont Heights neighborhood when a reporter visited on Wednesday. A mailbox outside the home marked “Adreani/V.S.S.” was stuffed with letters.

Records show Adreani also owns property in west suburban Elmwood Park.

The bribery charge against Arroyo marked the latest in a series of ongoing federal probes that have rocked political circles from Chicago to Springfield. Arroyo is the third elected official to be charged so far, joining longtime Chicago Ald. Edward Burke and state Sen. Thomas Cullerton.

The case against Arroyo centers on the largely uncharted world of sweepstakes machines, sometimes called “gray machines,” which allow customers to put in money, receive a coupon to redeem for merchandise online and then play electronic games like slot machines.

Since the machines can be played for free, they are not considered gambling devices. Critics, however, contend the unregulated devices, which operate in cities like Chicago that have banned video gambling, are designed to skirt the law.

Much of Arroyo’s lobbying efforts appeared to focus on competing ordinances floated in City Hall concerning the controversial sweepstakes machines.

One proposal would have expressly banned the machines from operating within city limits. Another put forth in October 2018 by 36th Ward Ald. Gilbert Villegas — who was elected in 2015 with Arroyo’s backing — would allow sweepstakes games to operate under certain regulations.

The council never acted on either ordinance, and both died for lack of action at the end of the City Council’s term in May, records show.

Villegas told the Tribune he proposed the ordinance after he was approached by representatives of the sweepstakes industry, including Weiss. He said Arroyo approached him after he proposed licensing and regulating the machines. Arroyo’s lobbying, he said, “didn’t sway me either way.”

In addition to marrying into the politically powerful Berrios family, Weiss is also a grandson of former Deputy City Treasurer Edward Murray, a longtime Bridgeport precinct captain and friend of former Mayor Richard M. Daley. Murray also served as a financial officer for the Chicago Public Schools.

Weiss and his chief business partner, Iman Bambooyani, own a string of valet companies that have millions of dollars in city contracts to park cars on CPS properties as well as other city-owned locations, records show.

Weiss and companies he’s affiliated with have contributed more than $150,000 to political campaigns since 2010, state election records show.

Most of that — $87,000 — was given to campaigns by Collage LLC, which Weiss formed in August 2018, the same month the lobbying contract with Arroyo was signed, according to state records. All of that money was contributed around the same time Villegas introduced his ordinance to license and regulate sweepstakes machines, with much of it going to aldermen and state legislators.

Earlier this year, the Teamsters union pension fund sued Weiss and Bambooyani over allegations they spent the past decade “using sham companies to avoid paying debts associated with their Chicago-based valet parking enterprise.” The lawsuit, pending in U.S. District Court, claims Weiss and his partner emptied one company — Capital Parking LLC — of assets to avoid paying nearly $100,000 owed to the union for employee benefits. The two have denied the allegations.

Business records filed with the Illinois secretary of state, meanwhile, show that Weiss was a manager at another company, Mac-T Retail LLC, which was formed in 2015 and shares the same address in the 800 block of Sibley Boulevard in Dolton with V.S.S.

At least three companies that include “Mac-T” in their titles appear to be linked, according to state records. The first of them, Mac-T LLC, was organized by Anthony DeMarco of River Grove in 2014 and is also registered to the Sibley Boulevard address. DeMarco is also a manager of V.S.S.

In addition to the same business address, V.S.S. and both Mac-T companies share the same attorney filing their paperwork with the state, Edward Eberspacher. Reached by phone Wednesday, he said, “I cannot comment on any of my clients, thank you,” and hung up.

Records show Adreani, the ex-cop, founded V.S.S. in August 2013, about a year before he was formally brought up on administrative charges before the Chicago Police Board. He has also dabbled in real estate, buying and selling multiple properties in Chicago going back to the 1990s, records show.

The episode that cost Adreani his job began in February 2010 when U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents and local police stopped a car in southwest suburban Bridgeview containing Dorian Luzaj, who’d “been the subject of an extensive narcotics investigation that included wiretapping,” according to the Police Board’s written ruling. The cops seized $571,000 in cash in two duffel bags before allowing Luzaj and two companions to leave, the board wrote.

Shortly after the traffic stop, Luzaj made a call to Adreani, who at the time was at a strip club in Florida, the board wrote. The next day, Luzaj talked with Adreani again and complained that “some f------ cops … took everything from me,” the Police Board said. Both conversations were captured on the law enforcement wiretap.

“They took the f------ thing and they just left,” Luzaj allegedly said, specifying the amount as “600 … add some zeroes behind it, my friend.”

According to the ruling, Adreani instructed Luzaj to call a sergeant and explain the situation. “He’s like me, he will understand,” Adreani allegedly said.

The sergeant was also fired over the incident, records show.

Authorities recorded 30 or more phone calls between Adreani and Luzaj over a two-month period. The board found that Adreani referred Luzaj “to people who sell real estate or vice versa.” The board also found that Adreani “played cards, gambled, had lunch and/or had drinks” with Luzaj. In April 2010, Luzaj had $9,500 in an online gambling account used by Adreani, according to the ruling.

Luzaj pleaded guilty to marijuana trafficking and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, according to court and prison records.

In his disciplinary hearing, Adreani acknowledged that Luzaj “had to be doing something wrong” to have had that much cash on him. Adreani was formally fired in September 2015.

“The Board finds that Officer Adreani’s quite deliberate decision to continue his social and professional association with Luzaj after he was well aware of Luzaj’s criminal conduct brings discredit on the department,” the Police Board wrote in its ruling.

As an amusing side note to this story, documents for V.S.S. listed Pericles “Perry” Abbasi as the company’s attorney. Perry Abbasi, who unsuccessfully ran for a seat on a City police district board earlier this year, has had long standing ties to the Chicago FOP, as well as Kanye West, and had been involved in a number of local elections. Perry Abbasi has also been, for years, a notorious and highly prolific Twitter/X poster, arousing periodic controversy for his trolling tactics and proximity to right wing/“Frog Twitter”.

[Ivan]

Perry Abbasi has also been, for years, a notorious and highly prolific Twitter/X poster, arousing periodic controversy for his trolling tactics and proximity to right wing/“Frog Twitter”.

I actually know who the fuck Perry Abbasi is due to his Twitter presence, but I don't follow him. Every big account that follows me also follows him and retweets him a lot, though I'm not sure what the appeal is. He's funny occasionally I guess. I can't believe someone on here is actually referencing Frogtwitter.

I'm busy with work this week and just kind of passing through here, so can someone explain to me like I'm twelve how Abbasi is connected with the Outfit (if he in fact is)? Thanks in advance.

[PolackTony]

Perry Abbasi has also been, for years, a notorious and highly prolific Twitter/X poster, arousing periodic controversy for his trolling tactics and proximity to right wing/“Frog Twitter”.

I actually know who the fuck Perry Abbasi is due to his Twitter presence, but I don't follow him. Every big account that follows me also follows him and retweets him a lot, though I'm not sure what the appeal is. He's funny occasionally I guess. I can't believe someone on here is actually referencing Frogtwitter.

I'm busy with work this week and just kind of passing through here, so can someone explain to me like I'm twelve how Abbasi is connected with the Outfit (if he in fact is)? Thanks in advance.

In Chicago, worlds collide lol. Perry Abbasi is a classic Chicago character, just updated for the internet age.

Perry Abbasi was listed as the attorney on record in documents for V.S.S, Inc., a company run by corrupt former CPD cop John Adreani to make lobbying payments to IL State Rep Luis Arroyo, who was basically the agent used by James Weiss to push for support at the City and state level for legislation that Weiss wanted passed for sweepstakes gaming machines. It is evident that Weiss and Adreani were working together on this legislation push. It came out recently that Weiss, the son-in-law of corrupt former Cook County Assessor and head of the Cook County Democratic Party, Joe Berrios, had longstanding connections to Frankie Schweihs, and that when Schweihs had to lam it for his charges during the Family Secrets case, he passed Weiss off as a protected asset to longtime outfit associate and pimp Bobby Dominic, who also runs the famous Richard’s Bar on Grand Ave.

[Patrickgold]

We’ve gone over this quite a bit in the past and no new sources of evidence have surfaced since those prior discussions. Sometimes these Chicago discussions start to feel like Groundhog Day.

Hmm. Perhaps it might be a good idea for someone to make a Chicago FAQ? (I mean someone competent, not me. )

Could just compile the most common questions that keep coming up (literally frequently asked questions) and sticky them in the main forum. If someone asks one of the common questions you could just link the FAQ instead of having to type out the answer again (which, don't get me wrong, is appreciated).

Might save you guys work over time.

I agree. I feel some potentially good conversations get lost with the same questions over and over. For example this potential Russian Organized Crime shaking down massage parlors along with the Bobby Dominic and Weiss connection is fascinating and is getting lost with this consigliere question that comes up often.

Do you guys know any potential connections of this corrupt CPD officer John Adreani? His name is also surfacing on this thing. From my read of the Outfit, its often the sons and relatives of mob guys who get caught with corruption - like the Amabile grandson in Melrose Park who was taking bets as a cop.

Adreani is a grand ave guy. He was in the 13th district for years. Got fired from CPD for gambling. He knows all the grand ave guys and is probably aligned with them. An interesting note is that Cassano also owns a sweepstakes machine company.