Chicago Outfit Places of Origin

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Eline2015 wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 2:54 am About Fischettis. Were they really related to Capone?
I have never found any evidence to support that there was a relation, whether by blood or marriage.

Capone’s parents, Gabriele Capone and Teresa Raiola, were natives of Angri, Salerno. The Fischettis’ parents, Nicola Fuschetto and Maria Lemmo, were natives of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi and Lioni, Avellino. Presumably, the two families had known each other for some years, however, as they lived on opposite sides of the same block of buildings in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. It is likely that they called each other “cugini” in the way that many Italians do as a type of fictive kinship.

To underscore how close to each other they lived, with the Capones at 21 Garfield and the Fischettis at 584 Carroll (between 4th & 5th Aves):

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PolackTony wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:32 am
Eline2015 wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 2:54 am About Fischettis. Were they really related to Capone?
I have never found any evidence to support that there was a relation, whether by blood or marriage.

Capone’s parents, Gabriele Capone and Teresa Raiola, were natives of Angri, Salerno. The Fischettis’ parents, Nicola Fuschetto and Maria Lemmo, were natives of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi and Lioni, Avellino. Presumably, the two families had known each other for some years, however, as they lived on opposite sides of the same block of buildings in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. It is likely that they called each other “cugini” in the way that many Italians do as a type of fictive kinship.

To underscore how close to each other they lived, with the Capones at 21 Garfield and the Fischettis at 584 Carroll (between 4th & 5th Aves):

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Thanks, Tony. And what about Nitto?
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Nitto's family and the Capones both came from Angri in Salerno. While I didn't see an Nitto's in the Capone family tree and vice versa, it's possible there's a connection through marriage or going back multiple generations. According to a Capone relative they two families knew each other in Angri and were some sort of cousins, but nothing definitive. Of course it's also possible that they were simply compaesani who referred to each other as cugini.
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Guys, and what about Gioe? Is it really that he attended same school with Accardo and was his friend from childhood?
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Eline2015 wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2024 8:40 pm Guys, and what about Gioe? Is it really that he attended same school with Accardo and was his friend from childhood?
I'm not aware of their yearbooks being online, so I can't verify if they attended the same school. Gioe was around four years older, so they weren't in the same class. As for them being childhood friends, that's what Gioe testified before the Kefauver Committee. We'll have to take his word on that one since there's no one alive to corroborate it.
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Anthony Perella may have lived in Chicago in 1930

In an Apr 1930 article about his BIL’s funeral, he’s mentioned as a resident of that city.

He was known to have lived in the nearby Gary, IN from ~Jan 1928 to Jul 1935. His wife Bianca “Blanche” DiFelice’s family lived there. He owned a liquor store there at 3737 Broadway Ave, Gary, IN

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Perella wasn’t made into the Philadelphia Family until 1950 but was already a criminal by the time he moved to the Midwest. Also, literally his entire family was mobbed up so he could have been tapped into the mafia network.

In the early ‘60s, following a dispute, Angelo Bruno warned him not to complain to Chicago or NYC. So he may have had (or was perceived as having) ties to the area.

Does anyone know when the Gary Family got absorbed or who was in it? I’ve only heard of Frank Alo & Paul Palazzolo
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We discussed Perella’s ties to the Chicago area in relation to the issue with Bruno in the ‘60s a couple years back in a Philly thread: viewtopic.php?p=230406#p230406

Given that his parents were from Misilmeri, I’ve suspected that he likely had familial/compaesani ties to Chicago, which likely were part of the background of why he wound up marrying a girl from Gary and moving there.

With respect to the Gary Family, not much is known, really, beyond Palazzolo. We know even less about it than we do the Chicago Heights Family. It’s not even clear to me that Alo/Agrusa/Abbate was *necessarily* a Gary member. He was also in Cal City and STL at various times, so it’s hard to say exactly what his affiliation was as of the time of the Statler meeting (Palazzolo also had ties to STL, and we can presume to paesani from Cinisi in Chicago proper, with Joe Giunta probably having occupied some position of importance in the Chicago Family prior to his 1930 murder). We sort of assume that Gary was formally absorbed into Chicago around the time of Palazzolo’s murder in 1935, but this isn’t known for a fact and we know no details about what exactly happened and how it played out from an organizational perspective anyway. We don’t really know how the mafia in Gary fit into the Chicago Family in later decades either. The mob in Gary was dominated following the 1930s by guys who relocated from the City of Chicago: Tony Pinelli, Gaetano Morgano, Johnny Formusa, Ernesto Sansone. I think that it was a formal decina, perhaps up to the early 60s, when Pinelli transferred his membership to the LA outfit in his later years, but beyond this it’s hard to say anything with surety. Following the 60s, remaining LCN activity in Lake County IN seems to have been under the control of the LaPorte/Pilotto crew until Snooky Morgano was busted in the early 90s.
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