General Chicago Outfit Info Dumping Ground

[NorthBuffalo]

Great catch Cavita. Someone says Bruno Caruso as the top photo with family after what looks like a graduation/church event. Does not look like a Caruso to me but could be wrong.

[PolackTony]

Frank Renella and I think Lenny Patrick is in there

Second photo from the last is Lenny Patrick. This one was making the rounds recently on FB.

[RushStreet]

1st photo is Leo Caruso. Great photos by the way!

[SonnyC]

1st photo is Leo Caruso. Great photos by the way!

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

[NorthBuffalo]

One of the informants from Chicago Streets and Sanitation who helped the government in the Hired Truck Scandal 20 years ago. I was told he returned to his neighborhood in Bridgeport after prison and was shunned until he moved out of Chicago. Recently passed away.

[Richards_bar]

#5 is John Gattuso

[NorthBuffalo]

I got a recent dump of family photos from Chicago. A few I'm trying to identify below - any ideas on who these guys are?

Update this is Mike Biancofiore (Cicero/Infelise Crew) who passed away in the 90s.

[RushStreet]

Is that his son pictured with Mike?

[NorthBuffalo]

Michael Swiatek (late 1960s and 2010)

[RushStreet]

Wow well that answered my question. Mike and his son look almost identical at the same age.

[RushStreet]

Nevermind not the same last name. My bad.

[NorthBuffalo]

Was this one of the informers (Richard Gelsomino) in the Joseph DiFronzo weed case in the early 1990s? I believe he was wearing a wire in meetings with a grand jury mole.
https://www.colonialfuneral.com/obituar ... d=24628662

[NorthBuffalo]

Interesting tidbit of information on Michael 'Jaws' Giorango.

He was heavily involved in financing a boxing promotions company in Miami and Chicago called 'A-Team' - he was partnered with this individual below, who was from the East Coast. Some of the boxers that they managed included Mike Mollo who was a notable for knocking out Kevin McBride in 2006.

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituar ... di-8030071

Interesting that this old article notes Giorango as a 'successful real estate developer' and that investors in 'A Team Management' were stated as a group of Italian Americans - you wonder who else was in that group from Chicago or the East Coast...
https://www.boxing247.com/weblog/archives/106749

[NorthBuffalo]

James 'Jimmy' Yario, well-known Outfit bookmaker and operative who was a product of Taylor Street. Story goes Yario and James 'Cappy' Capodice had one of the largest gambling operations going in Chicago during the mid 1990s and were doing so without Outfit approval given the internal strife going on - personally, I bet they were paying someone given the size of their schemes.





Obituary for John 'Cappy' Capodice:
https://www.vandenbergfuneralhome.com/o ... ributeWall

[Coloboy]

Thought some of you might enjoy Michael Franzese's recent video on Accardo. It's simplified for sure, but at the very least it's well produced and has a lot of great photos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNwD8neuROU