To start, I'll again ask that thus information not be copied and used elsewhere without my permission. I'd prefer not to have my writing debated over on places like the BB or Facebook groups and would like to keep it here, where the potential for intelligent discussion and questioning is highest.
Some discussion on this board as well as the BB (god help us) led me to create this thread. The Outfit structure has been shrouded in mystery nearly from it's inception but there are definitely tidbits of info out there. Between news articles, press releases, indictments, and printed media, we are at least able to construct an idea about the Outfit's structure in the previous thirty years. Hopefully, as some of the major individuals from this time period pass away, we can gather even more information through FBI files and releases.
1986
We begin 1986 with the conviction of Joseph Aiuppa, the operating boss of the entire Outfit, and his underboss, John "Jack" Cerone. Also convicted were capos (a.k.a. bosses, a term that is often overused in Outfit literature but is generally accepted as an alternate reference to "capo") Angelo LaPietra and Joseph Lombardo. Lombardo was already serving a sentence for a scam involving the bribing of a United States senator. These convictions effectively beheaded the Outfit and severed a major money making racket for them: the skimming of Las Vegas casinos out of millions of dollars a year. All four individuals received sentences of at least twenty years with Lombardo's to run concurrently with his prior conviction. Replacements would have to be made for these positions if the Outfit was to continue functioning as a cohesive unit.
The choice for boss was initially widely thought to be Joseph Ferriola. Ferriola ruled a large expanse of Outfit territory, including Cicero, the western suburbs, and Lake County. He had control of some of the most lucrative rackets in the city as well as Dominic Cortina's massive sports book, and had previously controlled the Wild Bunch, a group of ruthless Outfit hitmen which accounted for perhaps dozens of slayings in the Chicago area throughout the seventies and eighties. However, Ferriola suffered from a heart ailment which would later kill him, which may have led to the decision - either his own or Aiuppa's - to pass him over for the top spot.
The actual successor to Aiuppa was Samuel Carlisi, a relative unknown who was thought of by most mob watchers as too far down the food chain to take over a criminal organization as large and expansive as the Outfit. Although he had been arrested several times in the sixties for gambling and bookmaking, his only prior conviction was for tax fraud, and his reputation was not one that engendered as much fear and respect as a Joe Ferriola. However, he had faithfully served Joey Aiuppa for years, acting as his driver and one of his top lieutenants. Sometime in the early eighties, he was rewarded with his own crew, which operated out of Melrose Park. By the time of Aiuppa's conviction, he was ready and able to take over the Outfit.
The position of underboss was given to another individual who had managed to avoid attention for the past two decades; John DiFronzo. However, unlike Carlisi, DiFronzo's record consisted of several arrests and convictions, mostly for burglary and loan sharking. In fact, a young DiFronzo earned the nickname "No Nose" for having had part of his nose shot off during a burglary in the 1940's. DiFronzo came out of Elmwood Park and was seen as Jackie Cerone's top lieutenant. So, in much the same way as Carlisi, DiFronzo was also apparently chosen by his former boss out of trust and familiarity.
Angelo LaPietra's successor as boss of the Southside of Chicago (including Chinatown) was his brother, James LaPietra. The two had come up together in the Outfit and had deserved reputations as killers and ruthless juice men.
Lombardo's crew would continue to be run in the interim by Louis "The Mooch" Eboli, whom Aiuppa had appointed to head the Grand Avenue crew upon Lombardo's initial imprisonment in early 1983. Eboli was the son of former Genovese acting boss Thomas Eboli (murdered in 1972) and for years had been in charge of pinball and vending machine distribution in the western suburbs, particularly the Mannheim Strip in Stone Park.
So as a new era dawned on the Outfit the organizational structure looked like this:
Boss of Bosses: Anthony Accardo (retired/advisory capacity only)
Boss: Samuel Carlisi
Former Boss: Joseph Aiuppa (imprisoned)
Underboss: John DiFronzo
Former Underboss: John Cerone (imprisoned)
Direct with Bosses
Gus Alex (political/legal advisor)
Pat Marcy (political contact in First Ward)
Hyman Larner (overseas gambling interests, especially in Central and South America; used Salvatore and Carmen Bastone as intermediaries)
Territorial Bosses (w/top lieutenants)
Cicero/Western Suburbs/Lake County: Joseph Ferriola
Ernest "Rocky" Infelise, Dominic Cortina, Donald Angelini, Salvatore Bastone , Carmen Bastone, Salvatore DeLaurentis, Louis Marino
Melrose Park/surrounding areas: James Marcello
Alfonso Tornabene, Anthony "Bucky" Ortenzi, Anthony Zizzo, Anthony Chiaramonti
Elmwood Park/surrounding areas: Joseph Andriacchi
William Messino, Lee Magnafichi, Michael Castaldo, Marco D'Amico, Peter DiFronzo
26th Street/Southside/Chinatown: James LaPietra (Angelo LaPietra; imprisoned)
John Monteleone, Frank Calabrese, Sr., John Fecarotta, Joseph LaMantia
Grand Avenue/Near West Side: Louis Eboli (Joseph Lombardo; imprisoned)
Anthony Spilotro (in Las Vegas), Frank "The German" Schweihs, James D'Antonio, James Cozzo, Joseph Pettit
North Side: Vincent Solano
John Matassa, Jr., Michael Glitta, Frank DeMonte, Leonard Patrick (reported to Alex)
Chicago Heights/Southern Cook County/Northern Will County/NW Indiana: Albert Tocco
Dominick Palermo, Frank Zizzo (NW Indiana), Nicholas Guzzino, Bernard Morgano
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1986 (cont.)
One individual who managed to avoid sentencing in the big "Strawman" (the FBI's code name for the case) case was Anthony Spilotro. For more than a decade, he had represented the Outfit in Las Vegas. He had brought his own crew there from Chicago and was involved in almost every racket imaginable: from burglary and loansharking to extortion and drug dealing. He ensured that the bosses in Chicago got a taste of the action but he almost assuredly kept a decent chunk of the proceeds for himself. Through the first half of the decade he had managed to avoid several legal entanglements, including a twenty year-old double-murder charge brought about by the cooperation of one of his ex-crew members, Frank Cullotta. Unfortunately for him, his luck ran out as racketeering indictments were handed down for his illegal activities in Vegas, followed soon after by the Strawman indictments, of which he was to be a defendant. He was also widely suspected of having an affair with Stardust casino boss Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal's wife. Collectively, these incidents were enough to push him out of the bosses' favor. Before he went to prison in early 1986, Aiuppa made it clear that Spilotro was to be taken care of. Michael, Anthony's brother, was also to be disposed of to avoid any retaliation.
Initially, the first half of 1986 brought some good fortune for Spilotro. His Vegas racketeering case had ended in a mistrial and he had been severed from the Strawman case for health reasons. Additionally, with most of the old regime in prison, he may have believed himself to be "out of the woods" as far as disciplinary action was concerned. This may have led him to lower his guard. In June of 1986, Spilotro, along with Michael, was summoned to a meeting in the western suburb of Bensenville, adjacent to O'Haire International Airport. Ostensibly, Spilotro was to be promoted to head of the Grand Avenue crew and his brother Michael was to be made. Upon their arrival, the Spilotros were directed to the basement, where they were allegedly greeted by Carlisi, DiFronzo, and a host of other Outfit figures. However, the brothers were almost immediately set upon by the other attendees and were savagely beaten to death with hands and feet. The bodies were loaded up and purportedly taken south by John Fecarotta, where Al Tocco and members of the Chicago Heights crew waited in an Indiana cornfield beside a freshly-dug grave. The bodies were hastily buried but as they finished the job, something spooked the party and Tocco was left behind in the confusion and had to angrily call his wife to request she pick him up.
A couple of days later, the bodies were discovered. Although initially believed to be deer carcasses poached out of season and buried, it was quickly realized that it was the remains of Anthony and Michael. The discovery caused a sensation in the news as a manhunt had been enacted upon the disappearance of the brothers a few days earlier. Despite the botched burial, investigators could find no clues and would not have anything solid on the murders until the trial of Tocco four years later, where his wife testified that Tocco had divulged that he had helped buried the Spilotros. The details of the murders themselves would not be revealed for another twenty years. Outfit member Nicholas Calabrese testified to helping murder the brothers in the Bensenville basement.
One individual who managed to avoid sentencing in the big "Strawman" (the FBI's code name for the case) case was Anthony Spilotro. For more than a decade, he had represented the Outfit in Las Vegas. He had brought his own crew there from Chicago and was involved in almost every racket imaginable: from burglary and loansharking to extortion and drug dealing. He ensured that the bosses in Chicago got a taste of the action but he almost assuredly kept a decent chunk of the proceeds for himself. Through the first half of the decade he had managed to avoid several legal entanglements, including a twenty year-old double-murder charge brought about by the cooperation of one of his ex-crew members, Frank Cullotta. Unfortunately for him, his luck ran out as racketeering indictments were handed down for his illegal activities in Vegas, followed soon after by the Strawman indictments, of which he was to be a defendant. He was also widely suspected of having an affair with Stardust casino boss Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal's wife. Collectively, these incidents were enough to push him out of the bosses' favor. Before he went to prison in early 1986, Aiuppa made it clear that Spilotro was to be taken care of. Michael, Anthony's brother, was also to be disposed of to avoid any retaliation.
Initially, the first half of 1986 brought some good fortune for Spilotro. His Vegas racketeering case had ended in a mistrial and he had been severed from the Strawman case for health reasons. Additionally, with most of the old regime in prison, he may have believed himself to be "out of the woods" as far as disciplinary action was concerned. This may have led him to lower his guard. In June of 1986, Spilotro, along with Michael, was summoned to a meeting in the western suburb of Bensenville, adjacent to O'Haire International Airport. Ostensibly, Spilotro was to be promoted to head of the Grand Avenue crew and his brother Michael was to be made. Upon their arrival, the Spilotros were directed to the basement, where they were allegedly greeted by Carlisi, DiFronzo, and a host of other Outfit figures. However, the brothers were almost immediately set upon by the other attendees and were savagely beaten to death with hands and feet. The bodies were loaded up and purportedly taken south by John Fecarotta, where Al Tocco and members of the Chicago Heights crew waited in an Indiana cornfield beside a freshly-dug grave. The bodies were hastily buried but as they finished the job, something spooked the party and Tocco was left behind in the confusion and had to angrily call his wife to request she pick him up.
A couple of days later, the bodies were discovered. Although initially believed to be deer carcasses poached out of season and buried, it was quickly realized that it was the remains of Anthony and Michael. The discovery caused a sensation in the news as a manhunt had been enacted upon the disappearance of the brothers a few days earlier. Despite the botched burial, investigators could find no clues and would not have anything solid on the murders until the trial of Tocco four years later, where his wife testified that Tocco had divulged that he had helped buried the Spilotros. The details of the murders themselves would not be revealed for another twenty years. Outfit member Nicholas Calabrese testified to helping murder the brothers in the Bensenville basement.
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Late 1986 to 1988
With the Spilotros gone and the former top bosses put away, Carlisi and the Outfit began to recover from the shock of losing the casino skim. The elderly Accardo allegedly assisted Carlisi and DiFronzo in taking control before disappearing back to retirement and warm weather in Palm Springs, California. The major moneymaking racket for the crews was to impose a street tax on any illegitimate activity within their purview. This included exacting tribute payments from bookies, pimps and whorehouses, adult theaters and bookstores, drug dealers, robbery and burglary crews, car thieves, and any number of other illegal acts conducted in areas under Outfit control. Legitimate businesses were extorted for monthly payments under threats of violence and loan sharking money was put out on the street to squeeze even more money out of deadbeat gamblers or business owners who were behind on their payments. Outfit influence in the unions, while under intense scrutiny, had yet to be purged, so cushy, salaried positions were still held by Outfit members and associates, including family members. Pat Marcy, Outfit liaison in the First Ward, and other Outfit affiliates, such as Fred Roti and John D'Arco Jr., continued to accept payments for various political favors. Don Angelini was sent out to Vegas to salvage what was left of Outfit interests the desert city. Chris Petti, Outfit contact and former Spilotro associate operating out of San Diego, brought to Angelini and the Outfit's attention an opportunity to become hidden investors in a bingo hall on a Rincon Indian reservation. In 1987, Jimmy Cozzo, allegedly through his membership in Local 786, financed and managed several casinos in Curacao and elsewhere in the Caribbean. Hy Larner's Central American casinos were still bringing in bagfuls of cash into Outfit coffers through Sal and Carmen Bastone well into the 1980's. Although the skim was gone, the opportunity for making money in the casino field was not over.
Millions of dollars worth of this illegal income was funneled and laundered into and through Outfit-owned and connected businesses. Outfit members, especially those in Elmwood Park, were encouraged to invest their illicit funds into real estate, restaurants, car dealerships, construction, and waste hauling. John DiFronzo and Joseph Andriacchi, among others, became quasi-legitimate millionaires in this fashion.
The violence of the previous decade of Outfit control was also toned down. The FBI had begun indicting many high-ranking East Coast mobsters under the RICO anti-racketeering law and it's stiff sentences. Murders brought unwarranted attention and the Outfit's reputation was enough in most cases to extract whatever payment was needed. However, in certain situations, murder was the only solution. John Fecarotta, longtime member of Angelo LaPietra's Southside crew, was murdered in September of 1986 for a bevy of offenses. He had received some culpability for the botched Spilotro burial, but even more grievously, he had irresponsibly gambled while on an Outfit murder assignment in Arizona, leaving a paper trail which could place him in the state at the time of the killing. Additionally, he owed John DiFronzo money for an automobile purchased from one of his lots and had been slow in repaying. Finally, he was a rival to Frank Calabrese Sr.'s large and thriving loan sharking business. Despite his proven expertise as a wheelman for the Outfit, he was dispatched with a bullet to the head by Frank's brother Nick Calabrese in a murder not without it's own hiccups. Calabrese accidentally shot himself through the arm during the hit and Fecarotta nearly managed to escape. Twenty years later, this would come back to haunt not only Nick, but the entire Outfit.
With the Spilotros gone and the former top bosses put away, Carlisi and the Outfit began to recover from the shock of losing the casino skim. The elderly Accardo allegedly assisted Carlisi and DiFronzo in taking control before disappearing back to retirement and warm weather in Palm Springs, California. The major moneymaking racket for the crews was to impose a street tax on any illegitimate activity within their purview. This included exacting tribute payments from bookies, pimps and whorehouses, adult theaters and bookstores, drug dealers, robbery and burglary crews, car thieves, and any number of other illegal acts conducted in areas under Outfit control. Legitimate businesses were extorted for monthly payments under threats of violence and loan sharking money was put out on the street to squeeze even more money out of deadbeat gamblers or business owners who were behind on their payments. Outfit influence in the unions, while under intense scrutiny, had yet to be purged, so cushy, salaried positions were still held by Outfit members and associates, including family members. Pat Marcy, Outfit liaison in the First Ward, and other Outfit affiliates, such as Fred Roti and John D'Arco Jr., continued to accept payments for various political favors. Don Angelini was sent out to Vegas to salvage what was left of Outfit interests the desert city. Chris Petti, Outfit contact and former Spilotro associate operating out of San Diego, brought to Angelini and the Outfit's attention an opportunity to become hidden investors in a bingo hall on a Rincon Indian reservation. In 1987, Jimmy Cozzo, allegedly through his membership in Local 786, financed and managed several casinos in Curacao and elsewhere in the Caribbean. Hy Larner's Central American casinos were still bringing in bagfuls of cash into Outfit coffers through Sal and Carmen Bastone well into the 1980's. Although the skim was gone, the opportunity for making money in the casino field was not over.
Millions of dollars worth of this illegal income was funneled and laundered into and through Outfit-owned and connected businesses. Outfit members, especially those in Elmwood Park, were encouraged to invest their illicit funds into real estate, restaurants, car dealerships, construction, and waste hauling. John DiFronzo and Joseph Andriacchi, among others, became quasi-legitimate millionaires in this fashion.
The violence of the previous decade of Outfit control was also toned down. The FBI had begun indicting many high-ranking East Coast mobsters under the RICO anti-racketeering law and it's stiff sentences. Murders brought unwarranted attention and the Outfit's reputation was enough in most cases to extract whatever payment was needed. However, in certain situations, murder was the only solution. John Fecarotta, longtime member of Angelo LaPietra's Southside crew, was murdered in September of 1986 for a bevy of offenses. He had received some culpability for the botched Spilotro burial, but even more grievously, he had irresponsibly gambled while on an Outfit murder assignment in Arizona, leaving a paper trail which could place him in the state at the time of the killing. Additionally, he owed John DiFronzo money for an automobile purchased from one of his lots and had been slow in repaying. Finally, he was a rival to Frank Calabrese Sr.'s large and thriving loan sharking business. Despite his proven expertise as a wheelman for the Outfit, he was dispatched with a bullet to the head by Frank's brother Nick Calabrese in a murder not without it's own hiccups. Calabrese accidentally shot himself through the arm during the hit and Fecarotta nearly managed to escape. Twenty years later, this would come back to haunt not only Nick, but the entire Outfit.
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A little off subject, but what ever happened to the sons of carmen bastone, the brother of sal that worked for hy larner, i think i read carmen died, but are his kids still active? I might have messed up on some of the names, sorry if i did
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Just read your whole post snakes, didnt realize you had mentioned them, but yeah are carmen's boys still active. They seemed like a prominent crew from what i read.
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Not sure about his kids. It's difficult to tell whose still involved and who isn't nowadays with the lack of news and indictments.
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Good stuff. You got it right on with fecarotta. People who don't do their research say he got whacked for the spilotro burial. As you said though it was really those numerous other offenses. When nick calabrese testified he said all the reasons you mentioned and didn't say anything about the botched burial.
One other thing about carlisi it may have been a surprise by outside observers him being boss because he wasn't well known but looking though his FBI files today there is stuff in there from the 70's saying he was being groomed to take aiuppa's spot so it certainly wasn't a huge shock that it happened all those years later
One other thing about carlisi it may have been a surprise by outside observers him being boss because he wasn't well known but looking though his FBI files today there is stuff in there from the 70's saying he was being groomed to take aiuppa's spot so it certainly wasn't a huge shock that it happened all those years later
I agree with phat,I love those old fucks and he's right.we all got some cosa nostra in us.I personnely love the life.I think we on the forum would be the ultimate crew! - camerono
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He certainly had the pedigree. His brother was under boss in Buffalo for many years.
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Snakes can you help with a list of hits in the same time period? Most news accounts after Ronnie Jarrett got clipped said it was the first hit in 5-7 years depending on which article your reading. I'm having trouble remembering hits in that early 90's time especially
I agree with phat,I love those old fucks and he's right.we all got some cosa nostra in us.I personnely love the life.I think we on the forum would be the ultimate crew! - camerono
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I think Sam Taglia in 1992 was the last hit accredited to the Outfit before Jarrett. That's just off the top of my head, though.
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I've often wondered why the murder of Robert Cruz in 1997 isn't normally listed as an Outfit murder. Harry Aleman's cousin who disappeared days after Aleman got sentenced for murder. And they found his body ten years later fifty yards from where they dug up two other Outfit murders in 1988.
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http://gangsterreport.com/chicago-mob-1 ... eagan-era/Pete wrote: ↑Sun May 21, 2017 8:15 pm Snakes can you help with a list of hits in the same time period? Most news accounts after Ronnie Jarrett got clipped said it was the first hit in 5-7 years depending on which article your reading. I'm having trouble remembering hits in that early 90's time especially
Chicago Mob 1980s Hit List Time Line
Outfit Murders – 1980-1989
Damage Toll: 33 bodies found, 31 slayings in the decade
July 2, 1980 – Chicago mob enforcer and Chicago Heights crew member William (Billy the Chopper) Dauber and his wife Charlotte are gunned down in their car after leaving a court appearance by the Wild Bunch, the Outfit’s top hit team. The heavily-feared and physically-imposing Dauber was one of those tasked with consolidating all the Windy City’s independent car thieves and chop shop owners under the Outfit banner. Facing drug and weapons charges, Dauber, a suspect in a number of gangland homicides himself, had started cooperating with the FBI in the months preceding his slaying.
November 28, 1980 – Greek wiseguy, social club operator and Chicago mob shakedown victim Nick Valentzas is shot to death in an Elmwood Park parking lot. Valentzas had worn a wire and testified in a federal extortion case involving the Outfit after his refusal to pay a street tax led to a vicious beating
March 14, 1981 – Chicago mob enforcer, hit man and Wild Bunch member William (Butch) Petrocelli is found beaten, strangled and tortured to death after getting caught stealing money he was supposed to be filtering to imprisoned wiseguys’ families
May 6, 1981 – Outfit associate and convicted felon Fiore Forestiere is found shot in the head five times in a van in River Grove
May 18, 1981 – Outfit associate and jukebox company owner Sam Farrugia is found stabbed to death, his throat cut in the back of a station wagon in River Forest
August 5, 1981 – Outfit associate, drug dealer and chop-shopper Charles Monday is found dead in the trunk of his car on West Schubert Avenue
August 7, 1981 – Outfit associate, drug dealer, chop shopper Anthony Legato, Monday’s partner, is found in the trunk of his car beaten to death
September 13, 1981 – Chicago mob soldier Nick D’Andrea was found tortured and shot to death in the trunk of his car, accidentally killed while being interrogated by his bosses in the Outfit over the botched hit on Chicago Heights capo Al Pilotto .
October 3, 1981 – Chicago mob soldier and Pilotto’s No. 2 in charge Sam (The Gobber) Guzzino is found shot in the head, his throat slit in a ditch on the side of a suburban road. Guzzino was in charge of the ill-fated Pilotto murder contract.
June 3, 1982 – Outfit associate, bookie and Cicero crew member Bobby Plummer is beaten to death inside his Lake County mansion that doubled as a backdoor high-roller casino and stuffed in the trunk of his car
October 8, 1982 – Outfit associate and indebted gambler John Manfredi is shot in the back of the head in the basement of a Berwyn, Illinois pizza parlor
January 11, 1983 – Outfit associate and chop shopper Bobby Subatich is shot in the back of the head and stuffed in the trunk of his car
January 20, 1983 – Labor-union racketeer, insurance magnate and longtime Outfit front Allen Dorfman is killed in the parking lot of a Lincolnshire, Illinois hotel leaving a lunch meeting with fellow top-tier Outfit associate Irving (Red) Weiner. Dorfman was headed to prison after getting conviction alongside then-Grand Avenue capo Joseph (Joey the Clown) Lombardo in a high-profile racketeering conspiracy case
March 2, 1983 – Outfit associate, car thief and Grand Ave. crew chop-chop specialist Michael (Monk) Chorak is shot to death behind the wheel of his car. The Chorak slaying concluded the so-called “Chop Shop Wars,” on-and-off sprees of violence in the local car-theft industry lasting a dozen years and totaling some two dozen casaulaties
July 14, 1983 – Chicago mobsters and hit men John Gatuso and Jasper (Big Jay) Campisi are found strangled, stabbed and tortured to death in the trunk of Gatuso’s Volvo in suburban Naperville, Illinois. Gatus, a former cop, and Campisi had botched a hit on Northside gambling lieutenant, Ken (Tokyo Joe) Eto earlier in the year, leading to Eto taking refuge as a witness for the federal government
November 26, 1984 – Semi-retired Outfit soldier James (Mugsy) Tortoriello is shot gunned to death inside a Ft. Lauderdale, Florida warehouse.
December 16, 1984 – Outfit associate and underworld finance whiz and banking specialist Anthony Crissie is shot to death. Crissie had once worked as the head of a bank and was being pressured by the FBI and IRS to divulge information on his business partners in mob.
January 10, 1985 – Outfit associate and notorious Northside crew enforcer Leonard (Little Lenny) Yaras is gunned down as he walked into work at his Rogers Park uniform factory headquarters. He was suspected of skimming gambling proceeds he was responsible for collecting Yaras’ dad was Davey Yaras, a respected Jewish Chicago mob lieutenant and enforcer who died of a heart attack in the early 1970s in Florida where he watched after Windy City mafia affairs in the Sunshine State.
February 9, 1985 – Chicago mob soldier Charles (Chuckie English) Inglese is gunned down in the parking lot of Horwath’s Restaurant in Elmwood Park shortly after returning to the fold in the Outfit following a near-decade semiretirement spent in Florida. Inglese had been slain former Chicago Godfather Sam Giancana’s right-hand man and gambling boss and began beefing with Outfit brass upon his return
February 12, 1985 – Prolific independent bookie Hal Smith is beaten and tortured to death, stuffed in the trunk of his car after feuding with the Outfit’s Cicero crew’s Lake County faction over street tax
July 26, 1985 – Chicago mob solider, Northside crew member and porno racket boss Pasquale (Patsy Rich) Ricciardi was shot to death and stuffed in the trunk of a stolen car following him being suspected of informing for the FBI
January 13, 1986 – Outfit associate Mike Lentini is shot to death behind the wheel of his car
January 27, 1986 – Outfit associate Richie DePrizo is shot to death. DePrizo was on the verge of being indicted for fraud related to city of Chicago construction projects
March 16, 1986 – Outfit associate and indebted gambler Joe Cocozza is shot to death behind the wheel of his car
June 7, 1986 – Outfit associate and west coast crew member Emil (Little Mal) Vaci is kidnapped and shot to death in Phoenix, Arizona after testifying in front of a federal grand jury investigating Chicago mafia activity in Las Vegas. Vaci worked in mob-backed casinos in Vegas and ran travel junkets from Illinois to Nevada in conjunction with the Outfit
June 14, 1986 – Chicago mob Las Vegas crew boss Anthony (Tony the Ant) Spilotro and his younger brother and protégé Michael are beaten and strangled to death in the basement of a Bensenville, Illinois residence, their bodies dumped in a shallow grave dug in a Northwest Indiana cornfield. Spilotro’s rogue behavior and mounting legal problems made him expendable.
September 14, 1986 – Chicago mobster, hit man and Southside crew enforcer Giovanni (Big John) Fecarotta is shot to death in front of a bingo hall on Belmont Avenue after botching the Spilotro brothers burial exactly three months to the day of his own slaying
November 13, 1986 – Outfit associate Tommy McKillip is stabbed and shot to death, found in the back of a Chevy Blazer truck
September 23, 1987 – Outfit associate and salon owner John Castaldo is shot to death, his body left in a River Forest alley not far from the one of two beauty parlors he owned. Castaldo was in heavy debt to Chicago mob figures
August 14, 1988 – Outfit associate John Pronger is shot to death on his porch as he opens the front door of his house for his killers
November 22, 1988 – Outfit associate and bookie Phil Goodman, connected to the former Spilotro crew in Las Vegas, is beaten to death inside a motel room
December 1989 – The remains of slain Chicago mob victims Robert (Broadway Bobby) Hatridge and Mike Oliver are unearthed in DuPage County, more than 20 years after they went missing, in a makeshift Wild Bunch graveyard less than a mile away from where Wild Buncher Joseph (Jerry the Hand) Scalise lived. Oliver was a machinist and small-time hood in the porno racket and killed in an adult bookstore. Hatridge was a thief and drug pusher from Ohio tied to New York’s Bonanno crime family and its’ Pizza Connection heroin smuggling ring who left for a meeting with Scalise and never came home.
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Chicago Mob 1990s Hit List
Outfit Murders – 1990-2000
Damage Toll: 10 bodies
*Violence in the Windy City mafia dipped sharply in the 1990s, the amount of gangland slayings were down 21 hits from the previous decade
May 14, 1990 – Outfit associate, trucking company owner and drug peddler Jimmy Pellegrino is found shot in the back of the head, his feet and hands duck taped together, wrapped in a tarp and floating down the Des Plaines River after an alleged falling out with a dirty, mob-linked cop over stolen money
July 2, 1990 – Outfit associate and bookmaker Victor Lazarus is found shot in the back of the head in a Northside parking lot. Lazarus, 86, took action in both Las Vegas and his hometown of Chicago
November 6, 1991 – Outfit associate Edward Pedote, a stolen jewelry fence and convicted burglar and drug dealer from Naperville, Illinois is bludgeoned with a table leg and shot in the face in a Chicago furniture store
November 21, 1991 – Outfit business associate and real estate liquidator Wally Lieberman from ritzy Northshore Chicago suburb Northbrook is shot to death in Cicero. Lieberman was connected to imprisoned Outfit lieutenant Robert (Bobby the Gabeet) Bellavia. His wife was Bellavia’s secretary. Bellavia was jailed months earlier on a racketeering and murder indictment centered around the Cicero crew’s Lake County wing. Bellavia was released from prison last year after serving 25 years on racketeering and murder-conspiracy charges
November 5, 1992 – Outfit associate and drug dealer Sam (Needles) Taglia is shot twice in the back of the head, his throat slit and his body stuffed in the trunk of his car and left in a Melrose Park apartment complex parking lot. Chicago mobster Albert (Albie the Falcon) Vena, at that point in time a rising enforcer in the Northside crew, was put on trial but acquitted for the Taglia hit. Vena was seen with Taglia leaving Taglia’s suburban residence in the hours before his killing. Today, Vena is the crime family’s reputed capo of the Grand Avenue crew and its’ alleged day-to-day street boss.
November 5, 1994 – Outfit bookie and native-Italian Giuseppe Vicari is beaten and shot to death inside his Westside Chicago restaurant, La Casa De Caffe. Vicari had been in the United States for five years and was under indictment in a gambling case at the time of his murder
January 6, 1997 – Jewish Chicago mob associate and then-independent bookie and loan shark Herbert (Fat Herbie) Blitzstein is killed inside his Las Vegas home in an ill-conceived takeover of Blitzstein’s rackets hatched in tandem by representatives from the Los Angeles and Buffalo mob crime families operating in Nevada. Blitzstein was a lieutenant under the Outfit’s slain Las Vegas crew boss Tony (The Ant) Spilotro in the 1970s and 1980s.
July 2, 1997 – Outfit associate and Chicago businessman William (Bill the Pallet Man) Benham is killed inside his own office, shot to death by Windy City mob loanshark and Southside crew member James (Jimmy Poker) DiForti over a six-figure debt.
May 15, 1998 – Mike Cutler, set to be a witness against the son of the Outfit’s Southside crew capo Frank (Tootsie) Caruso in a racially-motivated attempted murder case involving the beating of a 13-year old African-American boy in the coming weeks, is shot to death on the Westside after a night of partying with friends
December 23, 1999 – Chicago mafia lieutenant, hit man and Southside crew member Ronnie Jarrett is gunned down en route to a funeral. He doesn’t die until January 25, 2000. Jarrett was once a part-time member of the notorious Wild Bunch assassin crew in the 1970s and 1980s and had been feuding with Outfit street boss John (Johnny Apes) Monteleone.
Chicago Mob 1990s Hit List
Outfit Murders – 1990-2000
Damage Toll: 10 bodies
*Violence in the Windy City mafia dipped sharply in the 1990s, the amount of gangland slayings were down 21 hits from the previous decade
May 14, 1990 – Outfit associate, trucking company owner and drug peddler Jimmy Pellegrino is found shot in the back of the head, his feet and hands duck taped together, wrapped in a tarp and floating down the Des Plaines River after an alleged falling out with a dirty, mob-linked cop over stolen money
July 2, 1990 – Outfit associate and bookmaker Victor Lazarus is found shot in the back of the head in a Northside parking lot. Lazarus, 86, took action in both Las Vegas and his hometown of Chicago
November 6, 1991 – Outfit associate Edward Pedote, a stolen jewelry fence and convicted burglar and drug dealer from Naperville, Illinois is bludgeoned with a table leg and shot in the face in a Chicago furniture store
November 21, 1991 – Outfit business associate and real estate liquidator Wally Lieberman from ritzy Northshore Chicago suburb Northbrook is shot to death in Cicero. Lieberman was connected to imprisoned Outfit lieutenant Robert (Bobby the Gabeet) Bellavia. His wife was Bellavia’s secretary. Bellavia was jailed months earlier on a racketeering and murder indictment centered around the Cicero crew’s Lake County wing. Bellavia was released from prison last year after serving 25 years on racketeering and murder-conspiracy charges
November 5, 1992 – Outfit associate and drug dealer Sam (Needles) Taglia is shot twice in the back of the head, his throat slit and his body stuffed in the trunk of his car and left in a Melrose Park apartment complex parking lot. Chicago mobster Albert (Albie the Falcon) Vena, at that point in time a rising enforcer in the Northside crew, was put on trial but acquitted for the Taglia hit. Vena was seen with Taglia leaving Taglia’s suburban residence in the hours before his killing. Today, Vena is the crime family’s reputed capo of the Grand Avenue crew and its’ alleged day-to-day street boss.
November 5, 1994 – Outfit bookie and native-Italian Giuseppe Vicari is beaten and shot to death inside his Westside Chicago restaurant, La Casa De Caffe. Vicari had been in the United States for five years and was under indictment in a gambling case at the time of his murder
January 6, 1997 – Jewish Chicago mob associate and then-independent bookie and loan shark Herbert (Fat Herbie) Blitzstein is killed inside his Las Vegas home in an ill-conceived takeover of Blitzstein’s rackets hatched in tandem by representatives from the Los Angeles and Buffalo mob crime families operating in Nevada. Blitzstein was a lieutenant under the Outfit’s slain Las Vegas crew boss Tony (The Ant) Spilotro in the 1970s and 1980s.
July 2, 1997 – Outfit associate and Chicago businessman William (Bill the Pallet Man) Benham is killed inside his own office, shot to death by Windy City mob loanshark and Southside crew member James (Jimmy Poker) DiForti over a six-figure debt.
May 15, 1998 – Mike Cutler, set to be a witness against the son of the Outfit’s Southside crew capo Frank (Tootsie) Caruso in a racially-motivated attempted murder case involving the beating of a 13-year old African-American boy in the coming weeks, is shot to death on the Westside after a night of partying with friends
December 23, 1999 – Chicago mafia lieutenant, hit man and Southside crew member Ronnie Jarrett is gunned down en route to a funeral. He doesn’t die until January 25, 2000. Jarrett was once a part-time member of the notorious Wild Bunch assassin crew in the 1970s and 1980s and had been feuding with Outfit street boss John (Johnny Apes) Monteleone.
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Re: Chicago Outfit Timeline: 1986-Present
Nov. 20, 2001 – Highly feared Outfit "Juice Loan" operator and enforcer Anthony "the Hatch" Chiaramonti was shot five times and killed after a vehicle pulled-up beside him and the loanshark had words with someone inside the vehicle, outside a Brown's Chicken & Pasta in south suburban Lyons, Illinois. The murder has not been solved.
Aug. 31, 2006 – Mobster Anthony Zizzo disappeared. His car was found in Melrose Park, Illinois. There was no sign of foul play, because his body has never been found.
Aug. 31, 2006 – Mobster Anthony Zizzo disappeared. His car was found in Melrose Park, Illinois. There was no sign of foul play, because his body has never been found.
Re: Chicago Outfit Timeline: 1986-Present
Thanks for those, furio. I couldn't remember off the top of my head.