Present Day Chicago Outfit

[SILENT PARTNERZ]

Today new Chicago FBI director Jeffrey Sallet laid down the gauntlet on the Chicago Outfit on channel 7 news. Said they haven't forgotten about them.

Jeffrey Sallet is the FBI agent that took down Baby Shacks in Providence and
I believe he was one of the two agents that knocked on Joe Massino's door.
He has a strong track record.

[Wiseguy]

Today new Chicago FBI director Jeffrey Sallet laid down the gauntlet on the Chicago Outfit on channel 7 news. Said they haven't forgotten about them.

Jeffrey Sallet is the FBI agent that took down Baby Shacks in Providence and
I believe he was one of the two agents that knocked on Joe Massino's door.
He has a strong track record.

After Massino and Mannocchio he was briefly in New Orleans, if I remember right, before going to Chicago. The move made me wonder if it's to start an investigation against the Chicago mob.


Reenergizing Chicago's fight against the Outfit
By Chuck Goudie and Christine Tressel and Ross Weidner
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

(VIDEO AT LINK BELOW)

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The FBI declared war on Chicago mobsters 58 years ago this week, when then-director J. Edgar Hoover started the nation's "Top Hoodlum Program."

That secret federal investigation marshaled dozens of agents and cunning surveillance as Chicago mob bosses and rackets were targeted. Top Hoodlum forged the way for future mob investigations here, culminating in the 2005 Family Secrets mob murder case that dismantled some of the Outfit's upper echelon.

After a decade-long lull in major mob cases here, the newly installed head of the FBI in Chicago is pledging to refocus on organize crime.

"The Chicago Outfit? We haven't forgotten about you," said Chicago Special-Agent-in-Charge Jeffrey Sallet in an interview with the I-Team.

Sallet began this month as the leader of the FBI's Chicago field office, after stints in New Orleans, New York and Boston-where he was considered an expert in mob investigations.

While Sallet concedes the FBI/circa 2017 is being pulled in many directions-from terrorism and corruption to street gangs-he says the mob is still a criminal force in Chicago that cannot be overlooked.

"A group of people who wake up every single day with the idea of stealing and taking money from other people through intimidation and power is a group that we need to look at," said Sallet. "The Chicago Outfit is 100 years old, so when you look at an organization that is 100 years old and say we're not going to work those guys because they're done, would be a huge mistake."

In November 1959, the FBI began an aggressive effort against the Chicago Outfit, planting listening devices in a Michigan Avenue tailor shop and in a Forest Park tavern, both frequented by mob bosses.

During the Top Hoodlum investigation, law enforcement technology was in its infancy. A microphone hidden in the Celano tailor shop on Chicago's Gold Coast was hardly miniature-sized. State-of-the art listening devices then were as big as 16-inch softballs. Federal agents broke into the tailor shop and put the mic behind a baseboard according to FBI records obtained by the I-Team-the device believed to have been masked by a radiator. The federal paperwork is part of the recently-released JFK assassination files-some of which tracks suspected Chicago mob involvement in the presidential murder plots.

The implanted microphone was nicknamed "Little Al" by law enforcement agents-in memory of Al Capone. Six decades ago such a hidden device required no court order-only the approval of FBI director Hoover. A specially-assigned squad of nine FBI agents monitored the bugs and used the information they overheard to learn the hierarchy of the Outfit and pick investigative targets. Conversations gleaned from the tailor shop eventually led authorities to Anthony "Joe Batters" Accardo and Sam "Mooney" Giancana along with several dozen other top hoodlums.

Sallet cut his teeth on mob cases in the Northeast. His investigation of the Bonanno crime family in New York City led to a conviction of its mafioso and more than 100 other La Cosa Nostra figures. He also worked on the capture of Boston's notorious crime boss and long-time fugitive James "Whitey" Bulger in 2011. Sallet was assigned to FBI headquarters in Washington when top brass approved the Chicago Family Secrets investigation, that eventually took down 14 top gangsters and solved 18 mob hits.

"Mob guys or Outfit guys whatever you want to call them are resilient," said Sallet. "Where there is an opportunity to make money, they will engage. The reason they don't kill people the same way they did 25 years ago is because it's bad for business."

http://abc7chicago.com/reenergizing-chi ... t/2714190/

[cavita]

Somebody better tell Sallet the Outfit is dead because it's just all old guys now and no major indictments lately.

[Snakes]

I think it's trickier to tell the state of the Outfit because a lot of their operations are in the suburbs now, where the police aren't as numerous or able to effectively deal with criminal activities. I believe there is still a lot of corruption going on at the local government level that affords protection for what's left of the Outfit. Obviously, it's not as prevalent as it was in the past but I think it's still around. I don't know how much attention the FBI in Chicago has paid to ethnic street gangs but perhaps that's where a lot of their current investigations are focused. Maybe Sallet has received intelligence that the Outfit has some major rackets going on that have been neglected by his office in the past few years, although I don't want to do disservice to the agents if that is not the case.

[SILENT PARTNERZ]

Today new Chicago FBI director Jeffrey Sallet laid down the gauntlet on the Chicago Outfit on channel 7 news. Said they haven't forgotten about them.

Jeffrey Sallet is the FBI agent that took down Baby Shacks in Providence and
I believe he was one of the two agents that knocked on Joe Massino's door.
He has a strong track record.

After Massino and Mannocchio he was briefly in New Orleans, if I remember right, before going to Chicago. The move made me wonder if it's to start an investigation against the Chicago mob.


Reenergizing Chicago's fight against the Outfit
By Chuck Goudie and Christine Tressel and Ross Weidner
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

(VIDEO AT LINK BELOW)
When Sallett was in NOLA, I wonder what he worked on? I know the NOLA Family is practically gone (we think), but was he actually working on the mafia down there? He could tell us what is left down there.
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The FBI declared war on Chicago mobsters 58 years ago this week, when then-director J. Edgar Hoover started the nation's "Top Hoodlum Program."

That secret federal investigation marshaled dozens of agents and cunning surveillance as Chicago mob bosses and rackets were targeted. Top Hoodlum forged the way for future mob investigations here, culminating in the 2005 Family Secrets mob murder case that dismantled some of the Outfit's upper echelon.

After a decade-long lull in major mob cases here, the newly installed head of the FBI in Chicago is pledging to refocus on organize crime.

"The Chicago Outfit? We haven't forgotten about you," said Chicago Special-Agent-in-Charge Jeffrey Sallet in an interview with the I-Team.

Sallet began this month as the leader of the FBI's Chicago field office, after stints in New Orleans, New York and Boston-where he was considered an expert in mob investigations.

While Sallet concedes the FBI/circa 2017 is being pulled in many directions-from terrorism and corruption to street gangs-he says the mob is still a criminal force in Chicago that cannot be overlooked.

"A group of people who wake up every single day with the idea of stealing and taking money from other people through intimidation and power is a group that we need to look at," said Sallet. "The Chicago Outfit is 100 years old, so when you look at an organization that is 100 years old and say we're not going to work those guys because they're done, would be a huge mistake."

In November 1959, the FBI began an aggressive effort against the Chicago Outfit, planting listening devices in a Michigan Avenue tailor shop and in a Forest Park tavern, both frequented by mob bosses.

During the Top Hoodlum investigation, law enforcement technology was in its infancy. A microphone hidden in the Celano tailor shop on Chicago's Gold Coast was hardly miniature-sized. State-of-the art listening devices then were as big as 16-inch softballs. Federal agents broke into the tailor shop and put the mic behind a baseboard according to FBI records obtained by the I-Team-the device believed to have been masked by a radiator. The federal paperwork is part of the recently-released JFK assassination files-some of which tracks suspected Chicago mob involvement in the presidential murder plots.

The implanted microphone was nicknamed "Little Al" by law enforcement agents-in memory of Al Capone. Six decades ago such a hidden device required no court order-only the approval of FBI director Hoover. A specially-assigned squad of nine FBI agents monitored the bugs and used the information they overheard to learn the hierarchy of the Outfit and pick investigative targets. Conversations gleaned from the tailor shop eventually led authorities to Anthony "Joe Batters" Accardo and Sam "Mooney" Giancana along with several dozen other top hoodlums.

Sallet cut his teeth on mob cases in the Northeast. His investigation of the Bonanno crime family in New York City led to a conviction of its mafioso and more than 100 other La Cosa Nostra figures. He also worked on the capture of Boston's notorious crime boss and long-time fugitive James "Whitey" Bulger in 2011. Sallet was assigned to FBI headquarters in Washington when top brass approved the Chicago Family Secrets investigation, that eventually took down 14 top gangsters and solved 18 mob hits.

"Mob guys or Outfit guys whatever you want to call them are resilient," said Sallet. "Where there is an opportunity to make money, they will engage. The reason they don't kill people the same way they did 25 years ago is because it's bad for business."

http://abc7chicago.com/reenergizing-chi ... t/2714190/

[willychichi]

Today new Chicago FBI director Jeffrey Sallet laid down the gauntlet on the Chicago Outfit on channel 7 news. Said they haven't forgotten about them.

Feds are renewing their fight against the Chicago Mafia

http://aboutthemafia.com/feds-are-renew ... cago-mafia

[Frank]

Today new Chicago FBI director Jeffrey Sallet laid down the gauntlet on the Chicago Outfit on channel 7 news. Said they haven't forgotten about them.

Feds are renewing their fight against the Chicago Mafia

http://aboutthemafia.com/feds-are-renew ... cago-mafia

Thanks buddy

[Pete]

It's obvious the Feds have been sleeping on the outfit for quite awhile. What vena has been doing for the past 10 years is begging for a rico indictment. I would place a bet that indictment comes some time in 18. A lot of the stuff hollinghead could tell them about the rico statute of limitations will be coming to and end in 18. Often the Feds build their case to the absolute end of their 5 year window. They rarely go off half cocked that's why their conviction rate is so high

[Confederate]

In addition, they have two high level Informants and Hollingshead aint one of them.
The irony of this whole statement by the Feds is that Chicago probably has the highest violent crime rate per capita in the Nation because of *******es shooting and killing each other every day over the street drug trade and what color socks somebody is wearing.
However, their main focus now will be a small group of Older Italian men because the Feds Know they are a lot less in numbers and are a lot less dangerous. Besides, the Mafia ALWAYS makes big headlines.

[Villain]

If they really stood behind the 2017 Central Grocers bankruptcy, meaning if Fosco's claims are true, than we can obviously consider the Outfit being still quite powerful and elusive

[Confederate]

If they really stood behind the 2017 Central Grocers bankruptcy, meaning if Fosco's claims are true, than we can obviously consider the Outfit being still quite powerful and elusive

I have been told by several posters here to take what Fosco said with a grain of salt because of his extortion story which didn't make any sense and because of his hatred of certain Outfit guys.
When I said the Outfit guys are much less dangerous then the *******es, What I meant is that the Outfit would not try to kill a Federal Agent. They can't even kill an informant. LOL
However, the *******es, as you know, besides hating each other, hate the Police and anybody in authority. One of them would not hesitate in trying to kill a Federal agent. I think the Feds and the Police are too scared to go into those dangerous areas and try to stop them killing each other. The Feds and the Police don't even want to be involved from what I read about that situation.. Their attitude seems to be, let them kill each other. The minute they try and stop any killing, they are accused of Police Brutality. The Feds would be accused of the same thing or some other Racist bullshit besides literally risking their lives. For what?

Getting back to the Outfit, if the Feds are TELLING the Outfit they are coming after them, you can bet your bottom dollar they already have a lot of information to take some people out. I give the Outfit and Detroit another 10 to 15 years and they will basically be gone like Kansas City, St. Louis, Buffalo, New Orleans etc.

[Snakes]

Who knows if these two high leven informants are even still alive?

[Confederate]

Who knows if these two high leven informants are even still alive?

As of 2010 they were still alive and if the Feds are TELLING the Outfit they are coming after them, the odds are (though not definite) that they probably are still alive or at least one is still alive.
I guess time will tell.

[Snakes]

They have had high level informants for years. These same two informants were known of as far back as the nineties so it isn't like this is some new revelation.

Every family has at least one guy feeding info to law enforcement.

[Frank]

I think if Solly D has made some new members and has intentions of making more members, than that is the key to their survival. Of course we have no knowledge of that right now and for their sake they hope that never comes out. Marcello and Sarno supposedly made some new members. Also does anyone know if Marcello's brother ratted in the Ambrose case??