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LIFE Sof. . U. No. 9 September I, f967 First of a two-part series. The audacious empire of . Its alarming power. Its structure and horror tactics. its infiltration into the marrow of our society THE m Call it the Mob. The name fits, although any of a half-dozen others—the Outfit, the Syndicate, La Cosa Nostra, the Mafia—. serves about as well. Whatever it's called, it exists, and the fact of its existence is a national disgrace. In this issue and the next, LIFE reveals the structure, tactics, ruthlessness and alarming strength of this brazen empire. The Mob is a fraternity of thugs, but it holds such power, wealth and influence that in one way or another it poisons us all. It ries elections and in so doing destroys the democratic process. More and more it is muscling into legitimate business—local, national and international—to the extent that nearly every Amer- ican is paying into its treasury in countless unsuspected ways. The 5,000 members of Cosa Nostra are all of Italian back- ground, and most of them are Sicilians. Abetting them is a larger army of nonmembers—of many creeds and origins—who wittingly or unwittingly do the Mob's bidding. The scale and sophistication of its operations challenge the imagination: the President's Crime Commission estimates the Mob's annual profit from illegal gambling alone at S6 to 37 billion. "Loan shark- ing." narcotics, labor , "" and all the va- rieties of in which it deals bring in enormous additional sums wrenched out of the poor and those least able to resist the exploiters. Through the mechanism of the fix," it can, and too often does, control congressmen, state officials and law enforce- ment men. The Mob is in fact a government of its own, with its own laws, enforced with torture and murder. It is organized with ruthless efficiency to achieve its ends and protect its members from prosecution. At the top is a ruling body which settles in- ternal disputes and preserves discipline. Beneath this supreme council are the officers and troops, the men who do the corrupt- ing, bribing, extorting, terrorizing, robbing and killing. The crime syndicate of today came into being with and has continued to thrive and grow despite sporadic bursts of public concern. One of the principal reasons for this is that existing legal machinery is simply unable to cope with it. Crimi- nal laws deal with individual crimes, not an international associa- tion. The Mob's multitiered hierarchy insulates its leaders from direct participation in the crimes they order. To the continuing despair of police agencies, it has also benefited vastly from re- cent court decisions limiting the admissibility of evidence. Most of all, the Mob has fattened itself on the public's appetite for its services—dope, sex and gambling—and apathy toward its evil. A 1111111.10 of mobster Ruggiero Boar- d°, surrounded by bums of his fam- ily. adorns his Cai! in Livingston. iSI.J Men marked for murder entered Macabre of a iCapo,' the pies below anti never rams out From the gateposts topped by menacing bronze swans with wings angrily outspread. the driveway leads up about two blocks to the great stone mansion near Living- ston. N.J. The drive is overhung by trees and flanked with flowers in gargoyle-shaped pots. The style might be called Transylvania tra- ditional, with overtones of the owner's native . At a jog In the road is a cluster of painted family statues dominated by one of the squire himself, Ruggiero Boiardo. astride a horse. It is a chilling place even in the warmth and sun of nn August morning. A lot of Mr. Bolardo's follow are mortally afraid of going up that driveway alone. Some who did never returned. As mobsters go, Ruggiero Bniar- do—or Riebie the Boot. as he iv called—in not a very big shot. Nonetheless. he is a significant fig- ure in organized U.S. crime and his estate, literally, is one of its monuments. Boiardo is a rap, [captain] in the Kfl-member Cosa Nostra Family of Vito Gelio‘e..c. antes baronial mansion !abort.), On a Jersey fans, wad as a Mob ,erne- there hoods feared to go alone. nas 'cry,. FRI found one victim in the pit used as meeting place by crime chiefs. below. another under a chicken coop. Monument to Mob Murder

Now a stoop-shouldered man of the number of victims incinerated unabashed savagery. Boiardo gets 76, he putters in his flower beds at Boiardo's estate exceeds the paid 54,000 a month out of the and mutters imprecations against number buried on the much-pub- Mob'sLas Vegas "skimming the world in general: "They call -prof- licized chicken farm near Lake- its. He also runs a legitimate wreck- Boiardo a thief, a killer," he com- wood, N.1 ( picture or righa ing business (much of the nonfarn- plained to one recent caller. "They where remains of two bodies and ily statuary on his estate was sal- call him Cosa Nostra. Trouble." traces of a third were found last vaged from buildings he wrecked; Two other New Jersey gangsters, March. But no corpses have ever his house is built of stones from the Angelo "The Gyp" DeCarlo and come to light at Boiardo's; people old Newark . once babbled like post office). He pres- thought to have died there are list- ently schoolboys about the foul deeds is awaiting trial on a gam- ed officially as Missing Persons. bling charge and simultaneously is that have been committed beyond Even the big shots of Cosa Nos. dueling with Internal Revenue. these colorful gates. As an inform- tra approach Boiardo's notorious Russo, 4B, is the gambling and ant was to relate, the conversation estate with respect. In November rackets boss of Monmouth Coun- went like this: 1957. when she high council met ty, N.J. and also has interests in "Stay away from there!" said there to whack up the territory of . Gyp DeCarlo, 65, an Russo. "So many guys have been the late Albert Anastasia,• they obese character who detests his hit there:There's this furnace 'way came and left all in a group—thus nickname, like Boiardo is a up in back. That's where they repo in avoiding the path described by the Genovese Family. He grows fat burned 'em." Russo. " 'way up in back." off gambling and loan-shark rack- DeCarlo, fascinated. asked for Richie Boiardo—and the two ets in Union County. N.J. and details. Russo cheerily ticked off fellow mobsters who discussed the operates crap games that float victims bytheir first names; "Oliver crematorium as casually as two from borough to borough in New Willie ... Little Harold . men might compare golf scores— York City. Tony. . . ." He himself, Russo are alive and free men at this writ- Like countless others in the rack- bragged. had carried Little Harold ing. They conduct various legal ets, Boiardo, Russo and DeCarlo to the furnace by a chain tied to and illegal enterprises in New Jer- are virtually laws unto themselves. the dead man's throat. sey and are notably prosperous. answerable only to the invisible Authorities are convinced Rus- Deep in the rackets since Prohi- government to which they owe so was not esaagernting. Certainly, bition days, with a reputation for their sole allegiance—Cosa Nostra. How Joe Bonanno Schemed To Kill and Lost

If Cosa Nostra has a failing at as much or a headbreaker. Yet the co and Bonanno were summoned all from the standpoint of efficien- thing to remember is that they got to face charges. Magliocco ap- cy, it Is the fact that it is composed where they are—and have managed peared in a panic. made a full con- at all levels of total scoundrels. to stay there—by killing people. fession, was banished from Cosa Loyalty, as most men understand The troublemaker in the execu- Nostra, fined 550,CCO and sent it, simply does not exist. Though tive club was Joe Bonanno, a fact home. Shortly thereafter he died elaborate oaths are required fur that stemmed from his aggressive of a heart attack. Meanwhile, his membership in most cities, the and Inventive nature. A lot of his Family and his Commission seat members hang together mainly for innovations worked out very well were given to the stool pigeon the enormous profit this makes —for instance. the "split-level cof- Colombo. possible, and also out of fear of fin." As the Boiardo incinerator Joe Bonanno never showed up the consequences if they do other- disclosure ipreredeng page) points for trial. He hid out on the West wise. Consider, for example, the out, disposal of the bodies of vic- Coast, using the name "J. San- case of Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bo- tims has always been a problem tone." Then. in 1964. he went to nanno (far right), the taxing the mobsters' ingenuity. Canada to poach once more on mobster whose greed almost broke Bonanno solved it in by Magaddino's grounds. Magaddi- up the Syndicate. acquiring a funeral home. To get no went into a frenzy. calling a The Mob's ruling council was rid of unwanted corpses he had Commission meeting for Sept. I B, organized in 1931 by Lucky Luci- them stuffed into the lower com- 1964, in the Englewood Cliffs, ano and . and Bonanno, partment of a specially built cas- N.J. home of Thomas then a mean, ambitious 36-year- ket of his own design. The corpse Eboli. Sansone ignored that meet- old. was given charter membership of record lay in the upper compart- ing, too, despite the entreaties of as the representative ore Brooklyn ment, with family and cemetery the Commission's emissary Sam gang, It was not until 1963 that the keepers none the wiser. When such DeCavalcante. whose biggest pre- name Cosa Nostra became part of a tandem burial was to be held, vious distinction had been in trying the Anscrian idiom. That was the Bonanno supplied muscular pall- to develop a garbage disposal unit bearers who could carry the extra that would reduce a human body year Joe Valichi, a small-time kill- STEVE 1,1,11RITISINO er for the Mob. decided to spill weight without strain. Bonanno's to a meatball. In the face of Bo- the brotherhood's secrets to fed- victims in the lower berths were put Canon's insults, the council ac- eral agents and then, on network underground before police even cepted the advice of its television, to a congressional com- became aware they were missing. Commissioner. Mama Giancana: mittee. As Valachi detailed it— By 1963, at the age of 58. Bo- "Kill—kill! Why don't you just kill and as some lawmen were already nanno had lost none of his ambi- the guy?" aware—each of the "Commission- tion and had developed a vast dis- ers" serving an the ruling council is dain for his fellow Commissioners the head of a subdivision called a —some of whom had been mere On Oct. 14, Magaddino met in "Family" which more or less has cur thieves when he was already Buffalo with two men. An infor- free rein over the rackets in its own on the council. He habitually mant has recalled bits of the con- territory. Any disputes over terri- staked out for himself areas versation: "New York . . the torial jurisdictions are settled by deemed "open" by the Commis- lawyer ... we got the car." the Commission. sion—such as the U.S. Southwest Seven nights later. Bonanno At present, there are eight Com- and Canada. "He's planting flags and four lawyers dined in a New missioners on the ruling council: all over the world!" fumed Com- York steak house. A sixth man of New York and missioner Magaddino when Bo- joined them about 11 p.m. He New Jersey, now in the federal nanno muscled into Magaddino's left the table twice. walking out in penitentiary at Leavenworth: Car- Canadian preserves. a rainstorm to use a corner phone. lo Gambino of New York; Steve The greedy Bonnano was doing Shortly after midnight. Bonan- Magaddino of Buffalo; Joe Co- more than planting flags. Seeing a no's party left the restaurant in lombo of New York: Joe ZeriIII of chance to seize cont roe of the broth- taxis. The sixth man, who took a SAM DECAVALCANTL Detroit: Momo Salvatore "Sam" erhood, he issued contracts for separate taxi, got out at 37th Giancana of Chicago; Angelo Bru- the murders of three fellow Corn- Street and Park Avenue and beck- turn over his gang and his rackets no of Philadelphia—and the afore- missioners—Magaddino,Lucchese oned to two men standing on the Bo- in gratitude. Apparently the Com- mentioned Joe Bonanno. (There and Gambino—and another con- corner. A few minutes later. missioners' lust for loot exceeded was a ninth member. Thomas tract for the slaying of the head nanno arrived at an apartment their lust for vengeance, for they "Three-Finger Brown" Lucchese. of a Family in . Frank house a block away. The two men who died—of natural causes—in DeSimone. Bonapno assigned the stepped up and forced Bonanno turned him loose in December 1964. 'July; the vacancy is still up for New York murders to one Joe into a car at gunpoint. Though Bonanno was only fooling. He grabs,) Magi:1,sec°, a fat hoodlum with there has been all sorts of specu- went to Haiti to bide his time. Collectively, they are not a phys- high blood pressure. Magliocco lation about the kidnaping—in- New York last ically imposing lot, nor even fright- in turn farmed the New York cluding a theory that Bonanno then returned to year to rally his gang, claim his ening. Five of them are over 60. murder contracts out to an ambi- staged the whole thing to avoid an on the Commission and Magaddino. at 75, is widely spo- tious young torpedo named Joe appearance before a grand jury— place ken or--though never to his rect- Colombo. the fact it that he was held for continue his invasion of Canada. Magaddino still howls about it os a senile and autocratic windbag. Colombo turned out to be more about six weeks somewhere in the but the other Commissioners, per- Giancana is 59. Bruno. a tubby hy- of an angler than a triggerman. He Catskills. There he talked his cap- pochondriac to whom the greeting tipped off the Commission to tors out of killing him by raising haps afraid of the guns in Bonen- "How are your is an Invitation to Bonanno's planned coup, and the specter of a nationwide gang no's Family, seem intent on try- he'll deliver an organ recital, is 57. Even they hurriedly convened a meeting war if they knocked him ME But ing to ignore him, hoping Colombo, at 43, doesn't stack up to deal with thetreachery. Maglioc- if they let him go, he promised to go away, or something. to The grisly infighting for ,111% power was denionstrared when Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno (right) ribbed for total control of the Mob. To achieve his goal. Bonanno ordered the assassination of four of his fellow bosses: Buffalo's Siete Magaddino (abovel and from left below. Los Angeles' Frank DcSimone, and Car- lo Gambino and Thomas "Three-Fin- ger Brown" Lucchcse, both of . After the plot wasexposed the leaders sem Sam DeCivalcante 1 ilea bora of a New Jersey Family, to summon lionanno to a Con Nostra trial. He refused and was later k id- risped. He talked hiSWily free and. aft er lying low for months. reappeared last year Now he has reasserted h, power and again is grabbing for morn.

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Lacam, Calif. This cartoon map shows how or- bap collecting and undertak- men" carrying -skim" money— ganized mine wails and pane- ing Red stars mark the home the millions or dollars siphoned mates the counuy, with interests terntory of members of the Com. lax-free from gambling receipts ranging from extortion, aatcoi mission that rules Cosa Nostra in Las Vegas and . les. , loan-sharking and whose portraits am shown , the multimillion- and every oaneetvable form of in the storm cloud above she aire nonmember WOO whir gambling to hijacking, bootleg- map. Under a truce arrangement masterminds the "skimming" in- ging and murder for hire. As in- that is more or less respected by trigues of Cosa Nostra from his dicated, the /somas have also iii mobsters. Las Vegas and Mi- base in , sees that a portion -gone legit," muscling into such ami are ''open" cities where any of the ItiotgeLs to the Mob's bank variml enterprises as bunking. Family may operate. Broken knee accounts in Switeeriand—after CoRetie, Colo, Civello, Team music recording, [rucking, gar- indicate mums taken by "bag taking a hefty cut for himself. Your Land Is Hoodland 111,‘ Garntana. N.V. Genovese, N.Y. Magaddino, N.Y The disturbing fact is that the Mob COMMISSION today is spread across the land and has been able to insinuate it- self into the core of society. Most Americans are just not aware of the extent of its influence. Cosa Nostra is a cartel of 24 semi-independent Families that vary widely in size (from 20 to 1,000 members) and their impor 1 tame in the rackets. Each Family Palnarca. R.I. lag unit is headed by u Boss and sev- eral of these Bosses—the current number is eight-0 on Cosa Nos- tra's ruling Commission. The other Family heads (shown flanking the map) are not necessarily less pow- erful than individual Commission- ers—Raymond Pairiarca in New England and Carlos Marcella in avalcante, N.J. Louisiana. for example, are more powerful than some who sit on the ruling body. But they generally Follow the Commission's edicts. Second in command in each Family is the . Beneath him are squads known as regimes, each headed by a cape (captain) and staffed by younger or less itc- - complished thugs known as soldari Corolla. N.Y. (soldiers). When a member grows old or infirm he may become a consiglierr, sort of a mobster emer- itus who serves only us an adviser `LA MSKY' to the Boss. The Boss passes orders down the chain of command—a system designed to screen the top man from the police. The Boss has tremendous authority in his own Albs territory. presiding over all gang- LaRocca. Pa. land enterprises—he is a partner in everything—and also umpiring intro-gang frictions, as New Eng- land Boss Pat name is shown doing in the Boston gang war in the map at left. The membership rolls of Cosa Nostra supposedly have been closed since 1957—an attempt by the Commission to prevent a re- cruiting rare that might upset the Sea/ish, Ohlo delicate balance of power within the fraternity. Nevertheless, sortie Families continue to add new members when an old one dies and, despite the decrepitude of the present Commissioners, there is no shortage of ambitious younger talent waiting to take over A In the old days, a remit had to Trafficante. Fla. take part in Al least one murder before he was accepted. But dur- ing the World War 11 manpower shortage, standards slipped and later. as murder became a less pop- ular tactic, many gangsters were let in who never had made a fatal QGG score. This irks some oldtimers. As one graying hood complained. Lan5ky. Fla. "Today you got a thousand guys Marcella, La. in here that never broke an egg." The brazen attempt to spring Hoffa with a $1 million bribe A case of THE FIX

Though the governor did not know by SANDY it, Young had some curious con- tacts outside of the executive suite. SMITH One of these was Marcello, about whose empire you will read more A the heart of every successful in next week's instalment. gangster's operation is the Fix In January, Young set up a —the working arrangement with meeting with Partin at the request key police and elected officials and of still another man of influence EDWARD PARTIN business and union executives. It in Louisiana politics, a sometime was guarantees the racketeers room to public relations specialist and all- Teamsters official Partin says he offered a Si million bribe, ostensibly swing and a certain amount of ac- around operator named D'Alton ceptance in "respectable" circles. Smith. from Louisiana hoodlum boss Mar- For sheer audacity and sweep. few Members of Smith's family are cello, at o meeting set up by Young Fixes the Mob has ever undertaken well-placed in Louisiana. His —an aide to the governor—in an at- tempt to overturn Hoffa's conviction. could top a plot just now unfold- brother, A. D. Smith, is a member ing in , where the of the state board of education. Cosa Nostra is ruled over by Car- His sister, Mrs. Frances Pecora, is los MameBo (opposite page). Its an official of the state insurance hoped-for objective is liberty for commission. Mrs. Pecora is also James Hoffa, the imprisoned boss the wife of Nofio Pecora, former JANO3 Henna of the Teamsters Union. operator of the Marcello-owned LIFE has found conclusive evi- Town and Country Motel in New dence that Hoffa's pals—some in Orleans. try because there's always lots of the union, some in the Mob, some The meeting with Partin took politicians there. I didn't set Car- in both—dropped S2 million into place at Young's house in Baton los or talk to him. I know I didn't, a spring-Hoffa fund late last year. Rouge. Smith was there when Par- because there was a state police- The money was placed at the dis- tin arrived. man with me all the time," posal of Cosa Nostra mobsters, "D'Alton had told me he want- Meanwhile, in response to Par- and it was to be payable to anyone ed to see if be could straighten out tin's call, the Justice Department who could wreck the government's Partin's testimony to help Hoffa," began an investigation into the jury-tampering case on which Hof- Young has since told Lim "When attempt. Young returned fa had been convicted. I saw what they were talking about to the capitol at Baton Rouge. In due course, the money was in the parlor. I took a walk be- When the governor asked him to made available to Marcello to do cause I didn't want any part of it. explain his absence. Young blurt- the job. The chief government wit- After the meeting, D'Alton told ed out the story of the attempted ness in the trial, which took place me that he couldn't budge Par- bribery of Partin. Furious, Mc- in 1964 in Chattanooga. had been tin; that Partin said his testimony Keithen threatened to fire him. Atontey You've Edward Grady Partin, leader of a was true." Young resigned. Teamster local In Baton Rouge, As to what has happened to the CARLOS 14Inacrti_ei La. As the Mob saw it, Partin 52 million, Marcello, of course, was a logical target for a Fix. If he rtin confirmed to List that isn't talking. And Hoffa remains P enterprises, or who plant in news- could be persuaded somehow to this indeed was the subject of the in federal prison. paper colonist evidences of the recant his own testimony, or to conversation, and has added these This is a fair example of the "taint- it by claiming that wire- details of the inducements he says intricate forces involved in a par- charm, wit and good connections a of key mobsters as they are seen taps had been used against Hoffa. were held out to him: The initial ticular sort of Fix. But Fix about the spots where expensive the conviction would surely be re- offer for the changing of his testi- doesn't have to entail an exchange versed. By last January the Mob mony was S25,000 a year for 10 of money. It can be accomplished people gather. It can be helped im- measurably with cheap devices 'might have assumed that Partin years. He turned it down. The ante by putting in fear, through means already had been softened up. A was hiked until it reached an over- as unsubtle as a crack over the like easy "loans" to a reporter series of dynamite explosions had all total of SI million. Still Partin head, an arm broken by twisting. whose tastes outrun his income. wrecked construction sites, trucks refused. When Smith gave it up as an implied disclosure of family A big-city mayor may have nothing but loathing for mobsters. and oil-drilling rigs of companies a bad job and went away, Partin skeletons, a hoarse voice on the whose employes were members of called the Justice Department. phone, a timely murder. It can be Yet if disclosure of corruption in his city threatens the tenure of his Partin'S union, Partin got the mes- A short time later, Young, who accomplished by campaign "con- sage all right, but ignored it. had been drjnking heavily, sought tributions" or by outright bribes. political machine, he may make Then another pitch was made to sanctuary for three days in the It can be attained through employ- every effort to suppress the story— Partin. It was arranged by Aubrey Town and Country Motel, which ment of public relations counsels rationalizing that the city would be Young, 45, who for years had been is Marcello's rackets headquarters. who stress things like the good much worse off with the opposi- an aide and confidant of Louisi- Young has offered this explana- name of a city or she amount of tion in control. This is a solid divi- ana Governor John J. !vIcKeithen. tion: "I go to the Town and Coun- money donated to charity by Mob dend of the Fix. Ask any gangster. ARTICLE CONTINUED ON PAGE 428 a.

THE FIX CONTINUED FROM PAGE 23

The information and entertain- mantled a more experienced hand at allegations of organized corrup- ment media. and ultimately the at the helm. One current theory is tion in his city as being something public themselves, play their part that Accardo has come out of re- less than patriotic. Leadership of The Fat in all of this. Too often they take tirement to resume active control. ward organizations, he contends. a scriptwriter's view of gangsters, The truth Is that Giancana is still is the exclusive concern of the peo- fora year. Not many constitu- viewing them as one would look running things by remote control ple in the wards. ents could discern any difference. at tenants of the great ape house from a hideout in Mexico, a posh First Ward Democratic head- For seven years, U.S. Repre- at the zoo—with vague thrills of castle near where he quarters, just across La Salle Street sentative Roland Libonati was one identity but with amused toler- poses as Riccardo Scaizetti. The from City Hall, is a handily locat- of the tame congressmen from the ance. When appears real Scalzetti, Giancana's erstwhile ed, permanently established center First Ward. "Libby" got on the in public with . v Ito chauffeur and courier, is more fa- of political corruption. Here poli- powerful Houseludkiary Commit- is a killer and a crook, the ten- miliar to Chicagoans as Richard ticians, policemen, newsmen and tee and became something of a dency is to see Sinatra as a bigger Cain, a well-known former Chica- other useful people troop into the Capitol Hill landmark. Tony Tisci, swinger than ever—not just anoth- go policeman and more recently a office for favors given and received. Giancana's son-in-law, was on the er entertainer who has some crum- private investigator. (As in few other cities, certain government payroll at SI 1.8N.I14 my friends. In Chicago, where racketeering journalists are part and parcel of a year as Libonati's assistant. In Giancana is a pretty good ex- was perfected, the connection be- the First Ward Fix. The First 1962, for reasons stilt undisclosed, hibit w hen it comes to illustrat- tween the Mob and the politicians Ward Democratic organization, if Giancana decided that Libonati ing the manicuring of gorillas. remains extensive and arrogant, it serves the gangsters' needs, can was a liability. The hapless con- Despite his absence from the coun- From an office across from City —and on occasion does—swing gressman submitted without a try. his Fix in Chicago remains Hall, there are men ready to carry enough influence in city rooms to protest and, for stated reasons of as tight and traditional as any out Giancana's wishes and attend get a story killed or softened to the his wife's ill health, obediently did you could find. to the clockwork of the Fix. point where it is almost an apolo- not run for re-election in 1964. It is a matter of particular pride gy.) The principal disbursing offi- Tisci stayed on as assistant to Libo- to Giancana and his boys that they cer. and Giancana's main liaison Giancana took over the 300- are firmly in control of both the with the First Ward-heelers, is Pat member Chicago Cosa Nostra Democratic and the Republican Marcy, who served a prison term Family—the Outfit, as it is called political organizationsinChicago's for robbery back before he became locally—in 1957, after it became famous First Ward. which includes secretary of the First Ward Demo- apparent to him that the incum- the Loop with its glittering com- cratic organization. bent Boss, . was get- merce and the West Side campus of Details of the First Ward's bribe ting too slow and too rich. Gianca- the University of as wet I as trafficking were spelled out in a na's decision was brought home to a warren of flophouses, hanky- 1963 report on police corruption Accardo by a bullet fired over his tanks, pool halls, pawnshops and in Chicago by the U.S. Depart- head as Tony was entering his spa- slums. It also enfolds City Hall, the ment of Justice. The report, nam- cious 5500,000 estate In suburban Cook County courthouse, police ing names, disclosed specific pay- River Forest. He understood, headquarters. the federal court- offs that kept police from cracking Sam Giancana is a frail, gnome- house, the Chicago Stock Ex- down an centers of vice operated like man whose constant cigar change.t he Hoard of Trade. most of by the Giancaea Mob. But Police smoking has deformed his upper the major office buildings, the larg- Superintendent Orlando W. Wil- lip Into a permanent sneer. Back est hotels and the terminals of ma- son, a man with a reputation for in World War 11, when asked by jor railroads. The Democratic or- incorruptibility. reacted in much the draft board what he did for ganizations of two other West the same manner as Mayor Daley, a living. he replied, "f steal." He Side wards—the 28th and the scoffing at the report as "gossip" was adjudged a psychopath, and 29th—are also nominally chattels and refusing to take any action Sam figures it was a bad rap. "I of the Mob. But the real gangster against accused bribe-takers on was telling them the truth," he operative power, for obvious ma- the police force—including his said. Before he was old enough to sons, is in the First. administrative assistant, Sgt. Paul vote, he'd been arrested three times The First Ward Republican ap- Quinn. (Wilson retired August I. for murder. He likes the girls—for paratus is a joke. Giancana's men Quinn remains on the forte as ad- one he purchased a remounted 30- permit it to exist only so they can ministrative assistant to Wilson's cant stolen diamond from a fence have a foot in both parties. The successor, James B. Conlisk Jr.) in New York—and has made in- hoods have been known to round Giancena rules the First Ward ternational headlines as the recur- up a few thousand G.O.P. votes in like a Tartar w arlord. He can brush rent escort of Singer Phyllis Mc- certain elections just to avoid em- an alderman off the city council Guire. He likes to play golf. and barrassing Democratic winners with a gesture of his hand—as he when FBI agents began bothering with heavy pluralities from a gang- did in 1962, when he ordered the his game when they had him under ster-dominated political omen- resignation of Alderman John surveillance in 1963, he went to lzation. But aside from being D'Arco. (It was all brought to a federal court and got art order something to scratch matches on. head by a D'Arcofauz pas. He and stipulating that the agents must Republicans in the First Ward are Giancana were seated at a res- stay two foursomes hack. handy in other says. In Mexico taurant table when an FBI agent, ; . Ultimately, the agents won that City this year, for example, Gian- well-known to both men. ap- round. Giancana was called be- cana and Miss McGuire tooled proached. D'Arco, rencting as a fore a grand jury, granted immu- around in a white Oldsmobile li- politician, leaped to his feet and nity from prosecution stemming censed to Peter Granata_ the pres- shook hands with the agent Gian- from anything he might say and. ent Republican committeeman in cana disapproved. Exit Alderman when he refused to answer ques- the First Ward. D'Arco.) State Senator Anthony tions, served a year in jail for con- Although Cosa Nostra control DeTolve, a relative of Giancana's tempt. Fearing another such sen- over the three wards is as well- late wife, was nominated to suc- tence, he has stayed pretty much known to many Chicagoans as the ceed D'Arco. Four days before the out of the country ever since. For Water Toy er. Mayor Richard J. aldermanic election, the gang Boss Gumearsa, leader of the Chicago A time, control of the Outfit fell to Daley, the longtime guru of Cook capriciously decided that DeTolve Mob Family, leaves courthouse Giancana's lieutenants, but as fed- County's Democrats, stays aloof. would not do. either. In the en- after a 1965 grand jury appear- eral prosecutions sent Several of As Chicago mayors have always suing confusion, the First Ward ance. He was convicted of con- them to jail, Family matters de- done, Mayor Daley tends to bristle wound up without an alderman tempt. D'Arco, a farmer Chicago

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111311.S successor. F rank AnnunzM. would have given the three the In 1962, for example, Attorney Sam Giancana when he was re- The grand jury investigation choice of exposing the workings General Kennedy sent his federal viewing his secret investments in that jailed Giancana eventually of anticlines captive organiza- prosecutors a list of gangsters to be the Stardust in Las Vegas dislodged Tisci from Annunzio's tion or, like him, going to jail. investigated, stipulating that the in 1961. "Give to both parties." payroll. The disclosure that Tisci For same years, Giaricana's po- list be held in strict secrecy within Naturally, when the delicate had refused to talk to the jury, litical courier was the master fixer the Department of Justice. In matter of investments of this sort pleading fear of self-incrimination, of the Chicago Mob, the late, no- a matter of weeks a copy of the list is at issue, the man whose know- was followed by his resignation its torious .. Us- turned up in a Michigan Avenue how is most prized is Meyer Lan- Annunzio's aide. Marcy and ing the name "Mr. Pope," he fre- office used by Giancana and Alex. sky. Though not a Cosa Nostra D'Arco were also Fifth Amend- quently delivered messages and member (he is Jewish), he is the merit witnesses. But there. as might packages to Libonati and other Mob's chief financial counselor. be expected, the matter rested. members of the Illinois congres- Faris ar Sinatra and Miss Mc- As such, he was the architect of U.S. Attorney Edward V. Hanra- sional delegation. Humphreys Guire might reconsider their ac- "the sk:m," the system whereby han, a Democratic appointee, did died in 1465, and some of his po- ceptance of Giancana as a social tax-free cash is siphoned off the not extend immunity to Tisci, Mar- litical duties now fall to , figure if they had heard a conver- top of casino profits in Nevada. cy and D'Arco even though they, who runs the rackets for ana- sation which took place in Miami Nevada has been "open" terri- like Giancana, had balked at testi- emia in the First Ward. a few years ago among three Gi- tory for Casa Nostra racketeers fying. Immunity for them might Giancana. perhaps spellbound ancana employes. So, for that ever since legalized gambling have been embarrassing for Mayor by his acquaintances among celeb- matter, might Sinatra and Miss made Las Vegas synonymous with Daley's Democratic machine. It rities and his control over paid- McGuire. The subject was Wil- high roffing.The Mobs from Cleve- for political hacks. has been liam Jackson, a grotesque slug- land, Chicago, Miami and New known to overstep hs own influ- ger for the Outfit who weighed York all had representatives look- ence. Once. during a time of tight well over 330 pounds. Jackson ing after their hidden interests surveillance by the FBI, he dis- somehow had gotten out of line and therefore had something of a patched his aide-de-camp, a hood- and had to be dealt with. As faith- stake in Nevada politics. • lum named Charles English, with fully related by an , Small wonder, then, that Giant- a message for the G-men who lames Torello and Fiore Buccieri can saw fit to give people advice. were waiting outside for him to were telling John (Jackie) Cerone Nor is it at all remarkable that leave a saloon. The message was an with some glee how they'd gone the Fremont Casino in Las Vegas invitation to Robert F. Kennedy, about it. found it necessary to obtain the then the Attorney General. to sit "Jackson was hung up on that personal approval of Lansky for down and talk over calling the meat hook," said Torello. "He its 519,100 budget for political agents off. English made quite a was so heavy he bent it. "contributions" in 1963; 55,000 sales pitch. "Elected officials all He was on that thing three days for a justice of the Nevada su- over the country, hundreds of 'em, before he croaked." preme CUM: 5200 to a justice owe their jobs to 'Moe,' " he ex- Buccieri began to giggle. "Jack- of the peace; $300 to a county JOHN D'Atico plained proudly. His parting ie, you shoulda seen the guy. Like commissioner: $500 to a state as- words were equally blithe: "Moe an elephant, he was. and when semblyman, and $500 to a candi- says that if Kennedy wants to Jimmy his him in the — with date for lieutenant governor. That talk, he should get in touch with that electric prod . . ." was local. Another SI,000 was Frank Sinatra to net it up." Tensile, interrupted excitedly. anted up for a national politi- Kennedy passed up the bid— "He was floppin' around on that cal figure—and 512,000 for his and along about that time Sinatra hook, Jackie. We tossed water on opponent. fell out of New Frontier favor. him to give the prod a better The payoff, of course, was in- The FBI continued its investiga- charge, and he's screamie. ..." nucnce in Las Vegas, Carson City tions, resulting in a 1965 jail sen- The conversation turned ani- and Washington--nut just for Ed tence for Giancana. matedly to other methods of dis- Levinson. operator of the Fre- Some of Ciancana's lieutenants pensing Giancanes brand of jus- mont, but also for Lansky. (At the have their own connections with tice—except for the revolting sub- time, Levinson had another very politicians, officials and impor- ject matter, they might have been useful connection in Washington. tant people. Gus Alex has an espe- men sitting around a bait shop Both he and Benjamin Sigelbaum, cially warm relationship with Chi- discussing favorite fishing lures. the who transported the cago's city treasurer, Marshall "The stretcher is best," insisted "skim" money to Lansky in Miami Korshak, and his brother, Attor- Torello. "Put a guy on it with Beach, were partners of Bobby ney . Sidney is a chains and you can stretch him Baker in the Serv-Li vending ma- pal of other leading Chicago gang- until his joints pop. . Re- chine enterprise. Baker, it will be sters—"a message from him [Sid- member the guy that sweat so recalled, was then the Senate ma- neyf," a prominent mobster once much he dried out? He was al- jority secretary, as well as a chief was quoted on a witness stand, ways wantie water, water. . . dispenser of funds for the Senate "is a message from us." On Alex's think he died of thirst." Democratic campaign committee application in 1957 for en apart- Once again, a reminder: these and confidant and protegi of the ment on exclusive Lake Shore men are members of Giancana's then Senate majority leader, Lyn- Drive. he described himself as a Cosa Nostra Family. He was, and don Johnson.) 515,000-tyear employe of Mar- still is, the Boss who gives peo- The philosophy behind all this shall Korshak, then a state senator. ple like Buccieri and Torello the was perhaps most succinctly ex- Among political favors ren- "contracts" for killing people like plained by Major Riddle, operator dered by paid•for officials to Cosa the late, heavy William Jackson. of the opulent Casino of alderman, and Libonati, who was Nostra are the passing along of The cardinal principle of the Las Vegas. When the owners yelped a congressman, were sacked by information that comes over their Fix is immutable—i.e., be with about a 520.000 contribution to a Giancana. airman. aide Gus desks, and the sending up of storm winners. Politically, this is con- man very high in then-Governor Ales ones listed Korshak, the signals whenever official action ducive to bipartisanship. "Do Grant Sawyer's office. Riddle gave city treasurer, as fin employer. against the Mob is threatened. like we do in Chicago," counseled an explanation, which an inform-

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r: Boston Gang War Pack em off penned, this guy had the gall to Boiardo had combined to maneu- demand double payoffs for each ver the friend of another gangster month of the summer szason.when into office as police superintendent resorts like Asbury Park and Long of a large New Jersey city. The to school Branch boom and so does gam- Mob-selected police chief used to bling. The irony of it all. DeCario work as a doorman at crap games added bitterly, was that he, Russo run by gangster John Lardiere. and Zicarelli had only themselves to blame. They had personally picked their greedy policeman and AMually "Bayonne Joe" Zica- arranged fora wef I-connected Hud- relli's outwardly modest position son County politico to promote as head of a bookie and lottery him to his high place on the force. syndicate in Hudson County does DeCarlo promised to talk soon to him considerable injustice. True. the same politician about the state in New Jersey. his interlocking tie- policeman's unseemly greed. ups with scores of Hudson County Whatever was said at that meet- officials arc so expensive that some ing, the result was negative, for the gangsters consider him a "con- police officer continued to extort nection-crazy" wastrel. But Zica- heavy payoffs from DeCarto. Res- relli has an international sideline so and Zicarelli until his retirement, so extensive that he's practically a two years later. Expensive though one-man state department for the he was, he was worth too much to Mob. He has holdings in Venezue- the Mob to warrant getting rid of la and the , him. He represented what is called and throughout the hemisphere is in Cosa Nostra a "solid setup""— known as the men to see for guns the ultimate protection, a direct and munitions when a government hand-to-pocket Fix with a top law in to be overthrown or a rebellion enforcement official in a policy- is to be put down. For example, making position. through the years he shipped arms The power of the Fix in certain to Dominican leaders, selling with areas of New Jersey is just about fine and profitable impartiality to total. In Long Branch, for exam- Trujillo and the men who over- ple, a town of 26,000 on the Jersey threw him. (In next week's issue shore, Russo told the informant more will appear on /testers that the Mob had token charge. business Interests.) Russo bragged they had fixed elec- Even Zicarelli's domestic con- tions and maneuvered the ouster nections extend well beyond the of a city manager. -What we got confines of Hudson County, into in Long Branch is eve ryth ing," said the chambers of the U.S. Congress Russo. "Police we got. Councilmen itself. Indeed, he is on the best of we got. too. We're gonna make terms with the widely respected millions." Democratic representative from Russo said that another cope, Hudson County. Congressman Ruggiero Boiardo, no less, keeper Cornelius E GalIngher. Gallagher of the crematorium near Living- is one of the bulwarks of the House ston, was wanting to muscle into Foreign Affairs Committee and the Long Branch bonanza with was seriously mentioned before the some road-construction contract- 1964 Democratic convention as a ing. DeCarlo figured Boiardo was possible running mate for Lyndon out of bounds on this—he and his Johnson. Bayonne Joe and his son Anthony already had all they congressman seem to have a lot deserved with "all the electric work to talk over, judging from the in Newark.- lAnthony Boiardo frequency of their get-togethers. lists his occupation as "public re- These usually take place a long lations man- for an electrical con- way from Washington or Bayonne tracting firm in Newark./ —where Gallagher lives and Zica- Several federal agencies have relli runs the rackets. Sometimes confirmed and supplemented the the setting is a picturesque way- information on the Russo-DeCar- side inn off the Saw Mill River lo talk. One investigation stem- Parkway, north of New York, and ming from it disclosed that De- the occasion is art unhurried and in Carlo, Zicarelli and Ruggiero chummy Sunday brunch. Fit 'em out in T-shirts that keep their fit. Hot water, detergents, hot dryers can't change the size of a HaneSetm.T-shirL Ifs definitely shrink-resistant, washing after washing. Made of 100% long-staple cotton, with no-sag, NEXT WEEK no-bind neckband and a lo-o-ong tail that stays put. Yet Only $2.59 for 3. How the Mob Moves In on Legitimate Business HANES

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