Who sez Chicago is no longer known as the Town of Capone? Michael Jordan, notwithstanding, there is still plenty of mob action and corruption. Whether any of the Justice Department Press Release is based in fact, or is just PR is a question for the courts to sort out.
U.S. Indicts 14 Reputed Mobsters in Chicago:
The accused Chicago mobsters were rounded up in connection with 18 murders that stretch back over four decades.The names read like a who's who of reputed Chicago mob leaders from some faded blotter left behind at the police department's old State Street headquarters: Joey “The Clown” Lombardo, Frank “the German” Schweihs, Frank “Gumba” Saladino, and on and on.
But today, 14 of these accused Chicago mobsters, including several who have for years been reputed to be in the top level of organized crime leaders in this city, were being rounded up in connection with 18 murders that stretch back over four decades and had gone unsolved and, in some cases, nearly forgotten.
Several of the accused are in their mid-70's now, and one, though only 59, was found dead, apparently of natural causes, when the authorities arrived today to arrest him in the hotel room where he lived. A few of the others accused, meanwhile, had moved away from here, to states better known for retirement, Florida and Arizona....Among the most notorious murders the authorities say they have solved with today's announcement of the indictment that was years in the making: the 1986 death of Tony “The Ant” Spilotro, the organization's chief enforcer in Las Vegas, and his brother, Michael, who were buried alive in an Indiana cornfield. In the mid-1990's, Joe Pesci portrayed a character based on Tony Spilotro in the movie, “Casino.”
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