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Giancana, Sam; Corbitt, Michael; Giancana, Bettina (2004), Double Deal: The Inside Story of Murder, Unbridled Corruption, and the Cop Who Was a Mobster, Avon Publications, ISBN 978-0-06-103048-2 Organized Crime in Chicago: Hearing Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate ...
Charles Nicoletti (/ ˌ n ɪ k ə ˈ l ɛ t i /; December 3, 1916 – March 29, 1977), also known as "Chuckie the Typewriter", was an American mobster of the Chicago Outfit, who served as hitman under boss Sam Giancana before and after Giancana's rise and fall. Nicoletti was murdered on March 29, 1977.
Sam Giancana, head of the Chicago crime syndicate. According to the CIA documents, the so-called Family Jewels that were declassified in 2007, one assassination attempt on Fidel Castro prior to the Bay of Pigs invasion involved noted American mobsters John Roselli, Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante. [9]
June 13 – Andrei Katz is stabbed to death and then dismembered by members of a crew led by Gambino associate Roy DeMeo. June 19 – Salvatore "Sam," "Mooney" Giancana, leader of the Chicago Outfit, is murdered while in his home in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois.
Organized crime – notable homicides involving the Italian-American organized crime syndicate or crime family based in Chicago. These include the 1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre and the 1975 murder of Sam Giancana. Lynchings and race riots – homicides associated with lynching and race riots.
February 13, 1985 – Long-time mobster and West Side Outfit street boss Chuckie English, downgraded to a mob "soldier" and put in Joseph "Joey the Clown" Lombardo's crew after English's good friend and former Mob boss Sam Giancana's murder, was shot to death in an Elmwood Park, Illinois, restaurant parking lot, allegedly by an Outfit "hitman ...
Roselli introduced Maheu to mobster leaders Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante Jr. Supplied with six poison pills from the CIA, Giancana and Trafficante tried unsuccessfully to have people place the poison in Castro's food. [10] Further attempts were canceled soon thereafter due to the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961. [10] [11]
Richard Cain (October 4, 1931 – December 20, 1973), also known as Richard Scalzitti, was a notoriously corrupt Chicago police officer and a close associate of Mafia boss Sam Giancana. Early life [ edit ]