Retired KCPD Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins looks at the life of the Chicago Outfit’s Paul Ricca. We learn he probably was responsible for the suicide of Frank Nitti, that he was a “behind the scenes” boss and made decisions with Anthony Accardo for many years.

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but hey are you wirecappers out there I have a story today it’s kind of a rehash I’ve been one of my old audio stories I did the uh just last week I think or a couple weeks ago now I posted a story on YouTube that was primarily uh audio and it was the story of it was an interview of a guy named Carlo Morelliwho was a guy that took Tony accardo’s daughter to the uh to her senior prom a couple other Accardo stories and it’s pretty interesting it’s kind of a one that once in a lifetime gig to get an inside information like that and Carlos deceased since I uh recorded that interview but somebody made a comment in the YouTube or the YouTube posting about and did you ever talk about Paul Rica or Paul the waiter who was a a Chicago boss out of the 40s and early 50s on up into the 60s who stayed way in the background a lot of people don’t know the name of

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Paul Rican he was a really important guy

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in in the Chicago outfit back in those

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days so I dug out my old interview I did

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an interview of him I never put it up on

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YouTube so I dug up some pictures in

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order for you to have some something to

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look at while I tell the story of Paul

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the waiter Rika uh interesting guy you

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know he he stayed in the background just

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like Tony Accardo did he and the cardo

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really would sit together at Norwood’s

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male restaurant that’s Meo restaurant

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and I think the building still exists in

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in Norwood I think is the name of the

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suburb in Chicago anyhow they would sit

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up there and people would come up and

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and bring in envelopes and and they’d

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make decisions and he always stayed in

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the background with ocardo and and they

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let guys like Sam giancana be out front

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and you know he was a like a lightning

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rod for uh for the FBI and and they sat

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back there and never went to jail again

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although the government never really

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quit trying to deport Paul Rica which I

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you know listen to the store and you’ll

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learn a lot more about Paul Rica you

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know one interesting little tidbit about

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him he was once accused of doing a hit

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in Kansas City of a guy who was running

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a bunch of slot machines out in the

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county and not kicking up to the Mob and

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he was warm several times now I don’t

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they showed his picture now why they

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show this picture I don’t know uh but he

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was uh during the 50s he well let’s

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listen to the stories he’s a really

2:39

interesting guy well Paul Rica or Paul

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the waiter Rika was born July 10 1898 he

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died October the 11th 1972. he rose from

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being a small time member of the Kimura

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Mafia in Naples Italy to the boss of the

2:56

Chicago outfit by the time he died in

2:59

1898 Paul the waiter Rica was born

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Felice de Lucia in Naples Italy by 1915

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a 17 year old Felice de Lucia was an

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associate of the Neapolitan Kimura Mafia

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he got his first real taste of mob life

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when he was ordered to murder a man

3:16

named Emilio perilio Elise de Lucia was

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arrested and at trial a sicilian named

3:22

vicenzo capasso testified that he saw

3:26

Delicia murder prillio de Lucia

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testified he had killed perlio because

3:31

berlio had disgraced his sister by

3:33

breaking an engagement with her in other

3:34

words it was an honor killing police

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Delicia served two years in an Italian

3:38

jail before escaping after he escaped he

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found that witness vicenzo capasso and

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and you know what happens when a member

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of the Kimura Mafia finds somebody who

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testified against him he killed him by

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slitting his throat de Lucia changed his

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name to Paolo malio and fled to a small

3:54

town named aprissina about a hundred

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miles north of Naples the heat was still

3:58

on cops are looking for him but Lucia

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left for France once he got to France he

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found passage on a boat to Cuba while in

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Cuba he met a fellow member of the

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Kimura Mafia from Naples a man named

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Giuseppe Esposito Esposito was known as

4:13

Diamond Joe in Chicago and had graduated

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from the Chicago street gangs in the

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early 1900s young Felice de Lucia did

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not know at this time but this

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connection would determine Paula wader’s

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future he arrived in New York shortly

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after August 10 1920 just in time for

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prohibition at that point in time or

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sometimes sure shortly thereafter he

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anglicized his name to Paul Rica 1919

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the Volstead Act was passed and

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prohibition began in January of 1920.

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Giuseppe Esposito or Diamond Joe were

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just beginning to form a bootlegging

4:43

gang in Chicago he recruited his young

4:45

friend from Cuba Paul Rica to come to

4:48

Chicago and and join his bootlegging

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operation he also enlisted members of

4:52

the violent Chicago Street gang known as

4:54

known as the 42 gang and one of these

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members was Sam Mooney giancana when

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Paul Rica first arrived in Chicago of

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course he moved to the Italian section

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close to downtown he managed to get a

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job as a theater Usher and Diamond Joe

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hired him as a waiter for a small family

5:10

restaurant that he owned the easygoing

5:12

and genial Paula wetter was soon on a

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first name basis with many of the

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Mobsters who came in and out the door of

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that restaurant one of these Mobsters

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included Al Capone Rick and Capone had

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several mutual friends among Neapolitan

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gangsters who had returned to the Old

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Country Capone enrika became good

5:28

friends Al Capone regularly visited a

5:30

restaurant and Paul Rica was soon hired

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as a full-time gangster he rose very

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quickly in the Capone organization he

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was admired by Capone for his

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intelligence and ability to obtain

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cooperation from fellow gang members

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they also became close personal friends

5:44

as well as fellow gang members Capone

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was the best man at rika’s wedding in

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1. because of this unique ability to

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get along with other gangsters other

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other mobsters

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Al Capone named Paul Rica as his

5:58

Emissary to the east coast mafia

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families in connection with his

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bootlegging organization in May 1932 Al

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Capone was sent to Atlanta to the U.S

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Penitentiary thereafter his conviction

6:09

for tax fraud the well-known Frank Nitty

6:12

became the new boss of the Chicago

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outfit nydian Capone had agreed in

6:17

advance that Paul Rica would be the new

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underboss in hindsight historians

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learned that Frank Nitty was a reluctant

6:23

and unskillful boss most people today

6:26

agreed that Paul Rica soon became the

6:29

boss in all but title one problem with

6:31

nitty was that the East Coast mob bosses

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did not think highly of knitting by 1932

6:37

Charles Lucky Luciano and mayor Lansky

6:39

had formed the national crime syndicate

6:41

they refused to deal with knitting Paul

6:43

Rica frequently overruled nitty’s orders

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such a move would normally be

6:48

Unthinkable in any crime family but

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nitty did not object for some reason

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when prohibition ended in 1933 the

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outfit had find other sources of income

6:56

because all East Coast action was

6:58

claimed by the New York and New Jersey

7:00

mobs the Chicago outfit turned its eyes

7:02

West to the open territory of Los

7:04

Angeles California the outfit saw the

7:07

film industry as a huge Cash Cow just

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waiting to be milked nitty sent outfit

7:12

Capo Johnny roselli to Hollywood with a

7:15

plan to extort money from Major Movie

7:17

Studios like RKO Paramount MGM and 20th

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Century Fox at this time Frank Nitty was

7:23

spending all the money he could earn in

7:26

the rackets that he owned he loved the

7:27

dice cars he was a huge Gambler roulette

7:30

wheels horse racing dropped a bunch of

7:32

money on horse racing and he needed more

7:34

and more money all the time roselli went

7:36

to boxing gyms in Los Angeles and hired

7:39

a lot of the old pugs with cauliflower

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ears he used them to make visits to

7:43

Studio Executives and shake them down

7:45

when folks like high-powered Executives

7:47

think their lives and their livelihoods

7:49

are at stake they’ll pay up the outfit

7:51

sent another gangster named Willie byoff

7:54

to California

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buyoff had already created a Shakedown

7:58

operation of Chicago movie theater

7:59

projectionist he had infiltrated the

8:01

national Union of theater projectionists

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and used its extortion plans in many

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cities on the East Coast nitty sent buy

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off to California he was instructed to

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infiltrate the International Alliance of

8:13

theatrical stage employees buy off aided

8:16

by Johnny John handsome Johnny roselli

8:19

eventually became the collector for The

8:20

Syndicate controlled unions in Hollywood

8:22

they extorted millions of dollars from

8:24

major motion picture studios and buyoff

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kept hundreds of thousands of dollars

8:28

for himself Willie buyoff was just a

8:31

small-time Chicago Thug who went to

8:33

Hollywood and it went to his head he

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soon was living in a mansion had

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expensive fancy suits wore a gold

8:39

jewelry drove expensive cars and had

8:42

solid gold business cards made up he

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caused a lot of attention a big stir out

8:46

there in Hollywood and everybody knew

8:48

what was going on and they were afraid

8:50

well-known actor at the time Robert

8:52

Montgomery was a president of the Screen

8:54

Actors Guild and he got tired of it he

8:56

tipped off the IRS California Federal

8:58

grand jury was convened and a witness

9:00

testified that Willie byoff had demanded

9:02

a twenty five thousand dollar payment

9:04

from film executive Harry Warner because

9:06

the boys in Chicago expected a Christmas

9:08

present another witness testified that

9:11

buyoff told movie Mogul Louis B Mayer

9:14

there is no room for both of us in this

9:15

world and I will be the one who is here

9:17

in 1943 buyoff was indicted for tax

9:20

evasion and other related crimes as well

9:22

as extortion and racketeering they also

9:25

indicted several of his associates like

9:28

Paul the waiter Rica Philip d’andrea

9:30

Charlie Cherry knows Joey Johnny roselli

9:33

Lou Kaufman and Frank the enforcer

9:35

knitty from Chicago rather than face

9:38

prison for this buyoff decided he would

9:40

testify against his companions at this

9:43

time Frank Nitty lived in the southwest

9:45

suburb of Riverside Illinois on March 18

9:47

1943 local police would note a group of

9:50

mobster bosses were meeting at nitty

9:53

Suburban home it turns out that Willie

9:55

buyoff was the focus of this meeting at

9:57

that time they feared the buyouts had

9:59

turned government witness since he was

10:01

netty’s man knitty had to deal with a

10:03

problem they demanded that nitty shoot

10:05

by off even if he had to do it in a

10:07

crowded courtroom at this meeting Rika

10:09

ordered nitty to take the fall for all

10:11

of them then he was facing 15 years in

10:13

prison this suggestion did not go over

10:15

well with nitty but he did not know what

10:18

to do and by this point in time Paul

10:20

Rica had really asserted personal as

10:22

well as outfit dominance over Frank

10:24

Nitty Nitty suffered from severe

10:26

claustrophobia and he was terrified of

10:29

confinement in prison the next day March

10:31

19 1943 nitty’s lawyer phoned him to

10:35

tell him that he had been indicted after

10:36

getting that phone call that he hung up

10:38

the phone walked into the other room

10:40

took a pistol out of a drawer put it in

10:43

his coat pocket put on his Overcoat

10:46

walked back into the kitchen and told

10:47

his wife I’m going for a walk his actual

10:49

last words to his wife were I want you

10:51

to go to church this afternoon I want

10:53

you to go to a novena at our Lady of

10:55

Sorrow after that he walked away alone

10:57

Frank Nitty got to a railroad track

10:59

about a mile away and shot himself in

11:01

the head Paul Rica now became the actual

11:04

head of the Chicago mob and name as well

11:07

as in fact he appointed his friend Tony

11:10

Accardo as underboss after the Hollywood

11:12

prosecutions and for the rest of his

11:14

life Paula way to Rika was never caught

11:16

during a crime he always let others do

11:18

the crime for him and took part of the

11:20

money as any well-respecting mafia boss

11:22

would do in the subsequent trial Willie

11:24

byoff testified against all these

11:26

Chicago outfit guys he moved to Phoenix

11:29

under assumed name but Willie buyoff

11:31

always wanted to be a big time guy he

11:33

could not lay low by the 1950s even

11:36

Palling around with well-known

11:38

politician Barry Goldwater but his past

11:40

caught up with him November the 4th 1955

11:43

Willie byoff turned to key in his pickup

11:45

truck and a bomb bloomed to pieces in

11:48

regard to the Hollywood prosecutions on

11:50

December 30th 1943 a Federal grand jury

11:52

returned a guilty verdict for Rick and

11:55

his associates they each got the

11:57

sentence of 10 years in prison Paul Rica

11:59

and Louis Campagna were sentenced to the

12:02

federal penitentiary in Atlanta feeling

12:04

they were too far away from Chicago they

12:06

tried to get transferred to the

12:07

Leavenworth Prison in Kansas their

12:09

request for transfer was denied again

12:11

and again by Atlanta police and

12:13

officials the next request went a little

12:15

higher this time to the bureau prisons

12:17

in Washington D.C again this petition

12:19

was denied then working through

12:21

companion’s wife Charlotte Paul Dillon a

12:23

one-time campaign manager for Harry S

12:25

Truman in St Louis was contacted for

12:27

help in getting the transfer over the

12:29

vigorous opposition of the Atlanta

12:30

Warden the Atlanta prison board and the

12:32

board of prisons in Washington DC

12:35

companion Rica received her transfers to

12:37

Leavenworth Johnny roselli had been sent

12:39

to the federal prison at Terre Haute

12:42

Indiana he contacted a Washington D.C

12:44

lobbyist and gambler Named Sam beard to

12:46

help get the rest of the outfit men sent

12:48

to St Louis years later a memo will

12:51

surface showing that the U.S attorney

12:52

general Tom Clark requested that all the

12:55

Chicago outfit men who had been

12:57

convicted in the Hollywood extortion

12:59

crimes be transferred to Leavenworth

13:01

once their Chicago mob underbossed

13:03

Anthony Accardo and outfit political

13:05

fixer Murray the camel Humphreys paid

13:08

regular visits each time they came they

13:10

would both sign names as Joseph I Bulger

13:13

a mob attorney

13:14

Rica and Campania were now back with old

13:17

mob Associates Johnny roselli Cherry

13:19

knows gioi and Philip d’andrea the group

13:21

now made attempts to get parole even

13:23

though less than one-third of their

13:24

sentences had been served a stumbling

13:26

block for Rika and Campagna was their

13:28

non-payment of back taxes toned almost

13:30

six hundred thousand dollars when a

13:33

cardo and Humphreys arrived in Kansas

13:35

City on the train to visit the prisoners

13:37

a young up-and-comer with the Kansas

13:40

City crime family named Nick Sabella

13:42

would meet them and drive in Leavenworth

13:43

next of Allah would go on to be the boss

13:45

of Kansas City and eventually become an

13:47

equal partner with outfit boss joy iupa

13:49

in the Vegas casino skim conspiracy in

13:52

the 1970s an attorney named Eugene

13:54

Bernstein was a former employee of the

13:56

eternal revenue he arranged for the six

13:58

hundred thousand dollars in backpacks

14:00

from money that he asserted was

14:02

Anonymous donations this was immediately

14:04

after the war

14:06

1946-47 Al Capone will die January the

14:09

8th 1947. the outfit will mobilize their

14:11

political machine in Chicago to work for

14:13

the election of Harry Truman and 1948

14:16

they make connections with political

14:17

fixtures close to the Truman campaign

14:19

again with the help of Paul Dillon a

14:22

former campaign manager for President

14:23

Truman a petition was filed for parole

14:25

this is about three years after they

14:27

were sentenced one week later Campagna

14:30

Rica Geo Deandrea and roselli were all

14:32

released on parole they all took the

14:34

train back to Chicago and a huge party

14:36

was held in their honor this travesty of

14:39

Justice caused a public outcry and the

14:41

men were warned to stay away from

14:42

Chicago through the efforts of their

14:45

attorneys the men were soon able to

14:46

return to their homes and businesses

14:48

however as a condition of his parole

14:50

Rika could no longer be present in the

14:53

company of other Mobsters Rika then on

14:55

the surface gave the appearance that he

14:58

was going into retirement what he did in

15:00

fact he continued to serve as a senior

15:03

consultant to the Auschwitz leadership

15:04

Tony Accardo and no decision would be

15:07

made again during his lifetime without

15:09

his knowledge the early paroles in the

15:12

case enraged the Chicago press which

15:15

published rika’s claim that his

15:16

influence extended clear into the White

15:18

House printed Accounts at Rika

15:21

instructing his lawyers to find out who

15:23

had the final say so in granting him a

15:25

early parole and he was quoted saying

15:27

that man must want something money

15:29

favors a seat in the Supreme Court find

15:31

out what he wants and get it for him

15:33

while several of the Chicago newspapers

15:35

were bitter enemies of President Harry

15:37

Truman the fact was that attorney

15:39

general Tom Clark who had been appointed

15:42

by Harry Truman did allow the early

15:44

parole of Paul Rick and the others Clark

15:46

was appointed to the next opening on the

15:48

Supreme Court 1952 the conservative

15:51

Chicago Tribune called for the

15:52

impeachment of the now Supreme Court

15:54

Justice Tom Clark because of his utter

15:57

unfitness for any position of public

15:58

responsibility and especially for a

16:01

position on the Supreme Court hits

16:02

vitriolic editorial race we have been

16:05

sure of his unfitness ever since he

16:07

played his considerable role in

16:09

releasing the Capone gangsters after

16:10

they served a bare minimum of their

16:12

terms once Rika was back in circulation

16:15

he became a real power in Chicago

16:16

underworld because of the parole

16:19

restriction he appointed Tony Joe

16:21

batters Accardo to be the boss remember

16:24

that Accardo had visited Rika and

16:26

Leavenworth by masquerading his his

16:28

attorney and had kept reconform to

16:30

Syndicate activities all along Rico

16:32

remained as a senior advisor and the

16:34

real power behind the business decisions

16:36

made in the outfit he and ocardo both

16:38

remained in the background as best they

16:40

could they remained well insulated from

16:42

any law enforcement investigations into

16:45

outfit activities the keep offer

16:47

committee hearings came along in the

16:49

1950s as they investigated the organized

16:53

crime families in each of the major

16:55

Eastern and Midwestern cities by the

16:57

time they got done in Chicago they were

16:59

to put out a statement and say that Paul

17:01

Rica was a national head of the crime

17:03

syndicate a few years later the

17:05

McClellan committee investigating

17:07

organized crime referred to

17:09

Rika as America’s most important

17:11

Criminal Rica’s testimony on the witness

17:13

stand before each of these committees

17:15

was punctuated by frequent pleas of the

17:17

fifth amendment in 1957 the government

17:20

was still after him Paul Rico was

17:22

stripped of his citizenship and two

17:23

years later deported he resorted to a

17:26

myriad of appeals and delaying actions

17:27

even getting a court order to stay on

17:30

deportation to Italy by bringing an

17:32

action before an Italian Court demanding

17:34

that his Italian citizenship be dropped

17:36

in a remarkable action the Italian

17:39

government would not take Rika back even

17:41

to serve out his old murder term

17:43

presumably because he might adversely

17:45

influence Italian prisons and Italian

17:47

criminals in Italian Kimora and Sicilian

17:51

mafia members frustrated American

17:53

Immigration officials ordered Rika to

17:56

apply to other countries to Grant him

17:57

Refuge following instructions Rika sent

18:00

letters to some 60 countries supposedly

18:02

seeking Asylum but apparently in an

18:05

idealistic desire for full disclosure he

18:07

also included a packet of news clip

18:09

instincts to explain why the United

18:10

States wanted him to immigrate elsewhere

18:13

no Nation expressed the slightest

18:15

interest in accepting him the government

18:17

was still trying to deport Rico when he

18:19

died in 1972. by then Rika might have

18:22

well-accepted deportation to Italy he

18:25

spent many hours at the Alitalia

18:27

terminal at O’Hare Airport listening to

18:30

Italian tourists speaking the native

18:32

tongue the consensus was that Rica had

18:35

turned a bit senile spending so much

18:36

time at the airport federal agents were

18:39

suspicious they believed he was

18:41

arranging meetings with Smugglers of

18:42

Contraband or drugs during the 1950s

18:45

Rika threw a cardo as the boss of the

18:48

outfit oversaw the outfit moving into

18:50

slot machines vending machines

18:52

counterfeiting cigarette and liquor tax

18:54

stamps expanding narcotic smuggling

18:56

Accardo plays slot machines in gas

18:59

station restaurants and bars throughout

19:01

the outfits territory which again

19:02

Chicago all the way up to Milwaukee all

19:05

the way down into Ohio Iowa outside of

19:08

Chicago the outfit expanded into Las

19:11

Vegas a car made sure that all the legal

19:13

Las Vegas casinos used his slot machines

19:16

in Kansas and Oklahoma that took

19:17

advantage of the of the official ban on

19:19

alcohol sales to introduce bootlegged

19:21

alcohol the outfit eventually dominated

19:24

organized crime in most of the western

19:25

United States to reduce the outfit’s

19:28

exposure to Legal prosecution Accardo

19:30

phased out some traditional activities

19:32

such as labor racketeering and extortion

19:34

he also converted the outfit’s brother

19:36

business into call girl Services the

19:39

result of these changes was a golden era

19:41

of profitability and influence for the

19:43

outfit cardo Enrique continued to

19:45

emphasize keeping a low profile they

19:47

allowed men like Sam giancana to attract

19:50

attention instead one great example of

19:52

this was in 1961 there was a wrestling

19:54

tag team getting a lot of attention two

19:57

men named Lou Albano and Tony altamare

19:59

were wrestling as a mafia inspired tag

20:02

team called the Sicilians Tony Accardo

20:05

supposedly went to them and asked them

20:07

to drop the gimmick in order to avoid

20:09

any mob-related publicity by being aware

20:12

of negative publicity and keeping a low

20:14

profile ocardo and Rika commanded the

20:16

outfit much longer than the Flasher Al

20:18

Capone this alleged that Paul Rica once

20:21

said Accardo had more brains for

20:22

breakfast than Capone had in a lifetime

20:24

in 1957 the IRS made it evident that

20:27

Tony Accardo was in their sights he and

20:30

Rika agreed to turn the official

20:32

position as outfit boss over to rika’s

20:34

Old bootlegging gang member Sam Mooney

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giancana many suspected a large number

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of Chicago area murder victims were men

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who had been killed by giancana merely

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because Paula waiter wished that they

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would go away it is believed that

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Accardo became giancana’s consiglieri

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and removed himself from the day-to-day

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running of the organization law

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enforcement did note that ocardo

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retained great respect they believed

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that genkana still had to obtain the

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approval of ocardo and Rika on major

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business including all murders unlike

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ocardo Enrique Sam diancana lived in

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ostentatious lifestyle a frequented Posh

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nightclubs he dated high-profile

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well-known singer Phyllis McGuire and he

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refused to distribute some of the

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profits from outfit controlled casinos

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in the Caribbean to other members it was

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during this time that FB agent Bill

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Romer and his top hoodlum Squad started

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what became known as operation lockstep

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Operation lockstep had agents assigned

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to it and they were to

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follow giancana everywhere I went right

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behind him if he left in a car they

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drove they pulled away from the curb in

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their car and didn’t even let one car

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get in between them if he walked out and

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walked down the street they walked a few

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feet behind him if he went into a

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restaurant the agents obtained a table

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as close as possible Gen Con and his

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party if he played golf they horned

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their way in so they’ve become they

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force them directly behind giancana if

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he went to a movie they sat behind him

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Rika and others in the outfit believed

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that Jen Connor was tracking too much

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attention because of this genkana was so

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frustrated by this he sued the FBI in

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civil court for harassment and then the

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final decision the court ordered the FBI

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agents had to at least maintain one

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foursome between their foursome and

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giancana soon after that soon after the

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bureau was able to put giancana in jail

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for federal contempt of court he got one

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year for this in 1966. this was the

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final straw in ocardo and Rika replaced

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giancana with a much lower profile

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hard case named Joy ayupa Rica died in

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his bed October 1972. this was an event

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that would cause some Shock waves in the

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outfit now ousted outfit boss Sam

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giancana and Paul Rico went back to the

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42 gang days in Diamond Joe Esposito’s

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bootlegging Empire for so long as Paul

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the waiter was alive Jen Connor was safe

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as were some of Jen Connor’s more

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erratic backers like our friend mad Sam

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DeStefano within months of rika’s death

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DeStefano was murdered by other mob

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members a couple of years later Jen

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Connor was assassinated as well rika’s

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hand was all-powerful but not from the

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grave thus sends a story of Paul the

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waiter Rika well-known mobster but spent

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all of his life basically in the shadows

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in the background thanks folks I hope

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you enjoy that

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