Legend goes that Luciano allegedly said the same thing about Chicago's guys.

Regarding Marshall Caifano....as I already stated in one of my previous posts that Caifano's older brother Fat Lenny Caifano became a capo for the Giancana crew sometime around 1947 when Giancana was upped as Accardo's number two guy or underboss. This means that Lenny was probably the main individual who brought his younger brother into the Mob because Lenny and Giancana knew each other since kids.

Story goes that during the 1930's, Giancana's and Lenny's close associate from the West Side Louis Fratto allegedly introduced Marshall Caifano to Sam Battaglia and they became close associates. Later Fratto also allegedly introduced the duo to one of his cousins Phil Alderisio and in fact, this was the start or beginning of the future Grand Av crew. Antoinette Caifano was possibly another contact who in turn was Marshall Caifano’s relative and was also a long time friend of Battaglia.

By the end of the decade Caifano and Battaglia together operated a big gambling spot on 4500 West Filmore and even though I dont have any details, still rumors were that during the 1940's the duo was allegedly involved in numerous killings. In 1943 Battaglia and Caifano were riding in their black sedan when suddenly a cruising police car stopped them after recognizing their faces. The cops searched the car and found a whole arsenal of weapons such as sawed-off shotgun, a rifle, a hand grenade and five pistols.

By the early or mid 1950's Caifano was in Vegas but he still had interests back home. For example in 1957 Caifano, Battaglia and Alderisio received interests in the infamous Twin Food Products Company at 3250 Wentworth Av. Their so-called frontman in the company were Leo Rugendorf who served as the company’s president, and Meyer Ditlove’s son-in-law Lawrence Rosenberg who served as secretary and treasurer. Battaglia and Caifano also had "no-show" jobs as salesmen for the firm.

In 1958 Chicago Outfit associate Sidney Korshak allegedly hosted a mob meeting in Beverly Hills, California. Present at the meeting were Moe Dalitz and Morris Kleinman from the Cleveland mob, Joe Stacher and Longy Zwillman from the New Jersey mob, Meyer Lansky from New York, Sam Garfield from Detroit, plus Chicago delegates Battaglia and Caifano.

In 1959, Accardo, Battaglia, Caifano, Rocco DeStefano, Ben Fillichio and Jack Cerone received interests in some brewery with Cerone being the brewery’s representative at the time. During the same time period records at the Exchange National Banked showed that a trust was formed between Marshall Caifano, Irwin Weiner and his wife Lillian, Phil Alderisio and his wife Molly, Albert Frabotta and wife Santina, and Sam Battaglia and his wife Angela. The trust covered adjoining property which was located at 3240 through 3250 South Wentworth in Chicago.

Frank Balistrieri, the boss of the Milwaukee mob, travelled periodically to Pingree Grove to meet with the Outfit’s hierarchy and usually met with Battaglia, Alderisio and Caifano.

During the 1960's one huge problem disrupted their insurance swindle operation, which involved numerous fraudulent conspiracies such as false burglaries, fires in restaurants and other damaged properties. The operation was overseen by Caifano and also one Chicago Outfit associate and Loop insurance broker Lewis Barbe. One day one of Barbe's friends visited him and asked Barbe to arrange a meeting with Battaglia allegedly because that same friend had a problem with Caifano. Sources say that Caifano wanted to kill the guy because he owed a big amount of cash to Caifano. Story goes that Battaglia allegedly cancelled the contract and so everything went pretty well until the government got wind of the situation and made few arrests and that’s when some of the people that were involved in the conspiracy started talking.

Barbe was also one of those informants who went to the Internal Revenue service with information about Caifano, Alderisio and Battaglia. Barbe was about to testify against Caifano and so in February 1964, Barbe was called to testify in the courtroom of Chief Justice Alexander J. Napoli, who had continued the conspiracy trial until February 6, because at the same time Caifano was on trial in Los Angeles in an extortion conspiracy case where he was accused of trying to extort $60,000 from Ray Ryan, a multi-millionaire oil man.

After he left the court room at 10:20 a.m., Barbe entered his car which was parked in front of 2814 W. 26th St., just north of the court building and turned on the ignition key and suddenly a bomb blasted his car. The hood of the auto was blown over the 45-foot-high roof of the Vacuum Can Company, in front of which the car was parked. The hood landed 100 yards north of the building. The right door at the passenger seat of the auto was also blown off. All windows in the building were broken. Miraculously Barbe survived the blast. He got out of the car, fell on the street and kept calling for help. Buttons were ripped off his coat by the blast, his trousers were shredded, and his hair was singed. He lay in the street for 15 minutes before a police squad removed him to St. Anthony de Padua hospital. This didn’t solve Caifano’s problems because he was sentenced to 10 years in prison in the Los Angeles extortion case but later Caifano appealed the conviction and was released on bond.