Originally Posted By: Sonny_Black
Maybe he's confused with "associates". I certainly believe Chicago's criminal network has 250 members. That seems very plausible to me.


Perhaps. By his own definition, apparently anyone who answers to No Nose (i.e. John DiFronzo) is a member. Well, for one, we don't get to make up our own definitions. A made member of the Chicago Outfit is just like a made member in any other family. At least since the 70's, they are a made member if they have gone through the formal initiation ceremony. And the number of those type of guys in the Outfit is likely not above 60 at present. Obviously adding associates would be a much larger number. But we can't try and blur the lines between members and associates just to skew the totals.


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