John Binder is widely regarded as the city's greatest, or at least most visible, authority on the Chicago Outfit past and present and is regularly interviewed on local news. For instance he recently demolished an ill-founded, yet popular, book hawking a "new theory" [it actually wasn't new at all] on the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.) He's the author of the 2003 Book "The Chicago Outfit." (Aracdia.)

Know what business Jimmy Marcello, the acting head of the mob, was running, when arrested? A video poker business, M & M Amuesment.

Here's one article, reprinted from the Sun Times, written by Steve Warmiber, one of the city's most well known Outfit reporters: "Video gambling is the mob's lifeblood, pumping millions of dollars every year into the Outfit's coffers."

http://www.ipsn.org/gambling/feds_zero_in_on_video_poker_king.htm