Just one point, the thing about Nick identifying 60 guys was very vaguely worded. At least in the Sun Times piece I read it in. Just to play devil's advocated, it was not entirely clear if all of the members were alive.

Mark, I believe he has to keep testifying. I am not positive but I think I remember them talking about dragging him out for Sarno but they ultimately did not.

Chinatown is right next to Bridgeport, which is probably the most "mobbed up" neighborhood in the city these days, where Caruso, Matasso and several others live. That's where LaPietra's house was, where Ronnie Jarrett was killed, where the Calabrese's often operated out of.

I don't know exactly how the Outfit muscled in on the Chinese, who are huge gamblers, but I expect that at the height of its power it was not very difficult.

Bob Cooley's book goes into depth about a few of the arrangments between the Outfit and the Chinese in Chinatown, like the Fon Long (sp), the Chinese merchant's association, which was basically its own little mob.

They also reportedly came out with a new doc on Ken Eto, but I haven't been able to find it in English.

Ivy, looks like you are corect about those multiple casino references re: Posner. They all seem to go back to that one bad source.

Interesting comment from Joe Fosco:

"Sarno was running it citywide, whether that changed after he was ordered on house arrest, I do not know. There is nothing left but a little sports betting and a small number of poker machines mainly in the south parts (the sports betting is everywhere - but nothing like 20-years ago). For the most part, you are dealing with a number of Italian-Americans that have once been connected to something powerful. Some of them are schemers, others are not. Some help others, some hurt others. They all know each other and talk about each other. Some are physically dangerous and others are not. What do we call it all? An Outfit?

The real money is made abroad in the casinos in Venezuela, Chile, Cost Erica, Aruba and other places like that. Ask DiFronzo what is going on in those places with gambling."