Scalise, Rachel and Pullia were associates and skilled burglars but they were not made guys. How do I know this??? My father was also a member of that crew. That crew made headlines in the 80's and 90's along with its leader - a guy named Bobby Siegel. They became known as the Hanhardt Burglary Crew after the crooked ass Chief of Detectives in the Chicago PD that often tipped them off to big scores...
That's some crazy ish!
Bobby The Beak testified in Family Secrets. If I remember correctly they were going to kill him for the breaking into Accardo house thing, but they changed their mind. Someone sat him down and said that they had decided to kill one thief from every ethnicity to make a point to the underworld, and he happened to be the Jew. But they let him live, ultimately.
It's been a while since I read Family Secrets, but it's all in there.
That book is a circus. Other characters who testifed included Red Wilmette, the porn shop owner, and a few other Damon Runyan-esque people who came out of the woodwork from Chicago's underworld of 40 years ago.
