Granted you have the family history, but I too grew up in Chicago, albeit a little after the mob's heyday. I didn't say it was fact, just a theory that Corbitt wrote in his book. According to Corbitt, Hy Larner pretty much controlled Giancana, Las Vegas and the entire weapons/drug trade of the Outfit due to his massive political connections. I don't know if it's true or not because I wasn't around until after the Giancana hit, but why couldn't it be true?

I grew up two doors down from a guy that supposedly worked for Larner well into the 1990s. I never had much interaction as I was a kid in the 1980s, but later on heard the rumors.