Originally Posted By: southend
Good topic for discussion. So was it just an oversight on behalf of the rest of the commission that Capone hadn't been formally inducted into LCN?


At the time of the commission's founding, Capone's gang was the dominant Italian gang in Chicago and had essentially killed off all rivals (including Joe Aiello's Sicilian cosa nostra). The commission really had no alternatives to Capone's gang if they wanted Chicago included.