Originally Posted By: Outfit
Joe Gagliano died in 1970 at the age of 56. He was with the Elmwood Park Crew.

Yes, Grand Ave Crew is still active. Chitown seems to know a lot about the Grand Ave Crew and he is pretty spot on with his postings from what I have seen from my review.

Elmwood Park is not deactivated. Marco D'Amico is a very powerful man in the Outfit.

Outfit men are considered made by their position within the Outfit. There never was a making Ceremony in Chicago.

Nick Calabrese was coached by the Feds to say some of the things he 'Reported'. You cannot take everything he said as the absolute accurate truth. The Feds 'coached' him for awhile before they went on their attack in the Family Secrets Trial.

None of the older Outfit guys ever went through a 'Ceremony' like they do in New York.

Tony Accardo, Joey Auippa, Jackie Cerone, Joe Lombardo, Angelo La Pietra, Vince Solano etc. etc. never went through a Ceremony.

They were all taken into a particular faction and worked on the street level at the beginning. Then, at some point, they moved up and were put in charge of something. At that point they were recognized as high level prominent Outfit men. This also included non Italians like Gus Alex, Ralph Pierce etc.

Chicago's way of doing things was always different than New York.


Great, another bullshitter. rolleyes

But I do gotta give you credit. You claim you're in law enforcement. LOL! At least that's a new one. Yet you turn right around and say the feds are lying about the making ceremony. Even if you want to discount Nick Calabrese's testimony about the ceremony, they had Frank Calabrese on tape talking about going through the ceremony himself. Hard to explain that away.

Originally Posted By: EricKumerow
The only crew that we know for a fact is toast is the heights IMO.


You can also add the Rush Street crew to that list. Possibly others at this point.

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