That "the Outfit was only traditional Cosa Nostra during the Aiuppa era" is nonsense, guys.

They always sat on the commission, have always been on the government's lcn chart, etc. Giancana, Ricca, Accardo, all of these guys were hardcore la Cosa nostra, to say otherwise would be ridiculous. Everyone always brings up the "but but Mooney on the wiretap said he thought the making ceremony was goofy" honestly those guys fucked with those wiretaps & lied through their teeth for various reasons so often who the hell knows. New York & the other families have had plenty of high ranking non Italians. And the non Italians in Chicago were never made or let into the INNER inner circle.

John gotti was a quarter Jewish.

Chicago may have some unique peculiarities regarding the way they go about business, but they are traditional cosa Nostra.