Originally Posted By: karona1
incredible ..how much business he was doing. thanks


No problem.Yeah Jimmy had a hell of a empire under his rule.You can also add his profits from the hookers,that were placed in 90% of the locals(the hookers paid 200$ a month street tax) ,his bookie and other gambling operations(he made 200.000$ per year from the wire service) and ofcourse union profits and loansharking...but the thing is...his reign as a big earner was short.He was a diabetic at the time and had a lot of problems with the feds because when he became big time on the North Side in 1956,thats the same time when Giancana was placed as front boss and made a lot of noise and it wasnt good for business.So when the big earners like Jimmy went to jail,the other bosses decided that its time for Sam to take a vacation.

Jimmy was allied with the old Capone gang and during the 40's he worked as a frontman for the Outfit.He became big time with the night clubs becase he was in debt to some other dangerous people.Story goes that somewhere around the late 40's,Jimmy lost more than 100.000$ on horse betting and he had to work his debt out and was given the job to locate night clubs and later to muscle in and take over.

Later he was also known as the pay off guy(he had good connection on several police districts)and political fixer.The prominent people around Jimmy were Dominic Hunk Galiano(big time Rush Crew member,also club operator,loanshark and was murdered during a card game)John Capone,Joe DiVarco and Dominic Nuccio(one of the "Three Doms" who was also a partner and did the dirty work for Jimmy).


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