by the by, You're thinking of Paul Ricca, not Tony Accardo
Accardo lasted much longer and never spent a night in jail or prison. Ricca did almost 4 years. Accardo lasted through the 1980's when all of the other major Mafia bosses in the country were sent to prison on RICO charges. He was one of the top guys in one of the top crime organizations in the country for almost 5 decades with the FBI bullseye on his back and made it through unscathed.
