Paul Ricca was the boss of the West Side and the Taylor Street Crew,not Giancana.He brought that crew to the big picture and kept them alive.Nobody dared to touch the Taylor street boys because of Ricca.Mad Sam never answered to Accardo or the GRand Ave.He was direct with Ricca and Giancana.Accardos crew or the GRand Ave. crew and the Taylor Street boys were sort of rival crews.They were different crime families sort of speak. The only thing that kept the peace between thouse two crews was the good relationship between Ricca and Accardo.And thats why the two crews did business together.Also Accardo did not make a move without Ricca’s aprooval.Ricca was once Accardos boss and always remained as one,plus Paul was older than Tony so he always has been like his mentor and always had the last word.Accardo and Giancana were always careful not to act superior around Ricca, the man who had trained them for their positions.

Both,Tony and Paul had many legal problems(tax and deportation trials)so they had to place Giancana as their front boss on the streets of Chicago.Accardo was as his senior advisor,althou Ricca was Giancanas real advisor.The Taylor Street boys NEVER took an order from Accardo.Tony was Sam's second advisor and they were both invloved in the gambling and cigarette business and that was that.Also Accardo or Ricca were NEVER RETIRED.They stayed as top advisors and untill their last years of their lives they were top elder statesmen.

Giancana was a flashy mob boss alright but who wasnt.Ricca and Accardo were also flashy guys but as some say Giancana had a bad attitude towards the law.Sam was an arrogant guy,loved famous beautiful girls and also loved the press.The Outfit didnt like public attention.Also Sam was NEVER EXILED to Mexico.He went over there to get away from the heat that he brougth over the OUtfit and to keep the gambling operations over there.He was an international mobster among others in his crew,like Hy Larner.In thouse days they concentrated in Central and South AMerica.They had many gambling operations,they smuggled slot machines and also weapons amd narcotics.The gambling business was booming,the dope business was booming,prostitution was booming,every criminal operation was booming while Sam was the boss.

When Ricca died it was the end of the Taylor Street crew.Some got whacked and others joined Accardo's new administration or other different crews.In other words,it was the end of the "golden era" for the Outfit in general.After Ricca’s death,Accardo inherited Paul’s position as the one and only top advisor and later elder statesman in the Chicago Outfit and retained it untill his death.

These statements are not some rumours but they are pure mob historical facts.