faithful 1, you know youre outfit very well. perhaps you can answer this for me. "mad sam" destefano was a real nut case. the guy was a liability to the outft for more time than he should have been, who at the top was keeping this moron alive?
The kind of sadism that DeStefano had was only a little worse than your run-of-the-mill Outfit guy. Estelle Carey is a prime example of how evil they could be, but there were many others. DeStefano, though, was said to have been a little worse because he enjoyed torture more than others. Read these articles in Life magazine about how Fifi Buccieri and Turk Torello enjoyed torturing William "Action" Jackson:
http://books.google.com/books?id=UFYEAAA...son&f=falsehttp://books.google.com/books?id=a08EAAA...und&f=falseAnother reason they kept him around is that he was good money-maker. Torture pays. That's probably why Accardo invested with him. He was a dutiful soldier to Giancana and Ricca liked him too. It's telling that DeStefano was killed after Ricca died and while Giancana was in Mexico. DeStefano was paranoid about being shot to death, so most likely the person who did it was someone he trusted, like a Tony Spilotro.
