Thats right GaryMartin and also thank you for providing us always with good articles and infos.

As i said before nobody dared to touch Ricca's crew untill he was still alive.On the other hand,if some1 from the other crews made a mistake,well that was the end of him.Most of the Taylor Street boys were the biggest money makers in the Outfit so guys like Accardo or Ross Prio had to do business with them or take their cut.

Ricca was a very egotistic person and so was every member of his crew.He enforced his rules and gave his protection untill the end.

Another example is when in the mid 1950's two of Ricca's Taylor Street underlings Turk Torello and Rocco Infelise were caught with a $100,000 worth of drugs.Ricca just looked the other way because he took a cut from it since the old days with Luciano and nobody dared to lay a hand on Torello and Infelise.They got out of jail in no time