I would say 100s of millions. He made millions a year from the 1930s to the late 1980s
Chicago was wide open in the 40s and 50s And really till the earl 90s, they owned the city,everything in the city was under they're control,They made billions..... The wiretaps from the 60s showed that Gus Alex and frank strong Ferraro were making 250k a month from sports betting in the loop and half of that was kicked up to "the WESTSIDE ,which was ricca and acardo and giancana and they had 9 capos and all the business ,street tax,strip clubs ,loan sharking ,pornography,restraunts,car dealerships,card games,vending machines, the laborers, the teamsters and the hotel and restraunt employees and I'm talking the heads of the national unions not just all of the locals etc etc. ...your talking about the most disciplined ,ruthless leadership,old school all the way and gangsters, there was no hemming and hawing...you fucked up and you were gone ,complete sticklers for the rules ...everybody kicked up..... In my opinion in terms of stashed cash ... He's the richest gangster of all time. The longevity is what does it ...he was boss 13 years before gambino and 13 years after. The family was his until the day he died in 92...your talking 48 years even at 2.2 million per year that's a 100 million and I'm thinking it was more like 30 million a year
Impossible to determine but very good reasoning Louie. Net worth at death can only be known by his family. He may have made that in his lifetime, but who knows what went out in payoffs, legal fees for senate hearings, living expenses etc. Payoffs alone in a city the size of Chicago had to have been astronomical. But I agree with your statement about Accardo being one of the wealthiest gangsters of all time...no doubt about it. But I also know some bosses from smaller families that had staggering wealth, John LaRocca in Pittsburgh was said to be worth nearly $40 million according to Andrew Susce, former IRS agent who tracked LaRocca for over 20 years. In a smaller city, there aren't as many layers of government to payoff. Jimmy Lanza in San Francisco was said to be worth upwards of $50 million. Tony Milano in Cleveland was in the rackets from around 1915 through 1978, his wealth was estimated by local FBI and IRS agents to be upwards of $60 million.
Guys like Moe Dalitz, Meyer Lansky, Morris Kleinman, Louis Rothkopf, and Samuel Tucker were some of the wealthiest gangsters in America. Dalitz very well could have had over $110 million according to the Feds, much of it legitimate money.
