If the number of court cases for juice operations was lower in Chicago than New York that doesn’t mean that the NY mafia used to have more juice operations than the Outfit. The Outfit was infiltrated in the government much more than the New York mob ever was. I want to add that the juice operation is an enterprise that doesn’t need a large group of associates to carry out its functions. This racket is operated in stealth manner and usually the operators are blood thirsty criminals with gruesome reputation so they don’t need any protection from their victims and the Chicago mob used to have a lot of guys like that.

Here’s a small part of history on the Outfit’s juice operations in other cities…

One of the earliest juice operations outside of Chicago, were in Miami, Florida and Wisconsin. Ralph Capone held a speak easy known as the “Brothers” in Hurley, Wisconsin and operated a large scale of juice operations from that joint.

During the early 1930’s in Reno, Nevada the Chicago mob held a large scale of juice operations at The Bank Club Casino. These operations were overseen by mob associate John Drew.

In the 1940’s large scale juice operations were held in Miami and Tampa, Florids at the race tracks that were owned by the Outfit, such as the Beach Kennel Club, Jacksonville Kennel Club and the Orange Park Kennel Club. Also in San Francisco, California at the Villa Chanticleer Casino, members from Chicago’s north side crew were in charge of the operations. During the late 1940’s Sam Yaras, brother of Dave Yaras, besides his coin machine racket, he also operated few juice operations. At the same period Lenny Patrick and Dave Yaras made connections and expanded their gambling and loan shark operations in Milwaukee, through John Ditrapani, who I think he was later murdered by the Outfit.

During the late 1950’s Giancana’s main juice operator Fifi Buccieri had spread his operations in Gary and Hammond, Indiana and Milwaukee, Wisonsin.

During the early 1960’s in Tucson, Arizona, the juice operations were controlled by Sam English, Joseph English and Leonard Russo. Sam alone had more than $500,000 on the streets. Also Joseph DiCaro, associate of, Sam Battaglia’s crew had few big juice operations going on. These guys mostly lent money to companies that were on the downfall. The crew pulled 10% of their earnings in Chicago and invested it in the juice racket. Also Joe “Buddy” Tocco, associate of the Chicago Heights crew, had many juice operations in Tucson.

By the mid 1960’s the Chicago crime bosses made a complete takeover of the bookmaking and loan shark operations by extracting a 50% tribute from the gross profits of all of the bookies and juice men in the area, thus making a multi-million dollar a year racket.

During the 1970’s Tony Spilotro oversaw large scale juice operations at the Circus Circus Casino. The Outfit's juice operations in Chicago were reduced during the mid 1970's because of some juice operation cases that occurred during that period. So they transferred their racket mainly to Vegas and other cities. According to the FBI Spilotro was the main guy that made loans to debtors both in Las Vegas and other cities around the country, such as Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona.