I'm back on here, been away for a while with lap top problems. Just bought a cool toshiba, which I like.

My next charts will be the Dallas and Rockford ones. I'm also doing a Joe Massino Timeline. Ciao.

Hell yeah on Rockford. You think they still have OC out there, didnt they have card games getting robbed back in '03?

Back in 2006, 9 people, including Outfit associate Frank "Gumba" Saladino, were busted in Rockford for running a bookmaking operation.

Yep, those were outfit guys and maybe like 2 Rockford family members who were busted.

There was some debate about these guys over on the RD a while back. In the "Family Secrets" case, Saladino was identified as an Outfit associate; specifically of the 26th Street/Chinatown crew. But there was also a report that listed him as the boss of the Rockford family. The debate basically came down to whether the guys in Rockford were their own family or just an extension of the Chicago mob by that point. I tend to go with the latter.

crazy thing ivy gumba was found dead in a motel 8 in hampshire illinois the day the family secrets indictment came out in april of 2005 hampshire is between rockford and chicago about 25 mins from rockford and 45 from chicago .. but he was named as a co conspiritor in the gambling case in rockford

im actually grew up in cicero illinois and lived there for 20 years then moved to the rockford area like 15 years ago so im familiar with alot of this discussion of rockford and the outfit and the cicero crew i love nothing more then to discuss this with people i am a nut when it comes to the history of OC in chicago , cicero and rockford and all the other families but the outfit has been the most fascinating for me .. i would love to discuss all this more with anybody .. i lost my old login but im back and ready to participate in the forum again

courtesy of the rock river times paper ... Former Rockford and Freeport resident Frank G. ‘Gumba’ Saladino found dead during raid in Kane County
Thirteen others indicted in ‘Operation Family Secret’
Calling the indictment of 14 members and associates of the Chicago Mafia “unprecedented,” U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald alleged April 25 that mobsters operated a decades-long organized crime operation that included 18 “mob-related” murders and one attempted murder between 1970 and 1986. One of those indicted, former Rockford and Freeport resident Frank G. “Gumba” Saladino, 59, was alleged to have “committed murder and other criminal activities on behalf of the Chicago Outfit.”
However, prosecutors won’t get a chance to try Saladino on the charges. He was found dead at about 6 a.m., April 25 in a hotel room in Hampshire, Ill., located in rural Kane County, according to Randall Samborn, assistant U.S. attorney and public information officer. Samborn told The Rock River Times that Saladino was found dead when authorities went to arrest him at a hotel, which later identified as the Super 8 hotel.
Samborn added that the Kane County Coroner would conduct an autopsy to try to determine the cause of death.
The Chicago Tribune reported April 26, Saladino was found with $25,000 in cash and $70,000 in checks in his room.
Initial reports by authorities suggested Saladino died of natural causes. Saladino complained in a 2000 lawsuit filed in Winnebago County that he suffered from chronic health problems in part due to a 1986 car crash.
Samborn said he couldn’t give details about Saladino’s involvement in the alleged murders, and referred further questions to the 41-page, nine-count indictment. Saladino is identified in the indictment as a “member of the South Side/26th Street crew.” His last known Rockford address in 2004 was 1303 Montague Rd., according to state records.
The FBI-led probe named “Operation Family Secrets,” alleged the Outfit was involved in 18 murders and racketeering conspiracy extending from the mid-1960s to the present. The alleged racketeering involved sports betting, video gambling, loan sharking and collecting “street tax” from participants in illegal activities.
Land dispute
According to 17th Judicial Circuit court documents, Saladino was involved in a bitter business dispute with partners that included Salvatore “Sam” Galluzzo, who, along with Saladino, owned Worldwide General Contracting Inc. On March 4, 1984, the Rockford Register Star identified Galluzzo as a “mob soldier.” Galluzzo is believed to still reside in Rockford on the city’s far east side.
In addition to Galluzzo, Saladino named 13 other defendants in his 2000 lawsuit. Among those named by Saladino in the lawsuit were Rockford attorney Frank P. Vella Jr., Galluzzo’s brother Natale Galluzzo, City of Loves Park and Village of Rockton Attorney Paul S. Nicolosi, and Salvatore Galluzzo’s son, Gerlando “Gino” Galluzzo.
Along with Nicolosi, Gerlando Galluzzo is an attorney at the law firm of Nicolosi and Associates, P.C., which was founded in 1948 by patriarch Philip A. Nicolosi.
According to the Nicolosi law firm’s Web site, in 1992, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development chose the law firm as the exclusive closing agent for Cook County, and the surrounding six counties.
Saladino’s lawsuit involved a dispute dating back to at least July 1991 that concerned construction and “improvement” at the northeast corner of East State Street and Perryville Road. The business partners planned to build a mausoleum on the site, and City of Rockford officials contributed $75,000 to the effort.
Saladino alleged fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud by the defendants concerning the land deal, which is now home to several businesses, including the Nicolosi law firm.
The defendants successfully argued that an April 19, 1999, agreement between Saladino, Nicolosi Trustee Deborah J. Nicolosi and five Galluzzo family members nullified Saladino’s claims in the lawsuit. They argued the 2000 lawsuit breached the 1999 settlement agreement.
However, Saladino implied in the lawsuit that he was coerced into “transactions” at the behest of former Winnebago County Sheriff Donald J. Gasparini. Saladino lost his arguments when Associate Judge J. Edward Prochaska ruled for the defendants.
Circuit Judge Ronald L. Pirrello recused himself from the lawsuit on Aug. 16, 2000.
Paul Nicolosi and Gerlando Galluzzo were unavailable April 25 for comment about this article.
Case dismissed
In 1997, Saladino was indicted for aggravated battery against Loves Park Police Officer Charles Lynde. He was also indicted for driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Saladino was arrested at the intersection of Forest Hills Road and Zenith Cutter (Parkway).
The intersection is near where mob-connected Rosemont Mayor Donald E. Stephens’ campaign fund paid for printing services between 2000 and 2003 to companies located at 5251 Zenith Pkwy. (see May 26, 2004, article “Rosemont’s Rockford Connections”). Whether Saladino’s arrest near the intersection is connected to the printing companies could not be determined by time of publication.
On motions by Winnebago County State’s Attorney Paul Logli’s office, all four counts against Saladino were recommended for dismissal. Circuit Judge K. Craig Peterson accepted the recommendations, according to court documents.
Informants
Former Chicago Mob attorney and federal informant Robert Cooley told The Rock River Times last November he was assisting investigators in what turned into the sweeping indictment handed down April 25 that included Saladino. During interviews, Cooley also said Mob capo Marco D’Amico had crews “openly” working in the Rockford area during the 1970s through the 1980s (see Nov. 24, 2004, article “Chicago Mob worked openly here”).
However, D’Amico is reported to be a member of the North Side crew, not the South Side crew, to which Saladino is said to have been affiliated.
In addition to D’Amico, another Chicago mobster from the North Side crew, William Daddano Jr., also had connections to Rockford through the now-defunct Midwest Distributing Co., which was located at 212 N. Madison St.
In addition to Cooley, the Chicago Sun-Times reported in several articles in the past six months that a key informant in solving the murder cases was Nicholas W. Calabrese, 62, of Chicago. He and his brother Frank Calabrese, Sr., 68, of Oak Brook are named as defendants in the indictment.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported April 25 that Nick Calabrese “is believed to have participated in a number of mob hits and has been able to tell investigators details about the involvement of others.”
One of those hits may have involved the infamous June 1986 deaths of Anthony “The Ant” Spilotro and his brother, Michael Spilotro. Their deaths were depicted in the 1995 movie Casino.
Anthony Spilotro was the Outfit’s main enforcer in Las Vegas.
By the early morning hours of April 26, even the British Broadcasting Corporation’s World Service radio was reporting the indictments.
To view the federal prosecutor’s 41-page indictment on the Web, visit: www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln
The indicted
In addition to former Rockford resident Frank G. Saladino, Nick Calabrese of Chicago and Frank Calabrese of Oak Brook, federal prosecutors indicted the following individuals:
James Marcello, 63, Lombard
Joseph Lombardo, 75, Chicago
Michael Marcello, 55, Schaumburg
Nicholas Ferriola, 29, Westchester
Joseph Venezia, 62, Hillside
Thomas Johnson, 49, Willow Springs
Dennis Johnson, 34, Lombard
Michael Ricci, 75, Streamwood
Frank Schweihs, 75, Dania, Fla.
Anthony Doyle, 60, Wickenburg, Ariz.
Paul Schiro, 67, Phoenix, Ariz.
The victims
Murder and attempted murder victims named in the federal indictment include the following:
Michael Albergo, also known as “Hambone,” in or about August 1970, in Chicago
Daniel Seifert, on or about Sept. 27, 1974, in Bensenville
Paul Haggerty, on or about June 24,1976, in Chicago
Henry Cosentino, on or about March 15, 1977
John Mendell, on or about Jan. 16, 1
978, in Chicago
Donald Renno and Vincent Moretti, on or about Jan. 31,1978, in Cicero
William and Charlotte Dauber, on or about July 2, 1980, in Will County
William Petrocelli, on or about Dec. 30, 1980, in Cicero
Michael Cagnoni, on or about June 24, 1981, in DuPage County
Nicholas D’Andrea, on or about Sept. 13, 1981, in Chicago Heights
Attempted murder of Individual A, on or about April 24, 1982, in Lake County
Richard D. Ortiz and Arthur Morawski, on or about July 23,1983, in Cicero
Emil Vaci, on or about June 7, 1986, in Phoenix
Anthony and Michael Spilotro, on or about June 14, 1986, in DuPage County
John Fecarotta, on or about Sept. 14, 1986, in Chicago
Galluzzo history
The 1990s was not the only time the Galluzzo family received money from the City of Rockford.
According to court documents, on Aug. 18, 1982, Natale Galluzzo allegedly set fire to a home at 1028 Ferguson St., on the city’s west side. Prosecutors charged Galluzzo with arson “with the intent to defraud an insurer.”
However, on the recommendation of Winnebago County State’s Attorney Dan Doyle’s office, the charges were dismissed on June 24, 1983.
The City of Rockford bought the Ferguson Street property from Natale Galluzzo and his wife almost one year after the incident on Aug. 10, 1983. Not only did the city pay the Galluzzos $2,437.30 for demolition of the building on the property, the money was exempted from transfer tax, which sources said was unusual.
Doyle is now a temporary judge in the 17th Judicial Circuit. He came out of retirement late last year to hear felony cases to ease jail overcrowding.
From the April 27-May 3, 2005, issue

Yeah, the Outfit is definitely one of the more interesting families. It's just been a powder-keg topic because there's been so much disagreement on the current state of the Chicago mob.

courtesy of the rock river times .... ‘Alfano’s Pizza Restaurant, Oregon, Ill., formerly owned by Pietro Alfano, who was second in command for Midwest Mob operations. According to the FBI investigation, this pizzeria supplied the Chicago “Outfit” with heroin, which was picked up by their couriers in pizza boxes.’);
Rockford Mobster Joseph J. Maggio’s FBI file shows likely motive for his 1980 killing, Mob efforts to gain access to FBI files
He was found dead in the back seat of his car along Safford Road by two Winnebago County Sheriff’s deputies on April, 6, 1980. The victim, Rockford Mob member Joseph J. Maggio, was shot once in the side of the head at close range with a 6.35mm bullet, which was made in Austria.
His killer has never been charged, and the shooting remains an open and unsolved case. However, according to Maggio’s extensive FBI file, a “prime suspect” was identified by unknown sources, and the motive for his killing was “a result of his objection to LCN [La Cosa Nostra or Mafia] entry into the narcotics business in Rockford.”
And, according to an October 1984 FBI document, an unknown informant “was instructed by his ‘associates’ in either Las Vegas or Los Angeles that Maggio had to be killed. [Redacted] ‘associates’ are members of the LCN.”
Maggio’s murder and FBI file provides another piece to the puzzle that may one day directly link Rockford to the Mafia-run heroin and cocaine smuggling conspiracy of the 1970s and 1980s, which was known as the “Pizza Connection.”
Of the nearly 1,500 pages The Rock River Times requested from Maggio’s FBI file, only 90 pages were released by the U.S. Justice Department. Most of the 90 pages released were heavily redacted or censored for content.
However, the information that was released shows the Mob’s determination to not only scam ordinary citizens out of money through businesses that appear completely legitimate, but also gain access to FBI files.
Origins
Less than two months before Maggio was killed, he and other Mafia members met “several times” in February 1980 with Rockford Mob boss Joseph Zammuto in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.—where Zammuto vacationed during the winter each year.
Exactly what was discussed at the meeting is not known. However, Maggio’s heavily-redacted file indicates an unknown individual or group “began dealing narcotics in Rockford in August 1980, with Zammuto’s sanction.”
As to who began dealing drugs with Zammuto’s approval is not known because of Maggio’s redacted FBI file. However, what is known is John S. Leombruni was convicted in 1983 for trafficking cocaine in Rockford and the surrounding area.
According to a March 4, 1984, article in the Rockford Register Star: “There were indications in 1982 that a six-month investigation by the FBI of cocaine traffic in Rockford had turned up Mob connections. Twelve persons were indicted, including John S. Leombruni, who was described as the city’s biggest cocaine dealer. …Leombruni had lived in Las Vegas the year before his arrest.”
And, according to the Register Star article, an FBI affidavit indicated Leombruni “was run out of town by ‘the Mafia chief in Las Vegas.’ Court-approved wiretaps showed Mob involvement in the Rockford cocaine case, FBI agents said, but were not allowed as evidence in Leombruni’s trial.” He was tried in federal court in Rockford.
The sequence of incidents, from published sources, suggests a strong link between the Rockford Mob and other participants in the Pizza Connection, whose second-in-command for Midwest operations was Oregon, Ill., pizza-maker Pietro Alfano.
According to a source for The Rock River Times, Alfano, now 70, “retired” and returned to Sicily shortly after his release from federal prison in 1992. As of 2004, Alfano’s son operated the restaurant, which was still in business in Oregon.
Ralph Blumenthal, reporter for The New York Times and author of the 1988 book Last Days of the Sicilians, wrote that Alfano immigrated to the United States between 1963 and 1967 from Cinisi, Sicily, a town about 8 miles west of Palermo near the Mediterranean Sea.
Cinisi was also the hometown of former Sicilian Mob boss Gaetano Badalamenti, who was born in 1923, and died in 2004. Badalamenti became head of the Sicilian Mafia in 1969, but fled for his life to Brazil in November 1978 in the wake of the “Mafia wars” in Sicily.
Alfano and other Mob members born in Sicily, but working in the United States, were referred to as “Zips” by their American-born counterparts. According to Selwyn Raab, former New York Times reporter and author of the 2005 book Five Families: The rise, decline and resurgence of America’s most powerful Mafia empires, the term “Zip” may be Sicilian slang for “hicks” or “primitives.”
Drugs and intelligence files
April 8, 1984, Alfano and Badalamenti were apprehended by police in Madrid, Spain. Authorities charged that they, along with 29 others overseas and in the United States, participated in a multinational, $1.65 billion heroin/cocaine smuggling and money laundering conspiracy.
The conspiracy stretched from poppy fields in Afghanistan to banks in Switzerland, ships in Bulgaria and Turkey, pay phones in Brazil, and pizza restaurants in New York, Oregon, Ill., and Milton, Wis. The conspiracy would become known as the “Pizza Connection,” the successor to the 1950s’ and 1960s’ “French Connection.”
Winnebago County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Chief and former Interim Chief of the Rockford Police Department Dominic Iasparro, head of the Rockford-area Metro Narcotics task force, has been with the agency for about 32 years. Iasparro recalled area drug trafficking during the time of the Pizza Connection.
“As I understand it, the drugs weren’t coming out here—they were staying in New York,” Iasparro said during an April 12, 2004, interview.
In addition to being head of the local narcotics unit, Iasparro was also responsible for destroying police intelligence files concerning Rockford Mob members in the mid-1980s that Iasparro said was part of a nationwide effort to purge such information. Maggio’s dossier was among the files requested by The Rock River Times last year, but apparently destroyed during the purge.
Immigration and sponsorship
Under what circumstances Alfano arrived in the United States is not clear. However, what is clear is Alfano and other Sicilians in the Midwest and on the East Coast were employed in the pizza business. Also apparent is former Rockford Mob boss Frank J. Buscemi was reported by the Register Star to have facilitated the immigration of “several cousins to Rockford from Sicily and set them up in business.”
What is not certain is whether Buscemi, a Chicago native, sponsored Alfano’s move to Illinois. Buscemi was owner of Stateline Vending Co., Inc., and Rondinella Foods Co., before his death in Rockford Dec. 7, 1987. Rondinella was a wholesale cheese, food and pizza ingredient distributor.
Stateline Vending began operating from the basement of the Aragona Club on Kent Street before moving to 1128 S. Winnebago St., which was owned by former Mafia Adviser Joseph Zito and Mobster Jasper Calo. The vending business eventually settled at 326 W. Jefferson St., in Rockford, before it was dissolved in 1988, after Buscemi’s death.
Winnebago County court documents from 1988 indicate alleged Rockford Mob hit man Frank G. Saladino worked for Rondinella in the 1980s when Buscemi owned the business. Saladino was found dead April 25, 2005, in Hampshire, Ill., by federal agents that went to arrest him on charges of murder and other illegal Mob-related activities.
According to Buscemi’s recently released FBI file, Buscemi was also the target of a federal investigation from 1981 to 1986 in connection with Maggio’s murder and “extortionate business practices.”
“These allegations involved Buscemi’s cheese distribution business, RONDINELLA FOODS, and his vending machine operation, STATE-LINE VENDING.” Buscemi’s file also indicates the investigation produced “numerous leads of extreme value, including contacts between Frank J. Buscemi and the subject of an ongoing Boston drug task force investigation.”
Despite the years of investigations, Buscemi was never charged with any crime before his death in 1987.
Business meeting
The M
ob’s historic ties to the vending machine business is significant in establishing an indirect link between the Rockford Mob and the Pizza Connection because of a meeting that took place in July 1978 in Milwaukee among Mob members from New York, Milwaukee and Rockford.
In July 1978, federal court documents show Rockford Mafia Adviser Joseph Zito, Mob Underboss Charles Vince, and Phillip J. Emordeno, along with other members of the Milwaukee and New York Mafia, were alleged to have tried to extort money from a competing upstart vending machine company owner. The owner of the company the Mob members tried to shake down was actually an undercover federal agent named Gail T. Cobb, who was masquerading as Tony Conte, owner of Best Vending Co.
According to page 229 of Raab’s book, legendary FBI agent Donnie Brasco, whose real name was Joseph Pistone, was “used” by Bonanno Mob soldier Benjamin “Lefty Guns” Ruggiero “on cooperative ventures with other families in New York, Florida and Milwaukee.”
Blumenthal wrote on page 42 of his book that in 1978 Pistone traveled to Milwaukee to vouch for Cobb, and “Pistone helped Cobb cement an alliance between the Bonanno and [Milwaukee Mob boss Frank P.] Balistrieri clans.”
Actor Johnny Depp portrayed Pistone in the 1997 movie Donnie Brasco, during the time in the late 1970s when Pistone infiltrated organized crime.
The Register Star described the 1978 meeting in its March 1984 article as being partly arranged by Rockford Mob members. The article concluded the meeting “confirmed long-held intelligence information that…[the Rockford Mob] possessed the influence to deal directly with the Milwaukee and New York organized crime families.”
The meeting was set to quash a possible violent conflict between Cobb and Mafia members.
Ruggerio’s Mob captain, Michael Sa Bella, contacted Tony Riela—a New Jersey Mob member with ties to the Rockford Mafia. Riela called Rockford to schedule the meeting, and Ruggiero called Zito several times. Vince also called Balistrieri’s son, J. Peter Balisrieri, shortly before the meeting.
According to the Register Star article, “on July 29, 1978, Cobb met the three Rockford men and Ruggiero at the Centre Stage Restaurant in Milwaukee. … Ruggiero told Cobb that the vending machine business in Milwaukee was controlled by the mob,” and if Cobb wanted to enter the business, he would have to share his profits with the Mafia or be killed. Since the New York and Milwaukee crime families worked together, “Cobb also was told he would have to pay a portion of his profits to the Bonanno family,” which was headed at that time by Carmine “Lilo” Galante.
Death on the patio
Blumenthal wrote that the shotgun assignation of Galante in the mid-afternoon July 12, 1979, while he was dining on the patio of a restaurant in Brooklyn, N.Y., marked a tipping point in the power struggle to control drug trafficking in America. Pizza Connection prosecutors believed Galante’s murder “cleared the way for Sicilian Mafia rivals in America to set up the Pizza Connection.”
Raab said on page 207 that Galante attempted to injure the other four New York Mob familyies’ interests in the drug trade, especially the Gambino crime family. “Perhaps even more grievous, after Carlo Gambino’s death [Galante] had openly predicted that he would be crowned boss of bosses.”
Although Frank Balistrieri and others would be sent to prison as a result of Cobb and Pistone’s efforts, no Rockford Mob members were indicted in the Milwaukee case. The same may also be said about the Pizza Connection conspiracy.
Shooting on the sidewalk
Unlike Galante, Alfano survived a Mob attempt on his life.
After emerging from a Balducci’s delicatessen in Greenwhich Village, N.Y., the evening of Feb. 11, 1987, Alfano was shot three times in the back by two men who emerged from a red car. The shooting occurred during the October 1985 to March 1987 Pizza Connection trial.
Blumenthal wrote that the failed assassination attempt, which left Alfano paralyzed below the waist and confined to a wheel chair, was allegedly arranged by Gambino family associates.
Blumenthal alleged Salvatore Spatola, a convicted heroin and cocaine smuggler, said the attempted killing of Alfano had been arranged by Pasquale Conte Sr.—a captain in the Gambino family.
The exact motive for Alfano’s shooting appears a mystery. However, Blumenthal wrote that convicted New Jersey bank robber Frank Bavosa told the FBI and New York police he and two other men were paid $40,000 to kill Alfano “allegedly because of his continuing drug-trafficking activities.”
Autonomous but united
Even though the Rockford Mob has historically been considered part of the Chicago Mafia, which is known as “The Outfit,” Tommaso Buscetta, Sicilian Mafia turncoat and lead witness in the Pizza Connection trial, testified that Italian-based Mobsters based throughout the world acted as one in achieving their objectives.
Supporting that claim is a statement from Thomas V. Fuentes, special agent in the organized crime section for the FBI. During a 2003 broadcast on the History Channel, Fuentes said a Nov. 14, 1957, meeting of Mafia bosses from throughout the United States in Apalachin, N.Y., was in part to decide whether American Mob members would act cohesively to cash in on the drug trade.
Specifically, Fuentes said: “We believe that the main purpose was for the bosses of the American families to decide whether or not they would engage jointly in heroin trafficking with their cousins in Sicily.”
Rockford Mob Consuleri Joseph Zito’s brother, Frank Zito, boss of the Springfield, Ill., Mob, was one of those who attended the Apalachin conference, according to Joseph Zito’s FBI file.
Also in attendance at the Apalachin meeting with Zito were at least 58 other Mob members, which included Carlo Gambino; Vito Genovese, boss of the New York Genovese crime family; Gambino’s brother-in-law, Paul Castellano; and Joe Bonanno. Castellano would be Gambino’s successor after Gambino’s death in 1976. Castellano was murdered in 1986, and was succeeded by John Gotti, who died in a Missouri prison medical center June10, 2002.
Scam in Alabama
In addition to a probable motive for Maggio’s killing, Maggio’s FBI file shows the Mob’s determination to not only steal money from citizens, but gain access to FBI files.
Maggio was convicted Dec. 6, 1972, on seven counts of mail fraud and one count of conspiracy. The conviction was obtained after an unidentified male informant said the conspiracy involved a “boat registration scheme, wherein the name United States Merchant Marine was used to collect funds for a national boat registration service.
“He said they planned to circulate a letter to all boat owners for a $10 contribution, which would then be used as a registration fee for a registry to be maintained by the company [United States Merchant Marine Service, Inc.]. …
“[Redact] had asked him if he had any idea how the United States Merchant Marine Service could patch into the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National Crime Information Center (NCIC).”
Maggio was born Aug. 30, 1936, in Rockford, where he lived his entire life, until his death at age 43. Maggio married in 1959, and had three sons and one daughter. He became a made Mob member in approximately February 1965.
Editor’s note: Jeff Havens is a former award-winning staff writer for the The Rock River Times. He lived most of his life in the Rockford area, and wrote dozens of news articles about the Mob in Rockford and Chicago.

they are still out on the streets and its supposedly unclear who the bosses are and if there is a ruling panel or if no nose is the boss of bosses so to speak i mean the only info we as the public have is what rat nick calabrese said during snitched out testimony and he was only aware of activity from 1995 his incarceration until he was known to be ratting which was 2003 so alot has changed i mean besides sarno getting pinched for the bombing of a gambling machine competitor in 2003 in berwyn which was down the street from me when i was there for awhile and anthony calabrese getting pinched for armed robbery and extortion and was supposedly involved with whacking out the anthony the hatch chiarimonti in lyons in a browns chicken restaurant and the shooter pointing the finger at calabrese who is away for life on other charges .. also rudy fratto going away and casey szarflaski who was running machines in bridgeport there isnt much publicly known ... an excerpt from chicago syndicate .com ... Federal authorities also are investigating Calabrese in connection with an unrelated mob shooting, this one deadly. He surfaced as the suspected triggerman who killed loan collector Anthony "The Hatch" Chiaramonti Nov. 20, 2001, in the vestibule of a Brown's Chicken & Pasta restaurant on Harlem Avenue in Lyons, according to a federal indictment. The getaway driver who implicated Calabrese in the Lyons murder, Robert G. Cooper of Bridgeport, is serving a 22-year federal prison term after pleading guilty in 2003 to first-degree murder.

Although Calabrese has not been charged with killing Chiaramonti, authorities hope the two ongoing federal probes will lead to a break in the Naperville case. Cross recently interviewed Randall Re, and Calabrese and his co-defendants in the three armed robberies.

What's interesting is, even though there's been 4 remaining Outfit crews cited since around the time of the "Family Secrets" case, one article not too long ago said the Outfit was down to "two or three." Another article said the Outfit was being run in "northern and southern sections." There's been a lot to suggest that the north side guys are into more legit stuff, i.e. DiFronzos companies, restaurants, strip clubs, etc. While the south side guys are more into the street stuff like video poker machines, loansharking, robberies, etc.

and rockford is still a crew of the outfit and kicks up to someone in the outfit there are gambling machines at almost 3/4 of the bars out here in the rockford area and most if not all the machines still come from chicago if not still cicero and they are still down to four crews which im aware of which is northside/rush street . cicero crew . 26th street and south suburbs was merged into one awhile back and elmwood park / melrose park which is no nose's stronghold and a huge mob stomping grounds for years besides the cicero crew which has been a mob strong hold for generations. they are still in the usual bookmaking, loan sharking, gambling, and i used to hear broads but that was back in the day on cicero avenue when they had a few strip clubs under their thumb ... and rockford is mostly gambling , book making and of course the major money make of them all gambling machines

This is my understanding...


1. Elmwood Park crew - theoretically consists of that area, Rush Street, the rest of the North Side, and the Northern Suburbs stretching into Lake County.

2. Grand Avenue crew - theoretically consists of the area surrounding Grand and Ogden Avenues, the rest of the West Side, and the Western Suburbs stretching into DuPage County.

3.Cicero crew - also called the Melrose Park crew.

4. 26th Street/Chinatown crew - theoretically consists of that area, the rest of the South Side and Chicago Heights, the Southern Suburbs stretching into Will County, and North West Indiana.

I use the term "theoretically" because most of the Outfit's activity today is in Chicago and it's immediate surroundings within Cook County.

yes grand avenue and rush street / northside is one in the same and so ive heard is joe the builders and d'amicos stomping grounds ... hence grand avenue is northside lol

You sure about that? A lot of people seem to still think they're separate crews. But I've wondered myself.