When al capone was released from prison Wisconsin was his favorite hangout, that's where capone met with outfit memberers, al capone nephew once gave an interview saying he saw al capone sitting at a table with a bunch of outfit bigwigs and lots of food, al capone would also go to his mother house in chicago and meet with outfit figures there, there was actually coded messages over the phone leaving from al capones house to Chicago but the fbi never was able to decipher them, the fbi even interview his wife Mae capone but she wouldn't talk, after al capone was released from prison ralph capone was his messenger, that's y I don't believe guzik was kidnapped because al capone would never have stood for it

Yes it was a famous Capone area since the 1920s called Silver Street in Hurley, Wisconsin

You could be right, maybe it didn't happen. I would agree that Capone would never allowed it, but in 1944 Capone was pretty much "out of it." Nitti died about a year earlier, and for the most part Ricca had been in charge for some time. Accardo was "subbing" for Ricca who got caught up in the Hollywood Extortion case. So it's hard to say about these things. And you could be right, maybe it didn't happen.

About the Hollywood extortion case, an outfit member by the name of nick cievella (probably misspelled his last name) was collecting the payments from the Hollywood producers, and for a reason I can't explain, ralph capone started collecting the payouts, but he was in ever indicted in the Hollywood extortion case

Very odd how some outfit guys were charged and others walked.

I know the Outfit had good connections in the Court system but i also think that some top figures were secret informants

Yeah, I believe someone was "talking."

@big fella Capone's brains were scrambled eggs from syphilis in his later years. In fact he was battling dementia.

I don't belive so, in an interview capones nephew (the son of his brother hart) admitted when he was a teenager he walked into a big outfit meeting with capone and all of the big wigs from chicago, they held meetings at the resort in wisconsin, capone got treatment after he was released from jail which made him close to normal, he was still able to conduct meetings, and the outfit sent him money until the day he died

Back to the topic.....the war for control of the racing wire during this time frame fascinates me. Ragen was a dead man walking when he defied the Outfit, and it is surprising he lasted as long as he did.

There is a ton of testimony on the Race Wire war in the Kefauver hearings. In St. Louis, when Continental went away, Pioneer News became the new provider of race wire results.

An interesting legal battle began, because one of Pioneer's owners, William Molasky, was also a significant owner of Western Union, who owned the wire. There were attempts to cut off the phones and the wires at Pioneer, due to illegal activity, and the case went to district court, then circuit court and finally, the Missouri Supreme Court. It was appealed all the way to the US Supreme Court, who denied the petition to hear the case.