Hi everyone, my name is Scott M. Burnstein and I am a mob author (Motor City Mafia, Family Affair, Detroit True Crime Chronciles, Mafia Prince). I am new to the forum. Next month, I am starting a Jerry Capeci/Ganglandnews-like weekly North American mob column, focusing on non-NYC activity. Below is a sample, touching on some "insider news" on Chicago, a death of a major mob hit man from Buffalo and an update on the forthcoming Montreal mafia trial. Let me know what you guys think.

SCOTT M. BURNSTEIN's Mob Insider
Outfit elder statesman stems off friction escalation in ranks of Chicago mafia

Whether it’s an official appointment or not, Chicago mob stalwart Salvatore (Solly D) DeLaurentis is acting in a consigliere capacity these days, with don John (Johnny No Nose) Di Fronzo and his brother and aid-de-camp Peter (Greedy Petey) Di Fronzo, significantly leaning on the 76-year old Lake County capo to ease straining relationships between loyalists to jailed street boss Michael (Fat Mike) Sarno and the rest of The Outfit (local slang for the Windy City mafia).

According to underworld and law enforcement sources, Sarno brought into the fold and possibly inducted a group of Cicero-based hoodlums that have run amok and begun stepping on toes since Fat Mike, 55, was busted on racketeering charges in 2009 and subsequently convicted and sentenced to 25 years
behind bars.

In reaction to this, the Di Fronzo brothers have repeatedly turned to the highly-respected DeLaurentis to smooth things out, which he has successfully done to this point.

The current capo of Cicero is alleged to be James (Jimmy I) Inendino, also called “Jimmy the Ice Pick” for his past use of the murder tool (Jimmy I cut his teeth in the Windy City underworld as part of the bloodthirsty “Wild Bunch,” in the 1970s and 80s, deceased Outfit boss Joseph (Joe Nick) Ferriola’s enforcement branch)

Some Chicago mob watchers speculate that Marco (The Mover) D’Amico is actually No Nose Di Fronzo’s consigliere, a normal go-to in situations like this, but Solly D was tapped to take care of the problem due to his roots in the Sarno camp.

Sarno and DeLaurentis were nailed together in a 1990 federal racketeering indictment that brought down almost the entire Cicero-headquartered “Good Ship Lollipop” crew ran by Ernest (Rocky) Infelice. That investigation revealed Solly D, sometimes referred to as “Solly the Pizza Man” or the shortened version “Solly Za” for his operation of a pizza joint, was Infelice’s No. 2 in charge, struck fear in many of those he encountered and eerily forecasted the gore-ridden 1985 murder of recalcitrant bookie Hal Smith.

In the months leading up to Smith’s heinous death, DeLaurentis was recorded telling him he would be “trunk music” if he didn’t start paying tribute to the mob. Smith’s strangled and mutilated body was indeed found in the trunk of his car in an Arlington Heights parking lot shortly thereafter, done away with by DeLaurentis’ men.

“This is Chicago, nobody skates for free, everybody pays,” Solly D was taped telling Smith.

Later that day, he told his wired-for-sound driver William (BJ) Jahoda, “I love my job.”

Because of these factors, DeLaurentis was saddled with more prison time than Sarno; He got out in 2005, opposed to Sarno who was let out in 1999 and was able to rise in the ranks quickly, named to manage the Family’s daily affairs in the wake of his predecessor James (Jimmy the Man) Marcello’s imprisonment nine years ago.

“Made” into the Outfit alongside Rudy (The Chin) Fratto and John (Pudgy) Matassa at a 1988 Father’s Day induction ceremony, DeLaurentis replaced longtime capo Joseph (Black Joe) Amato as racket chief of Lake County, a region north of Chicago that Al (Scarface) Capone originally infiltrated during the Prohibition era.

Upon his release from incarceration, DeLaurentis is reputed to have reassumed his post within the mob in Chicago.

Last year, an alleged underling of his, Paul Carparelli, 45, was arrested for running an extortion ring, taped telling an associate of his in the winter of 2013 that Solly D and one of Solly D’s primary lieutenants paid him $10,000 to give a slow-paying debtor of theirs’ “a thorough beating.”

“Solly DeLaurentis is not the type of individual to be trifled with, he’s a capable leader and enforcer and the kind of mobster the bosses in the Outfit appreciate and utilize,” said retired FBI agent (31 years on the job) and dogged Chicago mob pursuer Jim Wagner of Solly D’s reputation.


Montreal mob leader wants separate trial, mountain of motions threatens start date

Parlez-Vous Francais?

Translation; Do you speak French?

Well, if you don’t you might have a difficult time understanding the proceedings at the forthcoming murder trial of Canadian mafia bigwig Raynard Desjardins, the one-time right-hand man to deceased Montreal Godfather Vito Rizzuto.

Lawyers for Desjardins filed motions in Quebec Superior Court court last month requesting that Desjardins’ trial, set to begin in January, be conducted in French and be held separate from his seven co-defendants. Prosecutors desire a single trial before a bilingual jury. His seven co-defendants want the trial to be in English.

Desjardins, 60, and his alleged co-conspirators are charged with killing deported New York mob don Salvatore (Sal the Ironworker) Montagna in November 2011, with Desjardins acting as ringleader of the assassination plot that highlighted a bloody power struggle for control of the Montreal underworld.

Judge Michael Stober told the courtroom at a June progress hearing that he questions if a January 5, 2015 start-date for trial is realistic. Marc Labelle, Desjardins’ defense attorney, informed a visibly perturbed Stober that he is encountering scheduling conflicts for a January start to what is sure to be an arduous trial process. Canadian legal experts are expecting the trial to last at least six months, probably longer.

The case changed venues in April, from Joliette to Laval, both Montreal suburbs.

A just-recently ceased Canadian mob war pitted Desjardins and his initial-ally Montagna against an imprisoned Rizzuto. Released from incarceration in 2012, the revenge-driven, 67-year old Rizzuto died of cancer in December 2013, having lost his father, son and brother-in-law in the carnage-filled conflict that registered a body-count of 15 people in less than three years.

Rizzuto was locked up for eight years for his role in the famed 1981 “Three Captains Murders,” out of New York. He served his first two years in Canada, prior to his extradition to the United States. Upon Rizzuto leaving Canada, his robust criminal empire came under siege from his former protégé Desjardins, who teamed up with Joe Di Maulo, another top lieutenant of his, and Montagna, acting boss of the Bonnano Family, to try to push the jailed Montreal crime czar out of the rackets.

However, in the midst of the palace storming, Desjardins and Sal the Ironworker had a falling out, which according to Canadian prosecutors, resulted in Montagna (called ‘The Bambino Boss’ by the press for his young age – he was 40 when he was whacked) ordering a failed hit on Desjardins and Desjardins retaliating by engineering Montagna’s murder.

Desjardins survived an attempt on his life in September 2011, a sign that his pact with the power-obsessed Montagna had fallen apart. Responding quickly, Desjardins is alleged to have had Sal the Ironworker lured to the house of an associate of his named Jack Simpson two months later and killed. Montagna was attacked at Simpson’s house in Charlemagne, an east suburb of Montreal, but managed to flee, eventually murdered with two gunshots to the head following a chase that ended at a nearby riverbed.

For the year that Rizzuto was alive and back home after serving his prison sentence, he took aim at the renegade faction, headed by a then jailed-himself Desjardins, suspected in ordering at least a half-dozen slayings prior to succumbing to cancer.

Di Maulo was one of the first to be killed, less than a month following Rizzuto’s return, in January 2013. In July 2013, the renegade faction’s reputed No. 1 hit man, Salvatore (Young Gun Sam) Calautti, 40, and his henchmen Jimmy Turek, 35, were slain in Toronto, gunned down while smoking cigars in a car outside a bachelor party.

Cutting his teeth in the rugged Montreal drug game during the 1970s, Desjardins entered Rizzuto’s inner-circle when he became brother-in-laws with Di Maulo, who was a valued capo in the crime family led by Rizzuto and his father, Nicolo (Uncle Nick) Rizzuto, and a frequent social companion of theirs. Known as an expert underworld politician, connected to multiple gangland sects and able to effortlessly alternate between them, Desjardins was the Rizzuto’s longtime liaison to the motorcycle gang contingent, a key business partner with the organization in its narcotics distribution wing.

Vito Rizzuto and Desjardins were indicted together in 1987 on drug charges, however, both beat the case at trial. Finally nailed on a drug conspiracy in 1993, Desjardins was imprisoned for over a decade, returning to Montreal in 2004.

Before he died, Sal the Ironworker Montagna experienced a meteoric rise to American mob royalty. Born in Sicily, he moved to New York at 15 years old and by his early 20s was a driver and bodyguard for Bonanno soldier Baldo Amato, who sponsored him to get his button in the late 1990s. At the age of 30, he was named capo of the Bonanno’s Bronx-based crew – after serving an apprenticeship under Pasquale (Patty from the Bronx) DeFilipo – and four years later in 2006 he was bumped up to acting boss of the Family.

Montagna, the owner of a profitable steel company while a New Yorker, hence the moniker, was deported from the United States on an immigration violation related to his conviction for contempt after he refused to testify at a grand jury convened in 2003 to look into DeFilipo and his crew’s activities.

Chicago underworld’s ‘Big Tomato’ comes home after over two decades behind bars

Louis (Louie Tomatoes) Marino is back in the Windy City.

Last month, Marino, a grizzled veteran and reputed hit man in the Outfit’s Cicero crew, was moved to a halfway house in downtown Chicago, following almost 25 years locked up on a wide-sweeping 1990 racketeering bust that took down a batch of high-ranking Cicero-based mobsters.

Nicknamed Louie Tomatoes because of his ownership of a tomato-canning company, Marino will be released from the halfway house on November 2.

Set to return to his old stomping grounds before Thanksgiving, he carries quite the reputation for instilling fear in the community and within the Chicago mafia itself. He just turned 82 years old and has been implicated in participating in two of the city’s most-storied gangland hits of all-time.

Spending the early part of his underworld career acting as a driver and bodyguard for Cicero capo Ernest (Rocky) Infelise, Marino and his goombata running buddy, Salvatore (Solly D) DeLaurentis, were “made” in the 1980s and assigned by Infelise to assume command of the Chicagoland’s Northwest suburbs.

“We’re taking over Lake County,” Marino was recorded telling an associate of his and DeLaurentis’ intention of grabbing control of the rackets being given up by the retiring Joseph (Black Joe) Amato.

Marino’s ferocity in his collection methods are legendary on the Windy City streets.

In 1981, a knife-wielding Louie Tomatoes was picked up by an FBI wire, delivering this choice nugget of intimidation to a man who owed Marino and DeLaurentis $12,000 on a juice loan.

Sliding into the booth at a local restaurant, next to DeLaurentis and across from his mark, Marino asked Solly D “Does he got the cash?”

“He ain’t got a thing,” DeLaurentis informed his partner in crime, leading to Louie Tomatoes jumping over the table and jabbing his blade into the debtor’s chest.

“You motherfucker, I should give it to you right here you dirty cocksucker,” Marino screamed. “Do what you gotta do, sell your jewelry, I want every mother fucking thing you got. I want my money, I don’t care where you find it. Rob a bank, knock off a liquor store. I want my money, I want it now, I want it tonight. You hear me? This is serious shit. And if you think I ain’t capable think again. I’m gonna to be at your doorstep tonight. I’m gonna to be at your motherfucking bedside every morning you wake up. I’ll take the whole place (his house) apart. You got nowhere to fucking hide. Make right on this or you’re in big fucking trouble.”

The following year in 1982, accompanied by his protégé, Michael (A-1 Mike) Zitello, Louie Tomatoes famously hung a debtor of his over a balcony at the Chicago Board of Trade, threatening to kill him if he didn’t ante up what he owed in front of a crowd of horrified onlookers.

Although not charged in the massive 2005 Family Secrets indictment, Marino was named by turncoat and former Outfit hit man Nicholas (Nicky Slim) Calabrese as one of seven assassins that beat and strangled the Chicago mob’s Las Vegas crew boss, Anthony (Tony the Ant) Spilotro and his little brother, Michael, to death in June 1986.

The Spilotro brothers’ double-murder was reenacted in the 1995 Martin Scorsese movie, Casino, with actor Joe Pesci portraying the character based on the wild card, power-hungry, Tony the Ant.

Marino’s involvement in the gory twin slayings was speculated upon immediately by members of law enforcement. Snitches mentioned him as a possible “doer” right off the bat, according to multiple FBI agents that worked the case. Observed by an FBI surveillance team attending a meeting with Chicago don Joe Ferriola the day after the Spilotros hit at the funeral of popular Outfit soldier Anthony (Bucky) Ortenzi, he was quickly tabbed a “person of interest” in the investigation.

That Labor Day weekend Marino returned home early from a trip to Wisconsin with his family to find FBI agents in the process of putting his Cadillac El Dorado back in his garage following an unsuccessful attempt to bug it. Louie Tomatoes went on to successfully sue the federal government for the damage his car endured (a number of holes were drilled in the interior of the vehicle and the radio was dismantled).

Brought down in the “Good Ship Lollipop” case of 1990, Marino was convicted of racketeering, specifically looking after gambling and loansharking affairs on behalf of Infelise and the Cicero crew at a 1992 trial.

Within the indictment, he was charged with, but never convicted of the gruesome 1985 murder of independent bookmaker Hal Smith. Police found a pair of glasses belonging to Marino and a cigar with his fingerprints on it in Smith’s car, the same vehicle that Smith’s strangled, mutilated corpse was discovered in, his throat cut, in the parking lot of an Arlington Heights hotel.

Mob associate and DeLaurentis’ former driver, William (B.J.) Jahoda, fingered Marino as directly taking part in Smith’s torture and murder. Smith, flamboyant and wealthy, was killed for his indignant behavior, refusal to bow to Outfit demands and the suspicion that he was informing on the Cicero crew (called “The Good Ship Lollipop”) trying to shake him down.

Jahoda testified at trial that at Infelise’s behest he drove Smith to his own house, where he witnessed Marino, Infelise, Robert (Bobby the Boxer) Salerno and Robert (Bobby the Gabeet) Bellavia, converge on him and begin pummeling him to the ground. Instructed to wait outside as his mob superiors finished the job, Jahoda was greeted by a blood-spattered kitchen floor when he was finally allowed to return to his residence. A week after Smith was found in his trunk, Infelise told him that Ferriola sent his “thanks for help with that whole Smith thing.”

The mastermind behind a multi-million dollar a year sports betting and money laundering business in the ritzy Chicago suburbs, Smith feuded with DeLaurentis and Marino, upon the imposing tandem, first, demanding that he pay a street tax and then after he started paying, demanding more.

Jahoda was present at a dinner meeting between Smith and the pair in late 1984 which erupted in a shouting match, having Smith hurl ethnic slurs at Solly D and Louie Tomatoes and DeLaurentis chillingly predict that the high-profile 48-year old Prospect Heights resident was about to become “trunk music.” In the days after the encounter, Smith reportedly told people, “Fuck those little guineas,” referencing his war or words with the two Mafiosi.

Jurors hung on the murder charges against DeLaurentis and Marino, while Infelise, Salerno and Bellavia were each nailed on the Smith slaying and hit with life prison sentences (with parole). Rocky Infelise died in 2005. Salerno won’t be eligible for parole for another decade. Bellavia, on the other hand, will be coming out in 2016.

Delaurentis was released in 2006 and reassumed his post as crew leader of Lake County, a de-facto consigliere of sorts to current Cicero capo James (Jimmy I) Indendino and the Outfit administration in general in this time of syndicate transition at the top.

Most mob watchers in the Windy City predict Marino will probably, in spite of his old age, get back in the rackets at some capacity, taking a seat next to his longtime friend, Solly D, and his son, Dino, a button-man and believed to be one of DeLaurentis’ main proxies.

“Louie Marino always meant business, he was a street guy, constantly out and about, throwing his weight around,” retired FBI agent Jim Wagner said. “He’s got the Outfit in his DNA, a stone-cold gangster.”

Chicago’s Grand Avenue Crew has ‘juice’ again under Vena’s leadership

Some people call Chicago mafia capo Albert (Albie the Falcon) Vena the most-feared man in the Windy City, a new-and-improved version of Anthony (Tony the Ant) Spilotro, if you will. His emergence the past few years as a major player in the upper-echelon of the city’s mob landscape has reinvigorated his Grand Avenue-based crew, reinstalling a large chunk of the power and prestige it lost in the late 2000s courtesy of the epic Operation Family Secrets bust.

Like Spilotro, Albie Vena is tiny (just a smidge over five feet), but incredibly fearless and extremely deadly. However, unlike Spilotro, the Chicago crime family’s crew-leader in Las Vegas, killed alongside his brother in a grisly 1986 Outfit double-slaying depicted in the Martin Scorsese gangster film classic “Casino,” Vena, 66, knows how to make nice with his superiors in the mob and doesn’t let his ego get the best of him.

Vena’s name recently surfaced in the Chicago press due to him being mentioned at the trial of cop-turned-gangster Steve Mandell, convicted in February of attempting to kidnap, torture and murder an enemy and his wife in order to assume control of a Bridgeview strip club and another associate to seize his real estate assets.

Testimony at the trial revealed that FBI agents watched as Mandell lunched with Vena at La Scrola, the one-time favorite haunt of notorious Chicago mob capo and consigliere Joseph (Joey the Clown) Lombardo, Vena’s former boss and mentor, who ruled the city’s Westside and was in charge of the notoriously-rugged Grand Avenue crew for over 30 years. Mandell was caught telling a wired-up associate that he’d gone to Vena for permission to kill an adversary and Vena, someone linked by the government to several underworld slayings, had failed to give him the go-ahead.

Lombardo was nailed in the Feds’ landmark Family Secrets case, convicted at the 2007 trial in the brutal 1974 murder of mafia associate Danny Siefert, a soon-to-be witness for the government against him and several mob cronies, and Vena was selected to replace Joey the Clown as the new “Godfather of Grand Avenue.”

Spilotro, another Lombardo protégé, is alleged to have been part of Lombardo’s hit squad that snuffed out Siefert in broad daylight and in front of his wife and son outside a suburban plastics factory days before a federal trial was set to begin in a Teamsters Union pension-fund fraud case he was slated to be the star witness in.

The double homicide of Spilotro and his brother was also included in the Family Secrets indictment, with Outfit street boss James (Jimmy the Man) Marcello convicted of delivering the siblings to their slaughter at the house of capo Louis (Louie the Mooch) Eboli in June 1986, where they were beaten and strangled to death by a cadre of hit men as revenge for Tony the Ant running amok in Las Vegas and bringing too much heat on the syndicate's West Coast affairs.

The diminutive, yet dynamic Vena was groomed by a slew of Outfit big shots and reputedly taught to kill by one of the Chicago mafia’s most revered enforcers. Besides Lombardo, Albie the Falcon came up under Northside capos and lieutenants like Vincent (Innocent Vince) Solano, Joseph (Joe the Builder) Andriacchi, Gus Alex and Lenny Patrick. Early on in his underworld career, Vena was placed in Joey the Clown Lombardo’s enforcement wing and schooled by the Clown’s No. 1 strong arm and hit man, Frank (Frankie the German) Schweis, a renowned assassin.

Vena and Schweis are both considered suspects in the 1983 gangland murder of Teamsters official and high-level mob associate Allen Dorfman, a killing also depicted in the movie Casino.

Schweis was brought down with Lombardo in the Family Secrets case (dying before making it to trial though) and was fiery until his last breath – the German, while frail in appearance, still managed to repeatedly bark at reporters and prosecutors alike in court proceedings that directly preceded his passing.

In the fall of 1992, Vena was indicted on a state murder beef for the gruesome slaying of low-tier Windy City hoodlum, Sam Taglia, charges he was acquitted on at a 1993 trial. Taglia, on the outs with mob leaders over stolen money and scam drug deals, was found stuffed in the trunk of his car in Melrose Park, shot in the head, his throat slit ear-to-ear. He and Vena were seen together in the hours before his unsightly demise.

Showing his feistiness, Vena tried to run over the cops that came to arrest him for Taglia’s murder with his car. Cautious of recording devices, he’s rarely appeared on police wiretaps and is known to keep a relatively low profile around town, especially compared to his predecessor, Joey the Clown, notorious for his witty demeanor and flash-bulb friendly personality.

When Lombardo and Schweis got popped in 2005 in the Family Secrets bust – both going on the lam for almost a year trying to dodge arrest before finally being apprehended – Vena and Vincent (Jimmy Boy) Cozzo, Lombardo’s right-hand man, were running the Grand Avenue crew together, using Lombardo’s longtime driver Christopher (Christy the Nose) Spina as their messenger. After Cozzo died of natural causes in July 2007 and Joey the Clown was convicted three months later, Vena was officially upped to full-fledged capo by semi-retired Chicago Outfit boss John (Johnny No Nose) Di Fronzo.

“Albie Vena is a very serious individual,” retired FBI agent Jack O’Rourke said. “He has the reputation of being both treacherous and reliable. All the heavyweights in the Family trust him very much. In a lot of ways, he’s a throwback. He lives by the code of the old Outfit bosses. Most people see him being a big part of the future administration. The pedigree is there, he’s been around a long time.”

Buffalo gangland goon extraordinaire ticketed to the big social club in the sky, leaves behind violent legacy

Residents of Western New York can breathe a little easier these days with the news that one of its most dangerous residents passed away in the spring.

Widely-feared and heavily-utilized Buffalo mob enforcer Jimmy Sicurella died of cancer in April. The reputed ace hit man and strong arm was 73 years old.

In his heyday of the late Twentieth Century, the mere mention of Sicurella’s name left people in the Buffalo underworld shaking in their proverbial boots, as he became a go-to “fix-it man” for local mafia leaders. Sicurella was a suspect in at least a half-dozen gangland slayings at the time of his own passing (although he was never indicted in any of them).

According to FBI files and court documents, he “made his bones” in an infamous mob hit from the early 1970s. Informants tagged Sicurella the triggerman in the high-profile murder of Buffalo mafia capo John Cammilleri on May, 8 1974, shortly before he himself was formally inducted into the crime family and given a portion of Cammilleri’s rackets as reward for a job well done.

Overseeing the Buffalo mob’s interests in the labor unions for 30 years, Cammilleri was killed on his sixty-third birthday at a time in the city’s underworld where there was a great deal of unrest and jockeying for power, with Stefano (The Undertaker) Maggadino, the syndicate’s don and founding father, on his deathbed. An increasingly-unpopular Maggadino would die two months later amidst growing dissention in his ranks.

Loud, brash and colorful, Cammilleri, butted heads with the Family hierarchy, specifically, underboss Joe Fino, a one-time close ally, regarding affairs in Local 210 (LIUNA), of which Fino’s son was president. Called to a sit down in the late afternoon of May 8 at a Buffalo cigar shop to discuss the matter, Cammilleri got into a screaming match with syndicate brass, Sam Pieri, Salvatore (Sam the Farmer) Frangiamore and Joseph (Joe the Wolf) Di Carlo and left in a huff.

That evening, per FBI informants, Sicurella gunned down Cammilleri from a passing car, in front of Roseland’s restaurant, a popular hangout of his on the city’s Westside. Sicurella allegedly yelled, “Hey, Johnny, this one’s for you,” before unloading six shots into Cammilleri’s head, face, neck, back and chest, killing him instantly. Cammilleri had just attended the wake of fellow wiseguy Frank (Frankie Blaze) Lo Tempio and was going to meet his girlfriend and members of his crew at Roseland’s to celebrate his birthday.

Investigators tie Sicurella to the gun used in the Cammilleri hit via grand jury testimony by the man that reportedly sold it to him.

From that point forward with the famed “piece of work” under his belt, Jimmy Sicurella commanded immense respect on the streets of Western New York, not to mention significant attention from law enforcement.

Sicurella took federal pinches for running an arson-related insurance fraud scam in the 1980s, perjury in the 1990s and extortion and loan sharking in the 2000s. He was booted from his seat in Local 210 for his connections to organized crime as well.

His 1993 perjury conviction spawned from lying about incidents surrounding Cammilleri’s slaying in one of several grand juries convened to look into the headline-grabbing murder.

The extortion and loan-sharking conviction, stemming from Sicurella taking over a street-loan given out by his henchmen Frank (Poochie) Chimento after Chimento died in 1998, resulted in Sicurella’s last stint behind bars. Serving a seven and a half year stretch, he was released in December 2007.

“The man was pretty scary, he put the fear of God into people on the street around here for years,” said retired FBI agent John Culhane of Sicurella

Very nice, ive read your book and watched the film and thought they were both great. Good to have you here thanks for the info.

Welcome, Scott. Long time coming! Happy to have you here...

I'm sure you read about the recent Grand Avenue Crew burglary/kidnapping/heist ring bust that broke two days ago. Would love to hear your take on the people involved & the Outfit's relationship with the C-Note street gang.

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Thanks guys!! I forgot to post the sub-story on Solly D, its up top now, leading off the sample column

I'm going to post another "Mob Insider" sample tomorrow, which touches on the Panozzo bust, giving a little intel that hasn't been reported. so yes, I will chime in on the sit soon.

Welcome Scott!
Pleasure to have an authority on OC outside the NY area.

Personally very much looking forward to your take on the Detroit/Montreal/Chicago area's.

We definitely don't get enough expertise contributors in these areas.

Again welcome and looking forward to your contributions.

Scott welcome to the forums. I am looking forward to your articles. Cammillieri was my wife's next door neighbor

Delaurentis and inendino seem to hold the greatest influence in the family , I thought andriacchi was retired due to illness

I don't give out complements very often but with you I have to because the articles you posted are better than 95% of the crap out there on current events in the mafia. This community and the world in general need more thoughtful articles and general information on current events within organized crime. Keep up the GREAT work!!!

Welcome Scott..you know from RD that I enjoy your columns.

Wlcome to the board Scott, look forward to reading more of your post's.

Ditto. I don't follow that part of the country too closely, but it will be nice to see what you have to say .

Thanks fellas! It really means a lot! Sincerely! I'm gonna keep on grinding these out. I think there is a void to fill, to compliment Capeci, not necessarily compete with.

Sounds good bro you do great work keep it up. Have a quick question,

I have heard that Bommarito and Jackie the kid have made up and Bommarito has been installed as Capo again, any truth to this or is it all fabricated?

Scott you know I love you, but Jimmy Inendino has never been known as "Jimmy the Icepick." He's known as "Jimmy I" because his last name starts with the letter "I." His son is known as "Sammy I."

You need to be better than Chuck Goudie

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The c-notes were big in jefferson park back in the day. Theyre basically extinct now. This article is bullshit. These guys are outfit wannabes. The outfit never dealt with c notes on a regular basis. Ask any gang member in chi town about the c notes, theyre gonna say "who". The only time you see a c note nowadays is when you're locked up in an Illinois joint and see some old head talking how he was a c note in the 70's or 80's. Go to the chi town now and ask about c notes, theyll laugh

^^not true. Of course, like any western European crime entity in America, the C-Note$ are miniscule compared to what they once were.

But the area east of damen, north of Grand, west of California, south ofcChicago Avenue, is still C-Note turf. That was an Italian neighborhood at one point for many years & that's where the C-Note$ & the Grand Avenue Crew first began. Of course they worked together on certain things & the Outfit fielded prospects from C-Note ranks. Anyone denying this is an idiot.

Got it on the Jimmy I moniker. I know that's what hes known as, though in Goudies defense, I have seen the Jimmy Ice Pick nickname on a LE doc or two (that obviously doesn't make it accurate)

CNotes moved to Jefferson Park because their parents started moving there in the mid 80s when the neighborhood started going downhill. The Jefferson Park "crew" or "set" was actually temporary - their power base was always the near west side.

I live in the neighborhood. If you think they're completely extinct, tell the guys still tagging their sign from time to time on buildings.

I came across these, not sure if they have been posted previously. Kind of a timeline of the mafia's activities for Chicago, Buffalo and many other areas of the country.

http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr2.html

http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr3.html

http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr4.html

http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr5.html

http://www.orchardparkbee.com/news/2012-...underworld.html