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Outfit Enforcer: Charles "Chuckie" Nicoletti #841295
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Charles "Chuckie" Nicoletti(real surname Nicoletto or Nicoletta) was a Sicilian mobster and made member of the so-called Chicago Outfit. At first sight, he was a very good looking guy with a gold front tooth and smooth dresser but in reality he represented a real-life bogeyman that struck fear in the hearts of his victims and fellow mobsters. Nicoletti never had any problems with race, religion or nationality, so he made money for everyone and with anyone who had the skills for it. He also didn’t have feelings for another man’s life even if it was a woman or a member from his own family. He was known for saying “Hey, hitting a broad is that same as hitting a man…only she’s got tits and pussy. Who the fuck cares?! A guy is not there to screw her, he’s there to do a fuckin’ job”. Nicoletti left a big mark in mafia’s history, followed by true or false urban legends, as the participant in some of the main bloody events and in the end he left this world with a little touch of mystery. There’s not much info out there about his criminal or personal life, so ill try to portrait his life story as the best I can.

Everything started in 1903 when Sicilian population from Europe in great numbers began arriving to Chicago. In the beginning of the 20th century, the Italian gangs were the most numerous and later became the most powerful ones. Back than the South/West Side was considered as the center of the Italian population in Chicago. There were areas such as "Little Hell" or “Little Sicily”, where many Italian or the so-called Black Hand gangs operated at the “Death Corner" of Oak & Cleveland street. Filippo (Philip) Nicoletti and Grazia (Grace) Nicoletti (born Alessi) were natives of Santa Caterina Villarmosa, Sicily and one day they decided to leave their homeland and hard conditions and head to the new land of opportunities, the United States of America. The Nicolettis arrived in Chicago in 1907 and settled in an apartment at 737 Campbell Avenue on Near West Side. While in Chicago, they brought two children to this world. The first one was Philip Jr., born in 1914 and two years later, they brought another child Charles, who was born on December 3, 1916. Charles or Chuckie as he was known, grew in a hard conditions because he lived in impoverished and dysfunctional family. His father, who worked as a teamster, was a heavy drinker and very abusive man. When little Chuckie started attending public school, after classes he was forced to stay on the streets because Philip Sr. abused his family on daily basis. In other words, Chuckie was forced to run away from home because he couldn’t stand the bloody sight of his mother and brother getting beaten on the floor and the daily threats and punches that he received from his own father. While on the streets of Chicago, during his free time, young Chuckie saw the poverty and violence that occurred around him. It was a very poor and dirty area. The people around him lived in very hard conditions which forced them into the criminal life. The huge Italian families squeezed mainly between Taylor and Mather streets. It was a place filled with filthy criminals, disgusting brothels and saloons. Brawls and bloody battles between the residents was a daily routine. So by living in these conditions, some of the kids like Chuckie started to reach to each other and formed small criminal gangs. It was the only way to survive the hard conditions in and out of their homes. Most of these young boys ran from their homes, slept in abandoned cars or locals or beneath back porches and also survived by stealing food from vendors and pickpocketing. Like Philip Sr. most of the parents didn’t care about their children because they had bigger problems of their own, so the street gangs were the only families for these kids. They learned how to organize themselves and started surviving in their own style.

During the mid 1920’s one of the most prominent juvenile gangs on Chicago’s West Side were the 42's. They were characterized by the youthfulness of its members and the average age was between 16 and 23. The so-called Patch area was the gang’s territory. All of these boys had criminal records in juvenile and boys courts and their only "school" was a reformatory named St. Charles. The gang’s usual headquarters was Mary's Restaurant or Bonfiglio's Pool Hall on Taylor Street. Their types of crimes differ with their age, for example the older gang members were mostly involved in robbery and stick ups and the younger ones were mostly involved in larceny. Legend goes that the gang came to the name "42's" from one of the "more literate" gang members who recounted the story of Ali Baba and the forty thieves.

As time passed by they became known around the neighbourhood and kids like Chuckie Nicoletti started having a strange mixture of awe and respect for the gang. The 42's started making the newspaper headlines and were noticed by the big time gangsters. During the 1920’s the main and most important figures on Chicago’s West Side were the Italian and Jewish gangsters who ruled with an iron fists and commanded respect around the neighbourhoods. It was the time of Prohibition and the streets of Chicago were filled with dead bodies because of the competition that was going on among these criminals. First the young boys would do anything for two bits, a beer or a cigarette but later the gangsters started to throw money at these boys thus making them their "farm teams" for their dirty work. The young boys would do everything to impress the gangsters so soon they graduated in high profile murders, bombings and vice enterprises.

The most prominent gangsters on the West Side at the time were Joseph “Diamond Joe” Esposito and the Sicilian Genna crime family. Diamond Joe besides paying bonds and using them as soldiers for his dirty work like extortion, he also used to employ them in legitimate businesses, like selling sugar. As for the Gennas, they taught these young criminals in making illicit moonshine and selling it. But the Bloody Gennas were also known for carrying a crucifix in one pocket and a gun in the other, so they used these young kids in many murder plots and also bombings. But beside these two criminal factions, the most powerful one was the Capone faction, headed by the most famous Italian mobster around the world Alphonse Caponi a.k.a. Al Capone. During that period, almost every Italian kid that was thrown on the cold streets of Chicago idolized Capone and his nature of crime.

So in his own little mind, Chuckie Nicoletti saw the daily act of violence and criminal activities as natural thing and together mixed with the domestic violence and the old Sicilian mentality, he decided to defend his own honour. Chuckie started hanging around with the local young hoodlums from his neighbourhood and learned the way of the street. He knew that being a tough guy was the only way to stop his father and his violent temper. So when Philip Sr. was at work or getting drunk at some of the local bars, Chuckie was playing target practise with his father’s gun. He stood in front of a mirror with the gun and imagined himself as the local big shots that he saw them every day. He often raised the gun and imagined his father begging for mercy on his knees in front of him. Suddenly Chuckie realised that if one day all hell break loose, he can stop the daily terror with that “beautiful” gun.

On February 25, 1929 at 7:30 pm Philip Sr. came home very drunk and with many abusive thoughts on his mind towards his own family. He started beating his own wife Grace like never before. The poor woman’s screams were heard all around the neighbourhood. Young Chuckie came to the kitchen and started punching his father and begged him to stop. That enraged Philip Sr. so much that he took a knife, pointed to his son and threatened to kill him. Chuckie, pursued by his drunken father, ran into the bedroom and took the gun which was in a bureau drawer and pointed it in Philip’s direction. Even with that, Philip Sr. didn’t stop so Chuckie was forced to close his eyes, squeezed the trigger and the gun went off. When he opened his eyes, his father laid on the floor, chocking in his own blood and in matter of seconds his heart stopped. At first Chuckie’s blood froze and felt a sudden feeling of great fear and horror. After a while the fear was gone, because the evil beast that tortured him and the rest of the family was now also gone forever. When he saw his mother crying over her husband’s dead body, Chuckie felt very confused. He thought to himself, “Why she’s crying?”, “What kind of love is this?”. That’s when he wrongfully realized that no matter what kind of violence was committed over the people or human kind, they will still obey you and cry for you. In other words, Chuckie Nicoletti “made his bones” when he was only 12 years old. After the shooting someone called the cops from the 23rd precinct and they arrived just to see the 39 year old Philip Sr. lying dead on the floor with his wife crying beside him and Chuckie with the gun in his hand standing in the corner of the room. The cops calmly approached Chuckie and took the gun from his hand. It was obvious who took the shot so Chuckie was taken to the police office for questioning. Only two days later on February 27, the Cook County Coroner’s Office cleared Charles Nicoletti of his father’s death. Chuckie was exonerated and also commended for protecting his family because he was threatened by his drunk and knife-wielding father who caused Chuckie to do the intentional homicide. Now every youngster in the hood was scared of little Nicoletti because he managed to kill his own blood. He became known for his brutal force and also became destined for underworld recruitment.

After his father’s death, two years later in 1931, Nicoletti dropped out of school in the 8th grade and at the age of 14 went for the street life. He joined and became one of the youngest members of the 42 gang. His bloody reputation, as a kid who had the guts to kill his own father, preceded him so no one dared to challenge him. He was a quiet kid with a cold look in his eyes that obeyed every order given by his superiors in the gang. Chucky burglarized many stores and sold the merchandise on the street corners, knocked over cigar stores, held up nightclubs but his main activity was stealing cars. The 42’s were held responsible for about 80 percent of the auto thefts in Chicago at the time. They sold the cars at prices from $75 to $200 per car-Fords $75, Buick or Chrysler for $150, a Peerless and Packard for $200. During the early 1930’s many older members of the gang, like the Battaglia brothers, started working for the former Capone gang, which was now known as the Chicago Outfit. One of their most prominent members and one time leader of the gang Sam “Mooney” Giancana was the first and closest to the Outfit’s big shots. Giancana was the main guy who later brought many members of his old gang into the organization by implicating them in many criminal activities which were executed on behalf of the Outfit. The main Capone member and one of the “fathers” of the newly formed Chicago mob that took “care” of these young boys was Felice DeLucia aka Paul “The Waiter” Ricca. Ricca knew the 42’s since the days when he also worked for Diamond Joe Esposito so he understood their roots and criminal nature and also knew how to exploit it. The 42’s looked at Ricca as their god and idol and they had enormous respect for him. He paid them well and gave them the opportunity to become bigger in the underworld. The ones that obeyed his rules and requests were invited to the upper circles but the ones that failed were severely punished.


Young Paul Ricca

Through the connections with other various gangs around Chicago, the Outfit started forming its own small army of young ruthless criminals. By now Ricca was one of the top guys in the Outfit so the other captains that belonged to Ricca’s West Side Crew oversaw these “young turks”. Old timers like Lawrence Mangano, James Belcastro and Sylvester Agoglia belonged to an area known as Taylor Street, and they brought dozens of these young guys into the Outfit. So these gangsters can be considered as the creators of the infamous Taylor Street crew. Many of the new fellas specialized in extortion, gambling operations, kidnappings and above all murders. Former 42’s like the Battaglia brothers and Sam Giancana worked as one of the Outfit’s kidnapping and murder teams. They were held as a special breed of young killers, who were called by members of the hierarchy or by the bosses themselves. By the age of 17, Nicoletti, and other younger crooks, worked as a chauffeurs, burglars, car thieves and messengers for the Outfit. In 1934 Nicoletti was arrested on charges for conspiracy and burglary and was sent to trial. He received 1 year probation and a $5,000 fine. The fine was paid by his criminal connections and now his allegiance fully belonged to the Chicago Outfit.


Young Sam Giancana


One of the Battaglia brothers, Sam “Teets” Battaglia

During the mid 1930’s Nicoletti developed a reputation as a loyal guy among his fellow gangsters. Also with his charm he had a large number of females around him and besides sex, Nicoletti also used them for hiding his weapons under their skirts and also as lookouts during his criminal activities. By now Nicoletti’s mother Grace re-married with another man named Paul Tergo. Tergo was no different than her previous deceased husband, because he was always in and out of the county jail. Looks like Grace Nicoletti always had a thing for tough guys. In fact Tergo was an old associate of the Capone gang and also of the new criminal administration. To tell you the truth, there’s not even a slice of info out there about this guy, but I am totally sure for one thing that Tergo played a key role in bringing his stepson into the upper circles of the Chicago mob. Years later Tergo was sent to prison and later was deported to Italy. The exact dates are not known. Also in 1940, Charles Nicoletti decided to expand his family by entering a marriage with a young beautiful girl named Agnes Raimondi. Agnes was one year older than Chuckie and later they brought one son to this world. Together they moved into an apartment at 2745 West Lexington.

While his family was growing steady, Chuckie’s illegal activities were also growing. By the late 30’s and early 40’s, the Outfit’s main racket was gambling, so Chuckie got involved in bookmaking at the race tracks and was also involved in numerous card games. During the process he established many connections with other up and coming mobsters in Chicago. By now one of his closest and oldest associates was Ernest Sansone, a former bootlegger and ex-convict. Together they ran bookmaking operations, car theft operations, placed vending machines and later got involved in another illegal venture, like narcotics. They robbed local pharmacies over opium and morphine and they also sold heroin packages to drug addicts. There’s a legend that the Chicago Outfit had a long standing rule against narcotics but that’s not true. Even since the early 30’s the Chicago crime family made connections with the New York faction under Charles “Lucky” Luciano and entered in the drug business. Any kind of profits, especially from narcotics, are welcomed in the mob world. But the thing was in those days, that if anyone got caught by the cops dealing narcotics, the punishment was death. But the reality was, not everyone. Since almost everyone was involved in that business, sometimes the bosses used that rule as the “main” reason to kill their members or associates that didn’t fit in their own world. But that wasn’t the case with Chuckie Nicoletti because the rising star Sam Giancana was his sponsor. In May 10, 1943, Nicoletti and Sansone were arrested by the Chicago police for peddling narcotics. On May 13, Nicoletti was sent to Midland, Michigan to serve 18 months in custody of the Attorney General.


Young Charles Nicoletti

The same year, on December 30th, 1943 a Federal Grand Jury returned a guilty verdict against the West Side boss and head of the Outfit Paul Ricca in the Hollywood extortion case and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The top layer of the Chicago leadership was changed. Now the acting boss became Tony Accardo and at the same time Nicoletti’s sponsor Sam Giancana started climbing up the ladder. Nicoletti heard about the great news and impatiently waited to get out of jail and to make some real cash. On December 24, 1944 Nicoletti was released from prison and went back to Chicago. He was greeted by his old friends from back in the days, who by now were in the upper circles of the Chicago Outfit. Nicoletti was ready to kill anyone for his old friends and also expected to get big rewards. During this time Nicoletti met with another up and coming mobster, future partner and mentor named Felice Alderizio aka Felix “Milwaukee Phil” Alderisio.

Felix Alderisio was born in 1912 in Yonkers, New York and was 4 years older than Nicoletti. As a teenager, Alderisio left New York and went to Milwaukee to compete as an amateur boxer under the moniker “Milwaukee Phil”. His career as a boxer was short lived but it became very profitable because he met a lot of mobsters and his ability with his fists served him very well for the next profession that he had chosen. In 1930 he came to Chicago, he had no home so he lived on the streets and one day was arrested for vagrancy. According to Chicago police records, Alderlisio first was arrested in Wheaton, Illinois in 1933 on suspicion of car theft. There’s no information if his parents were dead or he was chased out of their home. At the age of 18, Alderisio started moping around the Lexington Hotel, which was the headquarters for the Capone gang, hoping to get some kind of job. One day he got lucky, and I mean very lucky, because one of his older cousins, also former boxer, Luigi Fratto aka Louis “"Cock-eyed"” Fratto was already working for the Capone mob and was riding high. Young Fratto was already working with other youngsters like Sam Giancana and Sam Battaglia so he brought Alderisio into the former 42 gang. He was also introduced to another young brutal hoodlum named Marshall Caifano. Caifano, with the association of his older brother Leonard, helped Alderisio and himself to rise steadily through the ranks during the Great Depression and Alderisio soon gained a reputation for brutality. By the end of the decade, Alderisio also worked under the Jewish boss of the non-Italian faction Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik, who was the Outfit's financial expert and prostitution overlord. The prostitution racket is very monstrous business and Alderisio was the right guy for it. He started gathering and kidnapping young girls, forcing them in to lives of prostitution. To succeed in doing that, Alderisio gave them high quantities of booze thus making them alcoholics and at the same time he also gave them narcotics. He also worked as Guzik’s bagman, delivering payoffs and messages to Chicago judges, police officials and also other Outfit bosses. So beside his enforcer skills, Alderisio also gained knowledge for making the big buck. In 1936 he was convicted for violation of the federal internal laws and was placed on a years probation. Later he also became a liaison between the Chicago Outfit and the Milwaukee mob because of his previous connections.


Alderisio’s cousin Lou Fratto

So during the late 1940’s the Alderisio-Nicoletti deadly combine became just one of the many ruthless hit teams and money making machines under the auspices of the Chicago Outfit. Both consider killing as a profession and earned the name as “button men”. They became the most vile and bloodthirsty individuals who enforced the rule of the Outfit’s "justice". They even had protection from their higher-ups in case they were caught by the cops. “Connection guys” like Jake Guzik or Murray “Curley” Humphreys hired the best lawyers for their defence and in some cases they used their police contacts and the duo walked free. For example, during political elections, kidnappings or murder was used very often and it wasn’t only for competing between the candidates but it was mainly for the Outfit’s benefit. At the beginning, the street gangs were the politicians heritage and they used them for many favours and own purposes. The head-knocking tactics of the gangsters were very useful for the rival candidates. But in time, the gangsters grew more powerful than the politicians. So during this period it was the time when the mob decided who’s going to win the elections and who’s not. The ones that opposed the Outfit, ended up with a bullet in their heads.


Eraly mugshot of Alderisio

In the October 1948 political election, William John Granata the Republican candidate was running against State Representative James Adduci. Aducci was a close associate of the Chicago mob and even some investigators considered him a made member. Story goes that John and his brother Rep. Peter Granata, had refused to trade votes that they controlled on the West Side for the benefit of the Outfit. So on October 8, John Granata was returning home when an armed assassin with a meat cleaver crept from behind on him as he entered the building. Granata was found with his skull split wide open and was pronounced dead at the Henrotin Hospital. Charles Nicoletti was questioned about the murder but there was no evidence to hold him so they let him go. Police Captain William Drury was a tough cop who arrested a lot of mob thugs and worked to expose corruption in the Chicago Police Department. In June 1944 he was suspended from the police department for "failing to suppress citywide gambling" but in reality, this was likely a revenge move by the mob for framing mobsters in many murder cases. Later he became a crime reporter for the Chicago Herald-American and the Miami Daily News. In 1950, when Senator Carey Kefauver launched an investigation into organized crime and Drury provided written and oral testimony. So on September 25, 1950, his wife received a call at their home that William's request for police protection has been granted. He was to call back at 7:00pm. Ealier that day, Drury arrived home and parked in his garage around 6:45pm. A shot rang out and his wife ran out to the garage as a black car sped west in the alley. Drury was dead from a close-range shotgun blast. There were many suspects questioned about the murder, like Marshal Caifano or the so-called “Three Doms”( North Side mob enforcers Dom Nuccio, Dom DiBella, Dom Brancato) but few days later the cops received an anonymous phone called saying that Fat Leonard Caifano, Sam Marcelli and Charles Nicoletti were the hit team on Drury. Two years later, in 1952 Charles Gross was a politician who wanted to become a Republican Committeeman in the 31st Ward. He was putting on a good campaign but didn’t want any shady people around him. So Felix Alderisio sent another hitman named Lenny Patrick to warn the politician and also gave him an offer to retire. But Gross ignored them so on February 6, 1952 he was blown away by seven shotgun blasts outside his Kedzie Avenue home allegedly by two men. The only witness was Mrs. Julia Jankowski and she told the cops that after the shooting a big, black car sped past her followed by another car. She also described two men as 30 to 35 years old in the first car and other two men as 25 to 28 years old in the second car. Later she was taken she to the bureau of identification to study pictures of known hoodlums. On February 25 1952, 35 year old Chuckie Nicoletti was arrested and questioned by Lt. John Golden of the police homicide division regarding the murder. He apparently was cleared of any connection with it by a lie detector, and later was released on $25 bond on a disorderly conduct charge. These are only some of the many examples, where the Outfit actually controlled every part of the government and politics in Chicago and they even owned the politician’s lives. That’s why I always said that the 1950’s was THE golden era for the Chicago crime family and mobsters like Nicoletti played major part in creating it.


Nicoletti questioned about the murder of Charles Gross

By now the Outfit’s boss Paul Ricca was out of jail but he had a problem. He was forbidden by the government to associate with any of his known criminal cohorts so now he had to pull the strings from the shadows. Also his loyal companion from the old days Tony Accardo had problems of his own with the government. Both, Accardo and Ricca had many new tax trials on their way. Also in March 1954 Accardo almost received a bullet from an unknown assassin during a meeting in a car with Sam Giancana, Jackie Cerone and Sam Battaglia. The reason was that some of the old bosses started to get nervous because of the ambitious young turks who were making more money and with money, comes power and that left a sour taste in the mouths of some of the old big shots. Now Ricca and Accardo became a little bit more paranoid both from the pressure of their old companions and the pressure from the government. They realised that the well known old guard had to go and it was time for the faithful “new blood” to take over the reigns, which according to them was a very smart move. But was it really the smartest thing to do?


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Either way, Sam Giancana became the biggest money maker in the whole organization and the former ruthless 42 gang became stronger than ever. So now the time has come for operation “changing of the guard” and Giancana went for it. Everyone that opposed the new guard was viciously punished. He ordered Nicoletti and Alderisio to take care of the few “stones in his shoe.” The first “stone” that had to go was an old Taylor Street mobster Tony Ragucci. Ragucci was a tough old mobster that denied paying to some youngsters who were still in their father’s nuts when he was out making the big buck during the Capone days. Also, like always, someone said that the old man was talking to the Federal government. Even if he wasn't talking to the feds, every now and then they had to set an example and besides, the old days were gone and it was time to move young blood into the operation. In August 1953 Nicoletti and Alderisio found Ragucci, riddled him with bullets and stuffed him with his head downward in a sewer near 35th st. and Winchester av. His brother managed to identify him by his ring with the initials "AR" since the rest of his body was ravaged by the cold. Next were Charlie “Cherry Nose” Gioe and Frank “Diamond” Maritote. Both were very close to the ruling panel of the Chicago Outfit and also both of them spent time in jail with Ricca over the movie extortion case. Gioe and Maritote were against the “new mob order” which failed to take them and their interests into account. Gioe and Maritote also had problems with the Outfit’s union boss Joey Glimco over the union business and rumours spread, again like always, that Gioe was a cheater and was also talking to the federal tax people about Ricca’s immigration status. It also appeared that Maritote demanded a piece of a new wire service which was established on the near north side by such syndicate hoodlums as Joey “Caesar” DiVarco and Jimmy Allegretti. Their protests at this situation became so voluble that it became necessary to liquidate them. First one to go was Gioe and again Nicoletti and Alderisio were called upon. On August 18, 1954, Gioe was having dinner at a near north side restaurant at Erie St. with former deputy sheriff Vincent Occhipinti and ex-fighter Hyman Weisman. After the dinner, Gioe and his companion Weisman entered their car at the parking lot, when a black car approached them and two hitmen opened fire. Gioe was shot in the head and was instantly killed, but Weisman miraculously escaped unhurt. The cops looked for Joey Glimco but he was nowhere to be found. Three days later, on August 21, Frank Maritote wanted to take his 4 year old son at the movie theatre. As they entered his car, which was parked in front of his house at 710 S. Keeler av., again a big black car showed up and two hitmen started blasting at Maritote as his young boy crouched in terror in the front seat of the car. Maritote also died instantly. Again Nicoletti and Alderisio showed their perfection in executing their murder contracts.


Charley Gioe


Gioe murder scene


Maritote’s daughter learns about her fathers death


Next on the list was another old time Capone racketeer Alex Louis Greenberg. On December 8, 1955 Greenberg was having dinner with his wife and daughter at the Glass Dome Hickory Pit, 2724 S. Union av. As he was leaving, he was shot by two hitmen. Greenberg was a tough guy so he staggered after the men as they fled on foot. Greenberg collapsed about 12 feet of the curb. Again the killers were never caught. Greenberg’s murder was a favour done for Louis Fratto, Alderisio’s cousin and Ralph Pierce but the real reason remains unknown. Story goes that Pierce was sought as a threat because of the statement he made once publicly at Greenberg by saying, "We'll take care of you!'" The threat was made in 1943 at a preliminary hearing in the trial of the Hollywood extortion case. The reason was Greenberg was a government witness. Another story goes that later during a police raid on Greenberg the cops found a piece of paper with Fratto’s name on it with a number of payment which was meant for him. So maybe the Outfit was afraid of Greenberg becoming a government witness?! The “big cleanup” ended with the murder of a known hijacker and burglar of Outfit joints named John Coletta. On December 10, 1955, 38 year old Coletta was beaten to death and his body was poured with gasoline, and then set on fire in his car near suburban Harrington.



Alex Louis Greenberg

On the same day, police Lt. Joseph Morris, head of the police Scotland Yard criminal investigation unit received an anonymous phone call which instructed the lieutenant to go to a certain place if he wants to find the killers of Gioe, Maritote, Greenberg and Coletta. The lieutenant immediately gathered four of his undercover operatives and dozen of armed policemen and led a raid on a large brick garage in the rear of 936 S. Laflin st. which held one of biggest floating crap game in the city. The crap game, which operated every Sunday afternoon somewhere in the vicinity of Taylor and Laflin st. Alternate locations were a pool room and a hot dog stand at the Taylor-Laflin intersection. That Sunday, four undercover cops, carrying sawed off shotguns under their overcoats, were allowed inside the garage building by the lookout and they found that the game was in progress. For 10 minutes they watched the crap game, conducted on the cement floor instead of tables. When the gangsters noticed the cops they ran for the door but were stopped by the rest of the policemen who were carrying submachine guns. The Scotland Yard police arrested 71 men, including some of the most prominent West Side. According to the police records, one of the most important suspects was 42 year old Charles Nicoletti. Some of the other gangsters were John “Johnny Bananas” De Biase, James Cerone( Jack’s cousin), Alex Mazzone, Tony Orlando and William Marzullo, the son of Alderman Vito Marzullo of the 25th Ward. Nine police wagons were needed to take the 71 suspects of the dice game to the old Scotland Yard station, 2075 Canalport av. The cops were seeking information about the slayings but nobody dared to talk and later everyone was bailed out by a professional Outfit bondsman. The cops believed that the evidences they obtained would stand up in court but they were wrong. During that period Chicago’s judicial system was corrupted to the top so most of the illegal gambling cases were thrown out for “the lack of evidences and also the lack of direct testimony from witnesses”.


Nicoletti questioned by the cops

By now Chuckie Nicoletti was considered by law enforcement as one of the main strong arm man for Giancana. Nicoletti has been arrested, investigated, and released after almost every gang style murder that occurred during this period. He was also regarded by the police as being in the front rank of the younger gangsters in the Chicago Outfit. Nicoletti executed his murderous missions professionally with passion and finesse. He also became a big earner because of his reputation and nobody dared to refuse his offers. Nicoletti became a true deadly Mafioso who often said “Once a guy gets in the booth, its like a fuckin’ coffin, he never gets out”.


Outfit enforcer Charles Nicoletti

Thanks to enforcers like Nicoletti and Alderisio, the old guard was gone and everyone that remained from the old Capone era joined the new movement or retired. With that Paul Ricca, the last old time boss, sat safely on the throne of Chicago’s underworld and watched from the shadows how his faithful minions took the organization on a higher level. Accardo was also a very smart guy and shrewd gangster. He saw the writing on the wall which wrote that the young turks were slowly coming up the ladder and also the government was closing in and he was on the most dangerous spot, which was the boss position. He didn’t want to end up like his previous bosses Capone or Nitti. Now the greedy Giancana saw the chance to takeover the boss position and summoned his members of the old gang which was now known as the Taylor Street crew. The crew was formed by Fiore “Fifi” Buccieri, Sam Battaglia, Marshal Caifano, Felix Alderisio, Chuckie Nicoletti, Butch Blasi, Leonard Gianola, Mugsy Tortorella, Willie Daddano and the English bros. Even the Jewish faction of the Outfit supported Giancana since their boss Jake Guzik died from a heart attack on February 21, 1956. Previously Guzik opposed the younger faction but they managed to get him in line after his kidnapping back in the 1940’s. Now the boss of that faction was Edward Vogel, a gambling titan with the skills for making millions of dollars. Other gangsters from that faction also followed Giancana. Guys like Hyman Larner, Lenny Patrick, Hy Godfrey and David Yaras. The whole non-Italian faction by that time was headed by Murray Humphries who also supported the new faction. They were told by Giancana that the time has come for a change. So in 1957 Ricca called all of his main underlings at the Tam O'Shanter restaurant. They voted for Accardo to be replaced as boss and elected their new boss Sam Giancana, or as some sources say, the defacto boss on the streets of Chicago. Ricca, Accardo and Humphries acted as his senior advisors, but Sam’s main advisor and protector was Ricca. Many of Giancana’s old 42 gang members became bosses or overseers of his rising criminal empire, but all of them including Giancana were overseen by Ricca. The were given specific, agreed-upon territories which were overseen by their street bosses and members from different nationalities that handled day to day hustles and murders on the streets of Chicago and parts of the U.S. The new gang was mostly involved in bookmaking, the policy racket, extorting unions, state corruption, prostitution and also narcotics.


Outfit boss Sam Giancana

For example, Sam “Teets” Battaglia became the boss of Melrose Park. Previously Melrose Park was controlled by old time Capone gangster Rocco DeGrazia. But DeGrazia was also one of the bosses who disliked Giancana. So during Giancana’s rise as boss of the Outfit, DeGrazia dropped in the ranks of the Outfit becoming a small underling that worked for the new big shot Battaglia. Degrazia’s Casa Madrid restaurant became the place where Battaglia would hold court and decide which guy would get fatal beatings when they were late in their payments. There was a small restroom at the bottom of the stairs in the club, where the gangsters used to take people to get their attitude adjusted. The Casa Madrid was also a massive gambling joint which generated a lot of cash. Since Battaglia was older, Nicoletti and Alderisio were ordered to work under Battaglia as his main “street bosses” with a job to watch the day to day illegal operations in that area. The Melrose Park crew was one of the most ruthless crews in Chicago, starting with their bloodthirsty boss Battaglia and other ruthless killers like Willie Daddano, Rocco Pranno and money makers like John DeBiase, William Aloisio and Joe Amabile.


Outfit capo Sam Battaglia

In 1958 Nicoletti purchased $85,000 three flat apartment at 1638 N. 19th Ave. in Melrose Park. He owned a club by the name of Cal-Lex at Lexington Street and had a legitimate income from commissions obtained from car dealers like Montgomery Automobile Sales and Denemark Cadillac Agency for referrals given to these agencies by him for making car purchases. He received a new Cadillac every year from the Denemark Agency. He also was employed as a potato salesman and owned a grocery store named La Joys on Taylor Street. He also owned three meat and vegetable markets on the near northwest side of Chicago. On the other side, Nicoletti was involved in bookmaking, extortion and narcotics. According to FBI reports, one of his associates in the drug business was Jake Klein, a huge Midwest narcotics trafficker. Nicoletti also became a gambling boss that oversaw handbooks and wire rooms, mostly on Warren Avenue and Monroe District. Like any Outfit big shot from that era, he also controlled a very lucrative burglary crew that mostly operated in Chicago “Gold Coast” area. With the help of many corrupt police connections, the crew made over $1,000,000 a year from stolen goods. They mostly stole furs and jewelry from Gold Coast apartments, stores and wholesalers. Some times their police collaborators even warned them when special police task forces would be operating in areas where the gang planned robberies. The payoffs ran upwards of $20,000 a year. Together with another Outfit hoodlum named Julius Greco, Nicoletti handled stables of call girls, madams and stag shows on the West Side. Also the policy operations or the numbers racket on the west and near north sides come under the direction of Battaglia and Nicoletti. They were responsible for changing of the "political setup" on the west side so that the crime syndicate could move into the policy racket there with the strongest possible political connections. So by now Nicoletti was riding high in the mob world and looked upon as one of the leading figures in the Outfit. On April 4, 1959 Nicoletti attended the wedding of one of Sam Giancana’s daughters, among other top hoodlums such as Paul Ricca, Tony Accardo, Eddie Vogel, Ross Prio, Frank LaPorte and Sam Battaglia.


Outfit star Charles Nicoletti

In 1960 Nicoletti made partnership with another up and coming Outfit big shot named Gus Alex. Alex was Greek mobster with suicidal tendencies who served as a big money maker and also as “connection guy”, meaning political fixer for the organization. Back in the old days Alex was trained into the mob by the late Jake Guzik and other old timers like Eddie Vogel and Murray Humphries. Nicoletti and Alex ran a big handbook operation at the Arlington Park and Washington race tracks. Their men over there were the Bravos (Bravis?) brothers, Nick and George, who were cousins and close associates of Alex and Nicoletti and the other guy was Nicoletti’s brother-in-law Tony (surname unknown). Tony obtained $250 a week, the Bravos bros obtained $1,000 a week and rest of the thousands of dollars went straight in the pockets of Alex and Nicoletti. One of their obstacles at the race tracks was a former police captain named Frank Pape who became security director. Back in the late 1940’s and early 50’s Pape had a reputation for his aggressiveness against the underworld. During those days Nicoletti was always getting shakedowns from Pape and it cost him hundreds of dollars in payoffs to Pape’s higher ups. Pape was regarded for being impossible to bribe. But that was the old days. Pape knew that no matter what he would do, the guys would eventually get out free. So Nicoletti and the Bravos bros made a deal to pay Pape $1,000 a week so the bookies can operate freely at the race tracks. Every one has a price tag, right? Similar situation was also with another former policeman named Tom Downs who was in charge of the Sportsman Park race track. He owed the Bravos bros $10,000 in bets which were placed in different mob owned race tracks. The Outfit, rather demanding the money from Downs, they let him “ate it up”, meaning that the amount was reduced whenever Downs won, and in the end they never paid him any money which also allowed them to keep him under control. That’s the way how guys like Nicoletti cleared their way at the race tracks. The Bravos bros were in high debt to the mob, especially to Nicoletti. Back in 1958, Nick Bravos was kidnapped by three individuals and was held for $75,000 ransom. George Bravos paid the ransom and Nick was released. Later the brothers complained to Nicoletti, because they knew what he’s capable of. And they were right. Few days later the three individuals, one Greek and two Italians, were found beaten, stabbed and shot to death in a car trunk near Plainfield, Illinois.

On July 2, 1962 the feds recorded a conversation between Sam Giancana and Chuckie Nicoletti that occurred in one of Giancana’s meeting spots. The conversation was mostly about placing pinball and similar coin machines and also about the purchase of a new establishment in Melrose Park. During this time Nicoletti maintained large coin machine operations and was also interested in expanding his investments. One method of channelization of this cash was into a building housing by the name of “Come Back” Liquor Store in Melrose Park. Nicoletti knew that this store had the largest liquor distribution in that area. The “jars” that are mentioned in the conversation were commonly known as a gambling operation which by that time was outlawed by the government whereby the costumer for a price from 25 cents to 1 dollar pulled a paper chances out of a jar with prizes ranging from 1 to 25 dollars.

Here’s the conversation:

Nicoletti: How much would you wanta give him?

Giancana: Well see what it is.

Nicoletti: Well it aint goin’ to be that much Moe. Here’s the way you gotta look at it. They all have about 100 spots over there.

Giancana: They’ll have more than that if they cover everything. They’ll cover the whole country with all legit stuff.

Nicoletti: Well you figure, lets see, 30, 60, 90, well youll have about 120 spots.

Giancana: All together?

Nicoletti: Yeah, except my spot, of course, all I have is about 35 spots. But I’d rather be in there by myself anyway. At least if I go with these jars there, you know what I mean, where they cant go in other towns ill be in better shape. Just so that this guy, I mean I wanted you to get ahold of him, he don’t go around knocking everybody. We all gotta work underneath the bar anyway. Well Sam don’t tell him to come and talk to me just tell him to go ahead because if he has to come and talk to me he gets all shook up. Well, its better if we wind it up with something because I talked to Hy (Larner) already. I got six of them in the store and ive set them up see. And im gonna get another six next weekend. So I just pick about five or six good spots and go with them. And than if theres anything left over I can just give them something a little bit just to keep them quiet.

Giancana: Yeah, Who the mayor?

Nicoletti: Yeah

Giancana: What makes you think that?

Nicoletti: Well we’ll take it off the…

Giancana: Well we are taking care of him

Nicoletti: Yeah, I know ya have. I know you been taking care of him but there aint been nothing coming in. Aint nothing coming in now, but this thing here, lets see, ive got 35 spots open. We gotta pay $5,00 rental on each machine.

Giancana: Than you gotta take in $10,00

Nicoletti: No, we gotta take in $20,00 to wind it up with $5,00

Giancana: Well five for the machine and five for the storekeeper so theres $20,00 a machine

Nicoletti: Ten to the storekeeper and five on the rental and then there’ll be five left over on the machine. But this stuff we aint gonna make nothing, its all amusement stuff. Im trying to work out a…(conversation interrupted by Dominic “Butch” Blasi)

Giancana: (yells) who did you say is coming in?

Blasi: Between two and three. He left word.

Giancana: All right.

Blasi: So he figured he was downtown anyhow

Giancana: Did you call?

Blasi: Yeah

Giancana: Whata you want with him?

Blasi: Well to tell him that everything is all right to go with the game. You know for what he wants


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Giancana: (disgusted voice) The more I tell ya not to have anybody call here, the more you have ‘em call

Blasi: I didn’t have him call here Sam. I just called over there

(Blasi leaves)

Nicoletti: So anyway like I said, I got two spots that im going with slots. The two spots and that’s about six bits a week between the two of ‘em. So now im putting pool tables up and shuffle alleys. Pool tables you cant put many of them up. The other ones a five ball. It’s a kid game. If you come into a place and give the man $5,00 rental on the machine it aint gonna make much. Its just to keep the place covered.

Giancana: Well if other people cant put that stuff out there must be something there

Nicoletti: I realize that Moe because if they got half of it and say they give the salon keeper 10 and if they wind it up with 10 they’ll wind it up with the lemon. See what I mean? But they’ll never go into Melrose Park because them guys wont take ‘em. But they are looking for stuff like im putting in shuffle alleys and pool tables in there but I cant get that many in

Giancana: Why coudnt you get the machines in and take the meter off?

Nicoletti: Well we tried once before and we covered the meters

Giancana: What if you take it off?

Nicoletti: Take the meter off altogether?

Giancana: Yeah

Nicoletti: Well we could’ve done that too. At least than we could take the bartender’s word, half a load is better than none. But what he told me, this is true, ill show you what we pay there in a year. All of these guys are all looking for money. You know how much money I owe in that town? They keep asking me wheres my money. So I tell ‘em wait ill go over and take it out of the bank (laughs). I paid out almost $11,000 in that time alone. Theres one guy Harlow’s, he owes $2,000, the guy said whata you gonna do and I said if you’re game enough we’ll put the machines back in there. Ill see if I can get ahold of this other guy to hold still and try to get your money back. He said im not gonna run away but what can I do

Giancana: Well how come he owes $2,000?

Nicoletti: He had four machines in there

Giancana: Oh, they assessed him

Nicoletti: Yeah, they just brought the bill up there. If they had brought the bill in the night before we’d gave the money. Every spot you gotta take off takes so much money. So you couldn’t just take it off unless they had already pay for it and now I must still owe it there right now, I got to be busy at home because I gotta keep track of it. So I must owe another couple of $2,000 at least. Now they expect to get it from the soft stuff, so how you gonna get it from the soft stuff?

Giancana: Well you gotta take off the whole register off

Nicoletti: You mean take the meters off?

Giancana: Yeah, it’ll be a legit machine than

Nicoletti: That’s right and let ‘em go, just take the bartenders word. What the hell is the difference? He’s not gonna cheat ya. Half of it is his annual

Giancana: We’ll charge the bartenders $15,00 or $20,00 a week for the machine. So whatever he makes he keeps.

Nicoletti: Well we could’ve done that too, on the good spots you could say here give me so much a week

Giancana: That’s right

Nicoletti: I don’t know but as far as this here, if I can go with the jars I can make, I talked to Hy (Larner) and he told me but I don’t know what kind’ve a deal we’re gonna work out on the jars

Giancana: You mean you have to pay Hy for the jars?

Nicoletti: Yeah, enough to make a living because there’s no pay out of this stuff, lets face it. Moe the most I can have in that town is 35 at most if I wasn’t paying. But even if I was paying rental on the machines, right, but even if you pay rental on the machine and he gives you half it’s a moral victory because you wind up with about $250 bucks at the end of the month. And then you gotta form your own company, like I had to tell ‘em and I said who am I running these machines from. To begin with they’ll want to know but I don’t have to answer them. But this guy’s a weak sister, this Swede, you know it? (referring to Mayor Carson of Melrose Park) He grabs the envelope and that’s it. They can sneak underneath the bar because them guys all want that stuff. But that’s what I wanted to see you about. We just gotta do the best we know how. But there’s a business out there that I want to show you that I want to get in. I gotta get both feet on the ground, I don’t know whether im going or coming. I wanted to get in with Sharky (Frank Eulo, former 42 gang member) but here’s the set up, here’s the deal I wanta show ya. That other joint I been out for a year, there’s no money in there. Im selling the lot, we had half and half on the lot. My half of the lot.

Giancana: Whats the business?

Nicoletti: This is a liquor store that Comes Back Liquors in Melrose Park. The whole building there. It’s a half a block long. The guy wants $125,000 for it, for the building. He got a mortgage of $56,000, he wants to transfer the mortgage over and form a corporation. Actually what he wants is $75,000 cash. He’ll show $50,000 and take the other $25,000 under the table. This is his price that he’s asking how but I know he’ll come down lower. He’s got now, this store is $550,000 a month rental.

Giancana: Where’s this store at? Is that across the street of the police station?

Nicoletti: No, its right on Lake Street but right outside of Broadway. That whole half of block there just before you hit the Blue Moon.

Giancana: Oh, yeah.

Nicoletti: Well here it is, now his store gets $550,000 a month rental. The restaurant is $275,000. The apartments, in other words, you get 1160 dollars a month rent. He’s got $13,902.00 a year coming in. Now the thing with this guy here is what we can do with him and the business shows it and besides its cheap, hes gotta bar in there too and he gets $25,000 net.

Giancana: You mean that’s what he tells ya?

Nicoletti: Ya. That’s right but it wont do any good to look at his books besides hes cheating and I know hes gotta cheat there to make any money. Hes taking $100 a day over the bar and hes routing $50,000 a day out of that. The thing is hes willing to take this here and split the other five years across and well see if we can get him to carry the mortgage on thouse other five years on the balance of the money. This mortgage will be transferred, see, and you pay $8,000 a year on that. Now on that mortgage well have to carry the mortgage and if I cant get it mortgaged I figure it’ll run about $15,000 a year. So in other words it’ll be $23,000 a year plus 2400 in tax, will make it about $25,000. But the business clears $25,000 net which pays for your building. Everything else is profit.

Giancana: In other word the business’ll carry it?

Nicoletti: The business will carry this here end. Not including the $14,000 for the rent.

Giancana: How much stock has he got?

Nicoletti: He’s got roughly about $35,000 in stock, I was down in his basement. This is just a rough figure but we can go out and knock him down some more. The business and the licence is about $35,000.

Giancana: Yeah I know

Nicoletti: The stock, I know he got deals on ‘em so I know he aint gonna sell ‘em dollar for dollar. His store opens up at 9 to 12, the bar and liquor store. Of course that’s the biggest liquor store out there. In Melrose Park.

Giancana: Well theres two of ‘em on Broadway there, isn’t there?

Nicoletti: Well one of ‘em is closed and the other one is about to. You mean Joey O’Brien’s place?(Joey Aiuppa’s place)
Giancana: Yeah

Nicoletti: Its closed up, they’re down. And the other guy’s getting down too. He’s doing a little business there.

Giancana: Whats happening there?

Nicoletti: Well this guy is knocking ‘em all out. Hes working on volume and hes got better prices. They cant compete with this guy. What im gonna do, I got some money and the rest of the money im gonna get off of Sharky (Eulo). I figure this way we’ll go over there see and start looking into it and see what we can do with this guy. Hes got three apartments there that bring in $335,000 and it’s a half a block long and you got a parking lot. I mean, what the hell, I gotta do something. And I talked to Sharky and he said whatever you got in the balance ill give it to ya.

Giancana: How you gonna show for the money?

Nicoletti: I got a regular legit guy who’ll I’ll have him take my end of the part , I’ll just form a corporation and put it under his name, that’s all.

Giancana: Can he show for the money?

Nicoletti: Yeah, hes got an insurance business hes had it for 13 years. Not only that but we’re gonna put some under the table so there wont be that much to show. I imagine he could cover that. Than I hear another thing here that this juke deal was out for sale in Elmwood Park, this Borolio, you know this Borolio? I don’t know if that guy wants to sell, maybe its just rumours, I know that’s a hell of a spot.

Giancana: In Elmwood Park?

Nicoletti: Yeah. But I don’t know if the guy wants to sell it. I talked to Elmer last night to find out because hes got about 50 stops out there.

Giancana: I don’t think its for sale.

Nicoletti: That’s what I heard but than I asked Elmer and Elmer said I don’t think so. He didn’t say nothing to me.

Giancana: You mean Elmer Conti? ( Conti is the Mayor of Elmwood Park)

Nicoletti: Yeah

Giancana: Well go ahead. If you see your way clear, go ahead. I wish you lotta luck.

Nicoletti: Thank you. Whata you want me to do with these cards? How am i gonna tell this guy Hy, how am I gonna work that? Whats he gonna do, how we gonna work it?

Giancana: Well we’ll see what happends.

Nicoletti: Well im gonna hold the money until the end of the month.

Giancana: Yeah, hold on to the money.

(both leave)


As I said before, Charles Nicoletti already earned the admiration of the Outfit for his professionalism in the business and creativity while doing his job. Also a lot Outfit members didn’t have the stomach for the things that this guy was capable of. For example in 1962, two ruthless criminals Billy McCarthy and Jimmy Moraglia got into an argument with the Scalvo brothers, Ronnie and Phil. The reason was that one night Billy McCarthy went into the Black Door, a Outfit-connected saloon in Rosemont, and got very drunk and abusive. The two brothers, who managed the bar and their father was closely tied to Outfit boss Tony Accardo, got into an argument with Billy, beat him up and threw him out of the bar. Later Billy found Jimmy and told him what had happened and they foolishly wanted revenge. A couple of nights later Billy and Jimmy went back to the Black Door to get even with the Scalvos. Instead, they got another beating. Enraged, they wanted to kill the Scalvos and they did. A week later the Scalvos and one cocktail waitress were shot to death in their car. This murder caused the Outfit’s big shot Accardo much grief and anger. So the mob called Nicolleti and Alderisio to take care of these two thugs. Nicoletti called in on one of their old friends from the 42 gang, Samuel aka “Mad Sam” aka “Mad Dog” DeStefano. DeStefano knew Billy and Jimmy because they owed him money. On May 2nd, Nicoletti and Alderisio were looking all around Chicago for Jimmy and Billy. But that’s when the cops showed up and took the two hit-men in on suspicion charges. They arrested the two well known hitmen in their black car which was previously mentioned in some of the murders during “the big clean up” that occurred in the 1950’s. Later the press dubbed the car as the infamous “hitmobile”. It was a dark collared sedan designed for committing murders. The car had three switches under the dashboard. Two of the switches disabled the taillights so it will make the car harder for tracking at night and the third switch opened hidden compartments that held an impressive collection of weapons and torture devices. The cops found the noted hitmen crouching on the floor of a hit car parked on a dark street. This is one example were Nicoletti’s and Alderisio’s creativity comes to light. The cops confiscated the car and few days later they were released as usual.


Nicoletti and Alderisio arrested

But this didn’t stop Nicoletti and Alderisio from finishing their task. DeStefano called one of his bloody underlings and also a fast rising star in the Outfit Anthony “Tony the Ant” Spilotro. Spilotro and Billy McCarthy shared a mutual friend named Frank Cullotta. Later Cullotta lured McCarthy to a meeting but instead of Cullotta being there when McCarthy arrived at the meeting spot, Spilotro was there, along with Alderisio and Nicoletti. Billy was kidnapped and later was tortured in every kind of way. Later Spilotro used his dark imagination and placed Billy’s head in a vise and squeezed to the point where one of his eyes popped out under the pressure. According to Cullotta, who years later became a government witness, Spilotro told him that Nicoletti was eating pasta when Billy's eye popped out. Under huge pain Billy gave the whereabouts of his friend Jimmy so in the end Spilotro slashed his throat with a sharp knife. Jimmy was soon located and Spilotro had his throat slit too. Ther bodies were found in a trunk of a car on May 15th, 1962 on 55th Street in southwest Chicago. Their bodies were in the trunk for 2 weeks before they were discovered. The newspapers called the double murder the M & M Murders. This was another job well done for Nicoletti and Alderisio.


Billy McCarthy and Jimmy Moraglia

Leo Foreman was a Chicago convicted swindler, bondsman and president of the LeFore Insurance company. He was an aggressive monster of a man, six feet, two inches tall and 270 pounds with horrible Outfit connections like Mad Sam DeStefano, Alderisio and Nicoletti. Foreman’s road to demise began when DeStefano received a minor traffic ticket. Mad Sam instead of paying the fine, foolishly went to trial. Foreman told DeStefano that he will take care of the problem because one of the judges was his friend. So when DeStefano went to the trial he was fined several hundred dollars for contempt even though he was found innocent of the traffic violation. When the decision was read, he went really mad and cursed everyone in the courtroom. But most of his anger was directed at Foreman. That was strike one. Julius Greco, one of Nicoletti’s mob associates, was serving a 15 year sentence in Leavenworth prison. Foreman told Nicoletti that he allegedly was being related to a Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphreys and thorugh his relationship, Foreman was going to obtain a presidential pardon for Greco. So Nicoletti and DeStefano called Foreman for a meeting at DeStefano’s house to make a plan for their next move. But as time passed by Nicoletti realised that Foreman was lying because he was unable to cause Humphreys to take any action. Nicoletti became very mad because of that and started thinking about Foreman’s future in this life. That was strike two for Foreman. After a short time Foreman made another huge mistake. Joe Stein who was owner of a loan company, loaned money to Foreman but he never saw his money again. Foreman didn’t know that Stein’s partner in his company was Felix Alderisio. After a while, Alderisio walked in Foreman’s office and opened a dispute. In rage Foreman pulled out a gun and pointed it at Alderisio and told him to back off. Alderisio just smiled and told him “We’ll see about that” and walked out of the office. That was strike three. When Nicoletti heard about the bad news he calmly ordered to DeStefano to go and see Foreman and to take care of the problem in “Action Jackson” style (Action Jackson was mobster who received a very gruesome torture and death by the Outfit). As additional problem Foreman owed DeStefano $7,000 so Mad Sam wanted to take his money first before killing him. When DeStefano went to Foreman’s office and confronted him with his evidence, Foreman admitted that he might have made some “arithmetic mistakes.” DeStefano went into a rage and started cursing him. With this Foreman again pulled a gun and kicked DeStefano out of his office. On November 13, 1963 Nicoletti appeared at Foreman’s house and advised him that DeStefano was ready to let bygones be bygones, if Foreman helped fence a diamond theft and paid back his debt. So on November 14, Foreman was lulled into a basement were he was shot in his legs by Mario DeStefano, Chuckie Crimaldi and Tony Spilotro. Foreman was lying on the floor crying in pain and suddenly Mad Sam appeared, dressed in pajamas, and went to work. Before the torture, Mad Sam told Foreman that he was going to be a blood sacrifice to Satan. After being viciously tortured for hours, DeStefano shot Foreman in the head. Foreman’s body was stuffed into the trunk of a car which was found few days later.


Mad Sam DeStefano

During the early 1960’s the new administration under Giancana had already expanded their illegal and legal enterprises in and out of the country big time. For example, Nevada, California, Iowa, Wisconsin, Arizona, Texas, Florida, etc. and also around the world, including Mexico, Cuba, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Western Europe(England, France, Spain, Italy)the Middle East(Israel, Iran, Iraq),China and even Japan. They were mostly opening casinos around the world while also importing and exporting gambling and vending devices, stolen cars, prostitutes, weapons and narcotics. During this time the Outfit became not just national threat but also a world wide threat. During this period the only government organization that knew about these big criminal activities was The Central Intelligence Agency or the C.I.A. But instead to try and eliminate this menace to society, the agency joined and made an alliance with these criminals. As i stated in some of my previous articles, the CIA used the Outfit’s criminal operations to get informations from all of these countries and to make their own influence around the world. These gangsters acted like spies for the CIA and were feeding the government officials around the world with money and power thus making them their own allies. Few of Chicago’s most prominent gangsters that got involved with the C.I.A. plots were Sam Giancana, Johnny Roselli, Hyman Larner and Richard Scalzetti aka Richard Cain. Both Giancana and Roselli were very flashy mobsters that liked the adventures and also wanted to be known as the prime gangsters in the country. Cain was a government guy and Larner was known as international gangster since day one. My point is that there are evidences that these guys were involved in international operations and also loved the nature of that kind of crime and alliances. There are also evidences that Nicoletti’s partner Felix Alderisio also made a lot of travels to Europe and Asia thus making international illegal enterprises. One proof was that Alderisio had an obsession with collecting antics from around the world. Alderisio also made frequent trips to Havana, Cuba in connection with his gambling operations and was also well acquainted with all the big time gamblers from that area. So these guys brought a lot of attention from the government because some of them started having godlike feelings for themselves because of the cash amounts that they made and also the power they gained. As for Nicoletti, he was a very quiet guy and very deadly but wasn’t flashy and didn’t like the limelight like the rest of his companions. Because of his relations with these flashy mobsters, Nicoletti was constantly picked up and questioned by the feds. For example on May 15, 1962 Nicoletti was interviewed by the feds at a gambling spot in Niles, Illinois. He was questioned about his associations with Giancana and Roselli. In a quasi-cooperative attitude Nicoletti’s only comment was “I never see him no more”.

As a writer of this article I also want to state that I can’t find any evidences that Nicoletti had any C.I.A. connections during this period. There are only evidences that he was strictly a Mafia guy. I’m saying this because years later, speculations are going to spread around from various government and other suspicious sources that he was one of the guys involved in many CIA/Mafia operations because of his close associations with these high profile Outfit figures with secret government contacts.


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The early 1960’s was en exceptional period for the Chicago Outfit and the National Mob Syndicate in general. Back in 1957 the U.S. Senate Select Committee, also known as the McClellan Committee, was created by Chairman John McClellan together with Chief Counsel Robert F. Kennedy and Senator John F. Kennedy. The committee investigated and questioned publicly on national television many mafia bosses from around the country. Now the Chicago Outfit was getting too much of an unwanted public attention and also things were getting too hot within the organization. The worst thing for the mob was when on January 20, 1961 John F. Kennedy sworn in as the 35th president of the United States. He appointed his brother Robert Kennedy as U.S. attorney general. Indicting the mob was a high priority with the new attorney general, who claimed that the mob used extortion, bribery, and physical violence to rule the nation. By now many Outfit figures like Nicoletti stayed out of the limelight but that wasn’t the case with his boss Sam Giancana. He acted like a movie star by posing and smiling for pictures in front of the press and also walking around Chicago, Vegas and many other places with famous broads like Phyllis McGuire and others. Giancana had Sicilian blood running through his veins so that kind of a lifestyle was unacceptable for his other Sicilian friends like Accardo. On numerous occasions Charles Inglesia aka Chuckie English advised Giancana to stay away from the spot light as a real mafia boss should do. But Giancana didn’t blame himself for the heat but he pointed his finger towards the Kennedy brothers. According to FBI wiretaps, Giancana and the rest of the national mob screamed for the blood of the Kennedys. But they also had another ally that shared the same desire with them and that was the CIA. Back in 1961 the U.S. government made unsuccessful attempt in form of an invasion on Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro. A group of about 1,400 Cuban exiles was assembled and trained by the CIA for several months to invade the Bahia de Cochinos, or Bay of Pigs, on April 17, 1961. But Castro was ready for the invasion and his 25,000 troops defeated, killed or captured many of the invaders, embarrassing the United States and causing Castro to form a closer alliance with the Soviet Union. The CIA blamed Kennedy for the failure because he didn’t approved the backup that he had promised to the invaders and Kennedy blamed the CIA for their unprofessional activities and planning. So something had to be done.

After a while F.B.I. electronic surveillances started picking up conversations between Sam Giancana and other high profile criminals talking about the concern of their criminal activities. Giancana told his cohorts that everybody was on their own, which meant that the members no longer received support from the organization. During one conversation between Giancana and Felix Alderisio, things went over really sour. Alderisio, because of his often travelings, was very passionate about classical ruins and spent hours photographing them. Alderisio talked about 20 minutes describing ruins he had recently seen in Europe and Giancana lost his patience and in furious anger he yelled at Alderisio: "Phil, goddammit! Ruins! I got coppers coming out of my eyeballs and you sit there telling me about ruins! Listen to me, Phil, listen real good! Forget about them goddamn ruins!" All this “harassment” over Giancana and the disruption of his business enterprises sent a signal for the end of his administration. And that’s what happened. On Friday November 22, 1963 President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 pm. allegedly by Lee Harvey Oswald. On Sunday, November 24, Oswald was being led through the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters when suddenly a guy by the name of Jack Ruby stepped from the crowd and shot Oswald in the chest, fatally wounding him on national television. So that was the end of the Kennedys. Giancana and the rest of the national mob were celebrating like it was New Years Eve. So now they thought that the problems were gone and they can operate freely. But they were wrong and their problems were far from over, in fact the real problems just started. Jack Ruby, the guy who killed Oswald was a mob associate since day one, so the feds picked up for questioning few of Ruby’s close associates that belonged to the Chicago Outfit. Lenny Patrick and Dave Yaras were two of Giancana’s lieutenants of the non-Italian faction but as usual these guys gave nothing up and denied their close associations with Ruby. All they said was that they knew him from back in the days in their old neighbourhood. But the damage has already been done because if the mob was really involved in the JFK hit than they made a big mistake because now the heat from the government was bigger than ever.


JFK’s head blown by the shot

The Outfit bosses became paranoid beyond reasonable doubts so things had to be changed for the good of the organization. Tony Accardo and Murray Humphreys, who by now became the most paranoid old man that walked the streets of Chicago with a gun under his belt, thought the same thing that Giancana was slowly slipping. But Paul Ricca was still the most respected boss in the organization and didn’t allow anything to happen to his Taylor Street guys. Even with the government on his tail, Giancana still continued his famous love affairs and also continuously confronted the government. Also he together with Chuckie Nicoletti and another Chicago hoodlum named Americo DePieto were involved in the narcotics trade, which was the most dangerous move during this time. According to FBI files Nicoletti and DiPieto were the main ringleaders of a large national narcotics ring under the auspices of Giancana.

During this period Sam Giancana was travelling around the world with his girlfriend Phyllis McGuire so when he wasn’t around many of his underlings and so-called friends were forced to talk behind his back. One day Paul Ricca met with some of the Outfit’s political bosses, like Pat Marcy, who said that he has never seen things so bad before in his life. So even old man Ricca had his own limits and decided to change things around Chicago’s underworld. First he ordered Tony Accardo to sell his expensive and huge mansion and to buy an average house. Second he ordered Giancana’s flamboyant associate Johnny Roselli to leave Las Vegas and the West Side of the U.S. Later he sent a message to Giancana to return to Chicago and to find a temporary substitute for his position as boss. In November, 1963 Sam Giancana ordered his underlings to make few meetings and to agree on their decisions for the new acting boss of the Chicago Outfit. So on December 21, 1963 Charles Nicoletti attended a meeting together with Chuck English, Jack Cerone and Giancana at the Red Steer restaurant at 8800 West Grand and River Road in River Grove, Illinois. On December 27, 1963 Nicoletti attended another meeting with Charles English and Jack Cerone at the Red Steer restaurant. Next in January 1964 Ricca called a meeting which was chaired by Tony Accardo to elect a new front boss for Giancana. Present at the meeting were Sam Battaglia, Willie Daddano, Felix Alderisio and the Fratto brothers. Giancana’s friend since the old days in the 42 gang, Sam Battaglia was placed as acting boss of the Chicago Outfit and Gus Alex replaced Murray Humphries as boss of the non-Italian faction. When Giancana was called before a grand jury in 1966, he respected the “omerta”, which put him in prison for over a year. During Giancana’s stay in prison, Nicoletti received instructions through Sam’s brother Chuck Giancana. When he got out, to cool things down, Ricca agreed with Giancana’s idea to spread more operations in Mexico. They already had their guy Nick “Dean” Circella over there so Giancana negotiated with Circella to divide the lucrative gambling operations. Circella realised what was going on and that Ricca and Accardo were spearheading the effort to place Giancana in Mexico as overseer of the gambling operations, far away from Chicago.

Having Battaglia as boss, most of the Outfit members were not happy about the decision because Battaglia was a very treacherous person with many enemies within the organization. But things were smooth for Chuckie Nicoletti because when Battaglia took the heat as boss of the Chicago Outfit, Nicoletti became the prime force in Melrose Park. He became the sole owner of Al Piemonte Ford Co. at 25th and North Av. He also had interests in the Mars Oldsmobile Co. and purchased the land on which the Ford agency was built. Nicoletti opened up a restaurant on North Av. with Lou Nikolas and two other Greeks. Nicoletti also spread his legitimate businesses and also owned several condominiums in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He also invested in hotels and gambling joints out of the country like Puerto Rico. During this period Nicoletti was riding high in Chicago’s underworld. He also had the police chief Dominic Cimino of Melrose Park in his back pocket. Nicoletti and Cimino were constantly seen together at Slicker Sam’s Saloon at 1911 Rice Street. The owner of the saloon was Sam “Slick” Rosa, who was a golfing partner of Sam Giancana and close associate of Nicoletti, operated a crap game at the place. Nicoletti and Outfit member Rocco Salvatore oversaw all of the gambling operations in Melrose Park for Battaglia. Nicoletti even expanded his gambling operations in northern Indiana. His main guys over there were Frank Zizzo and George Dicks.

In January 1967 the FBI placed a lot of pressure on Battaglia’s territory and made triple raids on many of the Outfit’s gambling spots in Melrose Park. They also revoked the liquor licenses of many of the Outfit owned clubs in that territory and also began a big investigation on Battaglia and on one of his top lieutenants Joe Amabile. Than a trial commenced on April 24, 1967 but before the trial Gus Alex, Outfit’s fixer, obtained a list of jurors in the case. The purpose was to place pressure over the jurors to vote for an acquittal. But the action failed and later Alex expressed his deepest anger at the hoodlums who were assigned for the job. Battaglia and his two main enforcers Alderisio and Nicoletti saw this as a slap in their face so later Alex decided to take a “vacation” out of Chicago. So on May 9, 1967 the jury returned a guilty verdict for Sam Battaglia, Joe Amabile and construction manager Dave Evans for violating the Hobbs Act for obstructing interstate commerce and extortion. Battaglia was sentenced to 15 years and a fine of $15,000. He was followed to prison by two other mobsters from Giancana’s administration, Marshal Caifano and Rocco Pranno. Many of these top mobsters were jailed in the same prison and as a result of that, Battaglia was moved in the same area as Richard Speck, a serial killer who murdered eight student nurses. This was a situation that was very disturbing for Battaglia.

The late 1960’s weren’t so good for the Outfit’s gambling and bookmaking operations because the feds raided hundreds of bookie joints on Chicago’s North/West Side and the rest of the city. On February 8, 1968 Chuckie Nicoletti was arrested together with one of his associates Joe Scaramuzzo in his grocery during a raid on a bookmaking joint. The joint was operated by Nicoletti in a room at the rear of the food store which was owned by his wife, Agnes, at 1000 Loomis blvd. The bookie joint which handled an estimated $100,000 a month in horse bets. Besides gambling paraphernalia seized in the raid, the detectives confiscated a sawed- off shotgun, a .38 caliber revolver and a pamphlet which told how to "bug" police radio calls with a new electronic eavesdropping device. The cops also found a shotgun and a .38 caliber revolver in a room at the rear of the food store. On March 14, 1968 Nicoletti was taken to a trial. The findings and sentence were made by Judge Albert LaPlante who heard the two- hour case without a jury and in the end Nicoletti walked free and was fined only $200 in Domestic Relations court.

By now the Chicago Outfit had no official boss. There were many candidates such as Felix Alderisio and Jack Cerone but they had so many legal troubles that they were going to end up the same way as Sam Battaglia ended up. So now the aging Outfit’s elder statesman Paul Ricca made one last move. He advised his long time companion Tony Accardo to step up and to make a ruling panel. Meaning, Accardo would be the top boss or main advisor and under him there would be two street bosses or in other words, front bosses to manage the day to day operations. Ricca’s idea was to find the right guy for the job and to groom him until he was competent enough to take charge all on his own. One of the bosses was Gus Alex because he was by now the only Outfit figure with many friends in high places so he was perfect for the job. The main candidates for the second spot were Chuckie Nicoletti, one of the three Doms (Brancato, DiBella, Nuccio) and Joseph Aiuppa from Cicero. Since Nicoletti was one of Giancana’s closest allies and if he became the boss, Ricca and Accardo were afraid that Giancana might take control of the organization again. Nicoletti was always loyal to his friends from the old 42 gang, so in the minds of Ricca and Accardo, Nicoletti was out of the question. In fact, his close relationship with Giancana was the only obstacle for Nicoletti’s rise to power as one of the top bosses. So Accardo advised his mentor Ricca that the prefect combination for the job would be Aiuppa. It was a good combination, Alex had the brains and Aiuppa had the brawn and he was also a friend of Nicoletti. So Ricca agreed.


Joey Aiuppa

On July 25, 1969, the grand jury in Chicago returned suppressed indictment against Felix Alderisio. On July 29, he was arrested at his residence at po5 Berkley Road, Riverside, Illinois. Present during the arrest at Alderisio’s home was another Outfit hoodlum Joey “The Clown” Lombardo. When the cops searched the house, they found thirty-three different kinds of weapons, including 14 handguns and 19 rifles and shotguns. In January 1970, Felix Alderisio was taken to a trial on charges of federal bank violation. The main witness in the case was Irwin “Pinky” Davis, a convicted associate of Alderisio. Davis was very scared about his safety and the safety of his family because he greatly feared of retaliation from Alderisio or Nicoletti. But besides that Davis was an outstanding witness during the trial so on January 30, 1970 Alderisio was sentenced to 5 years in jail on the bank violation and 2 more years for firearms violation.


Alderisio arrested by the feds

Now with his buddy and business partner in jail, Nicoletti tried to be more independent by expending his shakedown activities on the supermarkets. Since he was involved in the supermarket business, Nicoletti brought Lenny Patrick, who was one of his partners from the North/West side and introduced Nicoletti to Louis Steinberg, the president of Steinberg-Baum discount chain. Patrck and Steinberg had long standing relationship. On November 15, 1970 Nicoletti attended a meeting with Outfit members Mario DeStefano, Lenny and his brother Mike Patrick in a North Western Avenue pizza parlor to share Steinberg’s companionship. Steinberg wrote checks, some as high as $900,000 and were cashed in different banks and than transferred to the chain’s 20 different subsidiaries or affiliates, with different corporate names which some were owned by Nicoletti and the Outfit. The FBI also received a report that in return, Nicoletti introduced Patrick to the narcotics trade on the West Side. Nicoletti pushed forward to the narcotics business because by now the government shot down most of the illegal gambling rackets.

But glory days of 55 year old Nicoletti were slowly coming to an end. On September 25, 1971 Nicoletti’s old friend and partner in crime, Felix “Milwaukee Phil” Alderisio died suddenly from an alleged heart attack at the federal penitentiary in Marion, Illinois at the age of 59. His death brought an end to the brutal history of one of the most vicious duo in Chicago’s underworld history. On September 26, the wake of Alderisio drew more police attention than the gangster’s friends and family. Some of the mobsters that appeared at his funeral were Charles Nicoletti, Chuck English, Joe Gagliano, Dominic DiBella and Irv Weiner. Alderisio’s death was follwed by the death of Joe Gagliano on December 14, 1971, who was the king of West Side loan sharks. Paul Ricca attended Gagliano’s wake with his head bowing in the realization of defeat than in respect to a fallen comrade.

With his old boss Sam Battaglia rotting in jail, Nicoletti decided to grant him one last wish. During Battglia’s trial there were three key witnesses who testified for the government in the case. The first one was William Riley, president of the Riley Management Company and victim of extortion, the second one was Mike DiVito, suburban contractor and the third one who was the main witness against Battaglia, Henry LaKey the president of Carlson Construction Company. Riley and DiVito were given new identities and were relocated to other parts of the country but LaKey declined to be relocated and changed his name to Henry Rufo. Few years later Nicoletti, through his corrupt police contacts knew about LaKeys’s whereabouts and decided to make a move. On December 15, 1971 the body of LaKey was found in the trunk of a stolen car in Freeport, Illinois. He was viciously beaten and showed signs of knife wounds, cigarette burns and other various signs of torture.

Things got really bad for the old West Side gang when their leader and protector Paul “The Waiter” Ricca died almost a year later on October 11, 1972 in Presbyterian-St Luke's Hospital. Just about everybody who was anybody in the underworld went to pay their last respects to the man they all agreed was the father of Chicago’s Brotherhood of Crime.

By this time Melrose Park was still one of the most lucrative territories for the Chicago Outfit and Nioletti was the prime force. During December, 1972 the new acting mayor of Melrose Park, since the death of Jake LaSpisa, was August “Augie” Taddeo. Taddeo was the godson of Outfit boss Joey Aiuppa and close associate of Nicoletti. Vic Taddeo, Augie’s father, worked as a dealer in Cicero gambling games and also worked as a muscleman for Aiuppa. Nicoletti and Aiuppa played major role in placing Taddeo as the new mayor. Shortly before LaSpisa’s death Nicoletti was still the dominant force in Melrose Park politics. He had few nominates for the mayor spot. One was Ralph “Babe” Serpico who served as the Democratic Committeeman for Proviso Township. He did two stints in prison and was discovered by the press as the connection between the Chicago outfit and the Democratic Party. So Nicoletti washed his hands of Serpico by refusing to intercede. The other guy was Lou Nikolas but Nikolas started bragging about this too early, telling people that he’s the next mayor and had the backing of the Chicago syndicate. This move even enraged Sam Battaglia in prison. The Outfit called on Nikolas he was told that not only he was not going to be the mayor but he also had to resign his job as trustee. That’s when Taddeo got in to the picture and became mayor. Also it was at this time when Nicoletti brought Aiuppa to Melrose Park and became the boss of that area. Now Nicoletti and Aiuppa were the prime forces in some of the most lucrative area in Chicago. Their main messenger was an attorney by the name of Barney Bruno. Bruno was the courier that carried instructions and messages to other lower members and imprisoned bosses like Cerone and Battaglia.

On February 7, 1973 there was a big meeting which was held at the SAC club in Melrose Park at the request of certain members and associates of the Chicago Outfit. Main figures at the meeting were Aiuppa and Nicoletti, followed by Tony Mastro, Tony “Bucky” Ortenzi, John Romano, Louis and Frank Karris, Rocky Montagna, attorney Vito Dalleo and mayor August Taddeo. There were also two uknown individuals who were brought by Montagna and also a cop only known as “Slim”. Montagna brought these two people, who allegedly came from the west, like Las Vegas or Los Angeles, to purchase a quarter of a million in stolen securities. The deal was done. Next, Aiuppa handed a brown paper sack filled with cash to “Slim”, who shortly after that departed from the meeting. Next on the agenda was the quarrel between Ortenzi and the attorney Dalleo. Dalleo thought that Ortenzi was far beneath him mentally and socially, so he didn’t want to take orders from him. Suddenly some hard words started to be exchanged at the table but all ended when Aiuppa ordered Dalleo that he was to take orders from Ortenzi or else. Next, Nicoletti, Aiuppa, Taddeo and the Karris brothers discussed the new pub that the brothers wanted to front. Taddeo was ordered to see to it that they would not receive any troubles from the Melrose Park police. Next thing was the discussion between Ortenzi and the two unknown people about Nicoletti’s and Aiuppa’s desire to purchase a building, that recently burned down, for $75,000. They wanted to open a club which would be fronted by the Nikolas brothers. The deal was done. Last on the agenda was regarding the juice operations in Melrose Park, the members present at the meeting were have been told that they are now on their own, because the Outfit was afraid that the government agents were getting people to go on juice so as to trap the juice operators. The meeting lasted for half an hour and in the end everybody disappeared in different directions.

By this time Aiuppa and Nicoletti ran Melrose Park pretty smoothly and made a lot of cash. They also felt that Gus Alex wasn’t devoting much of his time as a part of the ruling panel because they started having many problems with “City Hall”. The problem was that Alex spent most of his time in Florida and often travelled to Europe. Both Aiuppa and Nicoletti advised Tony Accardo that he should prevail over Alex and to make him stay in Chicago permanently. During a meeting between Accardo and Alex, he stated that he had no intentions of staying in Chicago nor that he had any intentions of taking greater responsibilities. He also tried to talk Accardo in retiring in Florida and into buying a house next to his. Later Alex also became very critical of Aiuppa and Nicoletti and became enraged because by now Nicoletti and Aiuppa divided the Chicago Outfit in two factions. One faction was the “Management” which was formed by Accardo, Aiuppa and Dominic DiBella and the second faction “The Blazers” which was headed by Nicoletti with members like Joey Lombardo, Frank “the German” Schweihs, Tony Spilotro and Harry “The Hook” Aleman. So the “Management” wasn’t very satisfied with Alex and his operations in the Loop. They wanted more money and they also suggested that Alex should take more active part in the North/West side which was one of the most profitable areas for the Chicago Outfit.

As being one of the bosses in Melrose Park, Nicoletti’s enterprise had its own problems with thievery. During this period Nicoletti discovered an organized band of thieves that were preying on the receipts of mob-owned, coin-operated vending machines in the western suburbs. They were mostly two-bit punks, who had never worked a day in their lives and now wanted to cut themselves in for a piece of the action. Nicoletti’s men warned this band of thieves through their leader 33 year old James Leonetti. But besides the warnings, Leonetti still prowled the suburbs, skillfully using a set of lock picks and a metal receptacle to carry off his loot. Now Nicoletti was forced to make an example. On July 15, 1973 Leonetti was lured by one of his friends to Bill's Grill at 2300 W. North Av. At 3 am two masked men entered the tavern, grabbed him, spun him around and than shot him to death. Than they carefully placed a metal receptacle on his chest, which Leonetti had used to ply his trade. When the cops searched the scene they found about $300 in coins spread around in his car which was nearby the tavern. The gangsters had left their message unmistakably for all those who could recognize it.


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Things got bad for Nicoletti when his close associate and former boss Sam Battaglia also died on September 7, 1973 of cancer at the age of 64. The handpicked successor of Sam Gaincana died as a broken man because during his stay in prison, his wife Angela and his second son Sam Jr. both died of heart attacks. It was a terrible tragedy and it was also an example of the bad karma that surrounds these people. Also in July, 1974 Nicoletti’s exiled boss Sam Giancana was deported by the Mexican government under the pressure of the U.S. The Mexican authorities entered Sam's estate San Cristobal and deported him back home. On December 17, 1974 Giancana was brought before a federal grand jury to testify about the CIA plot to assassinate the Cuban leader Fidel Castro that occurred in the 1960’s. Accardo couldn’t stand these daily pressures no more so he and Aiuppa gave an order for the problem to be solved Mafia style. On June 19, 1975, Giancana was murdered in the basement kitchen of his Oak Park home with 6 shots from a .22 in his head. Allegedly the killer was one of Sam’s closest associates, Dominic “Butch” Blasi. Later none of his gangster friends showed up at the funeral, not even Nicoletti. Most of his closest friends in the Outfit avoided his funeral because of the huge number of reporters and FBI agents that were present at the time. On June 24 and September 22, 1975 Johnny Roselli was called to testify before the 1975 U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence also about the CIA plot to kill Castro. Again on April 23, 1976 Roselli was called before the committee to testify but this time for the alleged conspiracy to kill President Kennedy back in 1963. Three months after his first round of testimony on the Kennedy assassination, the Committee wanted to recall Roselli but it was too late. The mob had gotten to Roselli first because on August 9, 1976, Roselli's chopped up and decomposing body was found in a 55-gallon steel fuel drum floating in Dumfoundling Bay near Miami, Florida. By 1976 most members of the old Taylor Street Crew were gone and the remaining members like Chuck English, Butch Blasi and Marshal Caifano had no choice but to accept the new administration and got mixed with the other remaining crews around Chicago.

After Giancana’s death Joey Aiuppa became the boss of the Chicago crime syndicate and his second in command was Jack Cerone. Accardo took the position as elder statesman for the mob or top advisor and Gus Alex remained as boss of the non-Italian faction and their prime fixer. So one day Accardo sent a message to Alex to get back to Chicago immediately because there was some trouble going on among the Outfit’s members. One of the problems was the drastic diminished income from bookmaking and loansharking, and most of the remaining illegal operations were overtaken by the new administration. So guys like Nicoletti still didn’t thought about retirement. He was looking to find new ways to make the quick buck and the only racket that left for him was narcotics. Nicoletti knew that if the Outfit doesn’t get generally involved in drugs, someone else like the Hispanics or blacks will take it. Nicoletti also knew that by now most of the bosses stashed their millions so they didn’t need any narcotics businesses around them. Nicoletti was a gangster to the core so he didn’t think about the rules that were given by his superiors and stuff like that. When Alex came back from his home in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, he was very angry. Accardo explained to him that some of the old big shots like Nicoletti are spreading influence over the younger generations about getting involved in narcotics. That’s when Alex and Nicoletti entered a feud over the narcotics racket. Alex and Accardo were against it but Aiuppa stayed open minded. Through Aiuppa, Nicoletti hoped to change the resistance from Accardo and Alex to enter in the drugs operations. Many of the members like Lenny Patrick supported Nicoletti and his desire to supplement their income. But in the end the Outfit’s boss Aiuppa turned his back at Nicoletti and has gone along with Accardo and Alex in refusing to give that faction consent to become involved. This decision brought much higher hatred and rivalry between Alex and Nicoletti.


Gus Alex

By 1977, most of Nicoletti’s illegal rackets faded away. He was 61 years old, with grey hair but even with his age he still had the physical condition for any job. He had a legitimate business which was the Metropolitan Burial Vault Company at 1325 Main Street in Melrose Park. He constantly helped his workers like driving and loading the trucks. During this period Nicoletti started having chest pains so he decided to visit his doctor. Nicoletti was devastated because the doctors diagnosed him with a metastatic lung cancer and they advised him that he had only five months left to enjoy his life. Nicoletti always thought that he was going to end up shot to death on the streets of Chicago like a real gangster. But that’s life and that’s one of the main moments when he thought about retiring from the mob. Also one day he was visited by FBI agents regarding the slayings of Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli. He told the agents that he never knew Roselli but his name was familiar to him only from the latest news coverage regarding Rosellis murder. When he was asked about Giancana, Nicoletti told the agents that he was an old friend but didn’t have any comment about the murder. He also told the agents that he was struggling by trying to make a buck from his legitimate business. In the end Nicoletti commented that “crime does not pay today”. Than Nicoletti was asked if crime paid in the past years but he only shrugged his shoulders and with a grin on his face said “I don’t know”.


One of the last photos of Nicoletti

On March 28, 1977 the House Select Committee on Assassinations wanted to question Nicoletti about his alleged involvement in the JFK assassination. The House investigators were tipped off by an ex-Outfit associate, turned informant, by the name of Chuckie Crimaldi. So the investigators immediately began to arrange an interview with Nicoletti. They hoped that Nicoletti could supply them with information about Jack Ruby’s mob connections and the CIA/Mob operations. Also the investigators came to information that Nicoletti was recruited by Roselli and Giancana to work on the map logistics in the murder plot against Fidel Castro. Nicoletti wasn’t aware of the situation but some his “friends” in the Outfit like Gus Alex that had connections in high places were tipped off about the investigation. On March 29, 1977, Nicoletti received a phone call from someone to meet him/them at the parking lot of the Golden Horns Restaurant in suburban Northlake, Illinois. The unknown person/persons met with Nicoletti in his 1976 Oldsmobile. According to some police reports, one person sat on the front seat next to Nicoletti and other person sat on the back seat. Than, the person on the back seat pulled out a gun and shot Nicoletti three times in the back of the head with .38 caliber slugs at point-blank range. As his body leaned forward to the driving wheel, his foot apparently stuck on the accelerator, overheating the engine, thus setting the car on fire. There’s also another story that Nicoletti was in a high speed chase and was caught up at the parking lot of the restaurant. He was trapped by the parked cars on lot where he attempted to flee the hitmen. Some investigators said that one of the hitmen firebombed Nicoletti’s car while the other one did the shooting. Anyways, some of the people that were passing by the restaurant saw the fire and called the cops. Than the police pulled Nicoletti out of the car and he was still alive but with no consciousness and was taken to the intensive care unit at the Northlake Community Hospital. Nicoletti died 6 hours later.


Nicoletti’s grave



Nicoletti’s murder was an obvious mob hit but the question remains “Who did it and why?” My opinion is that the hit came obviously from the Outfit’s top echelon because none of the younger criminals had the courage to do this on their own. Nicoletti spent all of his life planning hits and executing people, so it wasn’t an easy job to get him. But again the question remains, who pulled the strings and pushed for Nicoletti’s death? My personal pick is Gus Alex. My explanation is simple because there was a long time feud between the two of them. One of the problems was the narcotics business, which Alex despised, and maybe the second problem was Alex being one of the bosses of the ruling panel, the position Nicoletti maybe thought it belonged to him. So when the investigation on the JFK assassination began, Alex used the right moment at the right time. Two men are suspected of being involved in Nicoletti’s death, Frank Schweihs and Harry Aleman, two trusted members of Nicoletti’s hit team. Or maybe Nicoletti pushed for a suicidal mission?! Maybe he didn’t want to suffer from the cancer that he developed, so he granted his own wish about getting shot on the street?! Anyway his murder remains unsolved.

After Nicoletti’s death, many conspiracy theories surfaced around Chicago and the U.S. One theory was that Nicoletti had harsh quarrels with his superiors about the CIA taking over their international illegal operations, like smuggling narcotics and white slavery. Next theory was that he was willing to talk to the government about his involvement in the Castro plot and the Kennedy assassination. And because of the murders of Richard Cain, Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli, who all were involved in the CIA operations, some theorists also believed that the CIA was responsible or influenced on the decision for their deaths and the death of Nicoletti. This theory came to surface when some people that allegedly were involved in the Kennedy assassination allegedly committed suicides or died suddenly and unbelievably fast from cancer or other diseases.

Even 15 years after his death, Nicoletti still made the headlines. In 1992 Charles Giancana, the brother of Sam, and his nephew Sam Jr. published their book, Double Cross, which was mostly about Sam Giancana’s life time. In their book they claim that Richard Cain, along with Charles Nicoletti, were the two gunman who killed President John F. Kennedy. Than in 1994 James Earl Files a.k.a. James Sutton, who is serving a 50 year prison term at the Danville Correctional Center in Danville, Illinois, for the attempted murder of two police officers, stated in an interview that allegedly he and Nicoletti were the shooters in the assassination of Kennedy. So with these kinds of stories, true or false, Nicoletti’s legend grew even further. In the end I want to say this…Charles Nicoletti was truly a Mafioso who destroyed the lives of many people and families and in the end was undone by the same tactics and violence that he used in all of his life time. He killed his own father to protect his own family and later continued to kill just to protect his other family, which was the Chicago Outfit. He’s remembered in history as one of the best serial killers for the mob. With all of the blood that was shed on the streets of Chicago, Nicoletti was never charged on any of the murders that he committed. He never snitched or turned his back to anyone in the organization, he was very loyal to his superiors and made a lot of money but I’m going to take a quote from one famous mob researcher and that is, if there’s a special hell reserved for the mafia, than people like Charles Nicolleti deserve one of the most excruciating places in that hell. The End


This article is completed from various FBI files, newspaper clippings, articles and other various infos that can be found on the internet.

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great article toodoped! Just one question, what is your source for voting giancana for boss in 1957? General consensus on this is that ricca ordered accardo to step down, due to heat he brought with purchasing this big house and upcoming trials and so on..

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There was a contingent of Outfit guys who didn't want to see guys like Accardo, Giancana & Co to takeover? Never read about that, and it doesn't make much sense to me. All of those guys came up with Capone. Guzik, Humphreys, Alderisio, Fischetti's, Nicoletti, Battaglia, Aiuppa, Ricca. And while some were younger and did the a lot of the heavy stuff for Capone, the Guzik's and Ricca's of the Chicago underworld were Pretty freaking old by the mid 50's, certainly they didn't believe they could run things forever. Who else was against the middle age group getting theirs?


Also don't recall really reading anywhere that Ricca forced Accardo to step down as boss, especially in favor of Giancana, who was always a high profile individual, and a lot more attractive to LE than a Tony Accardo. And historians & LE always provided the impression that Accardo was Giancana's overseer of sorts, not Ricca.

Interesting stuff to say the least.

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@mickey2 thanks man and thank you for the support.According to some FBI informer Ricca ordered a meeting to be held at the at the Tam O'Shanter restaurant.I dont know if he was present at that metting because when Ricca got out of jail in 1948 he rarely met publicly with other top hoodlums.Usually after the meetings guys like Accardo and Cerone delivered the messages to Ricca. Accardo was usually his voice at the meetings,so it had to be voted.If the top guys like Murray Humphries and Vogel didnt want Giancana as the acting boss, there were going to be a lot of problems.But there was no reason for Giancana to not be placed as boss. He was the prime moneymaker, a lot of people from the Capone era were gone by that time so the former 42 gang was taking over and my opinion is that nobody liked the top spot at the time because of the heat from the government.

@SinatraClub some of the guys you mentioned were small potates during the Capone era and never came under Al. Battaglia and others were a separate gang from the Capone mob. Capone didint like much the 42's and one example is the robbery of Big Bill Thompsons wife.You see that picture of young Battaglia that i posted?Well thats when he robbed the mayors wife.In the 1940's Guzik was kidnapped by these guys because of his resistance against them. So these guys never worked for Capone, they worked for Ricca. Ricca brought them into the organization after Capone went to jail. Plus there are some stories that Ricca and the guys framed Capone to get him off the top position. There are no friends in the mafia. Some of the members of the old guard hated these young turks because of the attention they brught by killing everyone in their way and taking some of the new rackets for themselves. Also I never said that Ricca forced Accardo to step down as boss becaue Ricca was always the top boss. The rest like Accardo and Giancana were only front bosses for this guy.BUT once there was some kind of negative energy between Ricca and Accardo during the horse meat scandal.Accardo operated the racket and during one of the trials some high ranking Outfit members were mentioned,including Ricca.And it was a very profitable situation for Accardo to step down as acting boss because of the heat from the government that occured during that time period. And belive me when i say this, Accardo was never Giancana's overseer, he was his advisor. Accardo was Ricca's voice so that makes Ricca the real overseer on Giancana. Accardo took Ricca's position in 1972 after his death.


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There has never been a shred of evidence that the Chicago(or any other Mob Family) was involved in the JFK killing.
As to the House Select Committee, their "investigation" was a joke. Check out the conclusions that they reached:

On the Kennedy assassination, the HSCA concluded in its 1979 report that:

Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots at Kennedy. The second and third shots Oswald fired struck the President. The third shot he fired killed the President.
Scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability that at least two gunmen fired at the President. Other scientific evidence does not preclude the possibility of two gunmen firing at the President. Scientific evidence negates some specific conspiracy allegations.
The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. The committee was unable to identify the other gunmen or the extent of the conspiracy.
The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that the Soviet Government was not involved in the assassination of Kennedy.
The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that the Cuban Government was not involved in the assassination of Kennedy.
The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that anti-Castro Cuban groups, as groups, were not involved in the assassination of Kennedy, but that the available evidence does not preclude the possibility that individual members may have been involved.
The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that the national syndicate of organized crime, as a group, was not involved in the assassination of Kennedy, but that the available evidence does not preclude the possibility that individual members may have been involved.
The Secret Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Central Intelligence Agency were not involved in the assassination of Kennedy.
Agencies and departments of the U.S. Government performed with varying degrees of competency in the fulfillment of their duties. President Kennedy did not receive adequate protection. A thorough and reliable investigation into the responsibility of Lee Harvey Oswald for the assassination was conducted. The investigation into the possibility of conspiracy in the assassination was inadequate. The conclusions of the investigations were arrived at in good faith, but presented in a fashion that was too definitive.

The Committee further concluded that it was probable that:

four shots were fired
the fourth shot came from a second assassin located on the grassy knoll, but missed. The HSCA concluded the existence and location of this alleged fourth shot based on the later discredited Dallas Police Department Dictabelt recording analysis.[19]

So basically,the Committee found that there probably was a conspiracy,but said conspiracy didn't involve any actual people.
In 1988 the Dictabelt recording evidence from the Dallas Patrolman's motorcycle was thoroughly discredited. This was often cited as the ironclad proof of a 4th shot,so once that was proven to be bullshit,we are back to 3 shots,one nut,and a small time mook like Ruby.

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toodoped, thank you for the great story on nicoletti, a great read and, as always greatly informative, keep up the good work.

I look forward to your posts.



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@Binnie_Coll thanks ol'timer. I really appreciate your support, cheers

@Lou_Para therr are tons of infos (true or false) that the Chicago Syndicate was involved in the JFK assassination but i avoided writting about that on purpose because as you said there are no real hard evidences. BUT read the investgation carefully "The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that the national syndicate of organized crime, as a group, was not involved in the assassination of Kennedy, but that the available evidence does not preclude the possibility that individual members may have been involved." That means some members, not the whole syndicate. Guys like Roselli, Giancana, Cain and possibly Nicoletti.Maybe the other top guys didnt approve the CIA associations and hitting the president, but Giancana had power at the time and maybe he went for it, which i belive he did.Later every one of them were killed before the investigations and conclusion.Coincidence??? Sorry but im not the guy that belives in coincidences,especially not were the mafia might be involved.


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Toodoped, this is so great. Keep up the extremly good work! Cheers!

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Thanks a lot guys, I really appreciate it


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Originally Posted By: Toodoped
@Binnie_Coll thanks ol'timer. I really appreciate your support, cheers

@Lou_Para therr are tons of infos (true or false) that the Chicago Syndicate was involved in the JFK assassination but i avoided writting about that on purpose because as you said there are no real hard evidences. BUT read the investgation carefully "The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that the national syndicate of organized crime, as a group, was not involved in the assassination of Kennedy, but that the available evidence does not preclude the possibility that individual members may have been involved." That means some members, not the whole syndicate. Guys like Roselli, Giancana, Cain and possibly Nicoletti.Maybe the other top guys didnt approve the CIA associations and hitting the president, but Giancana had power at the time and maybe he went for it, which i belive he did.Later every one of them were killed before the investigations and conclusion.Coincidence??? Sorry but im not the guy that belives in coincidences,especially not were the mafia might be involved.

There certainly is room for everybody's conclusions as far as the JFK hit. I have my take on it and happen to believe that I'm correct. I also respect everyone else's opinions and realize that this topic can be a real hornets nest. I've always enjoyed your posts and wish to thank you for the time you put into your stuff.

So as far as JFK,we can certainly "agree to disagree".
That's what makes it fun and keeps our Board alive.
Again, thanks for all your good work.

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@Binnie_Coll thanks ol'timer. I really appreciate your support, cheers

@Lou_Para therr are tons of infos (true or false) that the Chicago Syndicate was involved in the JFK assassination but i avoided writting about that on purpose because as you said there are no real hard evidences. BUT read the investgation carefully "The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that the national syndicate of organized crime, as a group, was not involved in the assassination of Kennedy, but that the available evidence does not preclude the possibility that individual members may have been involved." That means some members, not the whole syndicate. Guys like Roselli, Giancana, Cain and possibly Nicoletti.Maybe the other top guys didnt approve the CIA associations and hitting the president, but Giancana had power at the time and maybe he went for it, which i belive he did.Later every one of them were killed before the investigations and conclusion.Coincidence??? Sorry but im not the guy that belives in coincidences,especially not were the mafia might be involved.

There certainly is room for everybody's conclusions as far as the JFK hit. I have my take on it and happen to believe that I'm correct. I also respect everyone else's opinions and realize that this topic can be a real hornets nest. I've always enjoyed your posts and wish to thank you for the time you put into your stuff.

So as far as JFK,we can certainly "agree to disagree".
That's what makes it fun and keeps our Board alive.
Again, thanks for all your good work.


THats an honest and very fair answer comming from you buddy.I also respect your posts because you are very knowledgeable poster who always put clear facts and good opinions. Thanks again and thank you for your support. cheers


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I love these long chicago threads. I've had this one open on my browser for days now picking away at it little by little.


lol You know whats the hardest part for me in writting these long articles? The final reading(for the 100th time) or examination of the article for any mistakes or whatever.In the end I just dont have the strength and patience no more smile


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I love these long chicago threads. I've had this one open on my browser for days now picking away at it little by little.


lol You know whats the hardest part for me in writting these long articles? The final reading(for the 100th time) or examination of the article for any mistakes or whatever.In the end I just dont have the strength and patience no more smile



lol lol

toodoped, are you currently doing another article? smile

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I love these long chicago threads. I've had this one open on my browser for days now picking away at it little by little.


lol You know whats the hardest part for me in writting these long articles? The final reading(for the 100th time) or examination of the article for any mistakes or whatever.In the end I just dont have the strength and patience no more smile



lol lol

toodoped, are you currently doing another article? smile


Yeah, right now im working on two projects at the same time.One is the story of Sam Hunt and the other one is about Johnny Moore aka Claude Maddox. Im also working on a third project, and that is the Outfit's infiltration in the unions, but there are sooooo much info's,stories and personas involved in it that i need a lot more time to finish it.


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Originally Posted By: Toodoped
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I love these long chicago threads. I've had this one open on my browser for days now picking away at it little by little.


lol You know whats the hardest part for me in writting these long articles? The final reading(for the 100th time) or examination of the article for any mistakes or whatever.In the end I just dont have the strength and patience no more smile



lol lol

toodoped, are you currently doing another article? smile


Yeah, right now im working on two projects at the same time.One is the story of Sam Hunt and the other one is about Johnny Moore aka Claude Maddox. Im also working on a third project, and that is the Outfit's infiltration in the unions, but there are sooooo much info's,stories and personas involved in it that i need a lot more time to finish it.



well tic toc mothafucka......NAW I'M JOKING

keep up the good work

i wouldn't mind seeing one on joey auippa

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Originally Posted By: cookcounty

well tic toc mothafucka......NAW I'M JOKING

keep up the good work

i wouldn't mind seeing one on joey auippa


lol

Thanks again man.And yeah,thats a good idea,i just might do one on Joey O'Brien


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Great artical. I've seen the police report that said the last telephone call made to Nicoletti came from Jimmy "the Man" Marcello.

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Originally Posted By: realnoname
Great artical. I've seen the police report that said the last telephone call made to Nicoletti came from Jimmy "the Man" Marcello.


article source? that would be very interesting!

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Originally Posted By: mickey2
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Great artical. I've seen the police report that said the last telephone call made to Nicoletti came from Jimmy "the Man" Marcello.


article source? that would be very interesting!


It was actually to Tony Ducks Corallo.

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Where did you hear that? Ducks was in jail at the time, I believe. Jimmy Marcello has also been believed by some to have killed Nicoletti.


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Originally Posted By: realnoname
Great artical. I've seen the police report that said the last telephone call made to Nicoletti came from Jimmy "the Man" Marcello.


Thanks man. Yeah i think i read somewhere about Marcello's involvment, maybe it was in some of the comments on Fosco's site but i dont really remember.Eitherway, thanks for the additional info


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Toodoped you still doing Alex Brothers ? smile

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Toodoped you still doing Alex Brothers ? smile


Yup. But to tell you the truth Sam is a tough individual to write about. Not much info out there


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