I'm curious to know this: how come the Outfit has gone from one of the most powerful crime families in the US, to supposedly a mid-sized family run by a bunch of old farts who barely do anything except shuffle around social clubs and run video poker machines and a few legit businesses.
New York, no many how many times the Feds hit them always come back. Even the Colombo's, hell they aren't going away. The Genovese Family controls the entire port of New Jersey even in this day and age.
I'm not saying it's true, but it just seems Chicago slided in a very short period of time.
Well now that's just simply not true. Sure, that is what the outfit would love to have people believe, but they are alive and doing very well, much better than they were doing during the first half of this decade. The biggest blows dealt were the jahoda & Cooley testimonies. Losing the 1st ward was the big one, but they just picked up & moved most of their business to the suburbs.
If you think the outfit is a couple of old farts that shuffle around social clubs & have a few body shops, youre an idiot, and sorely mistaken. They LOVE that people think that though.
