^lol. No one plays for free in Chicago. These guys have been working for Lombardo & Vena for ages & ages.

This is why made men in Chicago insulate the shit out of themselves. And it works, for the most part. It takes a guy who was privy to top shelf information (Mario Rainone, Bill Jahoda) getting fucked over by them & turning witness, or a bone-headed false move (Lombardo & the Seifert thing, Marcello stupidly confiding in Nick Calabrese), or just plain stupidity (Frank Calabrese) in order to take a made Chicago guy down.

If you think for a second Koroluk & Panozzo weren't kicking up tribute on the oodles upon oodles of profits they were generating, you're dead wrong. These are the same rackets & schemes that Joe Lombardo & his crew were operating back in the day. The crimes & set ups are almost identical. This has always been the Grand Avenue Crews bread & butter. It's just the names & faces are different today.

It's like people are expecting a wiretap with Panozzo pledging allegiance to the Grand Avenue Crew, or for Albie Vena or Bobby Dominic to be caught red handed, draped up in task force garb "ya got me!".