It all comes down to which report you want to believe. There was a drug trade in Chicago, and there still is. Accardo being involved is the question. A crime commission came to a conclusion after studying everything and said Accardo pushed his men out of it, street informers and some researchers say otherwise. It's an evolving study if you keep an open mind. If a person chooses to believe he had himself and his men out of the drug trade as reports state, they believe that. If they want to believe he was in the drug trade, which is very possible, then they believe that. I like to keep an open mind and study all side, and unless there is evidence that trumps all other evidence then it is impossible to say one way or another.