Chicago was the single most powerful family at the time, plus they had most of the midwest families under their thumb. The midwest had the teamsters. More than likely the genovese learned to hide their boss like chicago seeing that chicago was doing that since the 40s and they collaborated with each other
Yep. All those bosses Chicago had through all those years when Accardo was really running things.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
