Think some of these storys were written by Aesops ???

Living the high life without getting caughtTV mobster Tony Soprano runs the Bada Bing strip club and a garbage hauling firm. Real-life mobster Tony Centracchio, who died last year while facing charges he oversaw a video gambling empire, was slightly more diversified. Over the years, Centracchio, who lived in Oak Brook, owned a jewelry shop, a carpet store and an abortion clinic, sources say. Why the different businesses? To hide the ill-gotten cash. Successful mobsters such as... Read more

Big Mob Hits

Big Jim Colosimo -- killed in his own cafe at 22nd and Wabash Avenue on May 11, 1920. Colosimo was then the top mob boss of Chicago. His death, believed ordered by underlings Al Capone and Johnny Torrio, Colosimo's nephew, made way for Capone's rise as Chicago's... Read more

Another Farce...What kind of Justice When You are Convicted on the Words of a Low Life

3 guilty of murder in Chicago mob trial James Marcello, reputed head of the Chicago Outfit, was convicted Thursday of ordering the killing of the head of the Las Vegas Mafia and his brother.The jury in the federal Family Secrets Trial found another defendant,... Read more

Flurry of convictions ?? On the Word of a Rat...

Another case of The "G" using a "RAT" FOR EVIDENCE........"UNFAIR AND FALSE JUSTICEA federal jury found five aging men guilty Monday in a racketeering conspiracy that involved decades of extortion, loan sharking and murder aimed at rubbing out anyone who dared stand in the way of the ruthless Chicago mob.The verdicts capped an extraordinary 10-week trial that laid bare some of the inner workings of The Outfit.The prosecution's star witness was an admitted hit man who took the... Read more