To put bluntly, Chuck simply believed everything his big brother told him, and he put it down on this book. Double Cross: The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America, Featuring a brand-new introduction by the author, this, bestseller presents an inside expos of mob boss Sam Giancanatalented businessman, Las Vegas entrepreneur, ruthless killer, and outside player for the CIAs dirtiest deeds. After his prison term, he moved to Mexico (Cuernavaca). A season of memoir, looking to eccentrics of the last century and embracing the wide-awake of today and tomorrow. [10] In 1929, Giancana was convicted of burglary and larceny, and sentenced to one to five years in the Joliet Correctional Center. Decades after his death, the sisters have vowed to convey the truth about their notorious father, Sam Giancana. [11], During the late 1930s, Giancana became the first 42er to join the Chicago Outfit. Kennedys 1960 presidential campaign, which he did successfully. It's clear Chuck Giancana had a deep admiration for his big brother throughout his life, so bear in mind that the story is told from the lens of a man who gives nothing but the greatest adulation to his brother and his "accomplishments". Carl's son and Nick's nephew, was put in . Giancana was murdered on June 19, 1975, in Oak Park, Illinois, shortly before he was scheduled to appear before the Church Committee. It is also hard to believe that Joseph Kennedy met with a notorious mobster who was investigated by a Senate committee his two sons were associated with. He was also in touch with several politicians. Supposedly the Outfit kept its end of the bargain, but it was double crossed by the Kennedys, who increased federal pressure on the Outfit locally and the Cosa Nostra generally. Francine, the youngest, and Bonnie, the middle, of Giancanas three daughters, are stepping into the limelight for the first time in their long lives. Even lately, with all the problems with the skim and all, Sam always stood behind the guy. In several versions of the story, the Outfit retaliated by assassinating John and Robert Kennedy. It provides some interesting information on organised crime in the US and beyond, without really revealing anything surprising. They had three daughters, Antoinette born 1935, Bonnie born 1938, and Francine born 1945. He was initially named Momo Gilormo Salvatore Giangana. One of the most feared Chicago mobsters Sam Giancana clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting as a hit man for Al Capone. Logothetis rests a foot above the floor on a wheeled platform, eyes behind the camera, gently pushed and pulled by the stagehand to alter the frame ever so slightly, one long moment to the next. ", "He was a man who knew too much and ultimately he had to be silenced," said Sam Giancana, the mobster's namesake nephew. There were rumors that the CIA may have killed Giancana because of his links to the Agency; the weapon useda .22 pistol, more often used by clandestine operatives than mob hitmenlends credence to this. Sam Giancana, boss of the 'Chicago Outfit', leaving the Federal Building at Foley Square in New York City in 1965. Thus, the case against him was dropped. The mistake I made was that I didn't pay very good attention to the writers of the book, which was told mostly from the perspective of his little brother. After his release from prison, Giancana fled to Cuernavaca, Mexico. In 1963, J.F. [33], After his release from prison in 1966, Giancana fled to Cuernavaca, Mexico in order to avoid further grand jury questioning. [34][35] He arrived back in Chicago on July 21, 1974.[36]. Feedback or questions? "[41], Although longtime associate Dominic "Butch" Blasi was with Giancana the night he was murdered and questioned by police as a suspect, neither the FBI nor Antoinette Giancana considers him Giancana's killer. The case remained unsolved. "By himself in the house, boom-boom-boom, see you," Corbett said. On September 23, 1933, Giancana married Angelina DeTolve. Reportedly, the Mexican government deported him back to the U.S., and he returned in July 1974. Copyright Newcity Communications, Inc. 2023. [16][17], Hyman Larner was an associate of Giancana's who helped expand the Outfit's gambling and smuggling operations to Panama and Iran,[18] moving the Miami operation's headquarters to Panama where money laundering was more easily facilitated by local banks. Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. However, before he could appear, on 19th June, 1975, Sam Giancana was murdered in his own home. This simply indicates that JFK was a more popular candidate in 1960 relative to his Republican opponent than Adlai Stevenson was in 1956, when he ran against President Dwight Eisenhower, and/or that county wide the Daley Democratic Machine worked harder for the partys candidate in 1960 than in 1956. Before the meat was done, that man would become Giancana's killer. , ISBN-13 What was fascinating, says Celozzi, who is actually Giancanas great nephew, was more than the blueprints of how (organized crime) worked. The 42s were involved in robbing wealthy people, stealing car parts, and bootlegging. is a recognized expert in the organized crime genre who has authored two nonfiction. The increases elsewhere in Chicago are fairly similar, although the percentage voting Democratic increased more (by 15 percent, from 47 percent to 62 percent) in the other parts of the city than it did in the Outfit-controlled wards (where it changed by 13 percent). That is, eight separate tests were done with the local voting data to determine if Outfit-influenced political districts voted (everything else being equal) unusually heavily Democratic in 1960. Dimitri Logothetisand Nick Celozzi/Photo: Brooke Collins. NY woman driven to wrong address fatally shot by homeowner, Boy dies from injuries following fight at trampoline park, Witness recalls moments of E-40's ejection from Kings-Warriors game. Sam Giancana, byname Momo, original name Salvatore Giancana, (born May 24, 1908, Chicago, Ill., U.S.died June 19, 1975, Oak Park, Ill.), major American gangster, the top syndicate boss in Chicago from 1957 to 1966, who was noted for his friendships with show-business personalities and for his ruthlessness. During the years in between, Giancana became one of the world's most powerful organized crime bosses; he allured Marilyn Monroe and some say got John F. Kennedy elected president. According to "Mooney" practically all US Presidents from say Theodore Roosevelt to say Richard Nixon were "connected" at some level. OConnor discusses how Charlie Weber, the Democratic alderman of the 45th ward, openly opposed the Kennedys, having been influenced by his friend Murray Humphreys to take a dim view of Kennedys candidacy. Statistical analysis of voting by the Outfit-influenced wards/suburbs in the States Attorney election versus the presidential election finds evidence in all four tests that these political districts voted much more strongly for Dan Ward than they did for John Kennedy when general voting patterns are controlled for. Kennedy was assassinated, and many suspected the involvement of the Outfit. However, nothing was proved. Giancana's was to appear before a Senate committee investigating CIA and mafia links to plots to kill Fidel Castro. Although he quotes Mrs. Humphreys Teamsters-focused account, Russo asserts that non-Teamsters union members nationally were influenced to vote for Kennedy and places particular emphasis on four states: Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and Nevada. Giancana was now ordered to appear before Church's committee. Capones Prohibition-era gang, with 500 gunmen at its height, was larger than the Outfit in 1960, while Cicero was quite a bit smaller (about 70,000 inhabitants in 1924) than the five Outfit-controlled Chicago wards (whose total population was more than 300,000 in 1960). And Bobby Kennedy had already labeled organized crime as the greatest danger facing the country in his book The Enemy Within. Nonetheless, further statistical tests examine voting by union members nationally. Various individuals, especially Art Bilek, Bill Brashler, Mars Eghigian, Mickey Lombardo, Matt and Christine Luzi, Tim Perri, Vince Sacco, and Jeff Thurston, provided comments and suggestions that improved this article. His various rackets, especially the lottery pay system, brought in a lot of money for the Outfit. Thus, when one of the top bosses, Tony Accardo, retired from the Outfit in 1957, Giancana took his place as the new boss. The Machine may well have gotten living and dead humans and a variety of fictitious individuals (by making up identities for fraudulent voters) to vote for JFK. ! To effectively intimidate voters at a polling place, it would have taken at least four or five hoods. In fact, legendary crime reporter Ray Brennan, writing the day after the election, described it as sissified and bland in comparison to the violent primary election of April 6, 1928. Having them around 24/7 made the neighborhood feel safer. : By 1966, this partnership had developed into arms smuggling to the Middle East for the Israeli Mossad, all via Panama. [44], Another theory is that Santo Trafficante Jr. ordered Giancana's murder due to fears he was going to testify about the Mafia's involvement in CIA plots to kill Castro. No fabricated scenarios, rather a few strobes to balance the circumstantial light. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Something went wrong. In 1957, Giancana attended the national summit of organized crime groups in Apalachin, New York, on behalf of the Outfit. Joseph Kennedy (father of John F. Kennedy) was known to Giancana, as he was also believed to be involved in bootlegging. Definitely not for the sensitive people, but I do recommend strongly if this is your genre of choice. I particularly like Sam Giancana's remark to his brother, that Americans will do anything provided they have an enemy, and the job of those who would control them is to create an enemy. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. During the late 1930s, Giancana moved away from the 42s and into the Chicago Outfit. In 1945, he was put in the Federal Correctional Complex in Indiana, where he learnt about Chicagos illegal lottery rackets from a fellow inmate named Eddie Jones. Unfortunately, that horse did not win, prompting one unhappy bettor to remark, Someone forgot to tell the horse.. 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We want to fill the back story of where he came from, his home life, his personality, what made him tick. Celozzi and Logothetis will incorporate anecdotes from FBI transcripts with hours of home movies, interviews and letters with family, friends and associates. The fact that the Outfit did not deliver on Election Day for Kennedy does not mean that the Cook County Democratic Party Machine led by Richard J. Daley did not pull out all the stops for JFK. A number of authors assert, based on claims by individuals who were linked in one way or another to organized crime in Chicago, that the Chicago Mob usually referred to as the Outfit was responsible for John F. Kennedys election as president in 1960. The film posits that Giancana worked to arrange the assassination of the president as revenge for trying to bring down the mafia after 'the mob helped put JFK in the White House'. [42][43] Hitman Nicholas Calabrese told the FBI during the 2000s that he knew that Tony Accardo was part of the killing and Angelo LaPietra got rid of the gun which used a suppressor made by Frank Calabrese Sr. and Ronnie Jarret. He partied with major stars such as Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe and did business with agents ranging from the CIA to the Vatican to the shah of Iran. [15], Some journalists claimed that Giancana and his Chicago crime syndicate "played a role" in John F. Kennedy's victory in the 1960 presidential election. However, analysis of the 1960 presidential voting in isolation ignores important local political issues that may cause the preceding results, as weak as they are, to be biased in favor of assertions the Outfit worked for Kennedy. A matinee performance features some of the studios students in one room, and two filmmakers, two sisters, two kids, a publicist, a photographer and a journalist are decamped in another. The Giancanas claim the Outfit did everything possible for Kennedy in the wards they controlled. As a show of gratitude Mayor Daley and his family were the first people invited by the new president to stay at the White House. A very interesting book, although rather depressing. When he was unable to pay his debts, DeStefano put McDonnell to work for him, including allegedly (see the account in Captive City by Ovid Demaris) having him carry two dead bodies from his basement. MOMO: THE SAM GIANCANA STORY | The True Story of The American Mobster Documentary 370,362 views Aug 29, 2020 2.6K283SHARESAVE FilmIsNow Movie Trailers 1.11M subscribers SUBSCRIBE Watch Momo: The Sam Giancana Story, a full documentary that shows the Sam Giancana's true story and the truth behind . Conspiracy theorists consider Giancana along with Mafia leaders Santo Trafficante Jr. and Carlos Marcello associated with the assassination of Kennedy. Please try again. On the other side of the ledger, OConnor argues that unions tied to the Outfit were very displeased with Robert Kennedy and the McClellan Committee hearings and therefore John Kennedy. The couple had three daughters, Bonnie, Francine, and Antoinette. Not long thereafter they found Giancana dead on the floor of his basement.". Robert McDonnell is similarly lacking in credibility. Chuck Giancana, who passed away in 2001, was the brother of the late crime boss Sam "Momo" Giancana. Previous page of related Sponsored Products, "One of the most enjoyable WWII books to date." Giancana was born in Chicago to Italian immigrant parents. Email blog@themobmuseum.org. In statistical tests, I have examined voting by four groups of wards and suburbs where the Outfit would have been most able to deliver votes for Kennedy if it so desired: the five Outfit-controlled wards mentioned above, those five wards and the 45th ward (mentioned by OConnor), the five Outfit wards and the two premier Outfit-controlled suburbs, Chicago Heights and Cicero, and all six of these Chicago wards and the two suburbs. I'm sure there are some stories that were stretched to some degree, but nonetheless I think there's a lot of teeth behind many of the conspiracies. Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web. Individual Cosa Nostra crime families generally controlled local chapters of unions rather than the national union. Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon. On the other hand, Len OConnor, the dean of Chicagos political commentators, remarks in his book Clout: The power of the Daley Machine was evident throughout the city, only the two crime syndicate wards, the First and the Twenty-eighth, delivering a low count, fewer votes for Kennedy in 1960, in fact, than they had delivered for Daley in 1955. The same point applies as strongly, if not more strongly, to Jeanne Humphreys. Despite Giancana being a the top it was said that all decisions still went through Ricca and Accardo. Did the Chicago Outfit elect John F. Kennedy president? But with Aiuppa, Accardo and everyone else who had a hand in the hit also dead, the likelihood of justice ever coming in the case of Sam Giancana seems slim. Hair-raising true story that reads like a Stephen King novel. Do I believe everything in the book is 100% accurate? He grew up in a part of Chicago known as The Patch, which was mostly inhabited by immigrants who had moved from Little Sicily on Sedgwick Street. : Therefore, the Outfit was quite capable of producing votes in certain areas when it wanted to. Both Jones and Roe were major South Side gambling bosses. But these claims lack plausibility when carefully examined, and the sources are far from credible. At around 11 p.m., Joseph DiPersio, Giancana's caretaker, found his body on the floor of the basement kitchen where he was said to be frying sausage and peppers. $22.95. He was first arrested at 17 (1925) for car theft. The book arrived ahead of schedule and in excellent shape. I had a paperback version of this book and it was OK, but the hard back book words were bigger and the pictures were a lot bigger too. It is also worth noting that in the years after 1968, when both John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert were still revered by the public as martyrs, it has become open season on the Kennedy family. This caused immense displeasure in the Outfit.. Also, it is hard to imagine how the Outfit, after being attacked by the McClellan Committee, would trust the Kennedys or believe they would not continue on the same course. Written by their nephew and told in real time about the underbelly that pulled off this crime. Powerful mobsters proliferated in 20th century America, but their influence didn't remain in the underground world. Assassination of John F. Kennedy Encyclopedia Following this, he eliminated Teddy Roe, another big boss of the Policy racket. Roselli introduced Maheu to two men he called Sam Gold and Joe. He was first arrested in 1925, for auto theft. According to these authors, this caused the Outfit to assassinate both John and Robert Kennedy. Giancana claimed that the Chicago area was "the safest place in the world" for a major underworld meeting because he had several police chiefs on his payroll. [2] Angeline died on April 23, 1954, leaving him to raise his daughters. It was the first televised presidential debate in American history. Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations. During the 1960s, he was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a plot to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. [2] Antonia died in 1910 and his father married Mary Leonardi. New stuff: "EO," "Empire of Light," "Retrograde" and "Pinocchio." When filmmaker Nick Celozzi joined director Dimitri Logothetis about eight years ago to produce a television biopic on Sam Giancana, the pair became enraptured by his larger-than-life character. Tuohy could easily have contacted First Ward Democratic politicians, such as John DArco or Pat Marcy, who were close to Giancana, to more effectively arrange a meeting. When the lottery money started rolling in for the Outfit after this gambling war, the amount this game produced for the Outfit was in the millions of dollars a year and brought Giancana further notice. While the rest of the office building on LaSalle Street remains quiet and deserted on a dreary Sunday afternoon in November, Act One Studios hums with the movement of an industry that never slows. He was then sent to St. In 1957, Giancana became the boss of the Chicago Outfit. In fact, Ray Brennan reported in a newspaper article just two days after the election that John Kennedy intended to crack down even harder on organized crime, including the Outfit, as an outgrowth of his activities on the McClellan Committee. There is nothing in the raw percentages that shows that anything happened in the Outfit-controlled political districts in 1960 beyond what was going on elsewhere around Chicago, given that these five wards voted heavily Democratic in every election (including 1956) for several decades. Second, McDonnell claims Tuohy wanted him present at the actual meeting. In fact, the evidence is inconsistent with the claim that there was a pre-election deal, because the Outfit had nothing to gain by making an agreement and then breaking it. With its melange of Mafia history and conspiratorial politics, "Double Cross" has raced up the national bestseller lists, propelled in good . Roe had refused to surrender control of his operation as the Outfit had demanded, and on June 19, 1951, Roe fatally shot Leonard "Fat Lennie" Caifano, a made man of Giancana's crew.[12]. Later, he became the triggerman, or a vicious killer, of the Outfit. By the time he turned 20, the police suspected that he was involved in three murders. Mafia boss Sam Giancana aided a CIA plot to kill Fidel Castro, allegedly helped assassinate JFK, and may have been with Marilyn Monroe on her last night alive. If McDonnells presence was not required at the meeting itself, why was it necessary that he be there at all? He had a massive wound in the back of the head. According to the Giancanas, Joseph Kennedy, the father of John Kennedy, struck a deal with Sam Giancana before the 1960 election. The Las Vegas casinos of the Meyer Lansky-Benjamin Siegel-Sam Giancana era gave way in the 1970s and 1980s to a new generation of Chicago mobsters. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. He had a sister named Lena. After Giancana's return to the United States, police detailed officers to guard his house in Oak Park, Illinois, but on the night of June 19, 1975, shortly before he was scheduled to appear before the Church Committee,[37] which was investigating CIA and Cosa Nostra collusion,[38] a gunman entered the home through the basement and shot Giancana in the head and neck seven times with a .22 caliber pistol. He soon graduated to "triggerman" and by the age of 20 had been the prime subject of three murder investigations, but never tried for any of them. In fact, there is evidence that union members in states where the Outfit operated voted less heavily Democratic than usual and therefore against JFK, as Len OConnor suggests. The Godfather: Part III is getting a makeover. | EO is Visionary | Sam Mendes makes Shadowplay | Julia Reichert is Remembered. Former Chicago lawyer Robert McDonnell claims he helped arrange the meeting between Joseph Kennedy and Sam Giancana in Chicago, which curiously McDonnell saw take place but did not attend. She died at home last week at age 89. I've bought a few books on the Kennedys that I've yet to read, so I'll be interested to see the the differences in the stories told as far as the involvement of the Outfit and the CIA. Allegedly, there were other popular personalities, such as singer Phyllis McGuire and actor Marilyn Monroe, who were known to both the politician and the mobster. In the completely male world of traditional American organized crime, members do not share information with females, including wives. Only those who absolutely need to know are informed at the time about particular operations. Obviously, there is considerable disagreement about the Outfits role in the 1960 election. The thriller King Kennedy (2012) also shows archival footage of Giancana. In a book by his nephew and godson, also named Sam Giancana, Mooney is quoted as claiming credit for the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy (in part, Money said, because they weren't going a long with the deals made with the mob by their bootlegger father - deals that helped get John elected president), the murder of Marilyn Monroe at the He was released in 1932, after serving three years and nine months. After Esposito's murder, in which Giancana was allegedly involved, the 42 Gang was transformed into a de facto extension of the Chicago Outfit with leaders such as Frank "the Enforcer" Nitti, Paul "the Waiter" Ricca, and Tony "Joe Batters" Accardo. Giancana suggested using poison pills to dose Castro's food and drink. Now the young Sam Giancana tells all . 1965)", "Crime boss' death linked to his discomfiture to mob", "Sam Giancana's daughter aims to cash in on gangster's memorabilia", "Giancana, Gangster, Slain; Tied to C.I.A. In only one of eight cases is there evidence of unusually strong Democratic voting that might be due to organized crime. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Grand Central Publishing, $7.99 (512pp) ISBN 978--446-36412-6 Legendary mob boss Sam Giancana's brother and nephew (also Sam) profile their relative in this 12-week PW . Unable to add item to List. As I point out initially in my book The Chicago Outfit and analyze in detail in an article titled Organized Crime and the 1960 Presidential Election that appeared in the academic journal Public Choice in 2007, there is no convincing evidence to support these claims about the 1960 presidential election. Mob boss Sam Giancana was killed 40 years ago in his west suburban home and who did it is far more of a puzzle than why. However, the Outfit is not Joseph Kennedy. During the previous four years the Republican incumbent, Benjamin Adamowski, was a thorn in the side of the Outfit, raiding gambling joints in Cicero and strip clubs in Calumet City, and City Hall. Gus Russo, in The Outfit, repeats the stories told by the Giancanas and Hersh, claiming that scores of Giancanas vote sluggers or vote floaters hit the streets to coerce the voters. Russo, summarizing the election events overall, states quite strongly that Outfit chieftain Tony Accardo, the Mobs political point man Murray Humphreys, and other top Chicago hoodlums met in June 1960 to decide who would become the next president of the United States. A recent book by Antoinette Giancana, John Hughes and Thomas Jobe repeats the extreme claims that the Outfit elected Kennedy in 1960. [19] Richard Cain, a corrupt police officer, also made "frequent trips" to and from Mexico as Giancana's courier and financial adviser. 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