Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are no truly secure pensioners in the Mafia, but the retired Chicago don Sam Giancana, 66, was probably as much at ease one night last week as a man with his past could be. Just back from Houston and a gall-bladder operation, he had enjoyed a festive homecoming dinner in his fortress-like brick house in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. His guests were the handful of people he could trust: one of his daughters and her husband; Charles ("Chuckie") English, his partner in myriad syndicate enterprises over the years; and his loyal courier-chauffeur, Dominick ("Butch...
Thus died a man with the face of a gargoyle and the disposition of a viper, a cruelly violent Mafia chieftain who ruthlessly ruled the Chicago underworld for nearly ten years. Giancana had retired from active Mob affairs several years ago. But he recently recovered his notoriety because of the revelation that he had been recruited for the Central Intelligence Agency in 1960 to assassinate Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro (see following story). Indeed, the Senate committee investigating the CIA was considering calling Giancana to testify, and had already subpoenaed his lieutenant in the plot, John Roselli, to appear this week...
Kiss of Death. The killer or killers acted with methodical precision, leaving the police with few clues beyond seven .22-cal. shell casings. A lightweight .22 is not the sort of artillery that the Mafia usually employs, leading to speculation that an embittered girl friend, of whom he had many, might have done him in. Or it might have been someone with whom he had been involved in the Castro caper who feared exposure. As for any possible CIA complicity, Director William Colby said: "We had nothing to do with...
...carefully laid away, Giancana seemed to get no special treatment from the U.S. Government. Haled before a federal grand jury looking into the Mafia's affairs in Chicago, Giancana refused to talk and served twelve months in jail for contempt of court. Released in 1966, the don moved to Mexico for a while but is now back in Chicago...
...hired in 1962 by Cook County Sheriff Richard Ogilvie (who was to become Illinois' Governor six years later). Resuming his role as a spy for the Mob, Cain was fired by Ogilvie for his shenanigans in 1964. Finally, in 1968, Cain was jailed for his part in a Mafia operation. Released in 1971, he became the still absent Giancana's man in Chicago...