Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...season try to recoup. The winners dream of doubling their money." For all its size, Super Bowl betting is just the tip of an illegal pro football betting business, run by bookies and betting syndicates, that handles as much as $15 billion a year. Law enforcement authorities believe the Mafia has sizeable interests in the betting business. A Louis Harris poll conducted last year indicated that 31 million Americans bet regularly on pro football games...
...policeman and mobster. Cain was a Chicago detective in the 1950s, and later became chief investigator in the Cook County sheriffs office. In the mid-1960s he was dismissed from the sheriffs office for concocting a phony drug raid, and he became the chief operative of Chicago Mafia Overlord Momo Salvatore (Sam) Giancana. In 1966 Giancana left Chicago for Mexico to avoid federal heat and counseled the Chicago syndicate from his exile; Cain was a trusted aide...
...taped conversation with officials of the U.S. Department of Justice in 1969, Cain admitted that his Mafia and police careers were inextricably linked. Through the influence of a Democratic politician in Chicago's inner city First Ward, he got a job as a detective in 1956. He soon became the Mob's bag man in the police department, paying off detectives to insure freedom of operation. He was finally compelled to quit the force in 1960, when he and another detective were discovered wiretapping the offices of Mayor Richard Daley's Commissioner of Investigations to secure possibly...
...claimed to have "recovered" the drugs. When Ogilvie learned that Cain had plotted the phony raid to make himself look good, he fired him. During the FBI investigation brought on by Cain's dismissal, it was discovered that, while on the sheriffs staff, he had helped the Mafia smoke out a suspected stoolie in its midst by having a lie detector test administered privately to five bank robbers-for the benefit of the Mob. One robber flunked the test; he was later shotgunned to death, presumably...
...reasons still not clear, Cain's influence in the Mob had waned by early in 1973. Some longtime Mafia observers believe that Giancana and Cain had a serious dispute. Others believe that a band of jewel thieves he had fallen in with decided that he could no longer be trusted. Why was he killed? Said one Chicago police investigator: "He knew too much." Added Charles Siragusa, executive director of the Illinois Legislative Investigating Commission: "He may have committed the unpardonable sin-talking to both sides...