Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 damaging information...
...invasion. By 1962 he was back in Chicago, where he worked for the election of Richard Ogilvie as Cook County sheriff. Cain said that he told Ogilvie: "I know the hoods. I am not afraid of the hoods, and I hate the hoods." Despite warnings about Cain's Mob connections, Ogilvie hired him, later made him chief of investigators...
Throughout his tenure in the sheriffs office, Cain was collecting $1,000 a month from Giancana to divert Ogilvie's attention from mob activities and to feed inside police information to the syndicate. But he also told the police about out-of-favor mob figures whom he wanted to have arrested in order to solidify his position within the syndicate...
...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 by the Mob...
...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...