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1929 In Organized Crime
Events *Mobster Tony Accardo, Antonino Morddelo "Tony," "Joe Batters" Accardo becomes head wikt:thug, enforcer for Al Capone's "Chicago Outfit". *Danny Stanton, a former member of the Valley Gang, Valley and Sheldon Gangs, assumes control as interim leader of arch rivals Joseph Saltis, Saltis-Frank McErlane, McErlane organization. *January 8 – Unione Siciliane leader Pasquale Lolordo is killed in his Chicago apartment, supposedly by mobster Joe Aiello and members of the North Side Gang. *January 12 – Labor racketeer Cornelius Shea died in a hospital in Chicago after an operation for gallstones. *February 14 – Four unidentified men, two of them dressed as Chicago police officers, storm into a Chicago garage and murder seven members of the North Side Gang, (among them optometrist Rheinhart Schwimmer and mechanic John May). Their primary target, gang leader Bugs Moran, George "Bugs" Moran, is not there. However, the St. Valentines Day Massacre effectively ends the five-year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Accardo
Anthony Joseph Accardo (; born Antonino Leonardo Accardo, ; April 28, 1906 – May 22, 1992), also known as "Joe Batters" and "Big Tuna", was an American longtime mobster. In a criminal career that spanned eight decades, he rose from small-time hoodlum to the position of day-to-day boss of the Chicago Outfit in 1947, to ultimately becoming the final Outfit authority in 1972. Accardo moved the Outfit into new operations and territories, greatly increasing its power and wealth during his tenure as boss. Early life Accardo was born on April 28, 1906, in Chicago's Near West Side, the second of six children of shoemaker Francesco Accardo and Maria Tilotta Accardo. One year prior to his birth, the Accardos had emigrated from Castelvetrano, in the Province of Trapani, Sicily, Italy to America. At age 14, Accardo left school and started loitering around neighborhood pool halls. He soon joined the Circus Cafe Gang, run by Claude Maddox and Tony Capezio, one of many street gangs in the po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |