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The Family Secrets trial has brought Chicago's mob into a spotlight that it hasn't experienced in decades. While Joey "the Clown" Lombardo and other defendants profess their innocence, let's look back at the Outfit's sordid past:
Al Capone was known as Scarface, but his friends called him Snorky, which was slang for elegant.
Ethnic stereotypers, beware. Mobsters' names don't always match their nationalities. Hymie Weiss was a Polish Catholic whose birth name was Earl Wojciechowski. "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn was a Sicilian originally named Vincenzo Gibaldi.
The mob often stifled African-American political aspirations. In 1928, black lawyer Octavius Granady ran for Republican committeeman against a mob-backed white candidate in the "Bloody 20th" Ward on the West Side. On Election Day, two cars of gunmen chased Granady's car, which crashed into a tree. Granady was then shot to death for the crime of participating in a democracy. Nine men, including five police officers, were charged, but none was convicted.
Sometimes mobsters did good turns to boost their public image. Mob historian Gus Russo notes that Capone's henchmen successfully pressured the Chicago City Council to require a date stamp on milk cartons and to establish guidelines for what could be sold as Grade A milk.
The mob wasn't always consumer-oriented. In the early '50s, the Outfit tricked Chicagoans into eating horsemeat. Since beef cost four times as much as horseflesh, mob-controlled processing plants created a mix of 40 percent horse and 60 percent cow and called it ground beef. Millions of pounds were sold while inspectors were bribed to look the other way in the "horseburger" scandal.
Rep. Roland Libonati (D-Ill.), who served in Congress from 1957 to 1965, was an unabashed friend of many mobsters, including Capone, Tony Accardo and Paul Ricca. But he was especially famous for crimes against the English language. He referred to Slavic voters as "Slavishes," called Chicago "the aviation crosswords of the world," and uttered a world-class malapropism: "I resent the insinuendoes."
One of the biggest men in 20th Century Chicago crime was a man of Welsh descent named Murray Humphreys, who masterminded the mob's legal strategies and union takeovers. The press called him The Camel, but he was Curly to his friends. When Humphreys' daughter needed a high school prom date, Frank Sinatra showed up.
The movie "Analyze This" depicted how police broke up the famous 1957 meeting of the nation's top mobsters in rural upstate New York. While many wiseguys were nabbed, Chicago delegates Accardo and Sam Giancana escaped--but not unscathed. "I tore up a $1,200 suit on some barbed wire and ruined a new pair of shoes," Giancana later said.
While FBI agents were tracking mobsters, the mobsters were tracking the FBI agents. The crooks knew, for example, that FBI agent Bill Roemer coached his son's baseball team, so they would arrange mob meetings during the boy's practices.
Desi Arnaz had some 'splaining to do when he began producing television's "The Untouchables" in 1959. Many Italians thought the show made them look bad, and Arnaz got a protesting phone call from an old high school friend: Sonny Capone, Al's son. But Arnaz refused to budge. According to reports, Chicago mob bosses considered a "hit" on Arnaz, but Capone's widow, Mae, vetoed any rough stuff against him.
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