Well... there was that little matter of the SS Normandie...
Posted on 01/26/2022 8:32:42 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Ten days after the 1906 earthquake, Tony Accardo was born in Chicago’s Little Italy. Accardo was 14 when he dropped out of school. By 16, he was working for Jack “Machine Gun” McGurn, one of Al Capone’s hit men, and in his mid-20s, he was promoted to be Capone’s bodyguard. Two decades later, Accardo had risen to the top of the Chicago Outfit, one of America’s most-feared organized crime families.
This Sunday, 116 years after Accardo was born, his great-grandson Nick Bosa — a boss of a very different sort — will take the field for the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship game. It’s one of the NFL’s strangest connections: a mob capo and a football dynasty.
Bosa’s great-grandfather got the nickname “Joe Batters” as a mere teen, allegedly due to a penchant for beating disloyal compatriots with a baseball bat. Accardo eventually met Capone at the race track, where he was betting on ponies. He became Capone's chauffeur-bodyguard — and potentially more.
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wonder if he knew San Fran Nan’s relatives at there in Baltimore
Pelosi will be cheerleading..........................
The kind of thing you find out about & say: ‘Awesome!’
I hope SanFran gets whacked by the rams.
I’m 3rd gen Sicilian, and Lucky Luciano and his family are my direct relatives. No biggie..
Accardo was probably the most powerful and successful mob boss ever. Never spent a night in jail.
No problems on the NY docks when Lucky was in charge of security in WW2
I’m Jewish, and my grandfather had a younger cousin named Arthur Flegenheimer who went into business with, and was later murdered by, your relative. By that time though, my cousin (twice-removed) was going by the name “Dutch Schultz.”
Leggs DiCocco grew up around me in upstate NY
Paul “Legs” DiCocco Sr. (June 20, 1924 – July 30, 1989) was an Italian Upstate New York reputed racketeer and associate of mobster Carmine Galante who was involved in illegal gambling and also owned restaurants and construction companies.
A longtime gambler with numerous minor convictions for illegal gambling, DiCocco was connected to New York’s underworld. He also controlled racketeering and other criminal activities with Carmine Galante in Montreal, Canada.
DiCocco also had contacts in New York’s labor unions; he and Nicholas Robilotto, President of Teamsters Local #294 in Albany, New York were eventually investigated for conspiring to underbid rival construction companies. DiCocco owned a luncheonette with his brother that was renowned for its Italian cuisine.
In 1951, DiCocco was investigated by a grand jury on charges of corruption and illegal gambling in Schenectady County, New York. This investigation resulted from allegations that Schenectady Police Chief Joseph A. Peters fixed a traffic ticket for DiCocco. Peters denied the charge, but was eventually forced to resign.
Receiving a subpoena from Mayor Samuel S. Stratton, DiCocco appeared before a City Hall investigation on his supposed ties to organized crime. During a half-hour period, DiCocco pleaded the Fourth and Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitutions to the U.S. Constitution over 76 times.
In 1977, DiCocco was indicted on contempt and perjury charges. Shortly after his first trial ended in a hung jury, DiCocco accepted a plea bargain to obstructing governmental administration and contempt. DiCocco received three years probation and a $1,000 fine. Paul had ties in Syracuse, New York with prominent business owners.
I think we will see a rematch of the 1982 super bowl, only this time we get the Bengals winning. No ‘The Catch’ moment.
BTW - Doesn’t this put his brother Joey Bosa (Steelers) in the same situation?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-11-08-8703240319-story.html
“In Accardo`s last appearance before a U.S. Senate committee looking into organized crime, in 1984, he testified that most of his net worth of $700,000, which he acquired from gambling, was in savings certificates in banks in west suburban River Forest and Palm Springs, Calif., where his condo skirts the Indian Wells Country Club.
Accardo, 81, also emphasized at the hearing that all taxes had been paid on the money he made through his long crime career.
this is how the feds treat you. You help them and they stab you later. Luciano’s contacts in Sicily were the ones communicating with the US Army before Patton and Monty landed.
Accardo along with Neil Dellacroce of Gambino family fame are likely two most dedicated genuine mob guys of the past half century
Accardo was a master at running the Outfit in the Vegas years
Once some incredibly stupid ....burglars robbed his home....
Big Tuna....Accardo ....hunted all down and killed them...all except I think a Jewish guy who passed a polygraph they gave him
He was a serious man
Really interesting story.
Well... there was that little matter of the SS Normandie...
The Normandie was blown up before they cut their deal with Luciano. The irony is he may have been the one to have set the destruction albeit the /fblie said it was an accident.
Picked a good time. Just before a big playoff. How long were they sitting on it. Does it make Joey bad too?
Joey plays for the Chargers. And, yes, I recall both Bosa brothers catching some flak for their conservative views in the past (especially Nick playing in the San Francisco Bay area)
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