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  • Gay Racket Was Very Good To Chicago Outfit

    02/04/2012 1:54:30 PM PST · by AtlasStalled · 9 replies
    Friends of Ours ^ | 02/04/12 | Friends of Ours
    For decades the Outfit had a nice piece of gay nightlife in Chicago, IL, and during the 1960s and 1970s its operations were overseen by John Gattuso according to recently released FBI files on the mobster. The FBI noted in June 1973 that under Gattuso's watch "business operations among homosexuals has become highly lucrative source of income for Chicago LCN Family." * * * One confidential informant told the FBI in 1974 that "one had to be connected with the outfit or at best have the outfit permission to open and operate a homosexual tavern." In 1955 at the age...