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Sam Giancana

January 06, 2023

Salvatore Mooney Giancana[1] (/dʒiɑːnˈkɑːnə/; born Gilormo Giangana;[nb 1] Italian: [dʒiˈlɔrmo dʒaŋˈɡaːna ]; May 24, 1908[nb 2] – June 19, 1975) was an American mobster who was boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1957 to 1966.

Sam Giancana
Giancana in 1965
Born
Gilormo Giangana[nb 1]

(1908-05-24)May 24, 1908[nb 2]
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
DiedJune 19, 1975(1975-06-19) (aged 67)
Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.
Cause of deathMultiple gunshot wounds
Resting placeMount Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, Illinois, U.S.
Other namesMooney Giancana
Momo Giancana
Salvatore Giancana
OccupationCrime boss
Spouse
Angeline DeTolve
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(m. 1933; died 1954)​
Children3
AllegianceChicago Outfit
Conviction(s)Burglary, larceny (1929)
Bootlegging (1939)
Contempt of court (1965)
Criminal penalty1 to 5 years' imprisonment; 3 years served (1929)
4 years' imprisonment; 3 years served (1939)
1 year imprisonment (1965)

Giancana was born in Chicago to Italian immigrant parents. He joined the 42 Gang as a teenager, developing a reputation in organized crime which gained him the notice of Chicago Outfit leaders. During the late 1930s, Giancana joined the Chicago Outfit. From the 1940s through the 1950s, he controlled the illegal gambling, illegal liquor distribution, and political rackets in Louisiana. In the early 1940s, Giancana was involved in Chicago's African-American lottery payout system for the Outfit. In 1957, Giancana became the boss of the Chicago Outfit.

According to some sources, Giancana and the Mafia were involved in John F. Kennedy's victory in the 1960 presidential election. During the 1960s, he was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a plot to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Conspiracy theorists consider Giancana along with Mafia leaders Santo Trafficante Jr. and Carlos Marcello associated with the assassination of Kennedy. In 1965, Giancana was convicted of contempt of court, serving one year in prison. After his release from prison, Giancana fled to Cuernavaca, Mexico. In 1974, he was deported to the United States, returning to Chicago. Giancana was murdered on June 19, 1975, in Oak Park, Illinois, shortly before he was scheduled to appear before the Church Committee.

Early life

Giancana was born Gilormo Giangana[nb 1] on May 24, 1908,[nb 2] in The Patch neighborhood of Chicago to Antonio Giangana and Antonia DeSimmona,[nb 3] Italian immigrants from Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy. His father immigrated in 1905, while his mother immigrated in 1906;[7] he had seven siblings.[2] Antonia died in 1910 and his father married Mary Leonardi.[8] On September 23, 1933, Giancana married Angeline DeTolve, the daughter of immigrants from the Italian region of Basilicata. They had three daughters, Antoinette born 1935, Bonnie born 1938, and Francine born 1945.[2] Angeline died on April 23, 1954, leaving him to raise his daughters.[9][2]

Early criminal career

Giancana joined the 42 Gang, a juvenile street crew working for political boss Joseph Esposito. The 42 Gang's name was a reference to Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves. They thought they were one better, hence 42. Giancana soon developed a reputation as an excellent getaway driver, a high earner, and a vicious killer. After Esposito's murder, in which Giancana was allegedly involved, the 42 Gang was transformed into a de facto extension of the Chicago Outfit with leaders such as Frank "the Enforcer" Nitti, Paul "the Waiter" Ricca, and Tony "Joe Batters" Accardo. He was first arrested in 1925, for auto theft. He soon graduated to "triggerman" and by the age of 20 had been the prime subject of three murder investigations, but never tried for any of them.[10] In 1929, Giancana was convicted of burglary and larceny, and sentenced to one to five years in the Joliet Correctional Center. He was released in 1932, after serving three years and nine months.[11]

During the late 1930s, Giancana became the first 42er to join the Chicago Outfit. From the early 1940s through the 1950s, he controlled most of the illegal gambling, illegal liquor distribution, and numerous other political rackets in Louisiana through longtime friend H. A. (Hol) Killian. Killian controlled the majority of the liquor license issuance by his associations with longtime New Orleans business associate Carlos Marcello.[citation needed] In 1939 Giancana was convicted of bootlegging, and sentenced to four years in Leavenworth Prison and Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex.[11]

Rise to power

After his release from prison in 1942, Giancana made a name for himself by convincing Accardo, then the Outfit's underboss, to stage a takeover of Chicago's African-American "policy" (lottery) payout system for the Outfit. Giancana's crew is believed to have been responsible for convincing Eddie Jones to quit his racket and leave the country. Giancana's crew was also responsible for the August 4, 1952 murder of African-American gambling boss Theodore Roe. Both Jones and Roe were major South Side gambling bosses. Roe had refused to surrender control of his operation as the Outfit had demanded, and on June 19, 1951, Roe fatally shot Leonard "Fat Lennie" Caifano, a made man of Giancana's crew.[12]

The Outfit's South Side "policy"-game takeover was not complete until another Outfit member, Jackie "the Lackey" Cerone, scared "Big Jim" Martin to Mexico with two bullets to the head that did not kill him. When the lottery money started rolling in for the Outfit after this gambling war, the amount this game produced for the Outfit was in the millions of dollars a year and brought Giancana further notice. It is believed to have been a major factor in his being "anointed" as the Outfit's new boss in 1957. Accardo joined Ricca in semi-retirement, becoming the Outfit's consigliere.[13] However, it was generally understood that Accardo and Ricca still had the real power. Giancana was required to consult Accardo and Ricca on all important Outfit affairs.

Giancana was present at the Mafia's 1957 Apalachin meeting at the Upstate New York estate of Joseph Barbara.[14] Later, Buffalo crime boss Stefano Magaddino and Giancana were overheard on a wiretap saying the meeting should have occurred in the Chicago area. Giancana claimed that the Chicago area was "the safest place in the world" for a major underworld meeting because he had several police chiefs on his payroll. If the syndicate ever wanted to hold a meeting in or around Chicago, Giancana said, they had nothing to fear because they had the area "locked up tight".[15]

Some journalists claimed that Giancana and his Chicago crime syndicate "played a role" in John F. Kennedy's victory in the 1960 presidential election.[16][17]

Hyman Larner was an associate of Giancana's who helped expand the Outfit's gambling and smuggling operations to Panama and Iran,[18] moving the Miami operation's headquarters to Panama where money laundering was more easily facilitated by local banks. These operations were conducted as a partnership between the Mafia and the CIA. By 1966, this partnership had developed into arms smuggling to the Middle East for the Israeli Mossad, all via Panama.[19] Richard Cain, a corrupt police officer, also made "frequent trips" to and from Mexico as Giancana's courier and financial adviser.[20]

CIA connections

It is widely reputed and was partially corroborated by the Church Committee hearings that during the Kennedy administration, the CIA recruited Giancana and other mobsters to assassinate Fidel Castro. Giancana reportedly said that CIA and the Cosa Nostra were "different sides of the same coin".[21]

Judith Exner claimed to be the mistress of both Giancana and JFK, and that she delivered communications between them about Castro.[22] Giancana's daughter Antoinette has stated that her father was performing a scam to pocket millions of CIA dollars.[23]

Documents released during 1997 revealed that some Mafiosi worked with CIA on assassination attempts against Castro.[24] CIA documents released during 2007 confirmed that during September 1960, CIA recruited ex-FBI agent Robert Maheu to meet with the West Coast representative of the Chicago mob, Johnny Roselli. When Maheu contacted Roselli, Maheu hid that he was sent by CIA, instead portraying himself an advocate for international corporations. He offered $150,000 to have Castro killed, but Roselli refused any pay. Roselli introduced Maheu to two men he called Sam Gold and Joe. "Sam Gold" was Giancana; "Joe" was Santo Trafficante Jr., the Tampa syndicate boss and one of the most powerful mobsters in prerevolution Cuba.[25] Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post explained: "After Fidel Castro led a revolution that toppled the government of Fulgencio Batista in 1959, CIA was desperate to eliminate Castro. So, the agency sought out a partner equally worried about Castro—the Mafia, which had lucrative investments in Cuban casinos."[26]

According to the declassified CIA "Family Jewels" documents, Giancana and Trafficante were contacted in September 1960 about the possibility of an assassination attempt by Maheu after Maheu had contacted Roselli, a Mafia member in Las Vegas and Giancana's number-two man. Maheu had presented himself as a representative of numerous international businesses in Cuba that Castro was expropriating. He offered $150,000 for the "removal" of Castro through this operation, though the documents suggest that neither Roselli, Giancana, nor Trafficante accepted any payment for the job. Giancana suggested using poison pills to dose Castro's food and drink. CIA gave these pills to Giancana's nominee, Juan Orta, whom Giancana presented as a corrupt official in the new Cuban government and who had access to Castro. After six attempts to introduce the poison into Castro's food, Orta abruptly demanded to be relieved of his role in the mission, giving the job to another, unnamed participant. Later, Giancana and Trafficante made a second attempt using Anthony Verona, the commander of the Cuban Exile Junta, who had, according to Trafficante, become "disaffected with the apparent ineffectual progress of the Junta." Verona requested $10,000 in expenses and $1,000 worth of communications equipment. How much work was performed for the second attempt is unknown, as the entire program was canceled soon thereafter due to the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961.[27][28][29]

According to the "Family Jewels", Giancana asked Maheu to wire the room of his then mistress Phyllis McGuire, singer of the McGuire Sisters, whom he suspected of having an affair with comedian Dan Rowan. Although documents suggest Maheu acquiesced, the device was not planted because the agent who had been tasked with planting it was arrested. According to the documents, Robert F. Kennedy prohibited the prosecution of the agent and of Maheu, who was soon linked to the wire attempt, at CIA's request.[29] Giancana and McGuire, who had a long-lasting affair, were originally introduced by Frank Sinatra.[30] According to Antoinette Giancana, during part of the affair, McGuire had a concurrent affair with President Kennedy.[31]

Downfall

When Giancana was called before a grand jury on June 1, 1965, he remained silent despite being granted immunity, which resulted in his jailing for contempt for more than a year, the duration of the grand jury.[32] Meanwhile, Giancana was deposed as operational boss by Ricca and Accardo, and replaced by Joseph "Joey Doves" Aiuppa.[33]

After his release from prison in 1966, Giancana fled to Cuernavaca, Mexico in order to avoid further grand jury questioning.[34][35] He was arrested by Mexican authorities on July 19, 1974, and deported to the United States.[34][35] He arrived back in Chicago on July 21, 1974.[36]

Death

 
Giancana mausoleum at Mount Carmel Cemetery

After Giancana's return to the United States, police detailed officers to guard his house in Oak Park, Illinois, but on the night of June 19, 1975, shortly before he was scheduled to appear before the Church Committee,[37] which was investigating CIA and Cosa Nostra collusion,[38] a gunman entered the home through the basement and shot Giancana in the head and neck seven times with a .22 caliber pistol. At around 11 p.m., Joseph DiPersio, Giancana's caretaker, found his body on the floor of the basement kitchen where he was said to be frying sausage and peppers.[39][40] A week before his death, Giancana had gall bladder surgery in Houston.[39] Giancana was interred next to his wife, Angeline, in a family mausoleum at Mount Carmel Cemetery, in Hillside, Illinois.

Within days of Giancana's murder, Michael J. Corbitt, the police chief of Willow Springs, Illinois, and a mobster associate, was told by Chicago Outfit's capo Salvatore Bastone that "Sam sure loved that little guy in Oak Park... Tony Spilotro. Yeah, he was fuckin' crazy about him. Sam put Tony on the fuckin' map, thought he was gonna be a big fuckin' man someday. Did you know that after Marshall Caifano got out of Vegas, it was Sam who wanted Tony Spilotro out there? Even lately, with all the problems with the skim and all, Sam always stood behind the guy. Tony was over to Sam's house all the time. He lived right by there. Did you know Tony even figured out a way where he could get in through the back of Sam's place without anybody seeing him? He'd go through other people's yards, go over fences, all sorts of shit."[41] When Corbitt asked for the reason for the murder, Bastone quipped, "There's never just one reason for shit like what happened to Sam. There's a million of 'em. Let's just say that Sam should've remembered what happened to Bugsy Siegel."[41]

Other theory

Although longtime associate Dominic "Butch" Blasi was with Giancana the night he was murdered and questioned by police as a suspect, neither the FBI nor Antoinette Giancana considers him Giancana's killer.[42][43] Hitman Nicholas Calabrese told the FBI during the 2000s that he knew that Tony Accardo was part of the killing and Angelo LaPietra got rid of the gun which used a suppressor made by Frank Calabrese Sr. and Ronnie Jarret.[44]

Another theory is that Santo Trafficante Jr. ordered Giancana's murder due to fears he was going to testify about the Mafia's involvement in CIA plots to kill Castro. Although Trafficante would have needed permission from Outfit bosses Accardo and Joseph Aiuppa, Giancana's murder coincided with the discovery of the decomposing remains of Johnny Roselli in an oil drum floating off Miami; he had been shot and chopped up before being dumped in the sea. Some suspected that Roselli was killed on Trafficante's orders.[45]

Despite rumors that the CIA may have killed Giancana because of his links to the Agency; the weapon used—a .22 pistol, more often used by clandestine operatives than mob hitmen—lends credence to this. Not surprisingly, former CIA Director William Colby said, "We had nothing to do with it."[46] John Whitten mentioned during the Scelso deposition that he suspected William Harvey, a CIA assassin who was in the area.

See also

In popular culture

Movies

  • Giancana played a major role in the J. X. Williams movie Peep Show (1965).
  • The TV film Mafia Princess (1986) starring Tony Curtis as Giancana.
  • News footage of Giancana is featured in the movie JFK (1991).
  • Carmine Caridi played Giancana in the movie Ruby (1992).
  • The HBO made-for-TV movie Sugartime (1995) depicts Giancana's relationship with singer Phyllis McGuire with Giancana played by John Turturro.
  • Robert Miranda played Giancana in the television movie The Rat Pack (1998).
  • Peter Friedman played Giancana in the movie Power and Beauty (2002).
  • In the movie The Good Shepherd (2006), the character played by Joe Pesci, Joseph Palmi, was a mix of several mobsters, including Giancana, Santo Trafficante Jr., and Carlos Marcello, who were involved with the CIA's operation Family Jewels. Matt Damon's character, Edward Wilson, is depicted proposing that Palmi assist in assassinating Castro.
  • Al Linea plays Giancana in the movie The Irishman (2019).

Television

  • Giancana features in the first episode of the documentary series Mafia's Greatest Hits, on the UK history TV channel Yesterday.[47]
  • Rod Steiger portrayed Giancana in the TV miniseries Sinatra (1992).
  • Serge Houde portrays Giancana as a major nemesis of the Kennedy family in the television miniseries The Kennedys (2011).
  • The character Mob Man (uncredited) from The X-Files episode "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man", who is present at a planning meeting on the assassination of JFK, is likely based on Giancana.
  • Giancana is portrayed by Emmett Skilton in the 8-part AMC television miniseries The Making of the Mob: Chicago (2016).
  • Giancana's image is included in the opening credits of the Starz TV series Magic City (2012–13).
  • Giancana is seen and referenced at a Las Vegas casino in the TV series Timeless in the episode Atomic City (2016).

Literature

  • Giancana is a major character in Max Allan Collins's novels Chicago Confidential and Road to Paradise.
  • Giancana plays a major role in James Ellroy's fiction, most notably American Tabloid and its sequels The Cold Six Thousand and Blood's a Rover.
  • Giancana is the subject of the biography Mafia Princess, written by his daughter Antoinette.
  • Giancana is a character in Robert J. Randisi's Rat Pack novels.[citation needed]
  • Giancana is a notable character in Norman Mailer's 1991 historical fiction Harlot's Ghost.
  • The book Double Cross: The Explosive, Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America tells the story of Giancana's life. Written by his brother Chuck Giancana, and his godson and namesake Sam Giancana, the book includes revelations about the deaths of JFK, Marilyn Monroe, and RFK.[48]
  • Giancana is mentioned in Charles Brandt's narrative nonfiction book I Heard You Paint Houses (2004).
  • The fictional character Louie Russo in Mark Winegardner's 2004 novel The Godfather Returns may be based on Giancana.
  • The fictional character "Sam" in Steve Peters and Kay Stephens's novel The Outlaw Sandra Love (2013)[49] is based on Giancana.[citation needed]
  • In the 2013 novel The Outlaw, the protagonist Sandra Love is said to have had a four-year relationship with a man named Sam, the head of the Chicago Outfit during the early 1960s.

Music

  • Influential rapper Kool G Rap once stated that the "G" in his name stands for Giancana. Kool G Rap released an album called The Giancana Story (2002).
  • Giancana may be mentioned in the Shyne song "Edge", on his second album, Godfather Buried Alive. "Fuck comma rap's, Sam Giancana", although this is sometimes rendered as "same G and canna".
  • Giancana is mentioned in the song "Dope money" by The Lox ("Bring Drama 'cause Giancana got Kennedy Killed") on the album Ryde or Die Vol. 1.

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Gilormo Giangana is the birth name according to the Chicago Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Certificate Number 5915,[2][3] however, Momo Salvatore Giancana (Italian: [ˈmɔːmo salvaˈtoːre dʒaŋˈkaːna]) is the birth name according to Birth Register Certificate Number 1191.[2]
  2. ^ a b c May 24, 1908, is the birth date according to the Chicago Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Certificate Number 5915,[4] however, June 15, 1908, is the birth date according to Birth Register Certificate Number 1191, and the birth date Giancana celebrated.[5][2]
  3. ^ Antonino Giangana and Antonia DiSimonna are the names according to the Chicago Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Certificate Number 5915,[2][6] however, Antonio Giancana and Antonia DiSimone, are the names according to Birth Register Certificate Number 1191.[2]

References

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  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Sam Giancana" (PDF). Federal Bureau of Investigation. September 12, 1960. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
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  25. ^ "MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence; SUBJECT: ROSELLI, Johnny" (PDF). The New York Times. June 26, 2007. Retrieved March 17, 2020. he agreed to introduce him a friend, Sam Gold, who knewn the "Cuban crowd". Roselli made it clear he did not wantany money for his part and believed Sam would feel the same way. Neither of these individuals was ever paid out of Augency funds. During the week of September 25, Maheu was introduced to Sam who was stayng at the Fontainebelau Hotel, Miami Beach. It was several weeks after his meeting with Sam and Joe, [...] They were identified as Momo Salvatore Giancana and Santos Trafficant, respectively.
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  49. ^ Peters, Steve (2013). The Outlaw Sandra Love. Star Hill Publishing. ISBN 9780615760315. from the original on January 6, 2019. Retrieved March 17, 2020.

Further reading

  • Giancana, Sam; Giancana, Chuck; Giancana, Bettina (March 20, 1992). Double Cross: The Explosive, Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America. ISBN 9780446516242. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
  • Giancana, Antoinette; Renner, Thomas C. (1984). Mafia Princess: Growing Up in Sam Giancana's Family. Morrow. ISBN 0-380-69849-8. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
  • Godwin, John (1978). Murder U.S.A.: The Ways We Kill Each Other. Ballantine Books. ISBN 978-0-345-27721-3. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
  • Roemer, William F. Jr. (1995). Accardo: The Genuine Godfather. D.I. Fine. ISBN 978-1-55611-467-0. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
  • Organized Crime in Chicago: Hearing Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, March 4, 1983. U.S. Government Printing Office. March 4, 1983. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
  • Brashler, William (1977). The Don: The Life and Death of Sam Giancana. New York: Harper and Row. ISBN 0-06-010447-3.
  • Cain, Michael J. (2007). The Tangled Web. New York: Skyhorse Publishing. ISBN 978-1-60239-044-7.
  • Dark, Tony (2004). The FBI Files Sam Giancana. Chicago: H H Productions. ISBN 0-615-12720-7.
  • Hersh, Seymour M. (1997). Dark Side of Camelot. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-35955-6.
  • Inserra, Vincent L. (2014). C-1 and the Chicago Mob. Xlibris. ISBN 978-1-4931-8278-7.[self-published source]
  • Morgan, John M. (1985). Prince of Crime. New York: Stein and Day. ISBN 0-8128-8297-0.
  • Nash, Jay Robert (1973). Bloodletters and Badmen. New York: M. Evans & Co. ISBN 0-87131-777-X.
  • Sifakis, Carl (1982). Encyclopedia of Crime. New York: Facts On File. ISBN 0-8160-5694-3.
  • Talbot, David (2007). Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years. Free Press. ISBN 978-0-7432-6918-6.
  • Thompson, Nathan (2003). Kings: The True Story of Chicago's Policy Kings and Numbers Racketeers: an Informal History. The Bronzeville Press. ISBN 0-9724875-0-6.
  • Zion, Sidney (1994). Loyalty and Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob. San Francisco: Collins Publishers. ISBN 0-00-638271-1.
American Mafia
Preceded by Chicago Outfit
Underboss
1947–1957 		Succeeded by
Frank Ferraro
Preceded by Chicago Outfit
Boss
1957–1966 		Succeeded by

January 06, 2023
giancana, salvatore, mooney, giancana, ɑː, ɑː, born, gilormo, giangana, italian, dʒiˈlɔrmo, dʒaŋˈɡaːna, 1908, june, 1975, american, mobster, boss, chicago, outfit, from, 1957, 1966, giancana, 1965borngilormo, giangana, 1908, 1908, chicago, illinois, diedjune, . Salvatore Mooney Giancana 1 d ʒ i ɑː n ˈ k ɑː n e born Gilormo Giangana nb 1 Italian dʒiˈlɔrmo dʒaŋˈɡaːna May 24 1908 nb 2 June 19 1975 was an American mobster who was boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1957 to 1966 Sam GiancanaGiancana in 1965BornGilormo Giangana nb 1 1908 05 24 May 24 1908 nb 2 Chicago Illinois U S DiedJune 19 1975 1975 06 19 aged 67 Oak Park Illinois U S Cause of deathMultiple gunshot woundsResting placeMount Carmel Cemetery Hillside Illinois U S Other namesMooney GiancanaMomo GiancanaSalvatore GiancanaOccupationCrime bossSpouseAngeline DeTolve m 1933 died 1954 wbr Children3AllegianceChicago OutfitConviction s Burglary larceny 1929 Bootlegging 1939 Contempt of court 1965 Criminal penalty1 to 5 years imprisonment 3 years served 1929 4 years imprisonment 3 years served 1939 1 year imprisonment 1965 Giancana was born in Chicago to Italian immigrant parents He joined the 42 Gang as a teenager developing a reputation in organized crime which gained him the notice of Chicago Outfit leaders During the late 1930s Giancana joined the Chicago Outfit From the 1940s through the 1950s he controlled the illegal gambling illegal liquor distribution and political rackets in Louisiana In the early 1940s Giancana was involved in Chicago s African American lottery payout system for the Outfit In 1957 Giancana became the boss of the Chicago Outfit According to some sources Giancana and the Mafia were involved in John F Kennedy s victory in the 1960 presidential election During the 1960s he was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency CIA in a plot to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro Conspiracy theorists consider Giancana along with Mafia leaders Santo Trafficante Jr and Carlos Marcello associated with the assassination of Kennedy In 1965 Giancana was convicted of contempt of court serving one year in prison After his release from prison Giancana fled to Cuernavaca Mexico In 1974 he was deported to the United States returning to Chicago Giancana was murdered on June 19 1975 in Oak Park Illinois shortly before he was scheduled to appear before the Church Committee Contents 1 Early life 2 Early criminal career 3 Rise to power 4 CIA connections 5 Downfall 6 Death 6 1 Other theory 7 See also 8 In popular culture 8 1 Movies 8 2 Television 8 3 Literature 8 4 Music 9 Notes 10 References 11 Further readingEarly life EditGiancana was born Gilormo Giangana nb 1 on May 24 1908 nb 2 in The Patch neighborhood of Chicago to Antonio Giangana and Antonia DeSimmona nb 3 Italian immigrants from Castelvetrano Sicily Italy His father immigrated in 1905 while his mother immigrated in 1906 7 he had seven siblings 2 Antonia died in 1910 and his father married Mary Leonardi 8 On September 23 1933 Giancana married Angeline DeTolve the daughter of immigrants from the Italian region of Basilicata They had three daughters Antoinette born 1935 Bonnie born 1938 and Francine born 1945 2 Angeline died on April 23 1954 leaving him to raise his daughters 9 2 Early criminal career EditGiancana joined the 42 Gang a juvenile street crew working for political boss Joseph Esposito The 42 Gang s name was a reference to Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves They thought they were one better hence 42 Giancana soon developed a reputation as an excellent getaway driver a high earner and a vicious killer After Esposito s murder in which Giancana was allegedly involved the 42 Gang was transformed into a de facto extension of the Chicago Outfit with leaders such as Frank the Enforcer Nitti Paul the Waiter Ricca and Tony Joe Batters Accardo He was first arrested in 1925 for auto theft He soon graduated to triggerman and by the age of 20 had been the prime subject of three murder investigations but never tried for any of them 10 In 1929 Giancana was convicted of burglary and larceny and sentenced to one to five years in the Joliet Correctional Center He was released in 1932 after serving three years and nine months 11 During the late 1930s Giancana became the first 42er to join the Chicago Outfit From the early 1940s through the 1950s he controlled most of the illegal gambling illegal liquor distribution and numerous other political rackets in Louisiana through longtime friend H A Hol Killian Killian controlled the majority of the liquor license issuance by his associations with longtime New Orleans business associate Carlos Marcello citation needed In 1939 Giancana was convicted of bootlegging and sentenced to four years in Leavenworth Prison and Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex 11 Rise to power EditAfter his release from prison in 1942 Giancana made a name for himself by convincing Accardo then the Outfit s underboss to stage a takeover of Chicago s African American policy lottery payout system for the Outfit Giancana s crew is believed to have been responsible for convincing Eddie Jones to quit his racket and leave the country Giancana s crew was also responsible for the August 4 1952 murder of African American gambling boss Theodore Roe Both Jones and Roe were major South Side gambling bosses Roe had refused to surrender control of his operation as the Outfit had demanded and on June 19 1951 Roe fatally shot Leonard Fat Lennie Caifano a made man of Giancana s crew 12 The Outfit s South Side policy game takeover was not complete until another Outfit member Jackie the Lackey Cerone scared Big Jim Martin to Mexico with two bullets to the head that did not kill him When the lottery money started rolling in for the Outfit after this gambling war the amount this game produced for the Outfit was in the millions of dollars a year and brought Giancana further notice It is believed to have been a major factor in his being anointed as the Outfit s new boss in 1957 Accardo joined Ricca in semi retirement becoming the Outfit s consigliere 13 However it was generally understood that Accardo and Ricca still had the real power Giancana was required to consult Accardo and Ricca on all important Outfit affairs Giancana was present at the Mafia s 1957 Apalachin meeting at the Upstate New York estate of Joseph Barbara 14 Later Buffalo crime boss Stefano Magaddino and Giancana were overheard on a wiretap saying the meeting should have occurred in the Chicago area Giancana claimed that the Chicago area was the safest place in the world for a major underworld meeting because he had several police chiefs on his payroll If the syndicate ever wanted to hold a meeting in or around Chicago Giancana said they had nothing to fear because they had the area locked up tight 15 Some journalists claimed that Giancana and his Chicago crime syndicate played a role in John F Kennedy s victory in the 1960 presidential election 16 17 Hyman Larner was an associate of Giancana s who helped expand the Outfit s gambling and smuggling operations to Panama and Iran 18 moving the Miami operation s headquarters to Panama where money laundering was more easily facilitated by local banks These operations were conducted as a partnership between the Mafia and the CIA By 1966 this partnership had developed into arms smuggling to the Middle East for the Israeli Mossad all via Panama 19 Richard Cain a corrupt police officer also made frequent trips to and from Mexico as Giancana s courier and financial adviser 20 CIA connections EditIt is widely reputed and was partially corroborated by the Church Committee hearings that during the Kennedy administration the CIA recruited Giancana and other mobsters to assassinate Fidel Castro Giancana reportedly said that CIA and the Cosa Nostra were different sides of the same coin 21 Judith Exner claimed to be the mistress of both Giancana and JFK and that she delivered communications between them about Castro 22 Giancana s daughter Antoinette has stated that her father was performing a scam to pocket millions of CIA dollars 23 Documents released during 1997 revealed that some Mafiosi worked with CIA on assassination attempts against Castro 24 CIA documents released during 2007 confirmed that during September 1960 CIA recruited ex FBI agent Robert Maheu to meet with the West Coast representative of the Chicago mob Johnny Roselli When Maheu contacted Roselli Maheu hid that he was sent by CIA instead portraying himself an advocate for international corporations He offered 150 000 to have Castro killed but Roselli refused any pay Roselli introduced Maheu to two men he called Sam Gold and Joe Sam Gold was Giancana Joe was Santo Trafficante Jr the Tampa syndicate boss and one of the most powerful mobsters in prerevolution Cuba 25 Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post explained After Fidel Castro led a revolution that toppled the government of Fulgencio Batista in 1959 CIA was desperate to eliminate Castro So the agency sought out a partner equally worried about Castro the Mafia which had lucrative investments in Cuban casinos 26 According to the declassified CIA Family Jewels documents Giancana and Trafficante were contacted in September 1960 about the possibility of an assassination attempt by Maheu after Maheu had contacted Roselli a Mafia member in Las Vegas and Giancana s number two man Maheu had presented himself as a representative of numerous international businesses in Cuba that Castro was expropriating He offered 150 000 for the removal of Castro through this operation though the documents suggest that neither Roselli Giancana nor Trafficante accepted any payment for the job Giancana suggested using poison pills to dose Castro s food and drink CIA gave these pills to Giancana s nominee Juan Orta whom Giancana presented as a corrupt official in the new Cuban government and who had access to Castro After six attempts to introduce the poison into Castro s food Orta abruptly demanded to be relieved of his role in the mission giving the job to another unnamed participant Later Giancana and Trafficante made a second attempt using Anthony Verona the commander of the Cuban Exile Junta who had according to Trafficante become disaffected with the apparent ineffectual progress of the Junta Verona requested 10 000 in expenses and 1 000 worth of communications equipment How much work was performed for the second attempt is unknown as the entire program was canceled soon thereafter due to the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961 27 28 29 According to the Family Jewels Giancana asked Maheu to wire the room of his then mistress Phyllis McGuire singer of the McGuire Sisters whom he suspected of having an affair with comedian Dan Rowan Although documents suggest Maheu acquiesced the device was not planted because the agent who had been tasked with planting it was arrested According to the documents Robert F Kennedy prohibited the prosecution of the agent and of Maheu who was soon linked to the wire attempt at CIA s request 29 Giancana and McGuire who had a long lasting affair were originally introduced by Frank Sinatra 30 According to Antoinette Giancana during part of the affair McGuire had a concurrent affair with President Kennedy 31 Downfall EditWhen Giancana was called before a grand jury on June 1 1965 he remained silent despite being granted immunity which resulted in his jailing for contempt for more than a year the duration of the grand jury 32 Meanwhile Giancana was deposed as operational boss by Ricca and Accardo and replaced by Joseph Joey Doves Aiuppa 33 After his release from prison in 1966 Giancana fled to Cuernavaca Mexico in order to avoid further grand jury questioning 34 35 He was arrested by Mexican authorities on July 19 1974 and deported to the United States 34 35 He arrived back in Chicago on July 21 1974 36 Death Edit Giancana mausoleum at Mount Carmel Cemetery After Giancana s return to the United States police detailed officers to guard his house in Oak Park Illinois but on the night of June 19 1975 shortly before he was scheduled to appear before the Church Committee 37 which was investigating CIA and Cosa Nostra collusion 38 a gunman entered the home through the basement and shot Giancana in the head and neck seven times with a 22 caliber pistol At around 11 p m Joseph DiPersio Giancana s caretaker found his body on the floor of the basement kitchen where he was said to be frying sausage and peppers 39 40 A week before his death Giancana had gall bladder surgery in Houston 39 Giancana was interred next to his wife Angeline in a family mausoleum at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside Illinois Within days of Giancana s murder Michael J Corbitt the police chief of Willow Springs Illinois and a mobster associate was told by Chicago Outfit s capo Salvatore Bastone that Sam sure loved that little guy in Oak Park Tony Spilotro Yeah he was fuckin crazy about him Sam put Tony on the fuckin map thought he was gonna be a big fuckin man someday Did you know that after Marshall Caifano got out of Vegas it was Sam who wanted Tony Spilotro out there Even lately with all the problems with the skim and all Sam always stood behind the guy Tony was over to Sam s house all the time He lived right by there Did you know Tony even figured out a way where he could get in through the back of Sam s place without anybody seeing him He d go through other people s yards go over fences all sorts of shit 41 When Corbitt asked for the reason for the murder Bastone quipped There s never just one reason for shit like what happened to Sam There s a million of em Let s just say that Sam should ve remembered what happened to Bugsy Siegel 41 Other theory Edit Although longtime associate Dominic Butch Blasi was with Giancana the night he was murdered and questioned by police as a suspect neither the FBI nor Antoinette Giancana considers him Giancana s killer 42 43 Hitman Nicholas Calabrese told the FBI during the 2000s that he knew that Tony Accardo was part of the killing and Angelo LaPietra got rid of the gun which used a suppressor made by Frank Calabrese Sr and Ronnie Jarret 44 Another theory is that Santo Trafficante Jr ordered Giancana s murder due to fears he was going to testify about the Mafia s involvement in CIA plots to kill Castro Although Trafficante would have needed permission from Outfit bosses Accardo and Joseph Aiuppa Giancana s murder coincided with the discovery of the decomposing remains of Johnny Roselli in an oil drum floating off Miami he had been shot and chopped up before being dumped in the sea Some suspected that Roselli was killed on Trafficante s orders 45 Despite rumors that the CIA may have killed Giancana because of his links to the Agency the weapon used a 22 pistol more often used by clandestine operatives than mob hitmen lends credence to this Not surprisingly former CIA Director William Colby said We had nothing to do with it 46 John Whitten mentioned during the Scelso deposition that he suspected William Harvey a CIA assassin who was in the area See also EditList of unsolved murdersIn popular culture EditMovies Edit Giancana played a major role in the J X Williams movie Peep Show 1965 The TV film Mafia Princess 1986 starring Tony Curtis as Giancana News footage of Giancana is featured in the movie JFK 1991 Carmine Caridi played Giancana in the movie Ruby 1992 The HBO made for TV movie Sugartime 1995 depicts Giancana s relationship with singer Phyllis McGuire with Giancana played by John Turturro Robert Miranda played Giancana in the television movie The Rat Pack 1998 Peter Friedman played Giancana in the movie Power and Beauty 2002 In the movie The Good Shepherd 2006 the character played by Joe Pesci Joseph Palmi was a mix of several mobsters including Giancana Santo Trafficante Jr and Carlos Marcello who were involved with the CIA s operation Family Jewels Matt Damon s character Edward Wilson is depicted proposing that Palmi assist in assassinating Castro Al Linea plays Giancana in the movie The Irishman 2019 Television Edit Giancana features in the first episode of the documentary series Mafia s Greatest Hits on the UK history TV channel Yesterday 47 Rod Steiger portrayed Giancana in the TV miniseries Sinatra 1992 Serge Houde portrays Giancana as a major nemesis of the Kennedy family in the television miniseries The Kennedys 2011 The character Mob Man uncredited from The X Files episode Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man who is present at a planning meeting on the assassination of JFK is likely based on Giancana Giancana is portrayed by Emmett Skilton in the 8 part AMC television miniseries The Making of the Mob Chicago 2016 Giancana s image is included in the opening credits of the Starz TV series Magic City 2012 13 Giancana is seen and referenced at a Las Vegas casino in the TV series Timeless in the episode Atomic City 2016 Literature Edit Giancana is a major character in Max Allan Collins s novels Chicago Confidential and Road to Paradise Giancana plays a major role in James Ellroy s fiction most notably American Tabloid and its sequels The Cold Six Thousand and Blood s a Rover Giancana is the subject of the biography Mafia Princess written by his daughter Antoinette Giancana is a character in Robert J Randisi s Rat Pack novels citation needed Giancana is a notable character in Norman Mailer s 1991 historical fiction Harlot s Ghost The book Double Cross The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America tells the story of Giancana s life Written by his brother Chuck Giancana and his godson and namesake Sam Giancana the book includes revelations about the deaths of JFK Marilyn Monroe and RFK 48 Giancana is mentioned in Charles Brandt s narrative nonfiction book I Heard You Paint Houses 2004 The fictional character Louie Russo in Mark Winegardner s 2004 novel The Godfather Returns may be based on Giancana The fictional character Sam in Steve Peters and Kay Stephens s novel The Outlaw Sandra Love 2013 49 is based on Giancana citation needed In the 2013 novel The Outlaw the protagonist Sandra Love is said to have had a four year relationship with a man named Sam the head of the Chicago Outfit during the early 1960s Music Edit Influential rapper Kool G Rap once stated that the G in his name stands for Giancana Kool G Rap released an album called The Giancana Story 2002 Giancana may be mentioned in the Shyne song Edge on his second album Godfather Buried Alive Fuck comma rap s Sam Giancana although this is sometimes rendered as same G and canna Giancana is mentioned in the song Dope money by The Lox Bring Drama cause Giancana got Kennedy Killed on the album Ryde or Die Vol 1 Notes Edit a b c Gilormo Giangana is the birth name according to the Chicago Bureau of Vital Statistics Birth Certificate Number 5915 2 3 however Momo Salvatore Giancana Italian ˈmɔːmo salvaˈtoːre dʒaŋˈkaːna is the birth name according to Birth Register Certificate Number 1191 2 a b c May 24 1908 is the birth date according to the Chicago Bureau of Vital Statistics Birth Certificate Number 5915 4 however June 15 1908 is the birth date according to Birth Register Certificate Number 1191 and the birth date Giancana celebrated 5 2 Antonino Giangana and Antonia DiSimonna are the names according to the Chicago Bureau of Vital Statistics Birth Certificate Number 5915 2 6 however Antonio Giancana and Antonia DiSimone are the names according to Birth Register Certificate Number 1191 2 References Edit Giancana Sam Giancana Chuck Giancana Bettina March 20 1992 Double Cross The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America p 242 ISBN 9780446516242 We want name our son after you Samuel Mooney Giancana a b c d e f g h Sam Giancana PDF Federal Bureau of Investigation September 12 1960 Retrieved June 9 2020 Giancana Antoinette Renner Thomas C 1984 Mafia Princess Growing Up in Sam Giancana s Family Morrow p 30 ISBN 0 380 69849 8 Giancana Antoinette Renner Thomas C 1984 Mafia Princess Growing Up in Sam Giancana s Family Morrow p 30 ISBN 0 380 69849 8 Giancana Antoinette Renner Thomas C 1984 Mafia Princess Growing Up in Sam Giancana s Family Morrow ISBN 0 380 69849 8 Giancana Antoinette Renner Thomas C 1984 Mafia Princess Growing Up in Sam Giancana s Family Morrow p 30 ISBN 0 380 69849 8 Giancana Antoinette Renner Thomas C 1984 Mafia Princess Growing Up in Sam Giancana s Family Morrow ISBN 0 380 69849 8 Giancana Antoinette Renner Thomas C 1984 Mafia Princess Growing Up in Sam Giancana s Family Morrow ISBN 0 380 69849 8 Giancana Antoinette Renner Thomas C 1984 Mafia Princess Growing Up in Sam Giancana s Family Morrow ISBN 0 380 69849 8 Sam Giancana on Biography com biography com Archived from the original on April 10 2019 Retrieved May 24 2017 a b Congress United States 1960 Reports and Documents Volume 27 p 816 Retrieved June 15 2020 via Google Books Investigator Salinger testified to Giancana s criminal record In 1929 he was convicted of burglary larceny and sentenced to 1 to 5 years in the Joliet Penitentiary In 1939 he was convicted of conspiracy to violate the internal revenue laws as they relate to liquor and was sentenced to 4 years and fined 2 700 He served of that 4 year sentence 3 years and 2 months in Leavenworth and Terre Haute Federal Penitentiaries Chepesiuk Ron 2007 Black Gangsters of Chicago Barricade Books p 95 ISBN 9781569803318 Roemer William F Jr 1995 Accardo The Genuine Godfather D I Fine pp 125 129 ISBN 978 1 55611 467 0 Giancana Antoinette Renner Thomas C 1984 Mafia Princess Growing Up in Sam Giancana s Family Morrow pp 190 195 197 ISBN 0 380 69849 8 Sifakis Carl 1987 The Mafia Encyclopedia New York City Facts on File ISBN 0 8160 1856 1 Retrieved March 17 2020 Greenberg David October 16 2000 Was Nixon Robbed Slate Archived from the original on September 8 2011 Retrieved March 17 2020 Sinatra was go between for Mafia and JFK The Guardian October 7 2000 Archived from the original on April 15 2018 Retrieved April 16 2018 Gibson Ray February 18 2003 Double life Dealing with the mob CIA Chicago Tribune Archived from the original on November 7 2018 Retrieved June 8 2020 Giancana 2004 pp 113 115harvnb error no target CITEREFGiancana2004 help Cain played mob game and lost big Chicago Tribune December 21 1973 pp 1 8 Giancana Sam Giancana Chuck Giancana Bettina March 20 1992 Double Cross The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America p 215 ISBN 9780446516242 O Brien Michael December 1 1999 The Exner File Judith Campbell Exner John F Kennedy s mistress Washington Monthly Archived from the original on March 11 2008 Retrieved March 17 2020 Television documentary Mafia Women Discovery Channel CIA offered mafia 150 000 to kill Castro 1997 Retrieved June 15 2020 The CIA offered 150 000 to have Cuban leader Fidel Castro assassinated in the early 1960s but the mob insisted on taking the job for free according to a newly declassified document MEMORANDUM FOR Director of Central Intelligence SUBJECT ROSELLI Johnny PDF The New York Times June 26 2007 Retrieved March 17 2020 he agreed to introduce him a friend Sam Gold who knewn the Cuban crowd Roselli made it clear he did not wantany money for his part and believed Sam would feel the same way Neither of these individuals was ever paid out of Augency funds During the week of September 25 Maheu was introduced to Sam who was stayng at the Fontainebelau Hotel Miami Beach It was several weeks after his meeting with Sam and Joe They were identified as Momo Salvatore Giancana and Santos Trafficant respectively Kessler Glenn June 27 2007 Trying to Kill Fidel Castro The Washington Post Washington D C Archived from the original on October 28 2013 Retrieved May 23 2013 Holland Steve Sullivan Andy June 26 2007 CIA tried to get Mafia to kill Castro Reuters Archived from the original on April 29 2008 Retrieved March 17 2020 Blanton Thomas June 26 2007 Family Jewels Archive National Security Archive Archived from the original on May 3 2008 Retrieved March 17 2020 a b Johnson M Alex June 27 2006 CIA opens the book on a shady past Declassified family jewels detail assassination plots break ins wiretaps NBC News Archived from the original on October 27 2017 Retrieved March 17 2020 Giancana Antoinette Renner Thomas C 1984 Mafia Princess Growing Up in Sam Giancana s Family Morrow pp 259 284 287 293 347 348 ISBN 0 380 69849 8 Giancana Antoinette Renner Thomas C 1984 Mafia Princess Growing Up in Sam Giancana s Family Morrow p 179 ISBN 0 380 69849 8 In Re Grand Jury Investigation of Sam Giancana Appellant in the Matter of the Application for Writ of Habeas Corpus Sam Giancana Appellant v United States of America Appellee 352 F 2d 921 7th Cir 1965 US Law Case Law Codes Statutes amp Regulations October 8 1965 Archived from the original on September 12 2015 Retrieved March 17 2020 Sam Giancana has appealed in case No 15178 from an order of the district court entered June 1 1965 adjudging him in contempt of court for failure to obey an order of that court dated June 1 1965 and he has also appealed in case No 15179 from an order of that court entered June 2 1965 denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus Sifakis Carl 2005 The Mafia Encyclopedia Infobase Publishing p 6 ISBN 978 0 8160 6989 7 a b Crime boss death linked to his discomfiture to mob The Spokesman Review Vol 93 no 38 Spokane Washington June 21 1975 p 16 Archived from the original on January 25 2016 Retrieved October 30 2015 After his release from prison Giancana stepped down and left Chicago s mob in the hands of his former boss Accardo himself going into self imposed exile in Cuernavaca Mexico to avoid more grand jury questioning In July 19 1974 Mexican police ended his fling grabbing the pajamlad Giancana while he tended his tomatoes plants They dumped across the orders of the FBI agents LAT WP a b Glionna John M November 21 2014 Sam Giancana s daughter aims to cash in on gangster s memorabilia Los Angeles Times Archived from the original on November 21 2014 Retrieved October 30 2014 Giancana lived most of his final years in Mexico on the lam from federal authorities but was deported back to the U S in 1974 Michael Branigan 2011 A History of Chicago s O Hare Airport The History Press pp 134 ISBN 978 1 60949 434 6 Archived from the original on January 25 2016 Retrieved January 1 2016 Cronkite Walter Lovejoy Sharron Schorr Daniel June 20 1975 GIANCANA KILLED CBS News Safire William December 31 1975 Murder Most Foul The Times News Archived from the original on March 7 2016 Retrieved January 1 2016 a b King Seth S June 21 1975 Giancana Gangster Slain Tied to C I A Castro Plot The New York Times p 1 Retrieved June 15 2020 According to the Oak Park police Joseph DiPersio the caretaker went to the basement he found the gangster lying face up in a pool of blood on the floor of the kitchen Six 22 caliber shell cases were found near the body Recently he underwent gall bladder surgery at the Methodist Hospital in Houston The authorities said that he returned to Chicago only this week Goudie Chuck June 20 2015 ABC7 I Team Chicago mobster Sam Giancana s 40 year old murder still a mystery abc7chicago com Archived from the original on April 22 2018 Retrieved June 8 2020 On June 19 1975 Giancana invited a friend in his home for sausage and peppers Before the meat was done that man would become Giancana s killer The 67 year old top hoodlum was shot in the head and neck as he fried up the evening snack seven shots fired from a silencer equipped 22 caliber pistol a b Corbitt Michael J 2003 Double Deal The Inside Story of Murder Unbridled Corruption and the Cop who was a Mobster p 196 ISBN 9780060195854 Retrieved June 15 2020 Giancana Antoinette Renner Thomas C 1984 Mafia Princess Growing Up in Sam Giancana s Family Morrow p 367 ISBN 0 380 69849 8 Congress 1983 p 182 Family Secrets The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob C G August 23 1976 Deep Six for Johnny PDF Time pp 23 25 Archived PDF from the original on March 4 2016 Retrieved February 27 2018 Alameda Fratianno was Roselli s protege because Roselli introduced Fratianno to the NY mob and so Roselli was responsible for Fratianno s actions and because Fratianno was an informant Roselli s death could have been a consequence of Fratianno s informing Godwin John 1978 Murder U S A The Ways We Kill Each Other Ballantine Books p 145 ISBN 978 0 345 27721 3 Mafia s Greatest Hits series 1 televisioncatchup co uk Archived from the original on June 18 2015 Retrieved June 17 2015 Giancana Sam Giancana Chuck Giancana Bettina March 20 1992 Double Cross The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America Grand Central Publishing ISBN 9780446516242 Retrieved March 17 2020 Peters Steve 2013 The Outlaw Sandra Love Star Hill Publishing ISBN 9780615760315 Archived from the original on January 6 2019 Retrieved March 17 2020 Further reading EditGiancana Sam Giancana Chuck Giancana Bettina March 20 1992 Double Cross The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America ISBN 9780446516242 Retrieved March 17 2020 Giancana Antoinette Renner Thomas C 1984 Mafia Princess Growing Up in Sam Giancana s Family Morrow ISBN 0 380 69849 8 Retrieved March 17 2020 Godwin John 1978 Murder U S A The Ways We Kill Each Other Ballantine Books ISBN 978 0 345 27721 3 Retrieved March 17 2020 Roemer William F Jr 1995 Accardo The Genuine Godfather D I Fine ISBN 978 1 55611 467 0 Retrieved March 17 2020 Organized Crime in Chicago Hearing Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate Ninety eighth Congress First Session March 4 1983 U S Government Printing Office March 4 1983 Retrieved March 17 2020 Brashler William 1977 The Don The Life and Death of Sam Giancana New York Harper and Row ISBN 0 06 010447 3 Cain Michael J 2007 The Tangled Web New York Skyhorse Publishing ISBN 978 1 60239 044 7 Dark Tony 2004 The FBI Files Sam Giancana Chicago H H Productions ISBN 0 615 12720 7 Hersh Seymour M 1997 Dark Side of Camelot New York Little Brown and Company ISBN 0 316 35955 6 Inserra Vincent L 2014 C 1 and the Chicago Mob Xlibris ISBN 978 1 4931 8278 7 self published source Morgan John M 1985 Prince of Crime New York Stein and Day ISBN 0 8128 8297 0 Nash Jay Robert 1973 Bloodletters and Badmen New York M Evans amp Co ISBN 0 87131 777 X Sifakis Carl 1982 Encyclopedia of Crime New York Facts On File ISBN 0 8160 5694 3 Talbot David 2007 Brothers The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years Free Press ISBN 978 0 7432 6918 6 Thompson Nathan 2003 Kings The True Story of Chicago s Policy Kings and Numbers Racketeers an Informal History The Bronzeville Press ISBN 0 9724875 0 6 Zion Sidney 1994 Loyalty and Betrayal The Story of the American Mob San Francisco Collins Publishers ISBN 0 00 638271 1 American MafiaPreceded byAnthony Accardo Chicago OutfitUnderboss1947 1957 Succeeded byFrank FerraroPreceded byAnthony Accardo Chicago OutfitBoss1957 1966 Succeeded bySam Battaglia Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sam Giancana amp oldid 1131700605, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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