The Mafia Court by John Russell Hughes

Author:John Russell Hughes [Hughes, Dr. John Russel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Politics
Publisher: Trine Day
Published: 2014-01-26T05:00:00+00:00

Joseph “Joey Doves” Aiuppa 1971-1986.

At age eleven Aiuppa (1907-1997) dropped out of school and worked as a gardener. For several years he worked as a laborer, and in 1925 he became a truck driver for the Midwest Cartage Company. Around that time he was linked with the famed John Dillinger and also the Alvin Karpis Gang. During the 1920s he tried boxing as a career, trying to hook up with Joe Accardo, but then graduated to operating several gambling establishments in Cicero, Illinois. These were clubs involved with bookmaking, but also included underground casinos with secret entrances.

In the early 1930s he managed the Taylor Company, ostensibly a furniture manufacturer, but really a front for manufacturing illegal slot machines. In 1930 he bought the Turf Lounge, which would become his headquarters for several decades, and then bought several other clubs, including the Frolics and the Magic Lounge. In addition, he owned the Towne Hotel in Cicero. In 1935 he worked for the Capone Gang as an enforcer. He rose through the ranks after having been given the territory of Cicero to run. His chance for a top position in Chicago came when the courts convicted Felix Alderisio of bank fraud and then sent him to prison in 1971. His underboss was John Cerone. The real power however would always remain with Joe Accardo whenever he was present.

Aiuppa in the 1970s was involved with the skimming of five Las Vegas casinos. The Argent Corporation had bought the casinos, headed by Allan Glick, who had no real power and was just a “front.” The connections with the Mob had been really associated with the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund, and the Argent Corporation had loaned millions of dollars to buy the Stardust, Fremont, Hacienda and Marina Clubs. After the Mob bought the casinos, they ordered Glick to install Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal to manage the Argent. From there Rosenthal ran the casinos while Chicago mobster Tony Spilotro protected the Mob’s investments from other criminals.

In 1975 Aiuppa allegedly conspired with Johnny Rosselli to kill Sam Giancana. The FBI suspected that some members of the Outfit were associated with the Giancana assassination because he refused to share his offshore gambling profits while he was living in his estate in Mexico. Another theory espoused by the present author in his book, JFK and Sam, was that the CIA was responsible for the assassination of Giancana.

In 1986, the courts convicted Aiuppa of skimming profits from Las Vegas casinos and he was given twenty-eight years in prison. It was rumored that Aiuppa ordered the executions of Tony Spilotro and his brother, because he blamed the Spilotros for his own skimming conviction. Joey Aiuppa was released from prison in January 1996 after serving only ten years of his twenty-eight and a half years sentence on racketeering charges. In February 1997, he died at the age of eighty-nine in Elmhurst Hospital in Elmhurst, Illinois. He had suffered from throat cancer and heart disease for many years.

Now we will take a look at Joey Aiuppa’s contribution to corruption in the courts of Chicago.

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