Mob Rules by Louis Ferrante

Author:Louis Ferrante
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2011-04-20T04:00:00+00:00

In February of 1930, Chicago mobster “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn was pulled over by police for speeding. Sitting beside McGurn was a young man.

The cop, who knew McGurn, asked him, “Who’s this new punk?”

McGurn answered, “He’s no punk. He’s a solid fella. This boy is going places.”

“What’s his name?” asked the cop.

“Tony Accardo.”

Tony “Joe Batters” Accardo would succeed Al Capone and rule Chicago for nearly five decades. He ordered the deaths of more than two hundred people, controlled Las Vegas, the Teamsters’ billion-dollar fund, and Chicago’s police force and politicians. Some punk.

Around the same time McGurn and Accardo were speeding around Chicago, Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera were vying for control of an Irish revolutionary movement that amounted to little more than a mob: stealing, violence, and gunning down informants.

With only room for one at the top, the cunning de Valera set up Collins to look like a traitor, then had him whacked. In typical Mob fashion, Collins bought it with a dum-dum bullet to the head.

De Valera was now undisputed boss of the Irish mob, or revolutionary movement.

About six years before de Valera iced Collins, he and some of his gang were convicted of treason and scheduled to be executed by the British government. For political reasons, the Brits decided to commute some of the sentences. The executioner, Sir John Maxwell, received news from Britain to halt the executions.

“Who’s next on the list?” asked Maxwell.

“Connolly,” answered an underling.

“We can’t let him off,” said Maxwell. “Who’s next?”

“De Valera.”

“Is he someone important?” asked Maxwell.

“No, just a schoolteacher.”

“All right,” said Maxwell. “Go ahead with Connolly and stop with this fellow.”

Like Tony “Joe Batters” Accardo, who went on to control Chicago for nearly fifty years after being called a “punk,” Eamon de Valera controlled Ireland for nearly fifty years after being referred to as “just a schoolteacher.”

You never know who you’re talking to. Treat everyone with respect.

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