Flashback to 1991 to the U.S. Attorney General's annual report. Chapter Three: Organized Crime. We'll quote much of page 15 which is the first page on the section on organized crime:
In an effort to eliminate the influence and threat of organized crime groups, the Department developed the Organized Crime National Strategy of 1991. The strategy established two major objectives: to eliminate the La Cosa Nostra(LCN) crime families through effective investigations and prosecutions, and to ensure that no other criminal organization ever achieves a comparable level of power. Implementing the Strategy became one of the Department's most important goals during 1991.These are some very important mobsters. Chicago Alderman Fred Roti mentioned on the very same page of the U.S. Attorney General's annual report along with John Gotti. Why does Mayor Daley and Alderman Burke honor Alderman Roti as :
In support of the Strategy, the FBI's Organized Crime Program(OCP) targeted both LCN and other organized crime groups. During 1991, this program led to 530 indictments and 540 convictions and pretrial diversions of organized crime figures.
La Cosa Nostra
The Department continued to focus on the largest organized crime group in the country, La Cosa Nostra(LCN), literally "Our Thing." The LCN was founded in the 1930's and currnetly has 24 families throughout the country consisiting of some 1,700 active members. It is heavily involved in gambling, conspiracy, murder and labor racketeering. During the past year the Department obtained a number of indictments and convictions of LCN members and associates.
In December 1990, alleged boss of the Gambino LCN Family, John Gotti, and other, were indicted in a Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) murder prosecution. Gotti is charged with the gangland slaying of former Gambino Boss Paul Castellano. The indictment alleges that the defendants committed various other criminal acts, including other murders, the operation of an illegal gambling business,extortionate collections of credit, and the corrupt control of union officials. The trial is scheduled to begin in early 1992.
The alleged Chicago LCN Southside Crew Boss Dominick Palermo and seven others, including two key Chicago LCN associates, were indicted for RICO violations. The government charged that Palermo and the other defendants extorted payments from numerous illegal gambling enterprises and controlled much of the illegal gambling operations in Northwest Indiana in the mid-1980's through extortionate street taxes.
Several public officials were charged with RICO violations, including bribery and extortion, based on a thirteen-year history of alleged payoffs to judges and other public officials in Chicago. Among those indicted from the LCN families were Fred Roti, a Chicago Alderman, and Pasquale( Pat) Marcy, Secretary of the First Ward Democratic Organization. Other indictments charged a former Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, an attorney, and a State senator, with related violations. Among the acts charged were fixing official decisions, including criminal trials can civil cases in State courts, and extortion by a State legislator who demanded payment in return for the introduction of legislation.
a committed public servant, a cherished friend of many and good neighbor to all,will be greatly missed and fondly remembered by his many family members,friends and associates;Are Mayor Daley and Alderman Burke now or ever been associates of organized crime? The "extortion by a State legislator who demanded payment in return for the introduction of legislation" alluded to in the report is none other than John D'Arco Jr. who's tied in with Alexi Giannoulias' Broadway Bank .
