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you Sam Giancana was the most flamboyant gangster of them all when organized-crime that it's most extravagant this is far more powerful than Al Capone and he was a giant he had a beautiful showbiz girlfriend he was pals with Frank Sinatra Sam Giancana didn't like people low profile he liked the bait life he liked to be seen with the stars he was worth millions and had the power of life or death he killed a lot of people had a lot of people killed one cold stare from you and could cause you to become very concerned if you cross them you are in deep trouble but in helping elect a clean young president and assisting in the cia's murkiest operations his career sees the Mafia and politics mixed into a deadly cocktail the pursuit of Sam Giancana is the ultimate story of the state versus the mob and the final chapter is one of the most notorious mafia hits of all sam giancana had learned his gangster trade from Al Capone's top and forces he excelled as a driver delivering killers to murder their victims and evade the cops he learned how to lend money and collect the interest hey Sam love me a fire I gotta go get something he said what he take for security and Sam said how about a lie his furious outburst was so savage the people around him wondered about his mental stability he was violent with people in the Chicago Outfit almost are all by they kill people would drop on the hand he was a killer aged just 18 Jan Carla was charged with murder escaped conviction when I first saw it sam giancana I thought there is the arrogance the hatred violence the viciousness that I've dedicated my career to fighting for the mob Giancana's greatest strength was not his violent nature but his gift for making money it was Jiang karna who struck fear into the electrician's Union so that every slot machine in Chicago paid the mob it was Jiang karna who muscled the black gambling Kings out of Chicago with threats and murder you under his watchful eye millions of dollars poured in from casinos in Las Vegas and Cuba by 1957 aged 49 Sam Mooney Giancana was boss of the Chicago Outfit Sam Giancana was the most powerful criminal chief in the history of the United States he had his tentacles into the police to the courts to the business world around Chicago but just as Giancana reached the top the government turned on organized crime an eager young lawyer began fighting to see him and his kind fall Robert Kennedy the nation's underworld gets the unwelcome spotlight of publicity as the Senate's investigation subcommittee begins new hearings on crime Arkansas Senator Murphy Senate labor rackets committee was investigating mafia corruption of the trade unions Robert Kennedy as chief legal counsel made a name for himself by questioning witness after witness about their mob connections did you say that flb I'll break his back who did you make it about no I'm ever in discussing somebody in the figure of speech well who did you make the state whose back are you very member well whose back well you're gonna break with the Hoffa they give his speech I don't even know was talking upon I don't what you're talking I mean was real-life drama and and it was exciting to watch on the 9th of June 1959 the witness was Sam Giancana to tell us the weather if you have opposition from anybody that you dispose of them by having them stuffed in a trunk is that what you do with the Giancana would you tell us that John Connor refused to answer Kennedy's questions by taking what is known in America as the Fifth Amendment when you take the fifth you say essentially I respectfully decline to answer on the grounds of my answer might tend to incriminate me and nobody could touch you for Sam Giancana asserted his Fifth Amendment rights over 30 times the plain answer because I believe my anthem I'd been examining chief counsel Robert Kennedy seemed frustrated and goaded the gangster developed anything about any of your operations or just like giggle every time I ought to get but the Klan dance because I always believed my answer might tend to incriminate I thought only little girl giggles with two Giancana Bobby Kennedy's theatrics were perhaps intended to light Gen Con as famously short fuse and he was hoping that the kana would explode but you know I never thought he really gave it round one and this long bitter feud went to Sam Giancana Kennedy could get nothing on him and there was a reason why the Chicago boss felt untouchable he was well-connected to the Kennedys Robert Kennedy's big brother Senator John F Kennedy had set his sights on the White House but just to become the Democrat presidential candidate was a battle a Boston Irish Catholic couldn't get elected to anything in staunchly Protestant states of 60s America like Wisconsin at West Virginia the wealthy Kennedy clan would have to buy support in these key primary elections so they reached out to an influential family friend for help Frank Sinatra Sinatra was a friend of the Kennedy family the family and Jack Kennedy in particular Frank in his turn had a friend and business partner who knew all about getting his way in politics Sam Giancana I have every reason to believe that there was mob money in in the West Virginia election the person who handled the money was Frank Sinatra before voters went to the polls John Connor sent one of his men to spread $50,000 around West Virginia you sweetened local politicians with new office furniture and paid bar owners to keep Sinatra's campaign song high hopes playing on jukebox is across the state Giancana's efforts seemed to help get the kennedys over the first hurdle John F Kennedy became the Democrat candidate to run for president but an even bigger challenge lay ahead in November 1960 John Kennedy faced the sitting vice president Richard Nixon in the race for the White House the election was too close to call pundits were saying that whoever won the state of Illinois would win the presidency and the key to Illinois was Sam Giancana's backyard Chicago Jan kana Chicago Outfit knew all about how to swing votes in their city they've been doing it for generations in this city no criminal enterprise is going to work until they've got the politicians in their pocket he had the politicians and I mean all of them one ruse was to send scores of people from precinct to precinct illegally voting in each one another well-worn trick was ghost voting impersonating deceased residents of a precinct mob controlled unions were prevailed upon to vote Kennedy to a man though even claims that Giancana's hoods intimidated voters at the polling stations listening to the radio listening to the returns coming in it was obvious that there was a theft underway not since 1916 at the presidential election results being so close Kennedy beat Nixon by just 1/10 of 1% somewhat afternoon on the day after the election senator Kennedy received a telegram from the vice president congratulating him on his victory with visit Sam Giancana was quick to claim that it was he who had elected Kennedy to the White House while most dispute this Gymkhana certainly expected payback Giancana can legitimately think that he had done his work and it he attempted and that he could expect some result Jang Hana expected the new Kennedy administration to get Bobby off his back he told an associate Bobby will just be another goddamn lawyer soon they promise me they'll take care in I am in my mind and convinced that there was a deal cut that if Giancana would get Illinois for the Democrats that he would be given free hand John Connor prophesied to the outfit a lessening of government harassment in Chicago and Las Vegas he couldn't have been more mistaken new president John F Kennedy appointed his brother Bobby to the government post of Attorney General I have felt that we should secure the best talent we could get for every position regardless of party regardless of any other factor this test has been applied as baseline in this case far from being just another lawyer as Attorney General the fanatical mob chasing Robert Kennedy was now the country's top law enforcement officer it was a shock for John Connor and the Chicago Outfit the last thing they thought was going to get Robert Kennedy as the Attorney General anybody but Robert Kennedy that was a surprise Bobby Kennedy now in charge of the Department of Justice and the FBI declared war on the Mafia I think that day in the people of organized crime I think it's a very serious situation is facing the country at the present time I think a lot of steps can be taken in order to deal with a problem I think it's got much more serious over the period in the last ten years GenCon occurs to the sight of the Attorney General and fumed at the very mention of the Kennedy name to him Bobby Kennedy's war on organized crime was a betrayal but as the Justice Department went to war Sam Giancana fell in love Phyllis McGuire was the lead singer of the headlining trio the McGuire sisters she was 29 John Connor was 52 it seems violent mo Giancana could be charming and he wasn't flashy it was just direct and it was a strength and his eyes were it's like they looked through you she was a big star stunningly beautiful and he loved to be seen out with her on his arm Jan Carla began to flutter with gifts of furs cars and jewelry cash had always bought him the most beautiful escorts but this was different he began to neglect business in Chicago to follow Phyllis to performances all over the US he even accompanied her on a two-week European tour the tough mob boss had a chink in his armor a weak spot the government would later use to help bring him down and while Jiang karna was Romancing Phyllis attorney general Bobby Kennedy was hard at work radically reforming the Department of Justice and the FBI he was extremely driven he absolutely hated what he called the outfit the Mafia organized crime to the 10 FBI agents assigned to Chicago Kennedy added 60 more Jiang karna called them g-men or just the G at first he was unconcerned dismissing them as Boy Scouts up to now their track record against organized crime had not been good but Kennedy was changing the game the FBI agents that descended on Giancana were a new breed they were all clean-cut college-educated men many were lawyers above all the biggest problem for Sam Giancana is that these government men and a fanatical commitment to their incorruptibility unlike other Chicago law enforcement John Connor couldn't buy them Robert Kennedy was also increasing the number of lawyers in the Justice Department's organized crime and racketeering section from 17 to 63 he rebuilt the whole operation you can think of the Department of Justice as a aircraft carrier and you can't turn an aircraft carrier on a dime they don't have brakes you can slow it down and steer it he turned it on a dime and took it in a different direction the Attorney General funded his new crack team of investigators well his goal was to get all government agencies working together as never before to break the grip of organized crime he talked directly to you it gave us a whole feeling of electricity in what we were doing and commitment to what we were doing we did feel that we were kind of like the new Untouchables Jan kata was now closely watched by the new FBI agents in Chicago the Bureau is fine at the cancer Stoics his HQ was in the back of the armory lounge bar and restaurant in Chicago's Forest Park suburb despite FBI surveillance his private business remains secret behind closed doors i ball one the dugout I read you loud and clear or so he thought 10300 one stay with it the g-men had a new weapon that would turn Giancana's world upside down electronic surveillance Bobby Kennedy decided that organized crime was an issue of national security it was a threat to the United States and fell in that category that you could exercise a wiretap and install a white cap without a warrant the number of FBI bugs and wiretaps in America exploded I'm just a handful to hundreds the FBI agents Romo and Hill assigned to monitor Giancana were quick to hide a microphone in the Holy of Holies is HQ the armory lounge the g-men overheard Potsie PO an old associate complaining about them to Mooney Giancana I never wanna see boots fucking rough they probably when they put his brother in there we're gonna see some higher price well then it would all be like this is murder Alfa's the agents heard exactly how GenCon around the outfit although officially the boss he received advice from senior mob figures and retired boss tony accardo oh we are near the tribe to achieve my would you feel the words practical practical advice after all who knows easy try to distort you the tapes also revealed how Giancana advised his driver and bodyguard butch Blasi about the mafia code of silence or meltar he warned about the penalties for blabbing mob business to outsiders there was a stuffed fish over the bar and he points up to the stuffed fish and since you know how that bitch got that way he open and of course he's saying this into a bug himself but he's telling butch Blasi to don't talk about all that kind of stuff FBI agents Roma and Hill in their surveillance of Gymkhana did their utmost to exploit his weak spot the relationship with Phyllis McGuire they watched Zaman Phylis closely very closely they took photos and shot moving footage of them together when they went out with wiretaps and bugs they also listened when they stayed in even recording their conversation in their bedrooms whether in Las Vegas or Marion Pittsburgh or Atlantic City the pressure of tight surveillance got to sound Giancana his acid anger was fired at the g-men whenever he saw them now Roma he sparsa he says hello moe and he walks away then we move out of it into the other room but who the fuck walked him but that jet hill Jan kana started to lose control he antagonized the agents and his obscenities retired boss Accardo was concerned that Jan karna would do something stupid don't call them dirty words just walk away from them let them talk you guys how long go fuck yourself they're just like us I got a job to do we don't what to do and we do it Bobby Kennedy was tightening the noose but one government agency had jeopardized all his work by secretly seeking Giancana's help the CIA the consequences for the agency and for Jan Khanna would eventually be dire Jan kana and many other gangsters had once had vast lucrative business interests on the island of Cuba just a short hop from Miami in exotic and poverty-stricken Cuba white tourists with green dollars could live like royalty and lose money in the comfort of the mob-owned casino hotels Huber was a gold mine for the mob it's a lot of money made down there in the casinos and the joints and Castro took it away completely a new use day 1959 Fidel Castro's rebel forces swept into Havana and with popular support supplanted the old mob Frehley regime of President Batista castro swiftly nationalized land and american businesses because the mob and the US government untold millions of dollars the man they were running this cuba they were running amok down there under Batista and when Castro came in he threw them all out so they were not happy with him if they could get rid a cast or they could move back in it wasn't just a mob who wanted Castro gone the CIA so Castro is a dangerous communist on America's doorstep and they wanted him swept away so who would you go to you go to mob guys who had good connections in Cuba it operated there for years and are pretty good at killing people on the basis that my enemy's enemy is my friend the CIA met Jang Khanna and associates to try to arrange a gangland hit on Cuba's President Fidel Castro there's something ayiva about the organized crime they're not a hit squad you can't buy them to kill people they thought they could at a clandestine meeting at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami the CIA wanted a capone style attack with castro going down in public in a hail of bullets the real-life gangsters demurred wanting to keep things nice and clean Jiang Khanna suggested something much more CIA using pills the poison Castro's food and drink the CIA took his advice but when a US government agency secretly commissioned murder from gangsters they should have seen trouble coming once you've dealt with them and they've given you something then they have a right to ask for something back and you don't want a reciprocal relationship with them you're compromised master manipulator Giancana soon turned the situation to his advantage first he's working for the CIA and then somehow they find themselves working for him janne karna suspected Phyllis McGuire of having an affair in Las Vegas with top showbiz comedian Dan Rowan he talked his CIA contact into arranging to plant a microphone in Rowan's hotel room but the operation went terribly wrong the installation engineers were discovered by hotel staff and arrested by police the CIA feared the mob connection and Castro assassination plot would get out the agency did not want that plotting to come public and they were afraid to death of any public examination of Giancana to avoid a public trial a deeply embarrassed CIA director of security Sheffield Edwards had to confess in a memo to the FBI the whole sordid affair when he found out the Attorney General Bobby Kennedy was furious and he called chef Phil Edwards in to his offices and what he said was the next time you do something like that you talked to me first one day all this would come back to haunt both the CIA and and sam giancana FBI agents Roma and Rutland watching and being verbally abused by Gymkhana in Chicago now put even more pressure on the beleaguered outfit boss determined to drive him over the edge the agents implemented what they called lockstep surveillance every day round-the-clock they were with him following in cars when he got out they got out when he walked they walked within feet of him they followed him on his golf round rushing his game cheering from the edge of the Greens they were like this he played golf they were behind him just everywhere he went and it sent him off like a Roman team they even followed him into restaurants if he went to the restroom an agent would also come and stand at the next urinal which made it difficult for him to do what he had gone there to do it was pure simple harassment they weren't getting anything out of that Roma and Rutland were right about one thing it drove John Connor mad an electronic surveillance recording made in June 1963 reveals that his mob associates thought he was becoming dangerously irrational that fucking John Calvin what do you hear what he's done now he's not making good decisions Wow Charlie McCarthy solo must that all told him to talk kennedy to talk the inclusive mantra of Christ's sake that's a cardinal rule you don't give up on a jig guy he told Romo that do not as I got a Kennedy more or less I'm so fucking mad I could jump by your window citing this man goofy a maddened Giancana lashed out in a way the mob would never understand he sued the FBI saying their lockstep operation violated his civil rights Giancana's lawyer hired a film crew to shoot the FBI lockstep in action in a darkened courtroom the judge was also shown Giancana's respectable lifestyle playing a round of golf going to church and visiting his father's grave an injunction against lockstep surveillance was granted the FBI agents would have to keep their distance Sam Giancana had for the moment beaten the FBI but Giancana's victory soon evaporated and to escape the continual scrutiny he and Phyllis holiday did Sinatra's home in Palm Beach and then in Las Vegas meanwhile the FBI was recording some disturbing mobster conversations Kennedy a guy who take a knife and stab and kill that fucker I mean God the Kennedys war against organized crime was fueling a dark mood among gangsters all over the United States he killed the whole family a mother and father just a few months later on November the 22nd 1963 President John F Kennedy was assassinated during the Dallas motorcade the killing spawned a rash of conspiracy theories about who might be responsible there was always a strong rumor that the mob had something to do with the assassination of John Kennedy the rumors of mafia involvement were fed when it was revealed that the man who gunned down Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was mob fixer Jack Ruby it didn't go unnoticed but sam giancana had sought Ruby's help from time to time but despite the rumors there has never been anything to substantiate claims that the mob had any part in it President Kennedy's death did however give them all what he wanted the immobilization of his gang busting brother I think he was simply crushed and shocked by it an FBI informant her Giancana's reaction what he said was chilling Attorney General Robert Kennedy will not have the power that he did within a year the new president appointed a different Attorney General and Robert Kennedy was gone Jan Khanna thought the pressure was off but Bobby Kennedy had rebuilt the Justice Department to smash organized crime even without him the machinery worked on crucially Kennedy had inspired a generation of investigative lawyers who would not give up the fight one of Bobby's boys was a young lawyer in the Department of Justice strike force David shivers always there with the San Jean hanging out there the one guy that nobody seemed to be able to touch all he had to do was surface once and we'd be able to put him into a conspiracy of some kind couldn't find anything shippers problem was a lack of hard evidence the FBI agents years of electronic surveillance put Jiang karna at the center of extortion illegal gambling and murder but as the bugs were installed under presidential prerogative and not by a judicial warrant the thousands of hours of incriminating recordings were not admissible as evidence in court but determined to put Gymkhana behind bars shippers meticulously constructed a cunning legal snare first to question John Connor about his criminal career shippers awoke the dormant power of an investigative grand jury without the grand jury we were dead in the water we couldn't do a thing because we had no personal subpoena power it was a grand jury that had the subpoena power if you're subpoenaed to the grand jury you got no choice you guys show up you may take the Fifth Amendment but you're gonna you're going to get dragged in there second shippers had to stop John Connor hiding behind the Fifth Amendment by removing any possibility that he could incriminate himself if what you're saying can never be used against you then the Fifth Amendment doesn't apply that's where the use of immunity came granting immunity from prosecution to a top mafia boss was a bold step and a hard sell to shippers boss the US attorney the US attorney looked at me said are you nuts are you crazy they said what you don't really think he would talk we wouldn't immunize him up we didn't think he'd talk if he doesn't talk we'll put him in jail if he does talk we're gonna have one heck of a great case we'll break the whole stupid mafia at last the trap was set but will Giancana take the bait in December 1964 the federal grand jury investigation began the softened John Connor up shippers summoned his mother so shi'ites to question them in secret John Connor feared they might be spilling their guts but he couldn't be sure then to play even more on Giancana's increasing paranoia shippers exploited his weak spot he subpoenaed Phyllis McGuire so here comes Phyllis McGuire we're going to put her in the grand jury I just assumed she's going to come in answer our questions and the questions were essential but essentially you've been about her association nothing embarrassing she was a key to this whole thing Phyllis seems shaken by the experience whether she actually testified or asserted her Fifth Amendment rights and declined to answer is still secret but the thought that Phyllis had told them anything sent the paranoid Giancana crazy you know he said over the weekend that he was pretty angry when you talk to about it no comment well the word came back to us is Sam Giancana was ready to kill him stuff is this an indication do you think that your relationship is all over no comment because he thought if she talked I'm in trouble David shippers scheduled Giancana's straight after Phyllis and made sure he reinforced Sam's fears when they met just before questioning I had a transcript of another individuals testimony in some case it was about a half-inch thick we had the car reporter put a page on top that said testimony of Phyllis McGuire and I know Sam thought shippers had Gymkhana right where he wanted him on the witness stand the chicago boss thought he knew the rules of this game he'd plead the fifth amendment to each question and go home as usual but it didn't realize david shippers had changed the rules i remember the judge saying to him mr. Giancana if you received a traffic ticket on the way in here today nobody can touch you you are immune from any prosecution for any crime as of this moment immunity effectively stripped Jiang Khanna a Fifth Amendment protection and then it really hit him when a judge told him he was immune and he had a talk he was ordered to testify then it hit him the single-minded purpose of david shippers seemed to remind Jan kana of an old adversary he turned to me he said you're one of Bobby's boys aren't you I said yes sir I am Jan karna had no choice if he talked and lied he was certain to perjure himself if he talks and told the truth the mob will kill him John Connor gave his name and address invoked v and the trap was sprung sam giancana boss of the Chicago Outfit by refusing to answer questions was in contempt of court and taken straight to jail Sam Giancana was totally awed he was rattled he couldn't understand how this could happen the judge commented that Jang Khanna had the key to his own cell he would be released when he decided to answer the grand jury's questions but in the outfit you don't talk John Connor kept his mouth shut this was a government victory of sorts as it was the first time he'd been in prison for over 20 years that rocked the whole organised crime around the country but was it such a great victory Gymkhana could only be held in jail until the grand jury folded a year later on the night Jiang karna was released in May 1966 there was a party at his home in Oak Park but senior mobsters found nothing to celebrate the outfit old guard decided no Giancana's high-profile and volatile temper was bad for business they gave the FBI a belated victory by stripping Sam Giancana of his rank his boss and throwing him out of Chicago for good Jiang karna left the u.s. to live in Cuernavaca Mexico over the years he built a new life for himself no g-men dogged his steps or monitors his phone calls Jang kana returned to what he did best making money in the mid-60s as NASA prepared to put a man on the moon Chang karna was launching a gambling operation on cruise ships in the Caribbean while the u.s. tore itself apart over the Vietnam War Jan Karnas international ambitions met with success in Guatemala and with the charr of around in 1968 his old adversary Robert Kennedy ran for president but on the campaign trail he was gunned down and killed and although the 70s on Aging Giancana undergo abdominal surgery he enjoyed a quiet wealthy life then suddenly a dark episode from his past cast a chill shadow over some John Connor his connection to the CIA in January 1975 a Senate Select Committee began investigating illegal CIA operations specifically CIA involvement in plans to assassinate Castro its findings which shocked Chairman senator Church it is simply intolerable that any agency of the government of the United States may engage in murder the committee was very interested in hearing from any mobsters consulted by the CIA in their castro assassination plots although lying low in Mexico Jen karna had been snatched from his hideaway and suddenly found himself deported back into the United States the press were waiting you can oh why did you have to leave Mexico sir why I don't know the jincan audio plan the future plans of one-time boss Giancana would reestablish his cut of Chicago Outfit operations once he arrived in Chicago he announced to thee to the entire organization that he was back again he was the man but a new generation ran the Chicago Outfit they had no room for the agent Gymkhana by that time a lot of his rivals were in the competitive Sheree are dead because of what we'd been doing to him knocked out of action in Chicago Jan Cano received a subpoena that ordered him to appear before the Senate committee without fail in Washington DC on June the 24th 1975 but sam giancana never made it On June the 19th 1975 four days after celebrating his 67th birthday Sam Giancana was at home in Oak Park Chicago he was cooking in his basement kitchen routine police patrols noticed nothing unusual health problems meant he could not eat spicy foods so it seems the sausage and peppers was a late night snack for a friend a friend Jiang karna liked and trusted a close friend but the mafia hadn't quite finished with sam giancana the way he was killed showed that the mob no longer trusted him to keep quiet he was shot in the mouth so that you might draw the conclusion that somebody was leaving a message don't talk it was somewhat interesting that somebody that powerful what was was killed so there had to be a major major decision among the powers to be in the mall Sam Giancana's extraordinary career had lasted over 50 years spanning the heyday of organized crime in America in the years after Giancana showbusiness stars began to shun any mob connection the glamorous image of gangsters became tarnished people realized they were just killers never again with a mafia boss be so closely associated with the bright stars of show business for the dark underbelly of politics the FBI and the Justice Department had struck the first serious blows aimed at breaking the Mafia you

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