Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster (77 page)

Paul Rico and

power base

prison time

race-fixing pass

reputation/demeanor

seeds of destruction

Steve Flemmi connection

Tom King killing

Winter Hill boss ascension

without Connolly

Bulger, Joe

Big Jim Colosimo and

childhood

as Giuseppe Imburgio

Bulger, Sen. William

Bulger Mystique

bunco, term origin

Bunty Kate

Burke, Elmer Francis “Trigger,”

Burke, Fred “Killer,”

Burke, James “Jimmy,”

Butler, Richard “Big Dick,”

Cagney, James

Callahan, John

Camp, Thomas.
See
Burke, Fred “Killer”

Campbell, Judith

Capone, Alphonse “Scarface”

Atlantic City conference

attempted New York hit on

Bill McSwiggin hit

Bugs Moran and

Dean O’Banion and

eliminating Irish mobsters

empire vision

Frank McErlane and

Genna brothers and

inheriting Johnny Torrio domain

Irish better half

Joe Kennedy and

Johnny Roselli and

Johnny Torrio and

on O’Connors Gunners

personality, style

prominence/self-promotion

prostitution

St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and

T. J. Pendergast and

tax evasion conviction

Touhy gang and

West Side O’Donnells and

Wild Bill Lovett and

Capone, Mae Coughlin

Capone, Sonny

Capshaw, Hulon

Carnera, Primo

Castellano, Paul “Big Paulie”

murder

Westies and

Castiglia, Francesco;
See also
Costello, Frank

Castro, Fidel

Charlestown gang

Chesterfield Club

Chicago

antiforeigner movement

gambling wars

Great Fire of 1871

Levee district

mayoral election violence

Prohibition gang crackdown

Prohibition violence

as underworld central

Chicago Crime Commission

Chicago Merchandise Mart

Chicago World’s Fair (1893)

C.I..
See
confidential informant (C.I.) program

Clements, Michelino

Cleveland bombings

Coast Guard

Coll, Peter

Coll, Vincent “the Mad Mick”

arrest

Atlantic City conference and

“baby massacre,”

bounty on

child murder trial/acquittal

downfall

Dutch Schultz and

formative years

gang members murdered

Jack “Legs” Diamond and

Joey Rao and

on the lam

Lottie Kriesberger and

Luciano hit contract

marriage

murder

murder trial

Owney Madden and

reputation

taking on Dutch Schultz

underworld after

Collins, Florence

Collins, Morgan

Collins, Tommy

Colosimo, Jim

Combine, the

alliances

creation

Diamond, Jack “Legs” hijacking trucks

ethnic diversity

government-authority ruse

Joe Kennedy and

Larry Fay and

Mafia and

nightclub outlets

Phoenix Cereal Beverage Company

producing Madden’s No. 1

protection

squeezing out independents

See also specific Combine member names

Compton, Betty

Condon, Dennis

confidential informant (C.I.) program;
See also
Bulger, James “Whitey”; Connolly, John

Connolly, John

aiding Bulger

approaching Whitey Bulger

arresting Cadillac Frank Salemme

background/credentials

defending Bulger/Flemmi

gangster/cop relationship and

initial Bulger connection

Jerry Angiulo demise

payback time

prison sentence

retirement

supervisors aiding

Tulsa murder and

Connolly, Slops

Cook County Democracy

Coonan, Edna

Coonan, Jackie

Coonan, James Michael “Jimmy”

absorbing Spillane enterprise

assassination plot

Billy Beattie and

birth, formative years

coronation

dismemberment practice

Featherstone uniting with

Gambino family and

Genovese family and

gun possession conviction

ILA office extortion

Jacob Javits Convention Center and

Jimmy McElroy and

John Gotti and

kidnapping charge

loyalty ritual

Marine Construction

Mickey Spillane war

motivation

Mugsy Ritter and

murder arrest/acquittal

murder conviction/prison

Paul Castellano and

Plaka Bar murder

prison time

return after four years

Richie Ryan and

Rickey Tassiello and

Ruby Stein and

sewage treatment haven

Tommy Collins and

Whitey Bulger and

See also
Westies

Cooney, Dennis “Duke,”

Cooney, Joe

Coppola, Francis

Corcoran, Googy

Corkonions

Corridan, Father John

Corridan’s Law

Costa, Vincent

Costello, Frank

Atlantic City conference

Combine involvement

Jimmy Hines and

Joe Kennedy and

Kefauver Hearings

Mayor Bill O’Dwyer and

Paul Costello and

payoffs

protection payments

real name

Costello, Paul

Cotton Club

Coughlin, John “Bathhouse John,”

Big Jim Colosimo and

Big Tim Sullivan and

Carter Harrison, Jr. and