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not live long enough to enjoy his money. He reported the poison plot to Big Al. The frustrated Aiello promptly spread the word that $50,000 awaited anyone who killed Capone.
These hostile efforts proved annoying to Capone and stoked his own determination that Aiello get his "real good."
One October evening Aiello stepped outside his expensive West Side apartment building, on North Kolmar Avenue, right into the cross fire of a sawed-off shotgun and two Thompson submachine guns. They dug 59 slugs weighing well over a pound out of the ventilated corpse.
See also: Campagna, Louis "Little New York ."
Aiuppa, Joseph John (1907 ): Chicago Outfit leader
Although he never got beyond the third grade in school, Joe Aiuppa had plenty of criminal smarts as well as old-style Capone muscle. These traits propelled him to the top position in the Chicago Outfit, where he bowed to no one except the semi-retired Tony Accardo. Operating out of Cicero, always the Chicago mob's stronghold, he started out as a gunner for the Capones and so was questioned in several murder investigations.
Aiuppa may have used raw power to maintain the mob's rackets in Cicero but, at the same time, he mastered the big fix. He was once thought to be paying $500 a month to have secret copies of intelligence reports, from the Chicago Crime Commission to the sheriff's office, sent to him. And he was once recorded in a conversation with a "wired" police officer as saying he could obtain secret grand jury testimony. The extent of Aiuppa's fixing ability was further highlighted in another taped conversation, when an underworld aide informed the same officer that Aiuppa had learned the lawman had been wired for sound.
Aiuppa bears two nicknames. One is "Ha Ha" because he is a dour-looking, menacing mobster who seldom cracks a smile. The other is "Mourning Doves" since one of his few convictions was three months in a federal prison for illegally possessing and transporting over 500 mourning doves from Kansas to Chicago. In the underworld he developed a reputation for hunting rabbits and ducks with a shotgun.
When Sam Giancana was removed from active control of the syndicate in the mid-1960s, leadership reverted to the semi-retired leaders, Paul Ricca and Tony Accardo, who in time brought in Aiuppa to run the mob. After Ricca's death, Aiuppa was in active con-

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trol, with Accardo as an adviser. Aiuppa joined Accardo in semi-retirement and adopted a similar adviser role with the new active leader in Chicago, Jackie the Lackey Cerone.
If the murder of Sam Giancana was a mob job and not a CIA caper as some in the underworld insist, it is obvious it had to have been okayed by Aiuppaas was the steady elimination of Giancana supporters both before and after the murder. According to an FBI theory, Aiuppa and Accardo were angered at Giancana's refusal to share the proceeds from gambling ship operations he had set up in Mexico using mob money.
After Giancana's closest mob associate, Johnny Roselli, was murdered in Florida, underworld informer Jimmy "the Weasel" Fratianno had a conversation with Aiuppa. The boss said with exaggerated casualness, "By the way, do you remember that guy, what the fuck's his name, you know, the guy they found in a barrel in Florida?"
Fratianno, who, as Aiuppa knew, had been very close to Roselli, was very casual as well, suspecting that Aiuppa would have him killed on the spot if he said anything favorable about Roselli.
The incident emphasized a point made often in the underworld: If Joey Aiuppa considers you a has-been, you're as good as dead.
It may well be that is what happened to Anthony Spilotro in 1986 after Aiuppa was convicted for conspiring to skim money from Las Vegas casinos. Spilotro, long described as figuring in more than 25 execution-style killings, had been since 1971 the Chicago Outfit's representative in Las Vegas and California; the speculation was that Aiuppa felt Spilotro's carelessness had caused his conviction.
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