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Sam Janana was the most extravagant gangster of them all when organized crime was at its most extravagant. I say that he was much

more

powerful than El Capone and he was a giant. He had a beautiful and elegant girlfriend. He was a friend of Frank Sinatra. Sam Jan didn't have a car. He doesn't like to keep a low profile. He liked the high life. He liked to be seen with the stars. He was worth millions and had the power of life and death. He

killed

a lot of

people

. He

killed

a lot of

people

. A cold look from you. and it might make you very worried if you cross them, you were in serious trouble, but by helping elect a young, clean president and assisting in the CIA's shadier operations, his career sees the

mafia

and politics mix in a deadly cocktail, the search for Sam Janana is the definitive story of the State versus the Mafia and the final chapter is one of the most notorious Mafia

hits

of all.

Sam Janana had learned his gangster trade from Al Capone's top enforcers. He excelled as a driver delivering assassins to murder their victims and evade the police. He learned to lend money and collect interest. Hey, Sam, lend me five. I have to go get something, he said. What is needed for security? and Sam said: how about all his angry outbursts were so wild that people around him wondered about his mental stability he was violent but the people on the Chicago team are almost all violent they kill people in the blink of an eye eyes he was a murderer at only 18 years old janana was accused of murder but escaped conviction when I saw Sam J with for the first time, I thought yes it is the arrogance the hate the violence the cruelty that I have dedicated my career to fighting by the

mafia

Jana's

greatest

strength was not her violent nature but her gift for making money it was Janana who instilled fear in the electricians union so that all the slot machines In Chicago paid off the mafia it was Janana who ousted the black kings of the Chicago game with threats and murders under his watchful eye.

Millions of dollars came from the Las Vegas casinos in Cuba and in 1957, at the age of 49, Sam Muni Janana was the

boss

of Chicago. Sam Gian Conor was the most powerful crime

boss

in the history of the United States. He had his tentacles in the police, in the courts, and in Chicago's business world, but just as Jen Conor rose to the top, the government turned on organized crime and an anxious young man. Lawyer began fighting to see him and his ilk fall Robert Kennedy Nation's underworld receives unwanted spotlight of publicity as Senate investigative subcommittee begins new hearings on crime Arkansas Senator M committee Senate labor scams were investigating Mafia Corruption of unions Robert Kennedy Chief The lawyer made a name for himself by questioning witness after witness about their connections to the mafia.

Did you say in SOB? I'll break his back. Who did you do it on? I don't know, he may have been talking about someone in a figure of speech. Who did you make the statement to? Whose back is it? He even remembers it well. Whose back was he going to break? Mr. Hoer. Take the speech from him. I don't even know who he was talking about. I don't know what he's talking about. I'm serious. It was a real life drama and was exciting to watch on June 9, 1959. The witness was Sam Janana. Tell us if he has

anyone

's opposition to getting rid of them by putting them in a trunk.

Mr. Jean Conor, could you tell us that Jena refused to answer Kennedy's questions by adopting what is known in the United States as the Fifth Amendment? When you take the fifth, you essentially say. I respectfully decline to let L respond on the grounds that my response might tend to incriminate. Me and no one can touch you for that. Sam Janana asserted his Fifth Amendment rights

more

than 30 times. I downvoted because I think my answer could incriminate me. Lead attorney Robert Kennedy seemed frustrated and turned gangster. Will you tell us something about any of your operations? I just laugh every time I ask you a question.

I am not answering because I sincerely believe that my answer could tend to incriminate me. I thought only little girls laughed. Mr. Jan Bobby Kennedy's theatrics were perhaps intended to light Jen's famously short fuse. I think he expected that yukana would explode, but you know, I never thought he actually gave a shit in this long part of the fight. It was for Sam Janana Kennedy couldn't get anything against him and there was a reason why the Chicago boss felt untouchable, he was well connected to the Kennedys. Robert Kennedy's older brother, Senator John F. Kennedy, had set his sights on the White House, but becoming the Democratic presidential candidate was a battle that an Irish Catholic from Boston couldn't get elected at all in staunchly Protestant states of the United States of the 1960s, such as Wisconsin and West Virginia.

The wealthy Kennedy clan would have to buy support in this key primary election, so they asked for help from an influential family friend Frank Sinata Sinatra was a friend of the Kennedy family, the family and Jack Kennedy in particular Frank, in turn, had a friend and business partner who knew all about how to get your way in politics Sam Janana I have every reason to believe there was mob money in the West Virginia elections the person who handled the money was Frank Sinatra before the voters Janana sent one of his men to hand out $50,000 in West Virginia, sweetened local politicians with new office facilities, and paid bar owners to keep Sinatra's campaign song, High Hopes, playing. jukeboxes across the state.

Jana's efforts seemed to help the Kennedys get over the first hurdle. John F. Kennedy became the Democratic nominee for president, but in November 1960 an even greater challenge awaited him. John Kennedy faced off against sitting Vice President Richard Nixon in the race for the White House. Illinois would win the presidency and the key to Illinois was Sam Jen's Chicago janana in Chicago's backyard. The Chicago team knew all about how to change votes in their city. They have been doing it for generations. In this city no criminal enterprise will work until they have the politicians in their pockets, he had the politicians and I mean all of them.

A Russia was to send dozens of people from one district to another illegally voting among themselves. Another widely used trick was ghost voting posing as the deceased residence of a union controlled district bobc were persuaded to vote for kennedy a man there were even claims that jan hoods intimidated voters at polling stations listening to the radio listening to the results coming in It was obvious that there was a robbery afoot, since 1916 the result of the presidential election had not been known. So close Kennedy beat Nixon by just a tenth of 1% one afternoon the day after the election.

Senator Kennedy received a telegram from the vice president congratulating him on his victory with this in his Sam Janana was quick to claim that it was he who had chosen Kennedy for the White House. While most dispute that this janana was certainly hoping for revenge, Gian kaana You can legitimately think that you had done your job and that you had leaned in and that you could expect some result. Janana hoped the new Kennedy administration would get rid of Bobby. She told an associate that Bobby will be just another damn lawyer. They promise me they'll take care of him soon.

I'm in the back of my mind and convinced that there was an agreement that if Gian Cara got Illinois for the Democrats, they would give it to him. Janana, with his hands free, prophesied to the team a decrease in government harassment in Chicago and Las Vegas. He couldn't have been more wrong. The new president. President John F. Kennedy appointed his brother Bobby to the government position of Attorney General. I have felt that we should secure the best talent we could get for each position, regardless of the party, regardless of any other factor. This test has been applied.

It has been implied that in this case, far from being just another lawyer as attorney general, the fanatical mob that pursued Robert Kennedy was now the country's top law enforcement officer. government official it was a shock to janana and the Chicago team the last thing they thought was that they would get Robert Kennedy as Attorney General

anyone

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 in the field of organized crime I think it is a very serious situation that the country is facing at the moment.

I think there are many steps that can be taken to address the problem. I think it has become much more serious. serious for the last 10 years Janana cursed at the sight of the Attorney General and became enraged at the mere mention of Kennedy's name. Bobby Kennedy's war on organized crime was a betrayal, but when the Justice Department went to war, Sam Janana fell. in love Phyllis Maguire was the lead singer of the main trio the Maguire sisters she was 29 and janana was 52 looks violent Mo janana could be charming and he wasn't flashy he was just direct and he was uh strength and uh his eyes were like they were looking Through you, she was an incredibly beautiful big star and he loved to be seen with her on his arm.

Janana started showering her with gifts of Furs cars and jewellery. Cash had always bought him the most beautiful escorts, but this was different. He began to neglect business in Chicago to follow Phyllis' performances throughout the United States. He even accompanied her on a two-euro European tour. The tough mafia boss had a weak spot in his armor that the government would later use to help take him down while Janana was around. Affair with Phyllis, Attorney General Bobby Kennedy was working hard to radically reform the Justice Department and the FBI. He was extremely motivated, he absolutely hated what he called the organization, the mafia, organized crime, the 10 FBI agents assigned to Chicago.

Kennedy added 60 more, he called them janana. gmen or just the G's at first he wasn't worried about dismissing them as Boy Scouts until now his record against organized crime hadn't been good but Kennedy was changing the game the FBI agents who descended on janana were a new generation they were all clean college kids educated men , many were lawyers, above all, the biggest problem for Sam Jan Carana was that these government men had a fanatical commitment to their incorruptibility, unlike other Chicago law enforcement officers, the janana couldn't buy them. Robert Kennedy was also increasing the number of lawyers in the Justice Department. organized crime and extortion section from 17 to 63 rebuilt the entire operation.

You can think of the Department of Justice as an 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, it turned it on a dime and took it in a different direction. The Attorney General funded his new team of investigators well. His goal was to get all government agencies to work together like never before to break the G of organized crime. He spoke directly with him. He gave us a complete sense of electricity and what we were doing and the commitment to what we were doing, we felt like we were like the new Untouchables.

Jenana was now closely watched by the new FBI agents in Chicago, the view is good and the kids are still in school because their headquarters was in the back of the Armory Lounge Bar and Restaurant in the Chicago suburb of Forest Park a despite FBI surveillance his private business remains secret behind closed doors eye one to Dugout I read you loud and clear or so he thought 10 three eyeballs one stay with him the Gman had a new weapon that would turn Jan's world upside down electronic surveillance Bobby Kennedy decided that organized crime was a matter of National Security, was a threat to the United States and fell into that category where wiretapping could be carried out and wiretapping installed without a warrant the number of microphones and wireless taps of the FBI in the United States exploded from just a handful to hundreds the FBI agents Roma and Hill assigned to monitor Janana rushed to hide a microphone in the holy of holies of their HQ the Armory Lounge the men heard poy po an old associate complaining of them with Mooney janana.

I never thought it would be so hard, you told me when they put his brother there, let's go see some fireworks, but I never knew he would do it. Be it so, this is murdering a certain individual, you mean the team, yes the agents had exactly how Janana led the team, although officially the boss received advice from top mafia figures and retired boss Tony a cardo L Mo, oh , we are not here to try. Twist your mind we're just giving you practical advice that's all we're not here to try to twist you the tapes also revealed how janana advised her driver and bodyguard but blasi on the Omera mafia's Code of Silence warned of sanctions for talking business from the mafia to the strangers, there was a fish on the bar and he points to the fish and says: you knowhow did that fish get that way, he opened his mouth and of course he himself is saying this to an insect, but he's saying um, but Damn not to mention all that kind of stuff.

FBI agents Roma and Hill in their surveillance of Jan Carana did everything they could to exploit her weak point - the relationship with Phyllis Maguire - they observed Sam and Phyllis very closely, took photos and filmed moving images of them together when they were out with cables and microphones, they also listened when they stayed at home, even recorded their conversation in their rooms, whether in Las Vegas, Maryland, Pittsburgh or Atlantic City, the pressure of strict surveillance affected Sam Janana, his acid. Anger shot up at the Gman every time AR Roma saw them, he sees him, he says hell Mo and walks away, then we go out of there to the other room and who comes in, but Hill Janana started to lose control and confronted the agents. and hissed obscenities The retired boss Accardo was worried that Janana would do something stupid, stupid, don't call them bad words or anything, don't pay attention to them, just stay away from them, let them talk, guys, I would go yourselves and this and that, Enough, them.

They're just like us, they have a job to do, we know what to do and we do it. I know Bobby Kennedy was toughening up the news, but a government agency had jeopardized all their work by secretly seeking help from Jan, the CIA, The consequences for the agency and for Janana would eventually be dire, Janana and many other gangsters had once done it. There were numerous lucrative business interests on the island of Cuba, a short distance from Miami, in exotic, poverty-stricken Cuba. White tourists with green dollars could live like royalty and lose money in competition from mafia-owned hotel-casinos.

Cuba was a gold mine for the mafia, a lot of money was made there in the casinos and clubs and Castro took it all away on New Year's Day 1959. Fidel Castro's rebel forces broke into Havana and, with popular support, supplanted the old regime. President Batista Castro's mafia friend quickly nationalized the land and cost American companies the mafia and the US government. Untold millions of dollars the mafia who ran this Cuba were making a mess there under Batista and when Castro came in he kicked them all out so they weren't happy with him if they could get rid of Castro they could get back in it wasn't just the mafia that wanted Castro gone the CIA saw Castro as a dangerous communist on the doorstep of United States and they wanted it swept away, so who would you turn to?

They had good connections in Cuba, operated there for years, and are pretty good at killing people on the basis that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. The CIA met with Janana and his associates to try to organize a gangster attack against the president of Cuba, Fidel Castro. They are certainly naive. about organized crime they are not a hit squad they cannot be bought to kill people they thought they could kill in a clandestine meeting at the Font and Blur hotel in Miami the CIA wanted a Capone style attack with Castro publicly falling into a hail of bullets that real-life gangsters objected to because they wanted to keep things nice and clean.

Janana suggested something much more like the CIA using pills to poison Castro's food and drink, the CIA followed his advice, but when a US government agency secretly commissioned the murder of gangsters, they should have seen Se trouble is brewing and once you have dealt with them and they have given you something, then they have the right to ask for something in return and you don't want a reciprocal relationship with them, you are committed, the master manipulator Janana soon turned the situation into His first advantage is that he's working for the CIA and then somehow they end up working for him.

Jan Carana suspected Phyllis Maguire of having an affair in Las Vegas with comedian Dan Rowan. She convinced her CIA contact to place a bug 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 that the connection with the mafia and Castro's assassination plot would come to light. The agency did not want the plot to be revealed. made public and were deathly afraid of any public examination of gan carna to avoid a public trial, a deeply embarrassed CIA security director, Sheffield Edwards, had to confess in a memo to the FBI the entire affair when he discovered that the Attorney General Bobby Kennedy was furious and called Sheffel Edwards into his offices and what he said was the next time you do something like that, talk to me first, someday this will all come back to haunt both the CIA and Sam Janana.

FBI agents Roma and Rutland watch and are now verbally abused by Janana in Chicago. They put even more pressure on The Bard's team leader, Toer, determined to push him to the limit, the agents implemented what they called closed surveillance every day, 24 hours a day, they were with him following him in the cars when he left, They came out when he walked, they walked in. at his feet, they followed him in his round of golf, they hurried his game, taunting from the edge of the greens, they were like that, he played golf, they were behind him everywhere and that drove him away like a Roman and they even followed him the restaurants.

If he went to the bathroom, an officer would also go and stand at the urinal next to him, which made it difficult for him to do what he had gone to do, it was pure harassment, they were not getting anything out of it and Rutland was true about one thing that drove him crazy. janana an electronic surveillance recording made in June 1963 reveals that his mafia associates thought he was becoming dangerously irrational that Jun waits until he hears what he has done now he is making good decisions what happened Charlie McCarthy told Rome that Mo Le I said to tell Kennedy to talk to him through Sinatra, for God's sake, that's a God with no rules, we don't give up a legit guy.

He tells Roma that Sinak is our Kennedy guide. More or less. I'm so angry he could jump. out your window we have to do something about G is making this man stupid a Madden janana lashed out in a way the mob would never understand sued the FBI saying their simultaneous operation violated his civil rights Jan's lawyer hired a team of footage to film the FBI blocking pass in action in a darkened courtroom the judge was also shown Jan's respectable lifestyle playing a round of golf going to church and visiting his father's grave a warrant was granted against continued surveillance FBI agents would have to keep their distance Sam Janana For the moment he had defeated the FBI, but Jan's victory soon evaporated and, to escape continued scrutiny, he and his family decided that Sinatra's house in Palm Beach and then in Las Vegas, while the FBI was recording some disturbing mobster conversations with Kennedy, a guy should pick up a knife. and stab and kill, I'm serious, this is true.

Hest the God right in the White House, some have to get R that Kennedy's war on organized crime was fueling a dark mood among gangsters across America. They should kill the whole family. the mother and father also a few months later, on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated during a motorcade in Dallas. The murder sparked a number of conspiracy theories about who could be responsible; There was always a strong rumor that the mafia had something going on. Related to the assassination of John Kennedy, rumors of mob involvement were fueled when it was revealed that the man who shot and killed Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey, was mob fixer Jack Ruby.

It didn't go unnoticed that Sam Jenana had sought Ruby's help. from time to time, but despite the rumors there has never been anything to substantiate the claims that the mafia had any involvement in it. President Kennedy's death, however, gave the mob what it wanted: the immobilization of his gang-busting brother. I think he was just crushed and shocked by An FBI informant heard Jan's reaction, which he said was chilling. Attorney General Robert Kennedy will not have the power he had. Within a year, the new president appointed a different attorney general, and Robert Kennedy was gone. Janana thought the pressure was off, but Bobby Kennedy had rebuilt. the justice department to crush organized crime even without him the Machinery that Kennedy crucially worked on had inspired a generation of investigative lawyers who would not give up the fight one of Bobby's sons was a young lawyer in the Strike Force from the Department of Justice David's transporters were always there, a Sam Jan conman running around, the one guy no one seemed to be able to touch, all he had to do was surface once and we could get him into a conspiracy of some guy, couldn't find anything, Chipper's problem was a lack of concrete evidence, the FBI agent's years of electronic surveillance put Janana at the center of extortion, illegal gambling and murder, but since the microphones were Installed under presidential prerogative and not by court order, the thousands of hours of incriminating recordings were not admissible as evidence in court but determined to put Janana behind bars the transporters meticulously constructed a cunning legal trap first to interrogate Janana about her career criminal the carriers awakened the latent power of an investigative grand jury without the grand jury we were dead in the water we could not do anything because we did not have personal subpoena power, it was a grand jury that had the subpoena power, if you They were subpoenaed before the grand jury, you had no choice, you had to show up, you can take advantage of the Fifth Amendment, but you're going to do it. were to be dragged there, the second carriers had to prevent Janana from hiding behind the Fifth Amendment by eliminating 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 in. Granting immunity from prosecution to a top mob boss was a bold move and a tough sell to the mob boss. carrier the US attorney the US attorney looked at me and said are you crazy are you crazy they said what you really don't know. I think he would talk, we wouldn't vaccinate him, if we didn't think he would talk, if he doesn't talk, we'll put him in jail, if he talks, we're going to have a big case.

We will break the whole stupid mafia, the trap was finally set, but Willi Andana took the bait in December 1964, the federal grand jury investigation began to soften Janana. The transporter summoned the mafia from him. His associates secretly interrogated them. Janana feared that they might be revealing his insides. but he couldn't be sure to play even further into Jan's growing paranoia. The transporters exploited her weak point, separated Phyllis Maguire, so here comes Phyllis Maguire, we're going to put her on the grand jury. I just assumed she would come in and answer our questions and the questions would essentially have been about her Association, nothing embarrassing, she was the key to this whole thing.

Phyllis seemed shocked by The Experience—whether she actually testified or asserted her Fifth Amendment rights and refused to answer remains a secret—but the thought that Phyllis had told them something drove the paranoid Janana crazy. You know, he said over the weekend that he was pretty angry. Did you talk to him about it? There are no comments. Well, we got the news that Sam Chanana was ready to commit suicide. This is an indication Do you think your relationship is over? No comments because he thought if she talks, I'm in trouble. David Shippers scheduled janana immediately after Phyllis and made sure to reinforce Sam's fears when they met just before the interrogation.

I had a transcript of In some case, another individual's testimony was about an inch thick and we had the court reporter put a page on top that said testimony from Philis Maguire and I know Sam saw that the transporters had janana right where it was. wanted on the Chicago witness stand. The boss thought he knew the rules of this game, would plead the Fifth Amendment on every question and go home as usual, but he didn't realize that David Shippers had changed the rules. I remember the judge telling him: Mr. Gan kanana, if you received a traffic ticket on the way here today no one can touch you you are immune from any prosecution for any crime from this moment on the immunity effectively stripped janana of the protection of the Fifth Amendment and then it really hit him when the judge told him he was immune and had a talk.

He was ordered to testify and then he realized that David Shippers' determined purpose seemed to remind Janana of an old adversary. He turned to me and said you're one of Bobby's boys, aren't you? I said yes, sir. I am janana he had no choice if he spoke and lied, he was sure that he would purge himself if he spoke and told the truth the mafiawould kill him Janana gave his name and address summoned the fifth and the trap was set Sam Janana head of Chicago team by refusing to answer questions he was in contempt of court and was taken directly to jail Sam Gana had a total overdose he was nervous he couldn't understand How could this happen?

The judge commented that Janana had the key to her own cell. He would be released when he decided to answer the grand jury's questions, but with the "no talking" outfit, Janana kept her mouth shut. This was something of a victory for the government, as it was the first time he had been in prison in over 20 years, which shook the entire organization. crime across the country, but was it such a big victory? Janana was only able to remain in jail until the grand jury retired a year later, the night Janana was released in May 1966, there was a party at his home in Oak Park, but the mobsters found nothing to celebrate the team.

The Old Guard decided that Mo Jan's volatile, high-profile temperament was bad for business, giving the FBI a late victory by stripping Sam Janana of his high-ranking boss and driving him out of Chicago for good. Janana left the United States to live. quaka México over the years she built a new life for herself, no man followed her steps or monitored her phone calls and Janana returned to what she did best: making money in the mid-60s, when NASA was preparing to carry out a man to the moon Janana was launching a cruise ship gambling operation in the Caribbean while the United States was torn apart by the Vietnam War.

Jan's international ambitions were successful in Guatemala and with Iran's fish in 1968 his old adversary Robert Kennedy ran for president, but on the campaign trail he was shot dead and although the 1970s saw an elderly Janana undergo a abdominal surgery, enjoyed a quiet and wealthy life, then suddenly a dark episode from his past cast a chilling shadow over Sam Jano. 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 their findings would surprise the president Senator Church it is simply intolerable that any agency of the United States government could be involved in an assassination the committee was very interested in hearing from any mobster consulted by the CIA in their assassination plans for Castro, although he was hiding in Mexico, Janana had been snatched from his hiding place and suddenly found himself deported back to the United States.

The press was waiting. Why did he have to leave Mexico? Mister. Why don't I know, Mr. J.? your future plans the old boss's future plansjanana was going to re-establish his part of the Chicago team's operations once he arrived in Chicago, he announced to the ENT organization that he had returned and that he was the man, but a new generation was running the team from Chicago and had no room for the aging janana. During the time that many of his rivals were in the penitentiary or dead because of what we were doing to them, they were knocked out of action in Chicago.

Janana received a subpoena ordering him to appear before the Senate committee without fail in Washington DC on June 24, 1975, but Sam Janana never arrived on June 19, 1975, 4 days after celebrating his 67th birthday. Sam Janana was At his home in Oak Park, Chicago, he was cooking in the basement kitchen. Routine police patrols did not notice anything unusual. Health problems meant he couldn't eat spicy foods, so it seems the sausage and peppers were a late-night snack for a friend. Janana's friend liked and trusted a close friend, but the mob wasn't done with Sam Janana. The way he was killed showed that the mafia no longer trusted him to remain silent. was shot in the mouth so you could draw the conclusion that someone was leaving a message don't talk it was kind of interesting that someone so powerful was killed so there had to be a major decision between uh the uh the the powers to be in the M Sam Jan's extraordinary career had lasted more than 50 years, spanning the height of organized crime in the United States in the years after the Janana show business.

The stars began to avoid any connection with the mafia. The glamorous image of gangsters was tarnished. People realized that they were just murderers. Never again would a mafia boss be so closely associated with the bright stars of show business or the darker underbelly of politics; The FBI and the Justice Department had struck the first serious blows aimed at ending the mafia.