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newmedman

06/11/25 11:33 AM

#529353 RE: brooklyn13 #529352

When I got my first job building houses I worked for a guy who turned out to be Tony Acardo's cousin. I didn't know that at the time nor did I care but he wasn't completely mobbed up like the dudes we saw on TV. He worked along side of us every day.

He always had a crap ton of cash in his pockets and owned at least ten rental properties and flats that we would work on from time to time when we weren't building. The craziest one was a 20 flat in Cicero that had a labyrinth underneath it. They were all 1 bedroom apartments and it had an indoor parking garage on the bottom floor that led down to the two hidden storeys below through one single door.

It was all cleared out by the time I first laid eyes on the basement but the rumor was that the outfit ran a speakeasy and casino down there with all the one bedroom apartments as a brothel. When I first saw it, I thought it was a bomb shelter but I learned about the guy I was working for over time.

LOL I said that we did excavation too and I'm sure you're not familiar with operation Silver Shovel back here in the 90's but the outfit guys got caught fly dumping construction garbage, vehicles and bodies under parking lots. We were hired to clear a couple of them out so not only did my boss who was probably loosely involved in the original burial of the materials got paid a second time to clean it up.

I never asked any questions and just did my job until I got away from him and joined the union. He never let on anything to me about the outfit either , he played the straight and narrow. A couple times FBI agents visited our job sites but it just got shrugged off. Back then they came in 3 piece suits, not tactical gear and I didn't know anything so I had nothing to tell them or wouldn't dare to. "I just work here" was my only response.
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sortagreen

06/11/25 11:51 AM

#529354 RE: brooklyn13 #529352

"Except that the Hague Machine was a lot more recent than Tammany Hall, about the 1930's."

So then characterizing that as " machine politics in the early 1900s" was not incorrect?

"since yours wasn't Italian, he couldn't get mobbed up"

I think it was Irish, but I could be wrong. No one's left to ask.