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Previously on "The Making
of the Mob: Chicago"...

They say I violate the Prohibition law.

Who doesn't?

After rising to the top
of the Chicago underworld

and evading the law for
more than a decade,

the government closes in on Al Capone

using a two-pronged attack.

One led by Eliot Ness...

Prohibition Bureau!

The other by the IRS.

I want to nail this son of a bitch.

With the law moving in,

Capone spirals out of control.

I want him taken care of,
and I want you to do it now.

Soon he's indicted and brought to trial,

not for the violent crimes
he's committed,

but for tax evasion.

Court finds the defendant guilty

on five counts.

The kingpin is sentenced to
11 years in federal prison.

They got me locked up like
a caged animal in here.

Now it's up to Al Capone's inner circle

to save his empire.

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After building himself up
from a poor kid from Brooklyn

to become the most powerful
mob boss in the country,

Al Capone now finds himself
locked up in a federal prison.

But just over two years
into his 11-year sentence,

Capone is hand-selected to be
transferred to America's newest

and harshest maximum-security prison...

Alcatraz.

You might ask, why do you need to send

a guy convicted of
tax evasion to Alcatraz?

The reason is that the prison was new

and, and the president wanted
to justify the expense

of building this fabulous new prison.

And the best way to get
publicity for that

and scare people out of a life of crime

is to send Al Capone there

because that's gonna get
the most headlines.

Designed to hold the country's
most dangerous criminals,

the federal prison is located
on a secluded island

off the San Francisco Bay,

where inmates live
under dire conditions,

and Al Capone is no exception.

Over 2,000 miles away in Chicago,

the empire Capone left behind
is dealing with a new problem.

Prohibition has recently been repealed,

and one of the Outfit's most
important sources of income

dries up.

The end of Prohibition
presents a real problem

for organized crime in America.

That is, well, how do we make money now?

With Capone cut off
from all communication,

his most trusted men, Frank Nitti,

Tony Accardo,

and Paul Ricca,

know they desperately need
to keep his organization

from completely
collapsing until their boss returns.

So Nitti, the oldest

and most established
of Capone's inner circle

takes the reins of the Outfit.

We have no revenue, okay?

We do have revenue.

There are hundreds of card games

all over the city.

Dice games on every corner.

We're not gonna replace
the bootlegging revenue

with card games.

You think it'll be enough
to pay off the cops?

Hmm? The judges?

Half of City Hall?

No.

People aren't spending money.

Not on food, not on clothing,
not on gambling.

But they'll still drop
a quarter for one thing

without even thinking about it.

The movies.

What?

You want to go into the
movie business now?

No.

I want to hold it hostage.

With Americans now flocking
to theaters by the thousands,

the movie business is raking in
millions of dollars a month.

Hollywood is just bursting.

So for the Outfit, it means

there's a lot of opportunity out there,

and they're going to target
the opportunity.

To take advantage of Hollywood,

Nitti recruits a ruthless
street thug with a reputation

for shaking down
small businesses in Chicago.

His name is Willie Bioff.

Willie Bioff is a Jewish kid
from the streets of Chicago

who is accepted
into high-ranking places

by guys like Frank Nitti.

Bioff has been extorting local cinemas

by forcing their projectionists
to go on strike

unless theaters agree
to pay him a major fee.

And now, Nitti wants to use
the same tactic in Hollywood.

If the theater owners don't pay,

their projectionists don't show up.

You can't show a movie
without a projectionist.

We're interested in the studios.

The studios?

Which ones?

Paramount.

Warner Bros., Fox, all of them.

You'll negotiate the terms
and collect the payments.

You think you can handle it?

Yeah, I can handle it.

Good.

I trust you, you know that.

I just don't trust this guy.

I don't know. Well, he
knows the business.

What business?

Union business, the movie business.

He's been in the racket, but
he hasn't been in Hollywood.

Yeah, I know that, but
it's the same business.

Essentially it's the same business.

You know what that business
does to people, though.

Flashy, everything out in the open.

You know that.

He'll be fine.

You know that if anything happens,

it's gonna be on your head.

Not mine or Joe.

While Nitti may have
confidence in Bioff,

Paul Ricca has reservations
about using a low-level gangster

in such a high-profile position.

With few options to maintain
their empire,

Ricca and Nitti know the
fate of their organization

rests with Willie Bioff.

With Al Capone locked away in jail,

acting boss of the Chicago
Outfit Frank Nitti

sends street thug Willie Bioff

to infiltrate Hollywood's labor unions.

You here to see me?

The most famous of the
labor extortion rackets

is, of course, what happened
in Hollywood,

when the syndicate, Chicago,

was able to take over the
unions making movies.

Once Bioff muscles his way
into a high-ranking position

in the film industry's largest union,

he uses his power to threaten strikes

on Hollywood productions,

unless the executives agree
to pay the Outfit big money.

Willie.

Mr. Warner.

It's all there.

Always a pleasure.

With each shakedown bringing
in upwards of $50,000,

Bioff begins leading
the Hollywood high life...

buying fancy cars,

building a lavish home...

...and running up tabs
at celebrity hotspots.

Bioff gets a little
too big for his britches.

There are people in the Outfit
who occasionally do this.

They begin to think they're big enough

to get away with being seen,

with being part of the community,
of high society.

Despite his high profile,

Bioff's operation is bringing millions

back to Nitti and Ricca.

But while the Outfit leaders
are enjoying success,

one man is feeling looked over.

For years, Tony Accardo worked

as Al Capone's bodyguard and enforcer.

But with the mob kingpin in jail,

the man known as "Joe Batters"
is worried he'll be left behind

if he doesn't start bringing
in money himself.

There's a misunderstanding
about gaining more power

in the Chicago Outfit.

It's not that you had to go out
and get notches on your gun

in killing people.

If you're bringing a lot of
money into the organization,

that gives you power.

While Nitti and Ricca
focus on Hollywood,

Accardo sees an opportunity

to break into a new racket in Chicago...

slot machines.

I'll ask you one more time,

yes or no?

I told ya, no.

I tried.

Yes or no?

Yes.

Thank you.

Tony Accardo started
out as a muscle guy.

Known killer, known tough guy.

So by the time he's ready to
ascend to the leadership level,

he's a very focused
and a very feared man.

How we doin'?

It's trickling in.

For guidance, Accardo turns to
the Outfit's second in command,

Paul Ricca.

Accardo and Ricca were
close their entire lives.

I mean, they both go all the way back.

Working together,

Accardo and Ricca build
a network of slots

in Chicago bars.

While it only costs a nickel a game,

even the lowest paid
workers are able to play the slots.

And a single machine is able to
bring in up to $20,000 a year.

Ten grand, ten grand,

a hundred, five grand.

That's a lot of money, huh?

By the end of 1939,

Accardo is proving himself as an earner.

And with Nitti as acting boss
and Ricca as his number two,

the Outfit is bringing in
more money than ever before.

Salud.

Salud. Salud.

As the profits roll in,

they soon get even better news.

After spending over
seven years in federal prison,

Al Capone is released.

But the ruthless Chicago kingpin
is a shell of his former self...

...as years of frequenting prostitutes

has finally caught up with him

in the form of a debilitating disease...

syphilis.

Capone had syphilis from before
the time he was married,

and in Atlanta, the penitentiary there,

he was already diagnosed
with tertiary syphilis.

By the time he got out of jail in 1939,

he was really starting to slip mentally.

After rounds of experimental treatments,

Capone moves to his estate in Miami

to live under the care
of his wife and family.

At that time, there was
no known cure for syphilis.

Finally, sulfa drugs came
along and penicillin,

but that wasn't until the 1940s.

At that point, he was in a cloud.

He was unable to rescue himself.

He was just in a fog of dementia.

For Capone's top lieutenants,

losing the man who taught them
everything is devastating.

But little do they know,

things are about to
go from bad to worse.

For the past five years,

Willie Bioff has been shaking down

some of Hollywood's biggest studios.

Always a pleasure.

But as the flashy mobster gets greedier,

he's soon linked to growing
corruption in the film industry,

and the mafia's key player
in Hollywood is arrested.

This is an incredible disaster, right?

You know, one of your
top guys goes to jail.

You've got now the heat
of the media glare on you,

and now this is a major
federal investigation.

This was terrible for the Chicago mob.

We know you're just the middleman.

Just doing your job.

We need the ones pulling the strings.

I haven't got any names.

Ten years is a long time
to spend in prison.

No names, no deal.

Rat is the lowest form of life.

It's worse than being dead,
worse than being killed.

It's something that nobody
ever wants to be.

Frank Nitti.

And, uh, Paul Ricca.

When word gets back to
Chicago that Bioff is talking,

Ricca and Accardo know the investigation

could take down the entire Outfit.

So the two men band together
and make a bold move.

So you wanted to talk?

This Bioff business...

What about it?

Someone's gonna have to take the fall.

I've done my time.

You're the reason we're in this mess.

So now we're pointing fingers?

You're the one who got us
involved in Hollywood.

You're the one who brought in Bioff.

What I did, I did for the Outfit.

You're gonna turn yourself in tomorrow.

We'll make sure you
get the best lawyers.

I told you already, I've done my time.

I'm not going back in there.

I'm not taking the fall for this.

We're not asking.

Frank Nitti was really
not such a tough guy.

He did not want to go back to prison,

and he came undone.

Desperate to stay out of prison,

Frank Nitti decides to take
matters into his own hands.

On March 19, 1943,

Frank Nitti, one of Al Capone's
longest serving,

and most trusted lieutenants,

takes his own life.

I think his fear was not
so much going back to prison,

but what prison was like.

He didn't like
being closed in like that.

Didn't like to be in tight,
tight, tight spaces.

And at the end, he became
very, very claustrophobic.

With Nitti dead, Paul Ricca
is forced to take the fall.

And in December of 1943,

he's convicted for the Hollywood
extortion scheme

and is sentenced to 10 years in prison,

leaving day-to-day control
of the Outfit to one man.

When Frank Nitti committed suicide,

Paul Ricca was the next
in line to take over

but in his place, Tony Accardo,

a guy with a sixth-grade education,

had to step up.

Tony Accardo started out as an enforcer,

but has now become the new boss

of the largest criminal
organization in America.

Bulger. Here to see Mr. Paul Ricca.

Recently made the acting
boss of the Chicago Outfit,

Tony Accardo looks for
advice from the man

who was supposed to
take over for Frank Nitti,

and the only person he trusts

to advise him on day-to-day operations,

his friend Paul Ricca.

This is an organization

where a lot of times,
a boss can be in prison

and he's going to still
be a consigliere,

which is a consultant, to
whoever steps in that spot.

How you holding up?

I've been better.

How are things?

You making sure everybody's
getting their money?

Yeah, well...

Well, what?

We need something new.

You're in charge now.

A lot of people are gonna
be looking to you

to see what you do next.

If you want this,

you're gonna need to prove yourself.

And that means making a big move.

Like finding a new racket,
bringing in some new money.

Exactly.

You remember Sam Giancana?

Your old driver?

Yeah.

I heard from him recently.

He said he had a few ideas,
things we can tap into.

You should meet up with him,
see what he has to say.

All right, I'll talk to him.

Good.

Born and raised on Chicago's west side,

Sam Giancana began his mob
career driving bootlegging runs,

quickly establishing himself
as a street-smart gangster

with a knack for making money.

But so far, he's
struggled to move up in the Outfit,

because he also has a reputation
as being a loose cannon.

Sam Giancana was notoriously
off-center.

He was unstable,

maybe a little bit crazy, so he
picked up the nickname "Mooney."

That was a nickname that
stuck with him for years.

You were Paul's driver?

That's right.

He said you had some ideas for me.

Okay.

You ever hear of Eddie Jones?

Yeah. What about him?

Well, he and I spent
a lot of time together

while we were locked up.

He runs one of the biggest policy wheels

in the South Side.

That's a black racket.

Nobody's been able to bust into it.

Nobody's got the connection
to it that I do.

His racket's pulling in
over a million a year.

And thanks to his big mouth,
I know it inside and out.

How to work the odds,
how to handle the bookies...

and how we can get in on it.

I'll think about it.

All right.

Just... don't think too long.

The racket that Giancana wants
the Outfit to move in on

is one of the most lucrative in America,

known simply as "the policy."

The policy racket in

Chicago was
essentially an illegal lottery.

Put a dollar down, you get your number,

and then, once a week,
there's a "drawing"

and it determined
whether or not you win something.

Operating out of Chicago's South Side,

it's run completely
by African Americans.

The 1920s, '30s,

policy generated upwards of
a quarter of a billion dollars

annually nationwide.

The proceeds that was generated
from the policy racket

took care of the neighborhood
and it helped establish

many of the early, legitimate,
black-owned businesses.

The policy is broken
down by neighborhoods.

Each has its own lottery
known as a "wheel"

and is run by local gangsters.

And the most
successful policy king in Chicago

is Sam Giancana's old cell mate,

Eddie Jones.

Ed Jones was the most

powerful policy
racketeer in the country.

He was the king of policy kings.

At one time, the Jones
family was hailed to be

the richest black family in America.

Wanting to prove to Accardo

that he's ready to move
up in the Outfit,

Sam Giancana decides he's going
to take over the policy

by any means necessary.

Sam Giancana was very cunning,

very sneaky, deceptive.

For him, the eyes on the prize

is becoming a made guy
in the Chicago mob.

Whatever I have to do
to make that happen

is what I have to do.

That's him.

Giancana?

Eddie Jones.

What the hell is this?

Get him in the car. Now.

Let's go.

Now.

In a bold move to get
in on the policy rackets,

Sam Giancana goes behind
Tony Accardo's back

and kidnaps one of the
biggest policy kingpins,

Eddie Jones.

Let's try this again.

Your policy wheels, your territory,

and whatever cash you're sitting on,

and maybe I'll consider
letting you live.

Go to hell.

How many times are we
gonna have to do this?

Tell you what.

You let me go now,

and I'll pretend this never happened.

What the hell are you doing?

You want in on the policy, don't you?

So you shoot up a police car?

I did what I had to.

Nothing gets done without my approval.

Nothing!

You understand?

Answer me when I'm talking to you.

Do you know who I am?

Yeah.

If you're gonna kill
me, get it over with.

How much does your
policy wheel bring in a year?

Two million. Give or take.

I'll make this simple.

You leave town, hand over your wheel,

and I'll cut you in for 200 grand.

Do I have a choice?

This is the best deal you're gonna get.

If you wanna live, you should take it.

Fine.

It's a deal.

Untie him.

Let him go.

Tony Accardo did not like
attention being drawn to him

and would take measures
to mitigate that risk.

Sam Giancana would take those risks

knowing that it put him at risk

but thought he could manage it.

What you did was stupid.

All right.

I'm sorry.

It won't happen again.

Jones' policy wheel. Can you run it?

Yeah.

I know it better than anyone else.

I got it for us, didn't I?

Well, that's debatable.

Sure.

If I give this to you,

I need to be able to trust you.

That means not making any moves
until you talk to me first.

You first. Got it.

I'm giving you something big here.

Don't screw it up.

With Accardo's blessing,

Sam Giancana takes
over Jones' policy wheel,

and soon targets all the
other wheels in the city.

Giancana and Accardo proceeded
to take it over.

They cut heads off.

They blew people up.

These are businesspeople.

But they're still men ruthless
enough and willing

to murder for money.

They left African Americans
nominally in charge,

but they got the money.

All told, the Outfit's takeover
of the Chicago policy racket

will earn them upwards of $150 million.

But just as things are improving
for the Chicago Outfit,

Accardo receives devastating news.

Al Capone,

his mentor and the most
notorious gangster in America,

is dead.

On January 25, 1947,

former boss of the Chicago mafia,

Al Capone, dies at the age of 48.

Mae...

I'm so sorry for your loss.

We'll make sure we look after you guys.

If you ever need anything...

Tony Accardo,

Capone's bodyguard and enforcer,

and now the head of the Outfit,

is rumored to have sent Capone's
wife, Mae, money to live off of

until her death in 1986,

a show of respect to America's
most infamous gangster.

I think we're fascinated
with Capone because he did

what a lot of us dream of doing,

getting rich and powerful.

He seemed like just an
everyman, you know.

He didn't inherit this power.

He worked his way up

and built this twisted version
of the American dream.

After his death,

Capone becomes an even bigger legend,

inspiring countless books...

movies and TV shows.

Al Capone contributes to
the romance of the mobster

as this iconic American man

who is independent,

he's not anybody's puppet,

and he's making his
own way in the world.

For nearly a decade,

the son of Italian immigrants

virtually ran America's
second largest city,

building a massive illegal operation

valued at over $1 billion
in today's money.

No matter where you go in the world,

when you tell somebody
you're from Chicago,

there's two names
that are always mentioned,

Michael Jordan and Al Capone.

He was and always will be a big
part of the Chicago mafia.

The empire that Capone built

is now run by Tony Accardo.

And months after Capone's death,

another top figure in
the Outfit re-emerges,

Paul Ricca,

who gets released from prison early

and takes his place alongside Accardo

as co-head of the Outfit,

which is making more
money than ever before

thanks to the policy racket.

Ricca was very, very valuable
to the organization,

but just because you've returned,

usually you don't displace
the guy who was already there.

Accardo stays in as operating boss

and handles things
on a day-to-day basis,

but for strategic guidance,
he goes to Ricca.

Business is good.

Odds are a thousand to one.

Payout's 600 to one at best.

Means we're keeping eight
out of every $10 that comes in.

How much is it generating?

About half a million a month.

That's a lot of cash.

I know.

It's becoming a problem.

It's a lot to handle
without drawing too much attention.

I was thinking we'd
hide it as legitimate cash.

Yeah.

But where?

Vegas.

Las Vegas is a boom town.

The rules haven't been written.

It's the perfect spot to take
what they've earned illegally,

in various illegal operations
around the country,

including other gambling,
and run it through the casinos.

But there's just one problem.

The New York mob is already there.

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