Cosa Nostra News

EXPANDED In 1961, Tony Accardo, the then boss of the Chicago Outfit, likely came close to ordering a hit on longtime Milwaukee boss Frank Balistrieri after Balistrieri sanctioned the murder of a nightclub operator and raised so much heat from law enforcement that "the hoodlum element couldn’t get away with anything and aren’t making any money." Tony Accardo, the "Big Tuna" of the Chicago Outfit. This is according to newly released information from FBI records that are now part of the Chicago Sun-Times’ The FBI Files database, as the newspaper recently reported . Of course Sam (Mooney) Giancana was the front boss of the Outfit in 1961, as Accardo, for decades, used front bosses to shield himself from law enforcement. Balistrieri defused the situation with Chicago -- and continued breathing until natural causes finally ended his life in 1993 at age 74. Accardo died the year before at age 86. Giancana, who rose to  the top in the 1950s, was murdered in 1...

Will, page one When Joe Balistrieri, elder son of Milwaukee mob figure Frank Balistrieri, died last year he left it all to his brother--and gave his two sisters the proverbial shaft. "Even in death, Joe Balistrieri played favorites. [He] ... left his entire estate to his brother, John J. Balistrieri, when he died last October at 70. And not one penny to his two sisters," according to an article on Milwaukee Magazine's News Buzz website . After his brother, the only other named beneficiaries were three women, none of which were sisters. The article continues: according to the provisions of the will, “I request that my sole beneficiary, John Balistrieri, give and/or dispense to (them), in his sole discretion, such items or monies as he deems just and equitable being guided by his personal knowledge of the love and esteem in which I held such persons in life … I ask him to exercise not only discretion but also commensurate generosity.”