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Contents 1 Violin case 2 Real name 3 Real name (Follow-Up) 4 Date of death

[edit] Violin case

Accardo allegedly invented the practise of carrying a Thompson in a violin case... Trekphiler 08:29, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Real name

I couldn't find anything about his first and middle name being "Anthony Joseph", but I've found it to be "Antonino Leonardo" There's a few sites with this name as well as the book, The Outfit, by Gus Russo. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.174.30.26 (talk • contribs)

Yes, his given name was Antonio Leonardo Accardo, but his assumed name or Americanized name was Anthony Joseph Accardo. As noted below, in references by the government (most notably the FBI) he was always referred to as Anthony Joseph Accardo, the name in which he was buried under, as well. I believe (though don't know it to be true) that his middle name of Joseph came out of his nickname "Joe Batters." Because if it were merely turning Italian into English I would think it would have been Anthony Leonard Accardo.

This article also needs quite a bit of cleaning up. For instance, he began his career as consigliere in 1957 (NOT 1962, of which I don't know why someone would pick that year out unless it was drawn out of a hat because there is not one reference to it anywhere) when he stepped to the side in favor of Sam Giancana as operating boss, but he was always in control--for the most part--in decisions until the day he died. Paul Ricca and Accardo basically were the braintrust of the Outfit from 1957 until the early 1970s when Ricca began to show signs of mental deterioration, at which time Accardo became the number-one "Man" in the Chicago mob.

Also, this never happened: Under Accardo's leadership, the Chicago outfit enforced a strict street tax and expanded quickly, taking Las Vegas away from the New York mob -- Las Vegas was considered "open" territory to all mob Families and all Families were permitted to operate casinos and other ventures there. To this day, there are still New York mobsters who operate in Las Vegas, as there are Chicago mobsters (whose presence has been the most felt in Las Vegas since about the 1950s). Also, prominent Los Angeles mobster John Vaccaro, a member of the Milano Crime Family, also operates there to this day. The Buffalo mob had a man there as recent as the mid-1990s. So to say that the Outfit took Las Vegas away from the New York Mafia is a farce or written by someone that doesn't know their history very well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.182.147.30 (talk • contribs)

[edit] Real name (Follow-Up)

If you're still looking for a document with the name he used, this might help:
Laborers.Net - United States v. Anthony Joseph Accardo

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.66.184.134 (talk • contribs)

[edit] Date of death

An anonymous IP added a date of death of May 27th, 1992 in the leading paragraph on (05:41, 15 January 2007 71.228.4.204). Other dates in the article say he died on the 22nd. The article happens to be on my watchlist because I fixed a spelling, I am just pointing the discrepancy out to editors who are better informed about this subject. MortimerCat 08:27, 15 January 2007 (UTC)