Paul Ricca of the Chicago Outfit

Retired KCPD Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins looks at the life of the Chicago Outfit’s Paul Ricca. We learn he probably was responsible for the suicide of Frank Nitti, that he was a “behind the scenes” boss and made decisions with Anthony Accardo for many years. Support the Podcast Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup  click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here.  To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.   but hey are you wirecappers out there I have a story today it’s kind of a rehash I’ve been one of my old audio stories I did the uh just last week I think or a couple weeks ago now I posted a story on YouTube that was primarily uh audio and it was the story of it was an interview of a guy named Carlo Morelliwho was a guy that took Tony accardo’s daughter to the uh to her senior prom a couple other Accardo stories and it’s pretty interesting it’s kind of a one that once in a lifetime gig to get an inside information like that and Carlos deceased since I uh recorded that interview but somebody made a comment in the YouTube or the YouTube posting about and did you ever talk about Paul Rica or Paul the waiter who was a a Chicago boss out of the 40s and early 50s on up into the 60s who stayed way in the background a lot of people don’t know the name of 1:03 Paul Rican he was a really important guy 1:07 in in the Chicago outfit back in those 1:09 days so I dug out my old interview I did 1:12 an interview of him I never put it up on 1:13 YouTube so I dug up some pictures in 1:16 order for you to have some something to 1:19 look at while I tell the story of Paul 1:22 the waiter Rika uh interesting guy you 1:26 know he he stayed in the background just 1:28 like Tony Accardo did he and the cardo 1:31 really would sit together at Norwood’s 1:34 male restaurant that’s Meo restaurant 1:38 and I think the building still exists in 1:40 in Norwood I think is the name of the 1:43 suburb in Chicago anyhow they would sit 1:45 up there and people would come up and 1:47 and bring in envelopes and and they’d 1:50 make decisions and he always stayed in 1:52 the background with ocardo and and they 1:55 let guys like Sam giancana be out front 1:58 and you know he was a like a lightning 2:01 rod for uh for the FBI and and they sat 2:04 back there and never went to jail again 2:05 although the government never really 2:07 quit trying to deport Paul Rica which I 2:10