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Viewer page 440 of Part 01 of the FBI Vault's Anthony Accardo file: an FD-204 report form from the Chicago office dated August 21, 1975, title Anthony Joseph Accardo, character Anti-Racketeering, with a short synopsis
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FBI Chicago reports, 1975: 'ACCARDO still remains Chicago LCN Boss' (Vault Accardo Part 01)

Chicago field-office reports and teletypes of 1975 call Accardo the 'Chicago LCN boss', and informants quoted in them say Accardo and Joseph Aiuppa 'still run the Chicago Mafia', with Aiuppa the 'street boss.'

Date
1975
Kind
case-file
Source
FBI Records: The Vault, Anthony Accardo Part 01, pp. 394-440
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Docket
Chicago file 92-344; Bureau file 92-3087
Rights
A record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released under FOIA through the FBI Vault. A work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105.

Reports and teletypes of the Chicago field office in 1975 on Anthony Joseph Accardo (Chicago file 92-344, Bureau file 92-3087), character “Racketeering” or “Anti-Racketeering.”

The synopsis of a report dated 2/19/75 (p. 398) reads “ACCARDO still remains Chicago LCN Boss” and says Nick Palermo and Joseph Aiuppa visit him regularly. A teletype of 5/12/75 (p. 419) calls him “CHICAGO LCN BOSS ANTHONY ACCARDO” and says he had returned to the Chicago area at the beginning of April 1975 from Indian Wells, California, where he spent the winter. Informants quoted on 4/11 and 4/25/75 (p. 426) say that “TONY ACCARDO and JOEY AIUPPA still run the Chicago ‘Mafia’,” with Aiuppa the “street boss.” The report of 8/21/75 (p. 440) says Accardo “still remains boss of Chicago LCN” and spends his summer months at his River Forest home. A memorandum of 2/3/75 refers to “former LCN bosses Jack Cerone and Felix Alderisio.”

These are the Chicago office’s characterizations and its informants’ claims in 1975. They are not findings, and this archive does not use them to fill a seat on the Chicago Outfit chart. Page 398 prints a residential street address; it is not stored or repeated here. This archive read the page through the Vault viewer’s OCR text layer. The scans are poor; names, dates and figures can be garbled, and many names are redacted under FOIA exemptions (b6, b7C, b7D). Statements credited to informants are the sources’ claims as the FBI relayed them, not Bureau findings.

itemFBI Vault file on Anthony AccardoThe FBI Vault's release of the Bureau file on Anthony Accardo, in two parts, including a 1946 informant report, a 1959 Chicago memorandum relaying a source's account of the Chicago syndicate's hierarchy, and early-1970s teletypes on its leadership.itemFBI Chicago teletypes, January 1974: Accardo, Gus Alex and the 'three man leadership team' (Vault Accardo Part 01)Chicago and Los Angeles communications in the Accardo file describe Accardo and Gus Alex as two members of a 'three man leadership team' directing organized crime in Chicago, refer to the 'deceased LCN leader Fiore Buccieri who died 1973', and note Marshall Caifano's parole travel.itemUnited States v. Cerone, 830 F.2d 938 (8th Cir. 1987)Eighth Circuit opinion of October 8, 1987 affirming the Kansas City convictions of Aiuppa, Cerone, Lombardo, LaPietra, and Rockman for skimming the Stardust and Fremont casinos in Las Vegas.