FBI Chicago Racketeering Enterprise Investigation of 'the Chicago LCN Family', 1984-1985 (Vault Accardo Part 01)
Memoranda and airtels on the Chicago division's Racketeering Enterprise Investigation of 'the Chicago La Cosa Nostra Family': the authority to open it, Headquarters' reminders that it would expire, and a further 180 days granted on November 25, 1985.
- Date
- 1984/1985
- Kind
- case-file
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Docket
- Chicago file 92-5297 (control file 92-5255)
- 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.
Memoranda and airtels in the Accardo file for the Chicago division’s Racketeering Enterprise Investigation (REI) of “the Chicago LCN Family,” file 92-5297 under control file 92-5255.
The Chicago office explains that it asked for and was granted authority to open the REI, an investigation of an enterprise engaged in racketeering for profit under the Attorney General’s guidelines. FBI Headquarters’ airtel of 3/6/85 (p. 85) reminds Chicago that the REI “is due to expire on 4/3/85” and that continuing it needs specific Headquarters authority; a later airtel gives a further expiry of 10/16/85, and on 11/25/85 Headquarters granted a further 180 days (p. 139). A 1984 memorandum reports January 1984 record searches about gambling “wire rooms” in the 26th Street and Chinatown area, naming two business premises that agents and Chicago police tied to gambling operations, with the owners’ names redacted.
These are internal administrative records of an investigation, not charges or findings. The file also copies 1984-85 Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times articles; those are third-party newspaper texts and are not relied on. 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).
