While he waited for the decision, Tornabene continued extorting and also made lots of additional problems to the informant. Sources say that when Tornabene heard about the informant going to Battaglia, he had sent two of his enforcers with the intent to threaten the New York guy to take no further action regarding the gambling debt and completely crashed the individual’s office, and even the informant's family was also receiving threats. So that same month the informant was called on a meeting which also included "Pope", Tornabene and 'Chappie" aka Charles Bertucci, another of Alex's and Ferraro's enforcers and possible made member of the Outfit. "Pope" represented Battaglia's and New York's interests, while Bertucci represented Alex's and Tornabene's interests.








On that same meeting it was discussed that the informant will not receive any cash from Tornabene or any expenses, and so this swindle costed the informant lots of cash. Previously the informant also contacted one Outfit associate Maish Baer aka Morris Saletko, a known bookie, loan shark and burglar and according to the informant, Baer backed him up. But even with that, the informant still lost his cash but was very surprised by the fact that Alex showed more power than Battaglia in the syndicate's setup during those days, which again shows us Alex's huge influence within the organization at the time.



So the only chance for the informant was to call his contacts back in New Jersey and the New York areas, and he also hoped for them to reach Tony Accardo who the informant believed was the only guy who allegedly was able to settle the dispute.



In November 1958, Pat Marcy contacted the New York informant and told him that he wanted to arrange a meeting between him and Alex. During those days Marcy acted as Alex secretary and dealt with all of Alex's meetings, again which is another proof regarding Alex having made members under his rule. So during that same meeting Marcy only made the introductions between the informant, Alex and Ferraro, and after that Marcy sat on a different table which in fact was some type of protocol.

Ferraro allegedly told the informant that he was called by some people from New York and he knows all of details regarding the conflict between him and Tornabene and that everything will be taken care of, and after that the informant will have a conversation with Alex. So later Alex called for Tornabene who in turn arrived with Charles Bertucci, and according to the informant Alex and Ferraro aggressively questioned Tornabene and threatened him more than several times, to the point where Alex became quite furious and called Tornabene (made member) a “degenerate gambler.”

From the conversation between Ferraro, Alex and Tornabene, the informant came to a conclusion that this wasnt Tornabene's first time to make a mistake like that, by gambling Outfit's money. Alex also told the informant that it was one of Tornabene's associates Bennie Bernard who allegedly destroyed the informant's office on his own, and that Bernard will be excluded from the Loop area. Alex also spoke badly about Tornabene and told the informant that he (Alex) might take all of Tornabene's rackets, something which again shows us Alex's jurisdiction over Italian made member from his own crew.









The informant informed his contact back in New Jersey, Salvatore Esposito, regarding the situation and the meeting he had with Alex and so the informant was told by Salvatore not give a nickel to the Outfit until the whole situation settles down. But things got worse for the informant when that same month the two brothers, Dominic and Salvatore Esposito, came from the New Jersey area to Chicago and had a meeting with the informant. In addition, according to the informant, it seems that Salvatore Esposito was known as a quite dangerous individual.

The two brothers told him that he owed money to some unknown individual back in New Jersey which were previously invested in his Chicago operation, but the informant suspected that the brothers tried to extort him because they didnt tell him regarding the guy they worked for or were sent by. So the informant had another meeting with the brothers and he was told the same thing, meaning not to give any money to the Outfit until they see him again in Chicago after Thanksgiving.











Again with nowhere to go, the East Coast operator (informant) asked for some of the high level Cosa Nostra members back in Newark to intercede for him with Gus Alex. The informant also went to New Jersey on his own, and contacted one of the top level guys in Newark Louis "Coca Cola" DeBendetto who in turn only asked if the informant knew Chicago's Marshall Caifano and that was it. Later the informant also had a meeting with Salvatore Esposito.





In the next file we can see that in December 1958 (two months after the conflict occurred), the East Coast faction or the Genovese family sent for one guy named Antonio "Tony" Trombina who arrived in Chicago and told the informant to get in touch with Gus Alex right away and to call for a meeting. Another individual present with the two was one of the Esposito brothers Dominic.



The informant told Trombina that he was going to contact Pat Marcy, who in turn was the only guy who was able to arrange a meeting with Alex. With that information, Trombina was quite surprised that a politician will arrange a meeting between the two, which means that Trombina possibly didn’t know that Marcy was a Cosa Nostra made member, but the informant told him that was the only protocol in Chicago so they can get in touch with Alex. At first, Marcy allegedly advised them that Alex was very hard to reach but he will call them back in few minutes.



When Marcy called back, according to the informant, Trombina grabbed the phone and started talking to Marcy in Italian and informed him that he was sent by "Toto" or "Tata" from New York, a good friend of his. I believe that from this example we can see a standard protocol in which Trombina points it out to Marcy that he (Trombina) was probably close with a high level CN member from the East Coast.

Again, Marcy told Trombina that he will call back and so after few minutes Frank Ferraro (the Outfit's underboss at the time) was on the phone and a sitdown was arranged that same day at the Normandy Lounge.