Forgot about the street tax!!!
No problem. The Outfit was probably one of the first families which took street tax from most of their local burglary groups. Although some Outfit leaders like Humphreys didnt want to have anything with those same crews. Ill repeat his statement which was caught on a wiretap regarding burglars, that I previously posted in my previous article regarding the Outfit's multi-million dollar heist....
“I don’t let thieves come around me, I don’t care what kind of scumbags they are. Once they are in the can, let the fucker stay in. They’re not like us guys. They’re just not like us guys. These fuckers that steal, they’re just not like us guys. You just can’t let them get close to you. You can let ‘em come with a bumper between you.” - Murray “Curly” Humphreys, high level and influential leader of the Chicago Outfit
.....and I think he was spot on since he was a corruptor, racketeer, extortionist, kidnapper and murderer, and so he looked at the larger picture from a different angle