A distinct form of international flavor appears to be coloring sizeable portions of what the future will look like in the rustbelt LCN mafia groups in Chicago and Detroit, respectively, per mob insiders, academics and federal intelligence emerging in both cities. The Chicago Outfit and Detroit’s Tocco-Zerilli crime family each have “Zip” factions growing fast and furious, while carving out more prominent pieces of the shot-calling and overall profit-sharing pie for themselves than their predecessors in their respective regions and are viewed as representative of their organizations’ evolution going forward, according to fresh federal intel provided by sources that don’t want their identity disclosed.

Fresh legs in Windy City, Lake County set up to remain major cog in Outfit wheel after Solly D era

In the Chicago mob, the “Zips” have always been few and far between, especially so in contrast to the Outfit’s East Coast mafia contemporaries in places like New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia. More recently, per multiple sources on both sides of the law, a pair of brothers from the “other side,” have asserted themselves to the forefront of the Chicago mafia’s Cicero crew, with the mentorship of Outfit don Salvatore (Solly D) DeLaurentis, heading the regime’s Lake and McHenry County branch where the aging DeLaurentis hails from. Over the better part of the past two decades, the brothers and DeLaurentis have partnered in business deals, allegedly both legal and illegal, including co-owning (mostly silently) produce companies, wholesale food-distribution companies, construction firms and restaurants, according to exclusive GR sources.

Since the death of the DiFronzo brothers the seat of power in the Chicago moved back to Cicero from Elmwood Park, per sources. DeLaurentis became boss of the Outfit in 2011 upon the racketeering conviction and incarceration of acting don Michael (Fat Mike) Sarmo and then official boss a few years later with the retirement of Godfather John (Johnny No Nose) DiFronzo. Born and bred in Cicero, “Fat Mike” Sarno is alleged to have inducted more than two dozen younger-aged wiseguys between 2005 and 2010 that are now ascending as leaders of the Cicero regime and Chicago mob affairs in general, while they take counsel from Sarno from behind bars, per sources and prison phone logs. “Solly D” allegedly “made” the unnamed brothers, who reportedly reside and operate mainly, but not exclusively, in Lake County, shortly following him taking the reins of the Outfit on a daily basis, these sources claim.

Back in the early 1980s, DeLaurentis, empowered by the Outfit brass of the day, took over his now-longtime territory in Lake and McHenry Counties by force, pushing old-school Chicago mob captain Joseph (Black Joe) Amato into an involuntary retirement. DeLaurentis is currently 85 years old and increasingly-infirmed allegedly rules his mafia family through a series of front bosses based in Cicero, Elmwood Park and Grand Avenue on Chicago’s near Westside.


Motor City mob’s Sicilian wing gaining more steam by the second

Sicilian wiseguys Giuseppe (Joe the Hood) D’Anna and Girolamo (Mimmo) D’Anna have lived in Detroit since the early 1990s and lead the Tocco-Zerilli crime family’s growing-in-influence-and-numbers Sicilian branch, per sources, court documents and federal intelligence briefings. Seventy-one year old “Joe the Hood” reportedly skippers the crew that has control of most of Metro Detroit’s East Side, these sources say. FBI intel memos and federal-court filings dating all the way back to the 1980s link D’Anna to both feuding Detroit mob bosses of yesteryear; first-cousins Giacomo (Black Jack) Tocco and Anthony (Tony Z) Zerilli, who died of natural causes a decade ago no longer on speaking terms after running the borgata as boss and underboss, respectively, from the 1970s until a galactic falling out between the one-time inseparable mafia princes, following Zerilli concluding a federal prison term in 2005.

The D’Annas started visiting family in Detroit in the 1970s and 1980s as teens during summer trips to the Motor City and at that time allegedly would sometimes act in spot-duty as gofers and drivers for Tocco and Zerilli, according to FBI 302s. “Mimmo,” 59, allegedly looks after the fresh-off-the-boat brigade that began coming to Motown and beefing up the D’Anna East Side mob regime’s ranks in the late 2000s. Both D’Annas were convicted of beating and extorting a rival restaurant owner from their hometown of Terrasini in Sicily’s Palermo region in a 2009 altercation in local and federal court as counts in a racketeering and extortion case brought after their cases in state court were resolved with what the feds thought was a misguided slap on the wrist. The Tocco and Zerilli bloodlines trace back to Terrasini, too. Detroit mafia founding fathers William (Black Bill) Tocco and Giuseppe (Joe Uno) Zerilli came to Detroit from Terrasini in the first part of the 20th Century, establishing the city’s LCN family in 1931 by winning the Crosstown Mob War, when Tocco and Zerilli’s East Side Gang bested the perceived entitled Westsiders.

Historically, the Detroit mafia’s Zip faction had sway in the borgata, however, this era they appear to possess considerably more and in substantially more diverse ways, per sources. From the 1940s into the 1980s, the Badalamenti family ran Sicilian-crew operations for the Tocco-Zerilli mob. The Badalamentis were heavily involved in the infamous Pizza Connection heroin-smuggling ring and had control of the construction rackets in the Detroit and Southern Michigan areas for many years leading up to the D’Anna brothers arrived in the U.S. and in Metro Detroit as full-time residents.

Is this info coming from Scott?

"Sarno is alleged to have inducted more than two dozen younger-aged wiseguys between 2005 and 2010"....i mean wow. First, it started with around 5 guys and as the years passed by, the number went up to two dozen wiseguys lol

Do you feel the Zip recruiting is a bunch of bullshit or possible? I'm not really sure what to think!

It's basically a lot of words about nothing, especially Detroit. The 'fresh off the boat brigade' from the late 2000's?? This is very little meat on the bone here.

And again, promising weekly articles, pay for content, you get a bunch of words like this because he promised content.

Joe D'Anna allegedly used his family's reputation as leaders of a Sicilian Costa Nostra or Mafia family in Terrasini. They are cousins of Salvatore D'Anna, boss of Terrasini, the revelations of Michele Seidita, former regent of the Partinico district and collaborator of justice since 2002, were important. According to the repentant, D'Anna would have been in charge of the territory already at the time in which "Terrasini was the mandate of Partinico" and explained that, at the suggestion of Salvatore Lo Piccolo, it was he himself who "sent for D'Anna to place him in Terrasini".

The Chicago guys are real. Scott Burnstein can claim he gets this from all these sources but the entire Chicago part comes from someone with his own legitimate Chicago source on the other forums. Actually most of Scott Burnstein's recently Chicago info has come from there. I said this months back when he was stealing the info about Louie Rainone and Cicero.

What other forums? Care to share?

He is talking about that junkie aka meth crew from across the street. One of the idiots from that same place took a lot of names from my old narcotics business article and later acted like he found all of Chicago's "zips" from the old days. Simple assumptions made by meth heads and crooks aka bullshit "artists".

The meth crew? Wtf? The Outfit is using meth addicts now?

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Mafia101 what forums are you referring to?

Chicago has been always recruiting in Sicily, even more as the 5 NYC families.

Interesting. I never knew that.


Good to know because I always thought Chicago would benefit from recruiting more ZIPS.

Genovese also and ofcourse Gambino.

Surprised there are not any recent hits considering ZIP presence in the Outfit.

The truth of the matter. The real truth of the matter, is that there is NO "Zip" presence in Chicago to speak of. And if there is (which is highly suspect, to say the very least,) then it is minuscule at best.

The exact same thing goes for Detroit. With the exception of the two D'Anna brothers, who have been in Detroit for many years already, and possibly...possibly, a few more guys tied to them (and thats very iffy) there is NO "zip" faction to speak of in Detroit.

And in addition to what I just say, there is also absolutely "NO growth" whatsoever in either of these crews, especially by Italian/Sicilian "imports."

This is all wishful thinking fellas, and anybody who thinks otherwise is sadly mistaken and delusional.

PS: I mean not for nothing, but these two crews (or what passes for them nowadays,) are both on respirators, and have been for quite some time already I mean, WTF???

I feel like the Chicago Outfit is a Neapolitan Origin Family/Street Gang and have a Horizontal Structure like the Camorra in Italy for instance all the Bosses up in the 1960/1970s became Sicilian Before that its was all Neapolitan Bosses and Underbosses and and there was No Induction Ceremony with Finger Pricking or Gun and Knife in the Table it was just a Big Lavish Banquet Dinner for New Made Guys and they use Ranks like Crew Boss for Captain and Leiutenant for Soldier and from what Frank Calabrese Jr says High Ranking Associate who run his own Neihborhood or Street Corner can be Considered a Boss don’t know if he’s the Best Source cause his brother Kurt says he lied about a lot of Stuff in his book and Last but not Least it seems the Outfit is a Family/Gang with Neapolitan/Sicilian mixed together from Structure and Rules

To be completely honest I highly doubt there's any zip presence anywhere in any mafia family in the United States. If there was you would see much more violence, thats a fact. Montreal on the other hand has plenty of Zips.

That's not a fact. Criminals know what they can get away with in what country. Just because they're not killing like in Canada means nothing.

If Scott was making things up to anywhere near the extent to what people say he is, where are all the lawsuits? His Zips article doesn't sound at all farfetched, now all we have to do is sit back and wait for the future indictments.

During the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's, the Chicago Outfit had low-level Sicilian associates who were mainly involved in the distribution of narcotics, followed by the transportation of stolen cars across state lines and also out of the country, and also counterfeiting schemes. So, those guys were born or were already in Chicago for a very long time period, meaning they werent imported from the old country regarding some specific scheme. Yes, they were connected in the dope business to high level members of the NY families, like the Bonannos, Lukes or the Gambinos, and possibly to some "zips" from the east coast, but those same connections were previously allowed or made by some of the Outfit's bosses. The Chicago Outfit used to be very "closed" group and didnt want too much outsiders being involved in their inner workings or in their operations around the country.

As for Scott, how come he never "predicted" any of the recent cases from the last 5 or 6 years which involved Outfit-connected guys? I mean if he already has some "special sources", than he was able to say something before the indictments went down, but instead he just reported the news at the same time like any other site or blog out there. So, we always have to take his info with few grains of salt because he never came out with info previously or before the official news and indictments.

The Sicilian Mafia is also seperate from American Cosa Nostra, although they work together.

Thats right, although I think that the main business that connected the two "cousin" organizations was narcotics, possibly followed by the car-theft business. And there's great possibility that same situation is happening even today, obviously to an extent, considering the constant "downfall" of U.S. CN.

In 1984, the FBI director designated Sicilian Mafia cases as a major priority, that is no longer the case I think. Internationally the 'Ndrangheta is now considered a major threat after the Mexicans.

The N'drangheta is currently the most powerful in Europe regarding certain rackets, especially junk, and believe it or not the second biggest one is burning toxic waste. Right now, the N'drangheta, with the help of the Italian government, is "donating" incineration machines around Europe and the Balkans, so they can burn the toxic waste in different countries without paying anything, obviously since they already filled every ground in their own country.

Yes today, the ‘ndrangheta operates internationally, expanding not only through hit jobs and turf battles but through something akin to a franchise system, with local players like Aquino in the Benelux operating as part of a worldwide network of crime.

Setting up a foreign outpost for the ‘ndrangheta “is like opening a McDonald’s store,” said Antonio Nicaso, an author and expert on the Calabrian criminal organization.

“The link to Calabria is what gives you credibility, and a recognizable brand,” Nicaso said. “Without that, you’re like a raft in the ocean.”

for those that follow 'zip' factions do not bother following this rubbish. the gambinos and bonnanos are the only 2 american mafia families with any possible remaining connections back to sicily. there is good evidence for the gambinos continuing this just inside last 10 years and to some extant the bonnanos as well. outside of the u.s. there could be continued working links amongst mtl mafia clans and sicily although no recent ones have been established. i wont include leo rizzutos vacation to sicily with bernardo sciortino years ago nothing has come of this visit since.

My question is why the fuck wouldn't a mafia family use ZIPS though? I would imagine it would be much more logical to use them to carry out serious jobs than some guy who is locally known wouldn't it be?

ZIP comes in, does some dirty work, then fucking goes back to Italy and no one knows who the fuck he is. He could be walking down the street and no would would even know the guys name.

Because the U.S. CN is quite weak right now, and the 'zips" might takeover their areas and interests, and to create a situation similar to Canada.



Good one @H.