Chicago Outfit
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Sep 24, 2026
Sydney O'ReillyHOST
He pulled out a fresh legal pad and started scribbling his next idea.
Sydney O'ReillyHOST
What if an ambitious, top-of-his-class Harvard Law graduate joins a prestigious Memphis law firm, only to discover the firm is serving as a front for the Chicago mafia? Grisham worked the story and reworked the story until he was ready to show a two-page summary to his agent.
Sydney O'ReillyHOST
He titled it The Firm, but he said it was a, a dull title, a working title.
Sydney O'ReillyHOST
Ignore the title.
Joseph TamburinoGUEST
That's where people like Mama Celeste from Celeste's Frozen Foods and Pizza, she's buried in there.
Joseph TamburinoGUEST
Tony Accardo, the head of the Chicago Outfit, he's buried in there.
Joseph TamburinoGUEST
uh it it goes on and on they're all on my tour you know when i do this you do the tour you do it once a year
speaker_0HOST
i do it once a year i hear it's already sold out for this year
speaker_0HOST
Yeah.
speaker_1HOST
Instead of retelling the story of young lawyer Mitch McDeere taking down Bendini, Lambert, and Locke, you know, the Memphis firm that was secretly operating as a front for the Chicago Mafia, the show asks a much more interesting question.
speaker_0HOST
Right, what happens next?
speaker_1HOST
Exactly.
GoldiHOST
Yeah
David RumseyGUEST
... pick the city, the Chicago Mafia, you know, Mulligans or whatever they're gonna be called.
David RumseyGUEST
Uh, yeah, so that was, that was cool, and that was exciting, but this was what-
GoldiHOST
what-This is what came of it, so, uh...
EB JohnsonHOST
This is an interesting event for her to have attended for several reasons.
EB JohnsonHOST
First of all, the Chicago Outfit pretty much had a racket on big prize boxing matches, as we discovered in the Lou Taylor episodes.
EB JohnsonHOST
The boxing racket is lawless.
EB JohnsonHOST
There's basically no rules, and the actual boxers are traded like cattle.
EB JohnsonHOST
There's a lot of organized crime involved in boxing matches, and that was certainly the case in 1931 when Lee Francis went along to work.
EB JohnsonHOST
It's also incredibly likely that this event was attended by either one or both Charlie Baran and Johnny Roselli, who are intimately tied to the Chicago Outfit's boxing racket all across the United States, but especially in the, th- on the West Coast and back in Chicago.
EB JohnsonHOST
Here's what's also interesting about Lee Francis claiming that this is the fight she attended.
EB JohnsonHOST
Um, th- this, this boxer, uh, would, would be the one that Jean Harlow had her infamous affair with, Max Baer, um, which ended up in a public humiliation for the MGM studio and a forced abortion for Jean Harlow.
JimmyHOST
When Hoffa was convicted of jury tampering in 1964, Dorfman stood trial on the same charge and walked out acquitted.
JimmyHOST
A Chicago outfit boss was reportedly once overheard explaining Dorfman's position with unusual clarity.
JimmyHOST
He said in effect that Allen himself was meek and harmless, but the people who owned a piece of him were anything but.
JimmyHOST
That was the arrangement in a single sentence, and it's what made him such a valuable asset to the mob.
JimmyHOST
Dorfman was the respectable face, the cool guy with the perpetual tan, and the immaculate suits who was on a first-name basis with politicians and Hollywood stars.
JimmyHOST
He wasn't the sort of person who got his hands dirty, but the men standing behind him were the Chicago outfit.
JimmyHOST
Only once in the first 50 years of his life did anything stick to Dorfman.
JimmyHOST
In 1972, Dorfman was convicted of taking a $55,000 kickback on a pension fund loan, and he spent the better part of a year in federal prison.
Bailey SarianHOST
It's alcohol.
Bailey SarianHOST
The North Side Irish gang was at war with the Italian mafia, called the Chicago Outfit, and both sides were paying off cops.
Bailey SarianHOST
While all this was happening, Black citizens and people of the Great Migration settled in the South Side of the city, including Katie and Rosetta.
Bailey SarianHOST
And around this time, Katie starts to go by the name Ma Bell.
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