The Casino was a classic episode of "Chicago stories"
The fellas from Rosemont had Blago with a pen in hand ready to sign anything.Feeling confident they got sloppy and listed names on the investors papers that were blatant..sisters with the same last name etc.
This being Chicago and the Italians about to score,guess who showed up ? If you guessed the Irish you win ! They wanted their piece that they felt entitled to and the Paisoni sat down with them but no agreement could be reached due to the famous tempers of both sides starting a **** you contest early in the negotiation.
The biggest Irish boss had a relative who was the A.G. and he took her leash off.
The investors list was made real public and the gaming board had to react.
All those involved are well known in Chicago politics/OC, some are dead and some are spoken about on this blog today.(I have Italian/Irish blood and genetically can't recall names.)
Nobody went to jail or got killed but there are hard feelings to this day.This was another example of Blago going off the reservation in the Irish eyes and was used as another nail in the coffin when the "G" was asked for a favor.
The Old man had plans to turn Rosemont into a mini Las Vegas and many believe he would have,ever wonder why there are a million hotel rooms out there? Both sides would have made money by the truckload but greed and Chicago's most famous ethnic rivalry killed the goose before the first egg was laid.
I wonder how many people know that Rahm grew up with a couple old school Simon City Royals from the lake view area. No surprise then when TJ was awarded 25 mil from the city with hardly any fight from Rahm's legal camp. Someone should look into that if they want to find any juicy bits of corruption on our glorious mayor. Dig into that and see how deep the rabbit hole goes. Look into his meetings with city council and his financial experts, and perhaps one ought to take a gander at Rahm's Christmas party photos from 2012. Look closely, See if you can find TJ standing there with a :
:-eating grin on his mug. Rahm thought this ******* was going to be his poster child for rehabilitation and demonstrate the city's willingness to right the wrongs of Chicago's deplorable police department. But I guess he had another thing coming because TJ had plans of his own. That's Chicago for you. Oh, don't let me forget that this gangbanging punk handed a large sum of cash to the late Paul Bauer to keep the police off his ass when he moved into his gangster Mansion in 018 back in 2015. Plus don't forget about the child abuse sex scandal at Chicago Public School?