I personally, cannot bring anything to that question. However, he was a friend, if nothing else, to Tony Accardo in Chicago, and Accardo was THE MAN.. I took his daughter to her prom.. YIKES!
I too went to Campisi's often in Dallas when I went to my Club in Dallas.. He and I talked about his friendships in Chicago, but never about those things, and I wouldn't expect anything else..
I owned Elan, opened Jan 5, 1970, and invited the old man, Joe Campisi, but to my knowledge he never came to the opening, and I think he died less than a month later..
YIKES is right! I once double-dated with Accardo's daughter and HER date. Maybe it was you!
My date was driving and we picked her up at her dad's home in River Forest, a western suburb of Illinois.
We all went inside the Accardo home while waiting for her.....and we got a tour of the place from a matronly-looking grandma or housekeeper. It was an ornately-furnished interior in a fine home in the "rich" part of town.
At the time I had no idea of her father's connections, hmmm. Well, we were teen-agers and life was just little Ford convertibles and gym jams!
River Forest adjoined Oak Park, home of Sam Giancana, also of Chicago mobster fame. Giancana lived a few blocks from me in a modest brick bungalow. One evening, he was assassinated gangland-style in his pine-paneled basement kitchen where he was cooking sausage and peppers.
Giancana was the subject of the book "Mafia Princess" written by his daughter, Antoinette. The book was later made into a movie starring Tony Curtis.
There were many mobsters who lived out in the Chi-town suburbs. They were quiet, inobtrusive neighbors, never fouling their own nests, instead plying their nefarious trades out of the big city adjoining.
Those were the days, my friend!
Leni