Didn't JFK do the same with the Giancana mob in Chicago - use them. Some observers say it was Sam Giancana's help in fixing ballots in Chicago that got Kennedy elected, and in exchange a Kennedy justice department was to be hands off the mob. Of course, John Kennedy got his brother Bobby appointed to head Justice, and the rest is history as Bobby went after the mob anyway. I wonder if this is true?
Yes. Absolutely true. Judith Exner, JFK’s lover, recounted taking a manilia envelope back and forth between JFK and her “other” lover, Giancana. She said she never looked inside-—which was why she lived so long. But this is believed to be the deal between JFK and the mob in which they gave him votes and he would “call off” Bobby from his Attorney General attacks on the Mafia. But Bobby didn’t, which was why the mob had it out for the Kennedys after the 1960 election.