Giancana's concern could be readily understood.
And Sam Giancana, like Al Capone before him, became a celebrity mobster.
For starters, Giancana's high profile drew far too much attention to the Mafia.
In the 1940s, Giancana decided to take over Chicago's illegal lottery and gambling rackets.
Sam's beloved wife Angelina had died in 1954, and Giancana became a notorious womanizer after her death.
The fact that Giancana was killed in his home while cooking also,
perhaps, points to his killer being someone he knew and trusted.
Capone went to jail in 1931,
which changed the power structure of the Chicago Mafia, and Giancana took the opportunity to climb the ranks.
The son of Sicilian immigrants, Sam Giancana, also known as“The Cigar”,
was born as Momo Salvatore Giancana on June 15, 1908 in Chicago, Illinois.
Giancana was extradited from Mexico in 1974,
where he would gone after serving a one-year prison term for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating organized crime in 1965.