This is a Glass Fox Media Podcast. the It's never a good idea to borrow money from the mafia, especially for gambling. Still, many people do and have done

this for well over a century. If you lived in Chicago from the 1950s to the early 1970s, you might have

might have borrowed money from Sam to Stefano, an associate of the so-called

Chicago outfit.

One of their prominent members is the legendary Al Capone, a mobster whose legacy as a gangster was typically

endemic to the culture of organized crime.

He embodied the ultimate mofiosal stereotype and would continue to do so after his death.

Like Al Capone, Sam DeStefno was a lone shark and just like Capone to Stefano would react with violence

when borrowers came up short or failed to pay up altogether. This money would become known as Juice, and DeStefano was very fond of

squeezing it out of his victims by any means necessary. John Binder, author of the Chicago outfit.

If you go borrow from a juice lender, it's an illegal loan as an illegal contract.

It cannot be enforced in court. So in terms of collecting then, that left the Juice Lenders with the only sort of one avenue.

That was violence and the threat of violence.

Sam de Stefano made Al Capone look like the Virgin Mary when it came to squeezing the juice out of his debtors.

Indeed, for those who found themselves on the wrong side of these transactions, what they saw in Sam to Stefano's eyes was the pure black hatred of the

Antichrist.

He embodied the full potential of mortal evil and lived on in the memories of those who survived

their encounters with him as a human monster of the worst variety.

Frank Kolata worked for Desfano as a hitman.

According to him and all other members of the Chicago outfit, Mad Sam was a sadistic homicidal maniac to quote kulata. Sam was a killing machine with

no soul. He loved and enjoyed savagely and mercilessly torturing people so much that he would foam out of the mouth

while doing it and pray to the devil in tongues.

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