Who took “Big Tuna” Accardo’s daughter to prom?

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Retired Intelligence Unit Detective Gary Jenkins talks with the man who took the daughter of Tony Accardo or “Big Tuna” to her prom and later helped out at her wedding. The Prom relationship never was; he was more of a bodyguard. Carlo Morelli grew up in Chicago and was a fly on the wall to many Outfit activities. Listen to the story of a high school kid who took Big Tuna’s daughter to prom, ditched the bodyguards to go drink beer in Wisconsin, and brought her home about daylight the following day. Carlo had an uncomfortable confrontation with the most feared mobster in Chicago and lived to tell the story. Carlo Morelli first encountered Tony Accardo at Meo’s Restaurant. He had become friends with Trip Meo, the wife of the owner, Charles Meo. Tony Accardo and Paul Ricca used this location as a place where they could always be found, and they conducted many meetings at a corner table. Support the Podcast Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwireClick here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here, Please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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0:00.0	Well, hey, all you wiretappers out there back here in studio, Gangland Wire.
0:04.8	I mean, I'm not dogging off all morning.
0:06.5	It was time for me to get some work done.
0:09.0	I went back in my old files.
0:11.6	I had a listener asked me about an old interview I did.
0:18.1	I don't know, back in maybe 2017.
0:24.3	You know, things been going since 2016.
0:32.0	So that's what for almost six years. It is six years. And there's a guy named Carlo Morelli.
0:38.7	And, you know, he got hold on me through Facebook. We're Facebook friends and I just found out that he recently died.
0:41.6	Now, he had some interesting stories.
0:42.9	He's not really a mob guy.
0:46.2	He's a Chicago guy, but he's not really a mob guy.
1:00.1	And he, but he had a connection with Anthony Big Tuna Cardo and with some other Bob guys with the wife, a woman named Tripp Mayo of her husband's name was Charles Mayo and they had Mayo's Northwood
1:07.2	Restaurant. It was at Lexington and not Lexington, Harlem, and just let me look,
1:14.2	Harlem and Lawrence in Chicago. And, and, and he told quite a story. He left home at an early age.
1:22.3	He said his dad had been in and out of the penitentiary and one day in his life. And,
1:25.7	and he lived close to downtown.
1:29.6	He got an apartment or something.
1:31.2	And on Rush Street, there's a lot of strip clubs back in those days.
1:35.1	And he had this deal.
1:37.3	He designed clothes.
1:39.8	He ended up being a chef later in life.
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