Retired Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins brings you the best in mob history with his unique perception of the mafia. In 1981, Southside Outfit crew chief Al Pilotto was still watching his tee shot in the air on the 8th hole at Lincolnshire Country Club when a gunman stepped out from behind the bushes and started shooting. Al survived and will die a natural death. The hitman was an amateur hired by one of the golfers, Sam Guzzino. In the end, Guzzino’s brother, Richard Guzzino, and Robert Ciarrocchi were convicted of training and arming Daniel Bounds to murder Pilotto. The Outfit took care of Sam Guzzino in the usual manner. Daniel Bounds testified and left town. Check out Part 2 for an anatomy of how this murder was carefully planned by the Marx Brothers and carrried out by the keystone cops.

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[0:00] Hey guys, welcome all you wiretappers. Gary Jenkins, retired Kansas City Intelligence Unit detective here, back in the house again.

Hey, I got a short story here for you again.

Al Pilotto, he was a Chicago outfit crew leader, if you will, crew chief of the Southside crew.

He was also big in the labor union racketeering. He was the head of Local 5 in the Laborers International Union. Union. They liked to play golf.

Al Pilotto’s Assassination Attempt on the Golf Course

[0:31] Now, he was out playing golf on a nice warm July day back in, oh, when was that?

Back in 1980-something, 30 years ago or so.

Anyhow, Tony Splattro was out in Las Vegas.

Tony Accardo was running the outfit at the time because they both were co-defendants on a labor racketry charge.

And like I said, he was out playing golf. He was He was playing with one particular guy was Sam Guzzino.

And there was Rudy Bamonte and Nick Fusci. Early in the morning, 8 o’clock in the morning, they were just on the AT at the Lincoln Shire.

It was 1981 is what it was. I just glanced up to see what it was.

[1:17] Anyhow, he had a great tee shot off that AT, they say.

And somebody jumped out behind the bush that was there and started shooting at him. and shot him four or five times with a handgun and ran off.

Well, he goes down with his golf partners and supposes shot golf partners.

These guys, I don’t know if they teed up and played on through and left him back there, or they just ran off.

They didn’t call the police is the main point I’m trying to make here.

Lack of Police Involvement and Speculation on Motives

[1:45] They did not call the cops.

Some neighbor lady heard the shots and called the police, and they came driving up looking to see what was going on there. There’s our friend Al Pilotto, bleeding like a stung hog, probably.

So they take him to the hospital. He survives this assassination attempt, which there’s no other way to put it. It was an assassination attempt.

And Al Pilotto, if you think about it, his chief enforcer was Billy Dauber, who was killed by some of the guys that worked under Joey Lombardo, through the wild bunch in angelo la pietra so you know his chief enforcer had been killed they had these they had a kind of a war in that south side what they called the chop shop war there’s a bunch of people been killed in that war so you know with these mob heads you have to really look around for the motives and see who benefits but again like i said he had a.

Al Pilotto’s Indictment and Potential Motives for the Hit