William Morris Bioff

Nitti dispatched Willie Bioff, one of his underlings, to California. Bioff had created a shakedown operation of Chicago movie theater projectionists that Nitti muscled into. When the Tinsel Town schemers were subsequently hauled into court, a witness testified that Bioff had demanded a $25,000 payment from ...

AMC is taking on the mob. Recently, the network announced their new series The Making of the Mob: Chicago will premiere in July. The docu-series will follow “the rise and fall of iconic gangster Al Capone, as well as the story of his successors, collectively known as The Chicago Outfit.” Actors Vincent ...

His death coincided with the take-over of the IATSE by the infamous George Browne and Willie Bioff, who put the local into trusteeship and continued Maloy's shakedown racket themselves. It's the only time that the local has ever put into trusteeship, replacing one crook with two others. But Browne, the ...

In 1941, Willie Bioff, a former violent pimp, and George Browne, a union thug, were indicted for shaking down the movie industry and Chicago theater chains. They took payoffs to prevent "labor problems". They were front men, bag men really, for the Chicago Outfit and New York mob controlled IATSE and ...

Another intriguing hypothesis pertains to Wilkerson's complex history with organized crime figures of the era, from Meyer Lansky and Mickey Cohen to union enforcers such as Willie Bioff and George E. Browne. Wilkerson welcomed them at his restaurants and clubs, and when he ran into financing trouble ...

#To lighten his sentence, Schenck agreed to testify against Willie Bioff and George E. Browne, two members of the Chicago mob who used the corrupt International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees union to extort over a million dollars in protection money from the big Hollywood studios. Schenck ...