Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik

Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik (May 20, 1886 February 21, 1956) was the financial and legal advisor, and later political greaser, for the Chicago Outfit. Born near Krakw, Poland (although other sources state Moscow, Russia) on May 20, 1886, Guzik immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s. His parents were immigrants from Katowice, Poland. He later became involved in prostitution, and allegedly white slavery, in the South Side of Chicago's Levee vice district with his brother Harry Guzik eventually driving rival Jack Zuta out of business. He later became a powerful political "fixer" operating from St. Huberts Old English Grill and Chop House; Guzik received "bagmen" who delivered scheduled payoffs to various police precincts and city officials. In the early 1920s, Guzik, supposedly hearing a plan to murder Al Capone, informed him and later allied with the Chicago Outfit. Guzik continued to act as a bagman for the Chicago Outfit until April 1930 when he was sentenced to five years