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Ken “Tokyo Joe” Eto, Chicago outfit bookie

By John Kass, Chicago Tribune

Nothing says July in Chicagoland quite like the bodies of those two bumbling Outfit hit men found stuffed in the trunk of a car almost three decades ago this weekend in Naperville.

They’d tried to kill Outfit bookie Ken “Tokyo Joe” Eto, whom Outfit bosses considered a liability after he was indicted on federal gambling charges. But the hit men botched the job. After Eto was shot three times in the head, the hit men walked away, thinking their labors were done.Read more   Here