Richard Cain

Richard Cain In his book, The Enforcer , William Roemer stated Cain’s real name is: Richard Scalzitti. However the authors of Getting Away With Murder conflicts with Roemer's book. Paul Newey, former chief investigator for State's Attorney Adamowski, dug out Cain's birth certificate which showed he was born as Richard Cain. A check with Social Security death index reflects the later as correct.

Richard Cain was also a top, top informant for William Roemer, who was the FBI's chief mob man in Chicago, and Cain was one of Roemer's best friends.

Cain's Background:

Director of security for UPS in Chicago. The story goes that from that position he was actively targeting trucks for hijacking.

Started his law enforcment career as a member of the Chicago Police Department (1955-1960).

Cain was well known in the Chicago PD as Sam Giancana's bagman, the guy who distributed the payoffs inside a corrupt department. As an investigator, while working the vice detail he was in an excellent position to enforce mob control over vice. If he learned of a non-mob sponsored gambling site or whorehouse, he would come down hard on them. Of course he would occasionally have to raid a mob site as well, but those were always staged.

Chief Investigator for Cook County State’s Attorney office (1960 -- leave of absence from Chicago PD to work at State's Atty Office).

In 1959 an Assistant US Attorney named Richard Gioie asked the Chicago PD to loan him an investigator to help with a federal investigation of Tony Accardo. As if by magic, he got Richard Cain who proved to be an aggressive cop who had an uncanny understanding of the inner workings of the mob. They convicted Accardo and although it was later overturned on appeal, it was Richard Ogilvie's shining hour and he credited Richard with part of his success.

1960-1962 worked in Mexico for what ever reasons.

Returned to Chicago to campaign for Ogilvie and was elected.

1962-1964 Top official of the Cook County Sheriff Office.

When Ogilvie ran for Sheriff of Cook County, he remembered the guy who made his reputation possible. Over the objections of many of his advisors, Ogilvie named Richard Cain Chief Investigator. [I don't think Ogilvie was a dummy or dead from the neck up. Lie test were available matter of fact, Cain conducted polygraph exams for Ogilvie’s Sheriff Department.]

Ogilvie fired Cain two weeks after a staged drug theft. A grand jury indicted Cain, and he was found guilty.

After his parole in 1971, Cain went to Mexico. Cain then becomes the closest confidant and aide to Sam Giancana, as well as a top gambling operator.

He was enrolled in the FBI's Upper Echelon Criminal Informant program and was meeting weekly with FBI agent Bill Roemer.

Cain returned to Chicago in Dec. '73 for the Christmas Holidays and was gunned down. (Gangland-style execution)

JFK, RFK, the CIA, and Cuba according to Cain's brother, who is 17-years younger, there is not a single bit of credible evidence to implicate Richard Cain to the JFK assassination. In 1959-1960, Richard Cain is in Cuba and in contact with Sam Giancana and the CIA station chief in Chicago at the same time. In about 1962, Giancana, the CIA and Cuba would blend together to plot Castro's murder. The standard story is that an Ex-FBI agent Robert Maheu put the Kill Castro plot together. The CIA never considered Cain trustworthy and all of his contacts were local. Maheu was known by a number of senior guys at Langley and considered to be someone they could trust to manage a cutout scheme that they (CIA) could successfully deny knowledge of.

According to Sam Giancana, the man who fired the shots from the sixth floor of the Book Depository was not Oswald, but Richard Cain, a Chicago-based ex-police officer and close associate of the mob boss. There were two other gunmen on the scene, according to Giancana. One was Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit, who has been identified by some researchers as the “Badgeman” the elusive, phantom figure in police uniform seen behind the picket fence just as the shooting commenced, and recorded on a photograph by Mary Moorman. After the assassination, Tippit’s job was to follow Oswald and kill him, so as to silence the so-called “master” suspect. For some reason, the police officer backed off on this assignment and was himself killed by another CIA assassin, also operating as a Dallas police officer called Roscoe Anthony White. Although Oswald was accused of carrying out the murder of Officer Tippit, it is also thought that at least two gunmen were involved, using two different handguns to murder the officer. Sam Giancana finished his long, rambling story to his brother by saying, “On November 22, 1963, the US had a coup; it's that simple. The government of this country was overthrown by a handful of guys who did their jobs damned well.”