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The FBI, in April 2005, turned in a 43-page indictment that was created by the "Family Secrets" investigation. [9] "Family Secrets" was unprecedented for naming the entire Chicago Outfit as a criminal enterprise. Assistant US Attorneys Mitchell Mars, John Scully, and T. Markus Funk would represent the United States in the case. After more than ...
The Family Secrets trial began on June 19, 2007. [14] Among the prosecution witnesses were Calabrese's brother, Nick Calabrese, and Frank Calabrese Sr's. son, Frank Calabrese Jr. An unusual aspect of the Family Secrets trial was that several members of the Chicago Outfit took the stand in their own defense. Calabrese Sr. testified on August 16 ...
On June 21, 2007, the "Operation Family Secrets" trial began in Chicago. The case was prosecuted by federal mob prosecutors Mitch Mars, T. Markus Funk , and John Scully. Although several other high-profile defendants, including Frank Calabrese, Sr. , and Joseph Lombardo , took the highly unusual step of testifying in their own defense, Marcello ...
In September 2007, after the convictions of a slew of Chicago-area mobsters in the Family Secrets trial, Sarno was identified by law enforcement sources in the Chicago Sun-Times as being a powerful reputed mobster in the Chicago Outfit, along with Joseph Andriacchi, Al Tornabene, Marco D'Amico and John DiFronzo. [11]
While Lombardo's whereabouts were unknown, he wrote letters to his lawyer, Rick Halprin—but directed toward the judge in the trial—in which he claimed to be innocent, requested a $50,000 recognizance bond, offered to take a lie detector test, and asked to be tried separately from the other defendants in the Family Secrets case—all ...
Longtime U.S. District Court Judge James Zagel, the former leader of the Illinois State Police who went on to preside over the corruption trial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the landmark Family ...
CHICAGO — A former internal lobbyist for AT&T Illinois is scheduled to testify Thursday about an alleged arrangement to secretly pay thousands of dollars to an ally of House Speaker Michael ...
Marino was identified in court during the "Family Secrets" mob trial in Chicago in 2007 by Chicago Outfit turncoat Nicholas Calabrese as having been one of several mobsters in the room during the fatal 1986 beatings of Chicago mobsters Anthony Spilotro and Michael Spilotro, whose murders were fictionalized in the 1995 film Casino. [15]