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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 ...
On April 25, 2005, Frank Calabrese Sr. and a large number of high-profile Chicago Outfit gangsters were charged with murder, racketeering, extortion, and running an illegal gambling business as part of the federal-government initiated "Operation Family Secrets" investigation. [13] The Family Secrets trial began on June 19, 2007. [14] Among the ...
Nicholas W. Calabrese (November 30, 1942 – March 13, 2023) was an American mob hitman, best known for being a made man who testified against the Chicago Outfit.His testimony and cooperation with federal prosecutors helped result in the 2007 murder convictions of mobsters Joseph Lombardo, James Marcello, and his own brother, Frank Calabrese Sr.
A Chicago mob figure convicted years ago in the landmark Operation Family Secrets investigation was sentenced Monday to four months in federal prison for participating in a Social Security scam by ...
Louis Marino (March 14, 1933 – March 7, 2017) was an American mobster and member of the Chicago Outfit criminal organization. Marino oversaw the Outfit's rackets in Lake and McHenry counties north of Chicago. In 1993, he was sentenced to 28 years in prison for racketeering.
In 2009, Tornabene was identified as having been an original target in the Operation Family Secrets mob investigation in 2002, an investigation that ultimately sent Chicago Outfit members James Marcello, Joseph Lombardo and Frank Calabrese, Sr. to federal prison for life. [6] However, Tornabene was never charged in the Family Secrets case. [6]
Michael Sarno (born January 7, 1958) is an American mobster who has been identified as the alleged, current leader of the Cicero street crew in the Chicago Outfit criminal organization. On February 8, 2012, Sarno was sentenced to 25 years in prison on racketeering charges.
The Chicago Outfit (also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, the Chicago crime family, the South Side Gang or the Organization) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Chicago, Illinois, which originated in the city's South Side in 1910. The organization is part of the larger Italian-American Mafia.