Chicago SyndicateChicago SyndicateThe Chicago Syndicate will focus on the Chicago Mob. In addition to featuring current news articles, it will also attempt to provide some additional analysis and background information. This site may also feature news about the mafia in other cities Articles
Reinstatement of Mafia Cops Convictions Sought by US
2007-10-22 06:01:00 The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act — known as RICO — was signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon in October 1970. Wielded mainly, though not exclusively, as a sword against the Mafia , it holds in its most basic terms that a person or group of people who commit certain crimes as part of a conspiracy or criminal enterprise can be charged with racketeering. The law has More About: Reinstatement , Convictions , Cops , Statement
Jurors Claim Mob Defendant Threatened Prosecutor, New Trial Coming?
2007-10-21 06:49:00 At least four jurors in the city's biggest mob trial in years allegedly heard one of the defendants threaten a federal prosecutor as he delivered closing arguments, according to a published report. Convicted loan shark and hit man Frank Calabrese Sr. allegedly told Assistant U.S. Attorney Marcus Funk, “You are a (expletive) dead man,” according to a letter obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times and More About: Trial , Threat , Prosecutor
Son of Mob Boss Arrested
2007-10-21 05:53:00 The politically connected son of a late Chicago mob boss is under arrest on armed robbery charges. He has one of the most feared last names in the Chicago Outfit - Lamantia. His name is Rocky and his late father's name was Joe, but they called him "Shorty" for his squat stature. On Thursday, the I-Team learned that Rocky LaMantia is in big trouble. Witnesses say four men walked into a pawn shop More About: Arrested , Boss
FBI Boss Rooted for Mafia According to Fellow Agent Testimony
2007-10-21 04:58:00 The anecdote is so ingrained in Mafia lore that it was mimicked in a scene from the television show "The Sopranos": A corrupt FBI agent slapping his desk and celebrating news of another killing in a bloody mob civil war. A current FBI agent testified Wednesday that it happened in a real-life slip-up by ex-agent R. Lindley DeVecchio, now on trial for murder. "We're going to win this thing," More About: Agent , Boss , Testimony , Gent
Ex-Cop Doyle, Denied Bail
2007-10-20 17:28:00 federal judge turned down a request for bail Wednesday from a retired police officer convicted along with four alleged mobsters at Chicago's Family Secrets racketeering conspiracy trial. "I believe the evidence at trial has shown that he is a danger to the community," said U.S. District Judge James B. Zagel, who presided over Chicago's biggest mob trial in years, aimed at leaders of organized
David Chase Takes on Angry Sopranos Fans
2007-10-19 16:13:00 Were you at all surprised by the reaction to the final episode? DAVID CHASE: No. We knew there would be people who would be perplexed by it and shut their minds to it. This just felt like the right ending. Did you expect people to be so pissed off? We didn't expect them to be that pissed for that long. It's one thing to be deeply involved with a television show. It's another to be so involved More About: Fans , Sopranos , David , Angry , Chase
Accused of Helping the Mob, FBI Agent Gets His Day in Court
2007-10-17 16:44:00 The rumor was explosive, hard to believe: Gregory Scarpa Sr., a ruthless Colombo crime family capo known as the Grim Reaper, was receiving tips from a mysterious source inside law enforcement, a man he called “the girlfriend.” The confirmation was devastating: Prosecutors working to cripple the family in the mid-1990s said that the source was their own Roy Lindley DeVecchio, a Federal Bureau of More About: Agent , Court , S Day , Gent
A Dentist Gets Drilled by "The Shark"
2007-10-16 07:06:00 Joseph "The Shark " Lopez returns with more Shark Tales from the Family Secrets trial and some questions for Pat Spilotro, the dentist brother of Tony and Michael Spilotro. Pat testified during the trial regarding his relationship with some of the defendants. Nick Calabrese, testifying for the prosecution, revealed how both Tony and Michael met their demise. "The trial was quite a show of More About: Dentist , Drill
The Sopranos Bobby Bacala is Heading to Las Vegas
2007-10-16 05:51:00 Steve Schirripa, Bobby ‘Bacala’ Baccalieri from The Sopranos ’, will be hosting Vegas Va-Voom Variety Spectacular at The Comedy Festival on November 14th at 9:00 PM. It’s a variety show full of music, comedy, and surprise guests. Musical performances include Las Vegas headliners the glitzy-glam duo Zowie Bowie, Vegas perennial favorite “The Lon Bronson Band,” and Schirripa’s own sexy Vegas
"Rocky" Busted in Mob Roundup
2007-10-15 15:06:00 The FBI said it arrested seven associates of the Genovese Crime family Wednesday on charges the men took part in a series of armed robberies and other crimes in New York and New Jersey. Among those charged were John "Rocky " Melicharek, Dominick "Shakes" Memoli and Enad "Neddy" Gjelaj. The suspects are accused of robbing numerous Morris County homes at gunpoint, as well as an Orange County More About: Roundup , Busted
Dying to Belong
2007-10-14 03:07:00 Dying to Belo ng : Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong Paperback Book Featuring an exclusive 20 page interview with The Sopranos' creator David Chase, Dying to Belong sheds light on the often misunderstood gangster film by looking by looking at movies from Hollywood and Hong Kong over several decades. From Little Caesar and The Godfather to The Sopranos , Martha Nochimson deftly More About: Dying
Genovese Family Associates and Others Arrested on Extortion and Robbery Cha
2007-10-13 04:21:00 MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, MARK MERSHON, Assistant Directorin- Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation(“FBI”), and WEYSAN DUN, the Special-Agent-in-Charge of the Newark Office of the FBI announced today the arrests of seven individuals charged with participating in a series of extortions and violent home More About: Family , Arrested , Robbery , Extortion , Associate
The Latest on America's Most Wanted
2007-09-14 15:19:00 New York/Florida Serial Rapist Capture: AMW has repeatedly profiled the story of a courageous homeless woman who fought off a man who was raping her and in the process, grabbed the chain that dangled around his neck. The New York Police Department's Manhattan Special Victim's Unit has been just as vigilant - working with the victim and trying to find out who that chain belonged to. Nearly two More About: Wanted , Most Wanted
Mob Trial Jurors Decide to Join Judge on Vacation
2007-09-14 06:26:00 Jurors at the racketeering conspiracy trial of five alleged Chicago mobsters broke off deliberations after two days Thursday and the judge said they would not return to finish their work for a week. U.S. District Judge James B. Zagel, who is presiding over Chicago's biggest mob trial in years, issued a brief written statement through the court clerk's office Thursday afternoon saying the More About: Vacation , Join , Trial , Cide
Thanks to Feds, We Hear the "Lies"
2007-09-13 15:40:00 Federal prosecutor Mitchell Mars was telling the jury about a litany of 18 Outfit murders -- solved by federal investigators, not locals -- and he put several corpses at the feet of convicted mobster Frank Calabrese Sr. "He has left a trail of bodies, literally ..." Mars said Tuesday, as Calabrese began shouting, interrupting him. "THEM ARE LIES!!" Calabrese shrieked, startling the jury. It More About: Hear , Lies , Hank
Judge Profoundly Unimpressed with Retired Cop at Mob Trial
2007-09-13 03:11:00 The judge who presided over Chicago's biggest mob trial in years expressed doubts today about setting bail for a retired police officer convicted in the case, saying his testimony was unbelievable. Defendant Anthony Doyle's testimony on the witness stand was so hard to believe it brought his sound judgment into question, U.S. District Judge James B. Zagel said. "What he was saying was profoundly More About: Trial , Impress , Tired , Profound
Dem Are Lies!
2007-09-12 17:38:00 The day after a jury of seven women and five men found him guilty of racketeering, bookmaking and extortion, Oak Brook mobster Frank Calabrese Sr. hit his boiling point in court Tuesday, shouting out "Dem are lies!" as a prosecutor detailed his alleged murders. Assistant U.S. attorney Mitchell Mars was making his closing argument before the second phase of jury deliberations, during which jurors More About: Lies
Mob Killings Outlined for Jury
2007-09-12 17:33:00 A day after jurors handed down guilty verdicts in Chicago's biggest mob trial in years, a prosecutor asked them yesterday to take the next step toward sending four defendants to prison for life for a series of "brutal and heinous" gangland killings. "There was no mercy with regard to these murders — they were cruel, they were ruthless," prosecutor Mitchell A. Mars told jurors as he described the More About: Killings , Killing , Outline
Rudy Giuliani's Mafia Jargon Deters Italian Voters
2007-09-12 16:46:00 Just as some firefighters and relatives of those killed on Sept. 11, 2001, don't want Rudolph Giuliani giving a reading at today's Ground Zero ceremony, the man who would be Churchill is in danger of becoming persona non grata within his own ethnicity. Despite a distinguished career as a crime-busting federal prosecutor (in the great Roman classical tradition of jurisprudential excellence), two More About: Italian , Mafia , Rudy , Voters
Appeal Heard for FBI Agent Convicted of Aiding Whitey Bulger
2007-09-12 16:39:00 A lawyer for retired FBI agent John J. Connolly Jr. urged a federal appeals court today to overturn his 2002 racketeering conviction because one of the government's key witnesses, former New England Mafia boss Francis "Cadillac Frank'' Salemme, allegedly boasted to a fellow mobster that he lied on the stand. Judge Bruce M. Selya questioned the events described by Connolly's lawyer, suggesting More About: Agent , Whitey , Bulger , Gent , Appeal
Will Family Secrets Mob Trial Convictions Doom Chicago Mob?
2007-09-12 16:14:00 Does Monday's conviction of four top mobsters mean the end of the Chicago Outfit? Hardly. The Outfit long has controlled illegal gambling operations -- from sports betting to video poker -- and has financed Chicago-area drug dealing, said Chicago Crime Commission President James Wagner, a former top FBI mob fighter. Money from those ventures often is invested in law-abiding businesses because " More About: Family , Trial , Convictions , Secrets
Brother of Murder Victim Cheers Mob Trial's Guilty Verdicts
2007-09-11 15:42:00 A relative of a mob murder victim wasted no time applauding the guilty verdicts in the Family Secrets case. As CBS 2's Mike Parker reports, prosecutors asked everyone involved in the trial not to talk to the media yet, but one man decided to speak out. Ron Seifert seemed eager to talk about the guilty verdicts after a federal jury convicted five men Monday in a racketeering conspiracy that More About: Murder , Brother , Guilty , Verdi , Victim
GUILTY for All 5 Family Secrets Mob Defendants
2007-09-10 22:44:00 In a verdict announced this afternoon, a federal jury in Chicago convicted four reputed Outfit figures and a former Chicago police officer on all counts in the landmark Family Secrets mob conspiracy case. Convicted on the most serious charge--racketeering conspiracy--were: James Marcello, 65, identified by authorities as Chicago's top mob boss two years ago when the indictment was handed More About: Guilty
US Attorney General and the Director of the FBI Battle over the Mob
2007-09-10 16:08:00 In Washington, turf warfare can be blood sport. Colin Powell versus Dick Cheney in the W years. Nancy Reagan versus Don Regan in the 1980s. Henry Kissinger versus everyone in the Nixon and Ford days. But eclipsing these power feuds is the titanic clash between Robert Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover. This grudge match entailed much more than personality or policy. It was, in a way, a fight over the More About: General , Attorney , Attorney General , Battle , The D
Bus Union Under Mafia Control Concludes Independent Counsel
2007-09-10 02:22:00 An independent counsel appointed to investigate the union representing 15,000 New York City school bus drivers has concluded that there is substantial evidence that “organized crime has infiltrated and controlled” it. The counsel’s report, written in January and made public yesterday by dissident union members, said that top officers of the union, Local 1181 of the Amalgamated Transit Union , More About: Mafia , Independent , Control , Epen
Restaurant Impresario Fails to Disclose Connection to Mobster
2007-09-10 02:12:00 High-flying restaurant impresario Giuseppe Cipriani repeatedly omitted in his state liquor-license applications the involvement of a convicted Colombo crime-family associate in his hotspots, documents obtained by The Post show. He also failed to list his father, Arrigo Cipriani, on numerous license applications, omissions that could lead to new criminal charges against the son. The State Liquor More About: Restaurant , Connection , Disclose , Disc , Sari
Petey Cap Hits a 7 and Craps Out as He Heads Up the River
2007-09-09 17:50:00 It's snake eyes for Hudson County gambling racketeer Peter "Petey Cap" Caporino, who is on his way up the river after being sentenced to an unlucky seven years in prison today, officials said. Caporino ran illegal numbers and sports betting rackets for more than 40 years and was an FBI informant for two decades. Helping the feds got him off the hook but he just couldn't give up the business he More About: River , Hits , Heads , Craps
Chicago Mob Infamous Locations Map
2007-09-09 03:13:00 Be sure to click on the blue place markers to expand the section for information on each location. Feel free to nominate additional addresses for inclusion. View Larger Map More About: Chicago , Locations , Chica , Loca
Chicago Mob Family Secrets Infamous Locations Map
2007-09-08 23:25:00 I have been procrastinating creating a map of various Chica go Outfit infamous locations . Mark Konkol created such a map for the Family Secrets Trial along with an accompanying article. Since Mark gave me a headstart, now seems like a good time to piggyback upon his efforts and expand the map to include both Family Secrets and other infamous and historical Chicago Mob locations. You can find More About: Locations
Mob Trial Judge Helps Jury Define 'Intimidation'
More articles from this author:2007-09-08 22:10:00 The jury in the Family Secrets mob trial is taking it easy. On Thursday, the 12 men and women told the judge they will not deliberate tomorrow. CBS 2's John "Bulldog" Drummond reports, the jury worked about six hours today. There was a flurry of activity at the Dirksen Federal Building, however, when the jury sent a note to Judge James Zagel asking for a definition of the term "intimidation." More About: Trial , Define , Dati 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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