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Operation Family Secrets : How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family by Frank Calabrese, Jr.; Keith Zimmerman; Kent Zimmerman; Paul Pompian is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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The chilling true story of how the son of the most violent mobster in Chicago helped bring down the last great American crime syndicate: the one-hundred-year-old Chicago Outfit.In Operation Family Secrets, Frank Calabrese, Jr. reveals for the first time the outfit's “made” ceremony and describes being put to work alongside his father and uncle in loan sharking, gambling, labor racketeering, and extortion. As members of the outfit, they plotted the slaying of a fellow gangster, committed the bombing murder of a trucking executive, the gangland execution of two mobsters—whose burial in an Indiana cornfield was reenacted in Martin Scorsese's blockbuster film Casino—and numerous other hits. The Calabrese Crew's colossal earnings and extreme ruthlessness made them both a dreaded criminal gang and the object of an intense FBi inquiry. When Frank Jr., his father, and Uncle Nick are convicted on racketeering violations, “Junior” and “Senior” are sent to the same federal penitentiary in Michigan. It's there that Frank Jr. makes the life-changing decision to go straight. But he needs to keep his father behind bars in order to regain control of his life and save his family. So Frank Jr. makes
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- Author
- Frank Calabrese, Jr.; Keith Zimmerman; Kent Zimmerman; Paul Pompian
- Publisher
- Broadway Paperbacks, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307717740
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- True Crime, Memoir, Social Science
- Rating
- 3.6 / 5 (600 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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