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Painting a vivid picture of the scenes both inside and outside the courtroom and re-creating events from court transcripts, police records, interviews, and notes taken day after day as the story unfolded in court in 2007, this narrative accurately portrays cold-blooded#x97;and sometimes incompetent#x97;killers and their crimes. In 1998 Frank Calabrese Jr. offered to wear a wire to help the FBI build a case against his father, Frank Sr., and his uncle Nick. A top Mob boss, a reputed consigliore, and other high-profile members of the Chicago Outfit were eventually accused in a total of 18 gangland killings, revealing organized crime's ruthless grip on the city throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. After a series of other defendants pled guilty, those left to face off in court alongside Frank Sr. were James #x93;Little Jimmy? Marcello, the acting head of the Chicago mob; Joey #x93;the Clown? Lombardo, one of Chicago{u2019}s most colorful mobsters; and Paul #x93;the Indian? Schiro. A former Chicago police officer who worked in evidence, Anthony "Twan" Doyle, rounded out the list. The riveting testimony and wide-angle view provide one of the best accounts on record of the inner workin

Who reads Family Secrets : The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob?

Author

Coen, Jeff

Publisher

Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press)

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781556527814

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, True Crime, Social Science

Rating

3.68 / 5 (134 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14