Family Secrets Trial

[guids]

I dont know if any of you guys follow this stuff, but the jury in the chicago family secrets trial just found a verdict: guilty
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070910/...H3KstpvLus0NUE



the real life accounts of Tony Spilotro's murder (Pesci in Casino) was heard, among a bunch of other historic mafia stuff.

[iron81]

This has been all over the Chicago papers for months. Basically, the feds were able to make the case when the son of a Chicago mob boss flipped. He was the star witness in a case that also included wiretap evidence. There were 4 defendants including the aforementioned boss Frank Calabrese and a mob hitman with maybe a dozen kills. Every 2nd article about this case had a reference to the movie "Casino".

[kevin017]

couldn't have been that great of mobsters if they couldn't even off the snitch before the trial.

[iron81]

Meh, he was in witness protection before anyone knew he had flipped. They were in their 60's and 70's so they managed to stay out of prison for a while.

There was also a 5th defendant, a Chicago Police officer who was accused of destroying evidence for the Mob.

[wet work]

Casino was on the other night. I ended up checking some more stuff on the web. Lefty Rosenthal has a pretty cool little website, he also gives free sports picks. (Then I ended up reading some stuff about the Computer group sports bettors.) I seriously think I've read just about every good mob book in print and the Chicago guys always seemed the baddest. They really had things wrapped up tight for a long time.

[youtalkfunny]

I can't help myself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip2WYXbPuuw

(audio is NSFW)

[Mike Gallo]

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Its not as glamorous as Hollywood makes it out to seem.