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    Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob
    Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob
    Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob
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    Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob

    Written by Jeff Coen

    Narrated by Matthew Boston

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    Even in Chicago, a city steeped in mob history and legend, the Family Secrets case was a true spectacle when it made it to court in 2007. A top mob boss, a reputed consigliere, and other high-profile members of the Chicago Outfit were accused in a total of eighteen gangland killings, revealing organized crime's ruthless grip on the city throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

    Painting a vivid picture of murder, courtroom drama, family loyalties and disloyalties, journalist Jeff Coen accurately portrays the Chicago Outfit's cold-blooded-and sometimes incompetent-killers and their crimes in the case that brought them down. In 1998 Frank Calabrese Jr. volunteered to wear a wire to gather evidence against his father, a vicious loan shark who strangled most of his victims with a rope before slitting their throats to ensure they were dead. Frank Jr. went after his uncle Nick as well, a calculating but sometimes bumbling hit man who would become one of the highest-ranking turncoats in mob history, admitting he helped strangle, stab, shoot, and bomb victims who got in the mob's way, and turning evidence against his brother Frank.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 28, 2017
    ISBN9781541489882

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      Having grown up in the area, this was like a tour of places I knew. Plus the case is gripping. Little problem with name switching page to page (Johnny Bagadonuts - not really a name- would be referred to as John, Johnny, or Bagadonuts , plus his Mafia name in two pages. Confusing. But a minor complaint overall.