Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob by Coen, Jeff
Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob by Coen, Jeff

Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob

Even in Chicago, a city steeped in mob history and legend, the Family Secrets case was a...
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Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob by Coen, Jeff

Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob

$40.27
Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob by Coen, Jeff

Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob

$40.27
Author: Jeff Coen
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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. The Chicago courtroom took on the look and feel of a movie set as Chicago's most colorful mobsters and their equally flamboyant attorneys paraded through and performed: James "Jimmy Light" Marcello, the acting head of the Chicago mob; Joey "the Clown" Lombardo, one of Chicago's most eccentric mobsters; Paul "the Indian" Schiro; and a former Chicago police officer, Anthony "Twan" Doyle, among others. Re-creating events from court transcripts, police records, interviews, and notes taken day after day as the story unfolded in court, Coen provides a riveting wide-angle view and one of the best accounts on record of the inner workings of the Chicago syndicate and its control over the city's streets.

Author: Jeff Coen
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 09/01/2010
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.03w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9781569765456

About the Author
Jeff Coen is a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, covering federal trials and investigations from the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in downtown Chicago. He was present in the courtroom throughout the Family Secrets trial, and his pieces on the case were featured in a popular series in the Chicago Tribune.
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