Operation Family Secrets: How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family

Author:   Frank Calabrese, Jr. ,  Paul Pompian ,  Keith Zimmerman ,  Kent Zimmerman
Publisher:   Tantor Media, Inc
Edition:   Unabridged edition
ISBN:  

9781452652351


Publication Date:   18 May 2011
Format:   Audio  Audio Format
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Operation Family Secrets: How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family


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The Calabrese family of Chicago is a close-knit, middle-class, multi-generational Italian-Irish-American clan. They operate family businesses. They work day and night striving for the American Dream. All three sons forge a bond with their controlling father, Frank Sr., and their soft-spoken favorite uncle, Nick. As a boy, the oldest son, Frank Jr., realizes that his father and uncle are also made members of another close-knit family: the oufit. In Operation Family Secrets, Frank Calabrese, Jr., tells the turbulent tale of a family dominated by a violent patriarch who breaks a long-standing unwritten outfit code and brings the street into his home by enlisting two of his sons into the outfit's 26th Street/Chinatown crew. Calabrese 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, and plotting the slaying of a fellow gangster, while they commit 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. Eventually Frank Jr., his father, and Uncle Nick are convicted on racketeering violations, and Junior and Senior are sent to the same federal penitentiary in Michigan. Upon arrival, Frank Jr. makes a life-changing decision: to go straight rather than agree to his father's plans to resume crew activities afer serving his sentence. But he needs to keep his father behind bars in order to regain control of his life and save his family. Frank Jr. makes a secret deal with prosecutors, and for six months-unmonitored and unprotected-he wears a wire as his father recounts decades of hideous crimes. Frank Jr.'s cooperation with the FBI for virtually no monetary gain or special privileges helps create the government's Operation Family Secrets campaign against the Chicago outfit. The case reopens eighteen unsolved murders and also implicates twelve La Cosa Nostra soldiers and two outfit bosses. It becomes one of the largest organized crime cases in U.S. history. Operation Family Secrets intimately portrays how organized crime rots a family from the inside out while detailing Frank Jr.'s deadly prison-yard mission, the FBI's landmark investigation, and the U.S. Attorney's Office's daring prosecution of America's most dangerous criminal organization.

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Author:   Frank Calabrese, Jr. ,  Paul Pompian ,  Keith Zimmerman ,  Kent Zimmerman
Publisher:   Tantor Media, Inc
Imprint:   Tantor Media, Inc
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 19.00cm
Weight:   0.072kg
ISBN:  

9781452652351


ISBN 10:   145265235
Publication Date:   18 May 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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An undeniably engaging tale, capturing the nitty-gritty of daily life in the 'crews' of the Outfit. A useful and readable addition to Mob Lit. ---Kirkus


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Frank Calabrese, Jr., lived in his native Chicago for thirty-nine years. Mentored by his father and brought into the Chicago outfit at age eighteen, he coauthored Operation Family Secrets. Paul Pompian, a coauthor of Operation Family Secrets, has produced more than fifty motion pictures and television productions. Keith Zimmerman is one half of a twin-brother writing team. He and his brother, Kent Zimmerman, have coauthored or contributed to over sixteen books, including Hell's Angel with Ralph Sonny Barger and Rotten with John Lydon. Kent Zimmerman is one half of a twin-brother writing team. He and his brother, Keith Zimmerman, have coauthored or contributed to over sixteen books, including Hell's Angel with Ralph Sonny Barger and Rotten with John Lydon. Todd McLaren was involved in radio for more than twenty years in cities on both coasts. He left broadcasting for a full-time career in voice-overs, where he has been heard on more than 5,000 TV and radio commercials, as well as TV promos, narrations for documentaries on such networks as A&E and the History Channel, and films.

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