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Family Secrets
- The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob
- Narrated by: Matthew Boston
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
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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 18 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.
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- Matt Bee
- 04-12-20
Very Good
An extremely well written & performed account of the Chicago Mob with no punches pulled.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-09-21
Really Enjoyable, but...
I really enjoyed this book, but I never got a true sense of The Outfit's operations and how important Nick was, other than the fact he did pieces of work and was involved in extortion, etc. I would have liked to have heard his story better, rather than one told solely through Court transcripts.
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