The case reopens eighteen unsolved murders and also implicates twelve La Cosa Nostra soldiers and two outfit bosses. 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. 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. But he needs to keep his father behind bars in order to regain control of his life and save his family. makes a life-changing decision: to go straight rather than agree to his father's plans to resume crew activities after serving his sentence. 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. The Calabrese Crew's colossal earnings and extreme ruthlessness make them both a dreaded criminal gang and the object of an intense FBi inquiry. 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. In Operation Family Secrets Frank Calabrese, Jr., tells the turbulent tale of a family dominated by a violent patriarch who breaks a longstanding unwritten outfit code and "brings the street into his home" by enlisting two of his sons into the outfit's 26th Street/Chinatown crew. As a boy, the oldest son, Frank Jr., realizes that his father and uncle are also "made" members of another close-knit family: the outfit. All three sons forge a bond with their controlling father, Frank Sr., and their soft-spoken favorite uncle, Nick. They work day and night striving for the American Dream. The Calabrese family of Chicago is a close-knit, middle-class, multi-generational Italian-Irish-American clan. Attorney's Office to incriminate his own father and to help bring down the last great American crime syndicate-the one-hundred-year-old Chicago Outfit. Then they responded to questions from members of the audience.Operation Family Secrets is the chilling true story of how the son of the most violent mobster in Chicago made the unprecedented decision to work with the FBI and the U.S. Rick Kogan talked with two authors about their books about criminals. ET program from the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest was held on the Books and Media Stage in the Lake Room of University Center. The book tells what led Art Williams to crime, how he came to counterfeit the supposedly secure 1996 New Note, and what led to his downfall. Jason Kersten is the author of The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter (Gotham June 11, 2009). Coen covered the trial of Frank Calabrese, Sr., leader of a Chicago crime syndicate whose son became an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Jeff Coen is the author of Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob (Chicago Review Press April 1, 2009). Then they responded to questions from members of the audience. T15:57:09-04:00 Rick Kogan talked with two authors about their books about criminals.
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