attorney’s office’s daring prosecution of America’s most dangerous criminal organization. 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. In Operation Family Secrets, Frank Calabrese, Jr. Frank Jr.’s cooperation with the FBI for virtually no monetary gain or special privileges helped create the government’s “Operation Family Secrets” campaign against the Chicago outfit, which reopened eighteen unsolved murders, implicated twelve La Cosa Nostra soldiers and two outfit bosses, and became one of the largest organized crime cases in U.S. Attorneys Office to incriminate his own father and to help bring down the last great American crime syndicate-the one-hundred-year-old 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. 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. For decades, organized crime in Chicagothe so-called Outfitremained a feared and mysterious cabal. Operation Family Secrets was an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into mob-related crimes in Chicago. The inside story of a notable organized-crime prosecution, in which a son turned on his ferocious father. last year for my book Mafia Hairdresserbecause it was a Chicago mafia themed book signing. A useful and readable addition to Mob Lit. ![]() But he needs to keep his father behind bars in order to regain control of his life and save his family. I did a book signing with Frank Calabese Jr. makes the life-changing decision to go straight. When Frank Jr., his father, and Uncle Nick are convicted on racketeering violations, “Junior” and “Senior” are sent to the same federal penitentiary in Michigan. The Calabrese Crew’s colossal earnings and extreme ruthlessness made them both a dreaded criminal gang and the object of an intense FBi inquiry. Buy the Paperback Book Operation Family Secrets: How A Mobsters Son And The Fbi Brought Down Chicagos Murderous Crime Fa. As members of the outfit, they plotted the slaying of a fellow gangster, committed 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. 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. This book is a lot more focused on one mans role (Mickey Featherstone) in the. I have the book, (Operation Family Secrets: How a Mobsters Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicagos Murderous Crime Family), written by Frank Calabrese, which is the son who turned into an informant against his father. In Operation Family Secrets, Frank Calabrese, Jr. Operation Family Secrets: How a Mobsters Son and the FBI Brought Down. Author Operation Family Secrets & Former Member of The Chicago Outfit Who Testified Against His Father. ![]() Used Very Good (1 available) Former library book used book that is in excellent condition.The chilling true story of how the son of the most violent mobster in Chicago helped bring down the last great American crime syndicate: the one-hundred-year-old Chicago Outfit.
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