Originally Posted By: cookcounty
Originally Posted By: jonnynonos
Originally Posted By: GaryMartin
Yeah, "a mountain of evidence" was a stretch on my part. He was tried on the evidence you mentioned, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of his past crimes made it into the courtroom or jury. Who knows?

If one other judge had sided with Judge Diane Wood, Calabrese and Marcello would have walked.


I read their overriding of her dissent or whatever you call it. Crazy!

You gotta think the rest of the guys would have been pissed beyond belief at Calabrese for spilling everything to his kid.

I wonder if Marcello would have bowed out.

Is Nick out yet? If not already, soon.

Bet he moved faaaaar away.




calabrese thought he was grooming his son to be in the syndicate

a stone cold gangster ain't gonna think his offspring is a rat

i'm sure the northside and even cicero didn't mind calabrese getting locked up because Chicago has never wanted the southside crew to be in the lead. hell the southside might have the strongest crew if they weren't murdering each other into the early 90s



Previously Sr had actually promised Jr he was gonna drop out of the life. That was earlier though. Still I don't think Sr had any illusions that Jr was gonna become a full fledged guy himself. I think they were just bonding.

Even Srs kids thought he was a henlinous monster.