Read this last night. He certainly was in a position to know what was happening. Looks like there are other investigations on-going.

What does it say? Stupid trib has it locked up.

Posted by SLICK.


U.S. prosecutor retires after 43 years fighting Chicago mob, corruption
Gary Shapiro
Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Shapiro worked at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago. He's retiring after 43 years on the job. (Chris Sweda, Chicago Tribune)
By Jason Meisner,
Chicago Tribune
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Chicago's top federal prosecutor, Gary Shapiro, retires after 43 years fighting mob, corruption.
Gary Shapiro, who is retiring from fighting the mob and corruptions, is described as a 'prosecutor's prosecuto
As a young federal prosecutor, Gary Shapiro was just days from trying his first big Chicago mob case in 1974 when masked men burst into a Bensenville plastics firm and fatally shot Danny Seifert in front of his wife and young son.

At the time, Seifert was the only witness linking Joey "The Clown" Lombardo to millions in missing Teamsters union pension funds. His brutal murder forced prosecutors to abruptly drop all charges against the notorious Outfit lieutenant, and a short time later, the remaining defendants were all acquitted at trial.

While the loss stung, it had a hidden lesson for Shapiro: If you stick around long enough, you just might get another chance.

More than three decades later, Shapiro was there in 2007 when the elderly boss was finally convicted for Seifert's slaying as part of the landmark Family Secrets case that landed Lombardo and other Outfit leaders behind bars for life.

"In the end it all comes back," Shapiro, 68, told the Tribune as he wound up a remarkable 43-year career last week.

Shapiro said it was going after people like Lombardo that kept him from ever thinking about trying a potentially more lucrative career in private practice. Whether it was investigating organized crime or terrorism or gangs, he always felt that at the end of the day he might be "doing some

"How can that not be a great job?" he said.

Since 1998, Shapiro served as top assistant to a succession of U.S. attorneys — Scott Lassar, Patrick Fitzgerald and Zachary Fardon. And for more than a year before Fardon took office last year, Shapiro filled in as interim U.S. attorney.

Known as a "prosecutor's prosecutor," Shapiro graduated from the University of Texas School of Law in 1971 and cut his teeth with the Chicago Strike Force, a unit separate from the U.S. Attorney's Office designed to attack the mob's iron-fisted influence on many aspects of business and politics.

"The mob then had power, real power and control in virtually every area you could think of, whether it's law enforcement or the judiciary or local politics or even national politics," Shapiro said.

Nowhere was that influence more prevalent than Chicago, where the Outfit was centrally organized and had deep-seated relationships with political figures that stretched back generations, Shapiro said. Also key to the mob's power was the nation's unions and their massive pension funds.

Shapiro's strike force got a breakthrough in the early 1980s with the successful prosecution of Teamsters President Roy Williams, its pension fund manager Allen Dorfman and several others for conspiring to bribe then-U.S. Sen. Howard Cannon to kill proposed legislation to deregulate the trucking industry

Williams later became the highest-ranking Teamsters official ever to testify against the mobsters who controlled the pension funds, leading to convictions against bosses in Chicago, Milwaukee, Kansas City and Cleveland.

"That was the beginning of the end for them," Shapiro said of the Outfit's national influence. "But it took a couple of decades more of us targeting the various factions of the Chicago family, the various crews ... ultimately concluding with Family Secrets."

Shapiro said the Outfit today still makes money in rackets like gambling and extortion, and there are active investigations that he declined to elaborate on. But the mob's heyday is clearly over.


"There is no question their influence over politics, the police, the judiciary and the unions has been drastically reduced," Shapiro said. "That doesn't mean it's gone away."

Through the years, many of the cases Shapiro worked seemed to be straight from the movies.

William Hanhardt, the former Chicago police chief of detectives, was convicted in 2001 of running a mob-connected theft ring that netted more than $5 million in diamonds and gems over 20 years.

Shapiro said authorities had suspected for years that Hanhardt was in bed with the mob but had nothing they could use in court.

In the late 1980s, when word got out that Hanhardt was in line for a promotion, the FBI and federal prosecutors went to top officials in Mayor Jane Byrne's administration to try to persuade them to put a stop to it, but he was "promoted nonetheless," Shapiro said.

And then there was Robert Cooley, a former Chicago cop and crooked lawyer who one day in 1986 called up Shapiro and said he needed to talk. Cooley wound up wearing a hidden wire for three years, recording crime bosses and politicians as they rigged everything from felony cases to zoning decisions and state law.

"It was pretty astonishing. This never happens," Shapiro said. "People usually get flipped because we catch them doing something. But we had nothing on him."

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Good stuff. Thanks for posting.

Excellent interview with Gary Shapiro. Thanks Slick.

He wouldn't comment on JD ! Hmmmmm

I think there's a case pending on jd maybe that's why he stepped down as boss claiming health reasons, if they try to put him in jail he can say he's sick

Oh Cicero.

http://politics.suntimes.com/article/chi...-11122014-920pm

Cicero looks like its still owned by the chicago.mob
Would assume guys like solly d ,mikey g and jimmy I are the top people there

Gotta love it. Cicero is still rocking. It's like a retiring Don handing over The Family to his first son.

I've heard a few people make the claim that Schullo is getting more important with that crew.

Which Mikey are you referring to...Grieco?

Here is a guestion from a Mike Rowe interview I found.
1. Forbidden jobs:
Q: "What dirty jobs did you always want to do but the network or producers wouldn't let you do? (too dangerous, inappropriate, so on)," asked SSJStarwind16.
Rowe: "The segments I was most interested in doing but found the most resistance around was that of a rendering facility. ... the Mob is still involved in a surprising number of rendering facilities. Why the Mob has such a rich history in garbage-related industries and rendering-related industries is a conversation beyond my pay grade. I only know how relieved I was to finally find a rendering outfit that was not owned or operated by the Cosa Nostra.
"That facility was in Northern California. And they were called North State Rendering.
"To this day, I'm impressed with how brave they were in their decision to let us provide our viewers with an unvarnished look at what it takes to turn a dead cow into several hundred pounds of chicken feed." http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/12/opinion/mike-rowe-somebodys-gotta-do-it-ama-questions-answers/

Larry Dominick is about as corrupt and openly "Outfit" as you can get in Chicago. Dominick was a cop under Emil Schullo when Schullo ran the force - the two are very close friends.

This shouldn't surprise anyone. Betty Loren Maltese has said that even Ray Hanania used to work for Frank Maltese.

Mike Del Galdo? That is Dominick's guy who is also mobbed-up.

From today's Trib... Looks like another friend of Larry Dominick got pinched.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local...1201-story.html

Am I missing some sort of Outfit connection here?

Those grimey looking mothafuckas do not look like cops

Only cops in the area that look that thirsty are in the heights

Mikey giorango?

Good Carparelli article by Scott Burnstein. http://gangsterreport.com/chicago-mobs-lake-county-crew-siege/

Did anyone find out who Mickey D was?

I found an interesting article on a blog about Michael Del Galdo. Don't know if it the same one Chitown mentioned or not?
http://bettysblog.com/?p=407


Dominick’s Legal Eagle Del Galdo and Pesek Have Deep Ties …
On February 7, 2013, in Misc, by Betty
Cicero Town Attorney Michael DelGaldo is related to Joseph DelGaldo from New York.

Joseph DelGaldo and Joseph DeMorato owned Priority One Ambulance in New York.

Joseph DeMorato was the co-owner of New World Development LLC with Larry Dominick flunky Jeff Pesek, a key witness in the 2011 “Family Secrets” mob trial in Chicago.

Joseph DelGaldo and his mother Judy DelGaldo pled guilty in 2011 for embezzling $16 million from a New York textile company from 2003-2011.

Judy and Joe DelGaldo funneled the money through a dummy corporation called “Tea-Rific Beverage Inc.”

Tea-Rific Beverage Inc. donated $10,000 to Citizens for Larry Dominick.

New World Development LLC put in a bid for over 25 “surplus” properties from the Town of Cicero. The titles to the property were never recorded with the Recorder of Deeds. No property taxes have been paid on the properties as they are still listed as government exempt.

It is unknown whether any of the stolen funds from New Jersey / New York were transferred across state lines to Citizens For Larry Dominick or the Town of Cicero, which would make it a Federal issue.

It is unknown whether any of the properties were owned by Latinos who abandoned their properties after being targeted with thousands of dollars in building code violation fines, making the combined mortgage and fines worth more than the property.

Sec.of State Files …………
________________________________________
Entity Name NEW WORLD DEVELOPMENT, LLC File Number 01585851
Status INVOLUNTARY DISSOLUTION On 01/28/2007
Entity Type LLC Type of LLC Domestic
File Date 08/02/2005 Jurisdiction IL
Agent Name JEFFRY PESEK Agent Change Date 08/02/2005
Agent Street Address 7115 WEST NORTH AVE. Principal Office 7115 WEST NORTH AVE.
OAK PARK, IL 60304
Agent City OAK PARK Management Type MBR View

Agent Zip 60304 Duration PERPETUAL
Annual Report Filing Date 00/00/0000 For Year 2006
Series Name NOT AUTHORIZED TO ESTABLISH SERIES

LLC MEMBERS
________________________________________
Entity Name NEW WORLD DEVELOPMENT, LLC File Number 01585851

Name Address
PESEK, JEFFRY 7115 WEST NORTH AVE., OAK PARK, IL – 60304
DEMORATO, JOSEPH A. 20 VENUS PL., STATEN ISLAND, NY – 10312

This is another example of Chicago people with ties out east.

http://www.ipsn.org/cc97.html


38 outfit members in 1997 in prison acc. to this article

That included both members and associates.

It would have to be because over 20 members died between 1997 and 2007 (when the 28 member figure was cited).

It has non-Italians on the list so it definitely mixes members and associates.

Did Mad Sam kill his own brother over a few thousand dollars?

That fucka was nuts.

Priest pleads guilty for passing messages from Frank Calabrese, Sr.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local...ory.html#page=1