One thing I do find interesting about the Calabrese case--why didn't the feds prosecute him?
There have been rumblings for years now about the feds building another large-scale RICO case against the Outfit. The popular cliche is that it will be the "sequel" to Family Secrets, encompassing current activity. Who knows? What I do know is that Outfit attorney Joe Lopez recently said, "the feds don't do anything before it's time," with regard to a question about organized crime in Chicago. My guess is that if the feds really do have something truly substantial on Anthony Calabrese, then they are going to try to parlay it into something bigger.
John Kass right after Secrets wrote of a coming "tsunami" of indictments against the remaining guys but it never happened.
Some guy on ANP (for what it's worth, which is obviously very little ) was also saying "someone he knows" is predicting a big case against Cicero in 3-5 years.
I agree completely about Calabrese.
It's also interesting to note that they now have a fair amount of very high-up Chicago guys doing life or what amounts to life.
I'm sure they're working on something...
