Nick Calabrese Spotted In Chicago Outfit Territory

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Nick Calabrese Spotted In Chicago Outfit Territory


Infamous Chicago mob turncoat Nicholas (Nicky Slim) Calabrese, the only “made” member of the Outfit to ever testify in court against the crime family, is out of prison and according to multiple first-hand accounts, has been seen on more than one occasion back visiting in the Windy City.

It’s unclear exactly why Calabrese was in town. Per these accounts, the 72-year old Nicky Slim wasn’t trying that hard to keep a low profile though, returning to several of his one-time favorite local haunts and reuniting with some old friends from childhood for drinks at area watering holes.



Calabrese’s cooperation with the government led to the landmark Operation Family Secrets case – a 2005 indictment, nailing 14 Chicago mobsters for 18 different gangland homicides and his subsequent testimony at the 2007 trial, which brought down his big brother and mob mentor Frank (Frankie Breeze) Calabrese, as well as the Outfit’s acting boss, James (Jimmy the Man) Marcello and consigliere Joseph (Joey the Clown) Lombardo.

Nicky Slim was released from prison in 2012 and is in the Witness Protection Program. He had been behind bars since 1997, originally on a straight racketeering conviction. According to his testimony, Calabrese carried out numerous murders on behalf of the mob between the early 1970s and into the late 1980s.

The highly-publicized Family Secrets legal assault solved the notoriously grisly 1986 double homicide of Chicago mafia Las Vegas crew leader Tony (the Ant) Spilotro and his younger brother, Michael. The pair were heinously beaten, stomped and strangled to death in a southside basement by Nick Calabrese and others for the Ant’s rogue behavior in Vegas.

The Calabrese boys spawned from the Outfit’s rugged southside regime, known on the street as the Chinatown or 26th Street Crew, and long overseen by the Caruso and La Pietra factions of the Family dating back more than a half-century. Frankie Breeze and Nicky Slim came up in the mafia under southside capo Angelo (the Hooks) La Pietra, the successor to Frank (Skids) Caruso. Frank (Toots) Caruso, Jr., Skids’ son, is alleged to be the current mob captain of the Chinatown neighborhood.

The breaking of the Family Secrets case took close to 20 years and can be directly traced to a misstep by Nick Calabrese during a “follow-up murder” to the Spilotro brothers hits. Three months after Tony and Michael Spilotro were slain in the suburban basement of Outfit soldier Louis (Louie the Mooch) Eboli in June 1986 in a vicious display staged in front of most of the syndicate’s sitting administration, Frankie Breeze and Nicky Slim were assigned to clip fellow southsider mob soldier John (Big Stoop) Fecarotta, the man that botched coordinating the Spilotros’ burial and angered his superiors in the mafia by being too loose lipped with his wife and girlfriends, even taking them on scouting missions for future murders.

In the process of killing Fecarotta on September 14, 1986, Nick Calabrese accidentally shot himself in the shoulder and dropped a blood-soaked glove on the ground near the hit site, a Chicago bingo hall. Investigators could never connect the glove to anybody until the spring of 1998 when Nicky Slim’s nephew, Frank Calabrese, Jr., Frankie Breeze’s son and a southside crew associate married to Angelo La Pietra’s niece, came forth to the FBI and offered to help the government build cases against his dad and uncle. All three were serving time on a 1997 RICO conviction related to extortion and loansharking.

While debriefing for the FBI, Calabrese, Jr. told the feds the story about his dad and uncle and their misadventures murdering Big Stoop Fecarotta, how his uncle got shot and left one of his black leather gloves at the scene. The FBI, in turn, used the information and taped conversations with Frankie Breeze, in essence signing off on a hit on his own brother, to leverage Nicky Slim into becoming the first made member of the Chicago mafia to ever flip and join Team America.

Frank Calabrese, at one time in the 1980s and 90s arguably the biggest loanshark in Illinois, died of cancer in prison on Christmas Day 2012. He was 75.

Frankie Breeze and Nicky Slim were inducted into the mafia together in a 1983 making ceremony presided over by Outfit boss Joseph (Joey Doves) Aiuppa and syndicate elder statesman Alphonse (Al the Pizza Man) Tornebene. Aiuppa had long supported Tony Spilotro’s reign as “Don of the Las Vegas Strip,” but quickly soured upon being federally indicted in 1985 in a casino skimming case that many in the mob blamed on the incessant heat the Ant was bringing down on them with his volatile and in-your-face ways. Before heading off to prison in January 1986, Aiuppa signed off on Spilotro’s murder.

The tale of the flashy and ferocious Tony the Ant was brought to the movie screen a decade after his death, depicted in the 1995 film Casino, with Oscar-winner Joe Pesci portraying Spilotro.

Even though he was a cooperating witness and all, wouldn't he be prohibited to socialize with certain people? Kind of like a parole stipulation? One would think so?

No. I don't think rats have parole or probation once they get out.

I could be mistaken, but I doubt he is socializing with anyone from a criminal element. Old non outfit friends and family probably.

Well he has balls, to say the least. 2005 isn't that long ago in Mob years. I'm sure there are still guys in Chicago who would love to make a name off Nick Calabrese. Like that 40-year old Outfit soldier they wrote that article about about a month or so ago when he had to go to prison. And he said something along the lines of "I'm an Outfit guy and I love what I am, I can never change" or some shit like that. I forget his name. I think he was a part of Solly D's crew, or the guy who took over for him, his crew.

You thinking of Paul Carparelli? I think he said that, but dont know if he is captain, dont think he is

Think it is Jimmy I

Maybe he'll show up at Wrigley, like Alite just did at Citi Field. Then Tweet about it .

well, I guess they don't kill rats anymore in Chicago, never thought I would see that day.

Do they kill rats in Idaho, or just shoot at them in the backyard to have something to do on the weekends?

If he's sloppy drunk, wearing a 3XL Cubs Jersey and looking for a fight, he'll fit right in and go unnoticed.

You had to post that didnt you? lol

the only reason these fucks have balls is because they know it isnt worth it to the mob when the damage is done

maybe if they could get to a guy before they testify

Sometimes I wish some young kid would make an example of one of these fucks to set them straight and make other rats less cocky, it is getting ridiculous

You know me, BJ. Sometimes Uncle Dan lurks here. And you know I love the guy. But I like to bust his onions once in awhile, and something tells me that I'm gonna be getting a 3am pm from him overnight tonight. Guy never sleeps. He's worse than I am .

Dan is a character. He is a good guy though once you get to know him a little bit.

And the boss would chase the kid in a heartbeat for going off the reservation. But I hear what you're saying, and I do agree with you.

It used to happen years ago anyway. Some kid in the neighborhood would hear about an innocent slight to a local wiseguy, then go out and give the guy a baseball bat beating without permission. Then HE'D be the one who got exiled down south or out west for a year or two.

Frank, Jr.'s still walking around so it's not totally out of the realm of possibility. Then again, Nick was a made guy and was directly responsible for putting Marcello, a guy who still has lots of friends on the street, away for life.

i understand the not killing rats after the fact, but at what point do these guys make an example, and who are even these guys Alite is aways with in his pics he posts..lol..one thing to not kill a rat that lives in Utah now, but all these guys just rubbing it in their faces living in the area and living well...mob really has changed, pussies

Ron Previte really deserves it as well as Alite

There's always the chance that somebody's gonna pull a Nicodemo and kill a rat but nowadays they don't even kill guys who don't flip. The less they murder, the longer they'll survive.

Very good example with Nicodemo (and Dom Grande)

Chris Paciello celebrating Kamal Hotchandani's 40th birthday last month at the Forge. She's one of the wealthiest publishers in the world. And there's a bartender who works the Eden Roc on the weekends who lives in my condo complex in Delray (the tips in that place are obviously worth the commute).

Anyway, he tells me that Paciello is actually getting appearance fees at the Delano now. That's aside from living in one of their suites free of charge. Now, rats who I don't know personally usually don't move me too much one way or the other. But I can't stand this cocksucker. But tell the truth, does he look scared to you?

He isnt scared and was a tough guy in his own right (tough guy and rat or NOT the same nor go hand in hand)

Did you hear about that spat him and Merlino got into at the heat game a year or 2 ago?

Yes, and I swear on my father that I'm saying this objectively and not to rile you up. But I doubt that Paciello fears Merlino in the slightest.

One on one, he shits bigger than Merlino. And big picture, if he's not afraid of Allie Boy reaching out through the Colombos from prison (don't forget, Tommy Farese is Florida based now, he lives right around the block from me in Delray), I doubt he fears Philly in the slightest.

Just my opinion. Because I honestly couldn't care less if they found this guy hanging upside down from a Palm Tree on Collins Avenue tomorrow morning.

But here's the thing: You hit it on the head. Paciello IS a tough guy. You can't send someone who's gonna miss, or he's gonna end up getting hurt, AND ending up in prison. Because the Feds still love this asshole.

Paciello scared or looking over his shoulder, no way, not because he's tough but because nobody has the balls to actaully do anything anymore.

Allie Boy should send someone to send a message but hell, he's worried about his cantina fund and what's for dinner.

He can handle himself. But you're right about the lack of balls today.

I should also add that security at the Delano is EXCLUSIVELY ex-military, ex-FBI and ex-Secret Sevice. The clientele there is THAT FUCKING RICH.

So as long as Paciello keeps it close to home down there, his biggest fear is getting a sunburn.

If that was my mother this cocksucker got killed, id do this mother fucker myself.

As people have already pointed out, name me one place that will go out on a limb and clip a high profile rat these days? Can you imagine the heat?


Snakes, true about Frank...but didn't he receive death threats when he was doing an appearance signing his book at Borders a few years ago?

seriously man....and crazy how these rich people, they let this guy right back into their world after his prison sentence and knowing what he did to that poor woman...unreal

next thing you know this rat chris paciello will be running for congress.... then he will be with low-life pigs, like he is.

I hate an arrogant stoolie!!!

Blackjack or PB whats the spat Paciello and Merlino got into at a Heat game never heard of it can u elaborate ?

they spotted each other, exchanged looks and allegedly paciello came over with a few guys and said something like "yeah iam a rat and im here, got a problem?"
leaving merlino stunned.


Snitches and their families don't get stitches anymore

more on paciello:
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/chris-paciello-ratted-on-mob-bosses-new-documents-show-6386263

You are right. But I bet any possible future rats in Philly thinking about informing will have the Nicodemo case in the back of their mind.

Hey I believe you. Merlino was never one to use his fists. He was a bully, but always had a crew of people around him to rough people up. Besides, he prefers the gun. (ask Scarfo Jr.)

Regardless I doubt anything comes of it. Was just curious if you had heard about it since you reside in FL.

It was just a brief exchange, nothing too serious. Chance encounter. Merlino spotted him, eyed him.

Exchanged a few words about being a rat. Obviously nothing was going to happen at a Heat game.

Yea I remember hearing about that lol

Lebron James had even got involved yelling. "Guys you are my two favorite mobsters, stop fighting!"

Back up top right now. We're going down this Friday morning for the holiday weekend and to tighten things up for the summer. Probably won't go back until at least September or October.

So you pretty much fly south for the winter?

How do you guys feel about guys like Michael Franzese?

they should've beat his ass and made sportscenter top 10 plays of the week

Yeah, we're down to about eight months in New York. It gets less year by year. Ideally, by this time in a year or two, it will be eight months in Florida and four in New York.

It's nearly impossible to predict things, though. My Dad, my in-laws (who are both also in their 80's), the buildings. It's always something. But if I had my absolute choice that I could set in stone, it would be October to May in Florida, the Summer in New York.

If he layed a finger on Joey he would be a dead man.

Nicky skins killed the one that ratted on him before he killed himself in Bloomfield

both big dealers too so i don't know how to feel bout that one

The NJ Luchesse did kill that rat in 08 I believe but I don't think he came out yet.

And I do feel Leonetti wld get whacked if the WS cld given what he did to the chin but that fam is in a league of its own

lol...yeah ok....what about Previte, Lou Monacello...two rats never left area

I wish he would have laid a finger on him, this guy is arrogant and thinks hes untouchable. love to see someone take him down a notch or two. like hang him on a meathook.

Kind of goes to show you what is of the highest priority of CN today , make $

And LE heat definately slows down business

Why don't you do it, Binnie?

And don't get offended, I ask the same thing of everyone who says that so and so MUST get whacked in the name of Cosa Nostra. So leave Idaho for the first time in forty years, go down to Miami (which is in a death penalty state, where they're pretty quick to give you the needle), and you kill the guy if he bothers you so much.

Besides, I thought you were a Christian. How many times have I read how devout you are? I could use the search function, but I'm not looking to pick on you. We're cool, and I mean that. The only real point I'm trying to make is, it's easy to talk murder. Carrying it out is another thing entirely.

And except for the Vets who've seen combat on these boards, I'd estimate that 99% of the board members here have never seen a murdered body in the street before the cops and the ME came to pick it up. And trust me, they look a lot nicer at the funeral home.

Forget my background and where I'm from. Just keep in mind that I worked in funeral service for 25 years. Now granted, it was mostly in the union. But I've seen murder victims that would make a billy goat puke.

Nick C sounds like one of those guys who guys who genuinely regrets the things he did, which is rare. Most of these guys, you can see through like a window. The guy was on the verge of tears on the stand. Go back and look at Gravano and try and detect remorse. The only thing you'll see is that look of "I got caught, better rat to save my ass".

You like Florida that much more than NY?

No, I just can't take the cold anymore. I talk a good game, but New York is who I am. Six and six is probably more of an ideal situation. But like I said, something always comes up anyway.

I've taken twenty commercial flights in the past six months, and half of them were last minute. There's an old saying: Make plans, and God laughs.

I hate the cold and I live in NC. Probably couldn't do NYC winters.

of course im not going to do it. im just saying I hate rats that's all, the guy hurt a lot of people he deserves the very worst, hopefully karma will get the dude.

and I am a devout Christian, but some rats deserve to get it !! oh, and cicale too.

You just redeemed yourself. You really know the way to my heart, you big lug .

Man, this winter was brutal. So, so brutal. I bet its going to be a cold summer, too. Maybe you should go back down, PB.

I remember reading about that right after it supposedly happened, and another one of the very reputable sporting news services discredited it and basically said that it was a made up, bullshit story.

Is there any proof that encounter actually really did happen? I'm not questioning you guys or saying you are wrong or that it didn't happen. I'm just wondering if that was ever confirmed to be a 100% factual, true story.

I read about it on another site from someone that knew someone that saw it. Weeks before it ever came out on Gangland News.