Posted on 04/10/2010 12:07:25 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Three senior residents have been seized on charges of plotting to rob a suburban Chicago bank.
The trio was arrested Thursday night by Federal Authorities as they approached a Bridgeport residence of a dead mob leader that they had purportedly aimed for a home incursion. Inspectors said that they had previously tried to drill the home. Authorities also think that they were involved in a 2007 takeover burglary of another bank, which netted around $120,000.
Two of the suspects, Joseph "Jerry" Scalise, 73, of Clarendon Hills, and Arthur Rachel, 71, of Chicago, were well-known Chicago mob figures who were released from British jail in 1993 after being convicted for 13 years for the daylight robbery of the egg-shaped, 45-carat Marlborough Diamond and other jewels from a London jewelry store. None of the gems, worth around $2.6 million at the time, were retrieved.
Scalise was a technical adviser on "Public Enemies", the film about John Dillinger shot in Chicago in 2008.
Authorities said that testing found Scalise's DNA on the steering wheel of the car used for the 2007 theft.
After placing a listening device in Scalise's van, the FBI heard that Scalise and Pullia talking about the recent finding of cash and jewels hidden in the residence of mobster Frank Calabrese Sr.'s Oak Brook home.
All three of them remain in custody awaiting an imprisonment hearing next week.
Will disappear.
Obama receives $120,000 from Chicago Police Union.
They must have seen that movie, “Going In Style” with George Burns, Art Carney, and Lee Strasberg.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVKkxBIbfq8
I thought Chicago mobsters drilled coppers not houses. ???
Hiz Honor Da Mayor lives in Bridgeport don’t he?
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For some reason that photo isn’t showing up. Have a link?
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