Posted on 02/05/2009 3:27:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
James "Little Jimmy" Marcello, a former boss in the Chicago Outfit, has been sentenced to life in prison.
Marcello was convicted alongside other mob leaders in the massive Family Secrets trial in 2007.
Joey "The Clown" Lombardo and Frank Calabese, Sr., were convicted in the same trial and also sentenced to life.
Marcello was found responsible for the murders of Tony "The Ant" Spilotro and his brother Michael. Tony Spilotro was known as the Chicago mob's man in Las Vegas. The murders of the Spilotro brothers were the subject of the Hollywood film, "Casino."
U.S. District Judge James B. Zagel said at Marcello's Thursday sentencing that he regretted Marcello didn't lead a better life, and that he had to pay for his crimes.
Marcello declined to address the court before he was sentenced.
Related Stories Former Mafia Boss Gets Life in Prison Former Chicago police officer Anthony Doyle is the only one of the five defendants convicted at the trial who still must be sentenced.
The star witness in the trial, Nicholas Calabrese -- Frank's brother -- will be sentenced on Feb. 23.
OH MONK
Maybe he’ll get the cell next to Rezko.
Here I thought it was going to mention Blago, Rahm and Obamie.
Didn’t the movie “Casino” have these guys in it’s plot?
Family Secrets - Chicago Mob Trial
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Since the fourth paragraph reads :
‘The murders of the Spilotro brothers were the subject of the Hollywood film, “Casino.” ‘
I’ll say .. maybe
Yes. Interesting thing from trial testimony is that the Spilotro brothers were murdered in the basement of a house in Chicago, not in a cornfield as the movie portrays.
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Every mafia movie had deez guys.
Before I read the lead in I thought , “they finally got Daley”.
"After the accession of a new boss of the Chicago crime family, Joseph Ferriola, the decision was made to have Spilotro murdered. It is suspected that Spilotro and his brother Michael were called by Sam "Wings" Carlisi to a meeting at a hunting lodge owned by Spilotro's former mob boss, Joey Aiuppa.
It had been rumored that the Spilotros were savagely beaten and buried alive in a cornfield in Enos, Indiana. They were identified by their brother Pasquale Jr. through dental records. However, in 2007, mob assassin Nicholas Calabrese testified at the "Operation Family Secrets" trial in Chicago that the brothers were killed in a Bensenville, Illinois, basement where the Spilotros believed that Michael would be inducted into The Outfit. According to court testimony, when Tony entered the basement and realized what was about to occur, he asked if he could "say a prayer".
An autopsy performed on the recovered bodies found sand in the brothers' lungs, leading FBI examiners to conclude that they had been buried alive. No arrests were made until April 25, 2005, when 14 members of the Chicago Outfit (including reputed boss James Marcello) were indicted for 18 murders, including the Spilotros'.
As a result of that investigation, the murders of the Spilotro brothers are now thought to have taken place in DuPage County, Illinois — in Joseph Aiuppa's hunting lodge, where they were beaten and strangled before being buried in a cornfield alongside Highway 41 in northwest Indiana. At the time of Spilotro's murder, Aiuppa was in prison, but Spilotro must have thought the building was still in use as a hunting lodge."
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