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  • 5 found guilty in Chicago mob trial

    09/10/2007 3:01:31 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 4 replies · 384+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 9/10/07 | Mike Robinson - ap
    CHICAGO - A federal jury found five aging men guilty Monday in a racketeering conspiracy that involved decades of extortion, loan sharking and murder aimed at rubbing out anyone who dared stand in the way of the ruthless Chicago mob. The verdicts capped an extraordinary 10-week trial that laid bare some of the inner workings of The Outfit. The prosecution's star witness was an admitted hit man who took the stand against his own brother to spell out the allegations, crime by crime. The jury heard about 18 unsolved killings, including the beating death and cornfield burial of Tony "The...
  • Chicago's biggest mob trial in years set ("the Outfit" on trial for 18 long-unsolved mob murders)

    06/17/2007 8:40:17 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 5 replies · 930+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 6/17/07 | Mike Robinson - ap
    CHICAGO - It seemed like a good idea at the time. A gang of burglars decided in December 1977 to break into the home of Tony Accardo, one of the most powerful men in organized crime history, and rob his basement vault. Accardo was not amused. Six men Accardo blamed for the heist were swiftly hunted down and murdered, according to papers filed by federal prosecutors in preparation for Chicago's biggest mob trial in years, scheduled to begin Tuesday. And that's only one of the grisly tales jurors are likely to hear at the trial stemming from the FBI's "Operation...