The Chicago Syndicate: William Hanhardt
Showing posts with label William Hanhardt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Hanhardt. Show all posts
Monday, July 16, 2012

How Defective Bullets Turned Ken "Tokyo Joe" Eto into a Government Witness Against the Chicago Outfit

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Nothing says July in Chicagoland quite like the bodies of those two bumbling Outfit hit men found stuffed in the trunk of a car almost thre...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Oscar D'Angelo, "Mayor of Little Italy", on Mob Trial Witness List

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Two weeks from now Chicago's latest Outfit trial is scheduled to start in federal court. A trio of aging Chicago mobsters face racketeer...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Did Jerry Scalise Target Oscar D'Angelo?

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Mobbed-up thief Joseph Jerry “The Monk” Scalise allegedly targeted Daley mayoral pal and controversial lobbyist Oscar D’Angelo for a robber...
Monday, April 05, 2010

Will Calabrese Family Secret Stash Provide Insight into the Mob?

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Nearly $730,000 in cash, about 1,000 pieces of jewelry and loaded handguns found hidden alongside recording devices in a mobster's subur...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Rudy Fratto Sentenced to One Year and One Day in Federal Prison

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Rudy Fratto , a reputed lieutenant in the Elmwood Park street crew of the Chicago Outfit , was sentenced in federal court today to a year an...
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Sunday, January 17, 2010

Family Secrets Mob Prosecutor, John J. Sully, Now Serves on the Bench

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For John J. Scully, who closed out his 25 years of fighting organized crime as a federal prosecutor in Chicago with the Operation Family Sec...
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Monday, November 30, 2009

Rudy Fratto Seeks to Delay Federal Sentencing

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Chicago Outfit bosses have devised some shrewd excuses to stall justice, from feigning heart attacks and strokes to babbling incoherently a...
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Friday, October 16, 2009

Guilty Plea to Tax Evasion by Reputed Mobster, Rudy Fratto

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Reputed suburban Chicago mobster Rudy Fratto pleaded guilty Tuesday to evading thousands of dollars in federal income taxes. Fratto, 65, of ...
Sunday, July 12, 2009

City of Chicago Squeezes Widow of Man Squeezed by The Chicago Outfit

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Whether the name of Richie Urso ever makes it into the corruption trial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich next June is anybody's guess. You...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Chicago's Crooked Chief of Detectives

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On a gloomy winter day in 1983, two gunmen ambushed a businessman named Allen Dorfman as he walked across a hotel parking lot in suburban Ch...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Despite Recent Success in Fighting "The Outfit", Federal Prosecutors' Mob Focus Decreases

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The ranks of the Chicago mob have taken some serious hits in recent years. So have the ranks of federal prosecutors specializing in Outfit p...
Sunday, March 09, 2008

Chicago Democrats and the Chicago Mob

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Barack Obama's key fund raiser, Tony Rezko, went on trial last week. It's important to take a broader look at America's most co...
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Friday, March 07, 2008

Defining "The Chicago Way"

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The Chicago Way. What is it? Is it easily abused? Is it dangerous in the wrong hands? This is critical, as the nation's eyes turn toward...
Saturday, October 06, 2007

The Fed's Secret Weapon to Bust the Mob

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The end of the Operation Family Secrets trial in Chicago has also brought an end to one of the government's secret weapons against the m...