Jul 16, 2007 11:36 pm US/Central
Turncoat Takes Stand In Family Secrets Mob Trial
by CBS 2's John Drummond
CHICAGO (CBS) ―
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Nick Calabrese took the stand Monday.
Courtesy Chicago Sun-Times
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The feds' biggest catch, a turncoat mobster, finally took the stand Monday in the Family Secrets trial. CBS 2's John Drummond was there when Nick Calabrese began spilling outfit secrets.
The 64 year-old Calabrese became a government witness after DNA evidence tied him to the 1986 bingo palace murder of "Big John" Fecarotta.
Calabrese, the triggerman, was wounded himself and absent-mindedly left a bloody glove at the crime scene.
The hit itself was payback for Fecarotta bungling the burial of the Spilotro brothers in an Indiana cornfield.
Monday, Calabrese told the jury that he, along with the late Johnny "Apes" Monteleone – also known in some circles as "Johnny Bananas" – did the killing. He said the slaying was OK'd by Chinatown capo Jimmy "The Lapper" LaPietra.
Calabrese is expected to offer grisly details of more than a dozen gangland murders he and his brother Frank allegedly committed, including the dramatic final moments of Michael and Tony Spilotro as they were beaten and strangled in a Bensenville basement.
Calabrese testified that defendant Anthony "Twan" Doyle, a former Chicago police officer, was an outfit soldier collecting juice loan payments starting in 1971.
Calabrese said when Doyle mentioned wanting to become a Chicago cop, Frank Calabrese got angry.
"(Frank) didn't want to lose (Twan)," Nick Calabrese testified. "He was a good man."
Monday evening Doyle was peeved when CBS 2 asked him whether he was in the mob.
Nick Calabrese is expected to play to a standing room only crowd when he resumes his testimony Tuesday morning.
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