Jul 26, 2007 7:16 pm US/Central
1970 Mob Who's Who Book Used As Evidence In Trial
by CBS 2's john Drummond
CHICAGO (CBS) ―
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The who's who book outlined the role of various players in the Chicago Outfit.
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New evidence in the Family Secrets mob trial features some of the defendants and even the murder victims as young apprentices in the outfit.
CBS 2's John "Bulldog" Drummond looks at the 1970 book, putting a new focus on the mob and its lifeblood.
The 144-page report was issued by the Illinois Crime Investigating Commission and is a who's who of the mob's juice loan racket.
A grinning and youthful Joey "The Clown" Lombardo is featured in the book as a rising star in the outfit.
A heavy-set Frank "The Breeze" Calabrese was toiling in the outfit vineyards in the 1970s.
The book was the brainchild of the commission director, Charles Siragusa, and his aide, Ron Ewert. Siragusa never took any lip from hoodlums.
"I can't compromise. I can't negotiate," he said in a 1979 interview. All I can do is what I think is right."
Five of the murder victims at the heart of the federal trial were up and comers when the book was released.
Billy Dauber met his end on a lonely Will County road. "Big John" Fecarotta was gunned down outside a bingo parlor. Michael "Hambone" Albergo was laid to rest near Comiskey Park. William "Butch" Petrocelli was tortured, his throat slit and his car torched. And Anthony "The Ant" Spilotro, who vowed to head the mob, had his resting place buried under an Indiana cornfield.
Also pictured are upper echelon mobsters whose names have come up at the trial.
Angelo "The Hook" LaPietra was a sourpuss when young and old. And his brother Jimmy "The Lapper" LaPietra, a menacing 210-pounder you didn't want to meet in a dark alley, contrasts with the older bespectacled Lapper looking forward to his next shuffleboard game.
Who could forget "Fifi" Buccieri, a juice-loan czar who got much mob fanfare? Last but not least is James "The Turk" Torrello. The toothpick-chomping Torrello died of cancer before he could assume the mantle of total mob leadership.
This book went like hotcakes when it came out in 1970. It's now out of print and a collector's item.
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