By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI apparently wasn’t the only one recording mob conversations. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that FBI agents this week raided the suburban home of imprisoned legendary Chicago mob hitman Frank Calabrese Sr. and found 10 to 15 secret recordings he had made between himself and other gangsters. The paper reported that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The retrial next week in Brooklyn of right wing web radio talk show host Hal Turner should get interesting. The National Journal reports that federal prosecutors plan this time to call as witnesses three Court of Appeals judges from the 7th Circuit in Chicago who were the targets of Turner’s venemous…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, regarded as the gold standard for U.S. Attorneys, plans to personally prosecute two men accused of being part of the 2008 bombings in Mumbai, India that killed 170 people, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The paper reported that Fitzgerald has personally prosecuted only one case in Chicago…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Chicago has long been known for its deep dish pizza, blues, Dah Bears, Dah Bulls and public corruption. In living up to the latter, Alderman Isaac Carothers, a key ally of Mayor Daley, resigned Monday after striking up a deal with the feds that will put him behind bars for more…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two DuPage County men in Illinois have been busted for allegedly plotting to kill an assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reported. Authorities charged Jack Mann, 41, of Naperville, Ill. and Frank Caira, 39, of Downers Grove, Ill. The Trib reported that a defense lawyer for an ex-convict told…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Apparently GPS isn’t just for the geographically challenged anymore. The Chicago Tribune is reporting that police were able to track down three bank robbers in suburban Chicago last week, thanks to a credit-card sized GPS device that had been stuffed in with the stolen cash. The paper, referring to an FBI…
The evidence keeps mounting that the war on the Mexican drug cartels is every bit the United State’s war as well. The cartels have sunk their tentacles into major cities around the U.S. like Chicago. In fact, the Post reports that the Justice Dept. has found that Mexican cartels are operating in 230 U.S. cities….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mayor Richard Daley’s ex-Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Al Sanchez and a co-defendant caught a big break Tuesday when a federal judge overturned their public corruption convictions and ordered a new trial because the government failed to reveal the extensive criminal record and gang ties of a key witness, the Chicago Tribune…
