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Frank Calabrese Sr. was born on 17 March, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., is an American gangster. Discover Frank Calabrese Sr.'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 17 March 1937
Birthday 17 March
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Date of death 25 December, 2012
Died Place Butner, North Carolina, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1926

He was The Outfit's Chinatown, or 26th Street, crew boss who provided loans to hundreds of customers at exorbitant interest rates that varied from one percent to 10 percent per week.

The federal government estimates that Calabrese's crew grossed more than $2,600,000.

Calabrese instructed his crew members to, "do anything you have to do", to collect the loans.

If a debtor did not have the money, the Calabrese crew would seize the debtor's car, home and business.

Calabrese reported to Angelo J. LaPietra "The Hook", who was the ultimate boss of the 26th Street Crew and founder of the Italian American Club from where operations were handled.

At one point, Calabrese gained control of an auto repair shop in River Grove, Illinois, when the owner, Matthew Russo, fell behind on a loan.

1937

Frank James Calabrese Sr. (March 17, 1937 – December 25, 2012), also known as "Frankie Breeze", was a made man who ran major loansharking and illegal gambling operations for the Chicago Outfit.

He is best known as a central figure in Operation Family Secrets and the subsequent federal trial.

Frank Calabrese Sr. was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 17, 1937, to James and Sophie Calabrese.

1954

Calabrese's arrest record dates from 1954, when he served two years in prison for a violation of the Dyer Act (auto theft).

1990

In 1990, Calabrese entered an agreement with a car dealership in Elmhurst, Illinois, to direct car repair work to this mob-controlled repair shop in exchange for kickbacks.

However, Russo had become an undercover government informant and recorded the mobsters at one meeting at the dealership.

Calabrese and eight of his crew members—sons Frank Calabrese Jr., and Kurt Calabrese, brother Nick Calabrese, Louis Bombacino, Philip Tolomeo, Kevin Kudulis, Terry Scalise and Philip Fiore— were eventually arrested.

1995

On July 28, 1995, Calabrese, his brother, Nick, and two sons, Frank and Kurt, were all indicted by federal authorities and charged with using threats, violence, and intimidation to enforce their loansharking racket from 1978 until 1992.

1997

On March 21, 1997, Calabrese and his sons pleaded guilty to the charges, just weeks before they were set to go to trial.

"I'm very sad that this brings my kids into something that should never have happened", Calabrese told U.S. district judge James F. Holderman.

On October 15, 1997, Calabrese was sentenced by Holderman to 118 months in federal prison.

He apologized to the court and his family for, "all the trouble I have caused."

The investigation which led to the Family Secrets trial began when Calabrese's imprisoned son, Frank Jr., wrote to the FBI and volunteered to wear a wire on his father and uncle.

He did not ask for sentence reduction or financial gain in exchange for doing it.

Viewing this as a great opportunity, the FBI agreed to Frank Jr.'s proposal.

During their imprisonment, Frank Jr. recorded his father admitting to multiple murders.

Faced with the evidence gathered by his nephew, Frank Sr.'s brother Nicholas Calabrese also agreed to testify against the Chicago Outfit.

2005

On April 25, 2005, Frank Calabrese Sr. and a large number of high-profile Chicago Outfit gangsters were charged with murder, racketeering, extortion, and running an illegal gambling business as part of the federal-government initiated "Operation Family Secrets" investigation.

2007

Calabrese grew up on the West Side of Chicago, dropped out of school in the fourth grade and sold newspapers on Grand Avenue, he told jurors during a trial in 2007.

He also told jurors that his family was so poor that they would eat oatmeal for dinner.

Calabrese enlisted in the U.S. Army, however he went AWOL five days after boot camp.

The Family Secrets trial began on June 19, 2007.

Among the prosecution witnesses were Calabrese's brother, Nick Calabrese, and Frank Calabrese Sr's. son, Frank Calabrese Jr. An unusual aspect of the Family Secrets trial was that several members of the Chicago Outfit took the stand in their own defense.

Calabrese testified on August 16, 2007, that he was not a "made" member of the Chicago Outfit, but he acknowledged that he put out street loans and that he paid a mob boss some of the proceeds.

On September 10, 2007, Calabrese and other Outfit defendants were convicted of a racketeering conspiracy that included murder, extortion, and loansharking.

On September 11, 2007, during a court hearing to determine whether Calabrese and Vrchota were also guilty of various murders related to the case, Vrchota exclaimed, "Them are lies!"

in response to a prosecutor's statement that Vrchota had left "a trail of bodies, literally."

On September 27, 2007, jurors found that Vrchota had committed seven of the 18 murders in the indictment (of the 18 murders, Vrchota had been accused of taking part in 13 of them).

After the verdict, news came out that a juror had alleged that on August 27, 2007, Calabrese had said or mouthed, "You are a fucking dead man", to Prosecutor T. Markus Funk.

2008

On April 10, 2008, Judge James Zagel denied a request to order a new trial in the case, saying that he did not believe that the threat had tainted jurors.

However, the threat resulted in Calabrese being placed in highly restrictive lockdown during his stay in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago while awaiting sentencing.

2009

On January 28, 2009, Judge Zagel sentenced Calabrese, then 71, to life in prison for his crimes and called the acts he had committed, "unspeakable".

On finding prosecutors had proven the murder allegations, the judge sentenced Calabrese for all 13 slayings.

2012

Calabrese, who was battling multiple ailments, died on Christmas Day 2012 at the Federal Medical Center, Butner, in North Carolina.