Saturday, July 19, 2008

62 years for Chicago's Anthony Calabrese

Reputed Chicago hitman Anthony Calabrese, 47, was sentenced yesterday to 62 years in prison, according to a story by Steve Warmbir of the Chicago Sun-Times. Calabrese was convicted of leading three armed robberies.

Calabrese plans to appeal the sentence.

Unrelated to the two Calabrese brothers involved in last year's Family Secrets case, Anthony Calabrese is suspected by federal authorities of involvement in the 2001 mob killing of Anthony "the Hatch" Chiaramonti. He has not been charged with that killing.

Posted by Tom Hunt at 7/19/2008 11:47:00 AM

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US Mafia was born in New Orleans

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SILVER MEDALIST - 2008 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER AWARDS

Deep Water:
Joseph P. Macheca and the
Birth of the American Mafia
Written by Thomas Hunt and Martha Macheca Sheldon, Deep Water captures the life and times of Joseph P. Macheca. It finally sets the record straight on the man who was a warrior for the corrupt New Orleans Democratic machine, a pioneer of the Crescent City’s fruit trade, a Confederate privateer and the legendary “godfather” of the first Mafia organization to germinate in American soil.
While answering at last the questions surrounding the 1890 assassination of Police Chief David Hennessy and the subsequent Crescent City lynchings, Deep Water establishes the factual details of Macheca’s life and sets them against the vivid backdrop of Gilded Age New Orleans. Published by iUniverse.


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Tom is coauthor of "Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia," silver medal winner in the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards. He publishes several sites related to organized crime: the American Mafia history website (www.onewal.com); CagedWolves: History of the Morello Mob (www.cagedwolves.com); and the MobNews current events blog (mob-news.blogspot.com). In addition, he moderates a Yahoo discussion group on Mafia topics (groups.yahoo.com/group/americanmafia/) and edits organized crime and crime publications categories for the Open Directory Project (dmoz.org). He has written and co-written articles on organized crime for the On the Spot Journal.
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