Feds: Marshal aided Chicago Mob

The Chicago Tribune reports:

John T. Ambrose was barely a teenager when his dad, Thomas, was convicted in the "Marquette 10" police corruption trial in the 1980s.

The father died after just a year in prison and never saw that Ambrose grew up to be a law-enforcement officer--a decorated supervisor in the U.S. marshal's office.

Federal prosecutors said he followed too closely in his father's footsteps. In a case that shows the long shadow of one of Chicago's most notorious police corruption scandals, Ambrose was accused Thursday of passing secrets to the mob.

With his own dad gone, Ambrose had come to look upon another one of the convicted Marquette 10 as a father figure, according to court papers.

Ambrose is charged with passing highly confidential information about Nicholas Calabrese's cooperation in dozens of gangland slayings to that man, who allegedly in turn fed everything to the mob.

Remember in Chicago,you can't own a handgun thanks to this man to defend yourself against corrupt law enforcement officials.I guess that was the Chicago Mob's plan.