The outfit hierarchy has always been shaped like a tall, fat Christmas tree, with the boss sitting like a shining star atop the tree, his couple of underbosses just below the star, a half-dozen lieutenants beneath that and a hundred or so street soldiers handing from the lower branches like nutcrackers. Thursday in federal court, a mob insider revealed who would soon atop the outfit Christmas tree.No word yet from Chrysler Motors on this subject.
Undercover tapes played by prosecutors during testimony from Calabrese Junior was made at the Milan, Michigan, prison, where Calabrese's father Frank Senior, known as Frankie "the Breeze," was doing time just before Christmas, 2001. Keeping in the holiday spirit, Calabrese Junior and Senior talked about the mob hierarchy in a joyful yuletide code.
The holiday pancake flipper referred to by Calabrese was Joe "Joe the Builder" Andriacchi, long thought to be a top ranking hoodlum. The person described as "the funny man," Joey "the Clown" Lombardo is among those now on trial. Calabrese Senior described how authorities have mislabeled the Tannenbaum tree that Joey Lombardo and Joey "the Builder" Andriacchi were not the stars atop the tree, that there was actually a little tree in charge of the forest. He didn't name the man, but mobwatchers suspect he was referring to John "No Nose" Difronzo, who was not indicted in Operation Family Secrets but has been connected to a murder in the case.
Friday, July 13, 2007
Defense lawyers cross-examine mob informant
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