The best efforts of the mob lawyer to confuse the jury with a pink and black checked tie have come to naught. All five defendants in the "Family Secrets" trial in Chicago were found guilty.
Jurors were puzzling over some words, like usurious, over the course of their deliberations, but they figured out what usury was and returned a slam dunk for prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and his merry band.
Are appeals coming next? Possibly, but the old Chinatown crew, the Bridgeport dagos, are heading back to prison for a good long time. Are the higher ups in City Hall getting more nervous? Mr. Fitzgerald is working his way up the chain of command, rooting out mob influence and corruption in Chicago city government. City Hall is in his line of fire.
The story is not yet finished; the final chapter has yet to be written.
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