Patrick J. Fitzgerald to reporters-- "The mob takes a hit today"

Fox News
AP
Feds Indict 14 Reputed Chicago Mobsters
April 25, 2005

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,154537,00.html

"The mob takes a hit today," U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald told reporters in announcing the indictment --the result of an investigation that was code-named Operation Family Secrets.


Abclocal.go.com
FBI arrests reputed mob boss in Kentucky
By Chuck Goudie
December 16, 2005

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=3733015

December 16, 2005 - A reputed Chicago mob hitman who has been on the run since April has been captured. Frank "the German" Schweihs was arrested Friday at an apartment in Berea, Kentucky, about 40 miles south of Lexington.

The I-Team has learned that somebody called the FBI in Chicago to report that Schweihs was staying in a very small Kentucky town called Paint Lick. When agents went to the address, Schweihs wasn't there, but it was the home of Schweighs's girlfriend's mother. That was the clue they needed, from mother, to-daughter, to "the German.

When the call came into the Chicago FBI office, federal agents tell ABC7 it was just one of hundreds of leads they have received about Schweihs and mob boss Joey "the Clown" Lombardo. Both men vanished last April after they were among nearly two dozen top hoodlums indicted in a vast mob conspiracy including numerous gangland murders

Before indictment, Frank Schweihs was living in Florida. He was caught halfway to Chicago.

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The Education Forum
Controversial Issues in History
JFK Assassination Debate
Operation Family Secrets, Possible Link to JFK Assassination?
Jun 16 2005


Solving a Mafia murder case is a tall order. Since the early 1900s, more than 1,100 murders have been linked to Mafia activities in Chicago but only 14 people have been convicted in those killings. Soon though, the FBI may be able to resolve dozens of mob hits, many with links to Las Vegas. It's a case that might even shed light on the assassination of a president.

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=4066

The Education Forum
Controversial Issues in History
JFK Assassination Debate
Can it be solved after E.Howard Hunts death?
Jun 9 2005 and


In my humble opinion, anyone who is still alive and who had anything to do (even periphery) with the assassination is not going to talk. The existing system of media manipulation will dictate coverage while that unspoken threat to family members hangs like a dagger poised.

I submit that one of the ghouls involved was Florida resident Frank 'The German' Schweihs who has been connected to the killing of Tony Spilotro and his brother. Schweihs also looks good for the murders of Richard Cain, Allen Dorfman, Charles Nicoletti and an involvement with the brutal slaying of John Roselli.

Schweihs as of late April was on the run from the FBI who want to connect him to some Mob run rackets. If Schweihs can ever be questioned in relation to who ordered the hits on those Mob connected individuals linked to the Kennedy assassination and to where he himself was on the 22nd of November 1963, the thin end of the wedge may present itself. (Schweihs was 33 in 1963)


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You are kidding!

Paint Lick?

Fitz is one tough hombre. Hope he is as carefull with his person as he is with his work.

I've got distant in-laws from there!

oh, sorry, I forgot, no sex threads on DU.

in the Missouri Ozarks.

Right out of the Depression gangster sagas.

not only does it truly show just how tough Fritz is, it's something to follow up on with regard to the Kennedy Assassination way back when. yea true Elliot Ness stuff, wow.

Simply amazing. I think if anyone could find out with the Kennedy assisination it could be Fitzgerald. What an amazing man he is. *Sigh* :loveya:

in the above mentioned story's connecting him and his ilk to Nov 22 1963, :wow: stranger things have happened. Can't really think of any at the moment but ...... :)

and I'm not talking about the mafia either.

. . . are from Paint Lick.

:dunce:

I love it.

:patriot:

Herald.com | 06/16/2005 | Rewards floated for reputed mobsters

The FBI is trying to draw attention to the search for two fugitives: a Dania Beach retiree wanted on numerous federal charges, including racketerring, murder and extortion, and his reputed boss in the `Chicago Outfit.'

Although Schweihs was arrested more than a dozen times for burglary in Miami Beach and Fort Lauderdale between 1957 and 1975, he was never convicted on those arrests, records show.

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:6s7QZMLnmLoJ:www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/2005/06/16/news/local/states/florida/counties/broward_county/11904970.htm%3Ftemplate%3DcontentModules/printstory.jsp+Rewards+floated+for+reputed+mobsters+frank+miami&hl=en

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Chicago Outfit
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Chicago Outfit

The Chicago Outfit is a crime family that has a long and storied history dating back to long before prohibition. The Chicago Outfit differs from the New York Mafia families in several ways as well. Among them is acceptance of non-Italians into the organization, an intentionally more low key demeanor in their actions so as not to draw as much attention from law enforcement, and a lack of formal ceremonies inducting new members.

The Chicago Outfit's control reportedly goes throughout the central US to places as far away as Las Vegas and parts of Florida.

Mobsters James Marcello, Nicolas Ferriola, Joseph "The Clown" Lombardo, Michael Marcello, Frank "The German" Schweihs...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Outfit
http://www.answers.com/topic/chicago-outfit

We were going west on the the 294 tollway on our way to Sportsman's Park about 15 years ago and as we came up to a cloverleaf a Mercedes Benz was on the opposite side of the tollway coming down the entrance ramp to enter on to the tollway going in the opposite direction as we were. The Mercedes never made it on to the tollway. Half way down the entrance ramp the Mercedes blew up and disintegrated right in front of our eyes. All we could really make out was the roof of the car launching several hundred feet into the air above the fireball. The bomb was under the drivers seat so we both assumed whatever was left of the driver was stuck on the bottom side of the cars roof. The guy had been cutting into the mobs trucking business.

I remember my father remarking that one really can get into heaven in a Mercedes after all.

Don

:D

11 MICHAEL CAGNONI

Date: June 24, 1981

How killed: A radio-controlled bomb beneath his car exploded as he drove on a tollway ramp at Ogden Avenue and I-294 in DuPage County.

Motive: Sources said he supervised the mob's produce hauling operations and was suspected of holding back some of the profits.

A little more I found:

11. Michael Cagnoni

Cagnoni, 37, was a well-to-do trucking executive who ran afoul of the mob and knew it. He had hired a bodyguard, carried a gun and wore a bulletproof vest for a while. Still, someone planted a sophisticated bomb under the seat of his Mercedes. It detonated June 24, 1981, shredding his car and killing Cagnoni as he pulled onto the Tri-State Tollway in Hinsdale.

which was to control the price of oil on the market. Bin Laden and the Bush family-- at war -- over who really owns the rights to the world's oil supply-- in the past, present--and future.

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Excerpts from Ultimate Sacrifice: A New Take on the Murder of JFK
by Thom Hartmann and Lamar Waldron
December 5, 2005

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/05/12/con05463.html

Thom Hartmann, a regular BuzzFlash contributor, is coauthor of the newly released book Ultimate Sacrifice, which explores the theory that Kennedy's death leads back to the mob. Carroll & Graf, the publishers of Ultimate Sacrifice, have granted BuzzFlash permission to post the authors' introduction to the book, including end notes, as an aid to those wishing to further explore specific details.