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Tape could mean trouble for mobster

June 19, 2007
When top Chicago mobster James ""Little Jimmy"" Marcello and reputed mob hit man Frank Calabrese Sr. go on trial today in a Chicago courtroom, they might not be on the best of terms.

After all, Calabrese Sr.'s own secretly recorded words might help tie Marcello to the notorious mob hits of Anthony Spilotro and his brother, Michael, in 1986.

Calabrese Sr. was secretly recorded by his son, Frank Jr., while they were both in prison in 1999.

On one recording, Calabrese Sr. allegedly implicates Marcello in the Spilotro hits.

On Monday, Marcello's attorney, Marc Martin, said he would ask U.S. District James Zagel to bar the tape from trial.

Frank Calabrese Sr.'s attorney, Joseph Lopez, contends his client never implicated Marcello and the FBI misinterpreted the chat.

Also on Tuesday, two defendants in the case, including Nicholas Ferriola, the son of late mob boss Joseph Ferriola, pleaded guilty.