Decades after the Chicago Outfit carried out gruesome slayings by remote-control bomb, strangulation and shotgun blasts, the many victims' relatives are finally receiving $1.7 million in restitution.
The money is coming from the assets of Chicago Outfit boss Frank Calabrese Sr., who died in December in federal prison while serving a life sentence for his conviction in the landmark Operation Family Secrets trial. He was found responsible for 13 murders dating to the 1970s.
Much of the loot was discovered by federal agents in 2010 hidden in a secret compartment behind a family portrait on the wood-paneled basement wall of Calabrese's Oak Brook home. Agents found envelopes stuffed with $644,000 — mostly $500 and $1,000 bills — and hundreds of pieces of jewelry, many still in display boxes or containing store tags.
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