Summary of Jeff Coen's Family Secrets

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#1 Nick was a technician, and he would stalk his victims, following them and learning as he watched them move. He would figure out how to kill them, and then disappear.

#2 Nick was in the mob, and he was afraid to quit. He was a quiet man, and the mob appreciated that. He was given a job, and in a Chicago lunch-bucket kind of way, it got done.

#3 The Chicago Outfit was a group of six street crews that controlled everything from gambling to pornography. They were not so much geographic territories as seats of power.

#4 The Chicago Outfit had many capos, or leaders, who were in charge of different crews. The top two were Joey Doves Aiuppa and his second in command, Jackie Cerone. They demanded absolute loyalty and could impose their will with just a look or a gesture.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822522015

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Insights on Jeff Coen's Family Secrets

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Nick was a technician, and he would stalk his victims, following them and learning as he watched them move. He would figure out how to kill them, and then disappear.

#2

Nick was in the mob, and he was afraid to quit. He was a quiet man, and the mob appreciated that. He was given a job, and in a Chicago lunch-bucket kind of way, it got done.

#3

The Chicago Outfit was a group of six street crews that controlled everything from gambling to pornography. They were not so much geographic territories as seats of power.

#4

The Chicago Outfit had many capos, or leaders, who were in charge of different crews. The top two were Joey Doves Aiuppa and his second in command, Jackie Cerone. They demanded absolute loyalty and could impose their will with just a look or a gesture.

#5

Fecarotta, a mobster known as Big Stoop, had been with Nick on jobs a number of times, including the killings of the mob’s leader in Las Vegas, Anthony the Ant Spilotro, and his brother Michael. But he had made the very serious misstep of leaving the Arizona killing before it had been completed.

#6

The men were supposed to meet up in an alley near Austin Boulevard and Belmont Avenue on the Northwest Side. Instead, Fecarotta drove his friend around again for another pass, his friend Nick with the bag at his feet and a pair of pistols at the ready. The next time the scene was clear.

#7

After the killing, Nick felt the pain of the bullet going through his left arm. He knew he had to take off his gloves to conceal the blood on them, but he also needed to get away from the scene as quickly as possible.

#8

As Nick walked away from the scene, he didn’t notice the small crumpled shapes on the sidewalk behind him or that both of his pockets were now empty. He needed to tell his brother Frank what had happened, how Fecarotta had put up a fight, but he had finished him off.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

In 1998, the FBI received a letter from Frank Calabrese Jr. , the son of loan shark Frank Calabrese Sr. and Nick’s close nephew, who wanted to cooperate with the government and help lock up his father.

#2

The FBI had a chance to record Frank Sr. , but they were worried about where things might lead. It wasn’t every day that the son of a made member of the Chicago Outfit offered to put members of his family away.

#3

In 1999, FBI agents began to collect material they