Chicago's biggest mob trial in years set

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Source: Associated Press

Chicago's biggest mob trial in years set

By MIKE ROBINSON, Associated Press Writer
Sun Jun 17, 4:59 PM ET

CHICAGO - It seemed like a good idea at the time. A gang
of burglars decided in December 1977 to break into the
home of Tony Accardo, one of the most powerful men in
organized crime history, and rob his basement vault.

Accardo was not amused.

Six men Accardo blamed for the heist were swiftly hunted
down and murdered, according to papers filed by federal
prosecutors in preparation for Chicago's biggest mob trial
in years, scheduled to begin Tuesday.

And that's only one of the grisly tales jurors are likely to
hear at the trial stemming from the FBI's "Operation Family
Secrets" investigation of 18 long-unsolved mob murders
allegedly tied the Outfit, Chicago's organized crime family.

"This unprecedented indictment puts a hit on the mob,"
U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said in announcing the
charges in April 2005. "It is remarkable for both the
breadth of the murders charged and for naming the entire
Chicago Outfit as a criminal enterprise under the anti-
racketeering law."

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