How The Chicago Outfit Made A New Uniform
For some, this is old news; for others, it's very old news. For us, it's timeless .... To be “made” in Chicago meant one was 100 percent Italian and had committed at least one murder. The making ceremony was one of the closest-held events in the “ secret organization hidden in the shadows, ” according to the federal government. Getting made entitled one to a greater share of the proceeds from illicit gambling, loans, and street taxes. A Mafia initiation ceremony described in Mario Puzo’s novel the Godfather is “very close” to the truth, according to Frank Calabrese Sr. while speaking to his son in 1999. Both were in prison at the time, only Frank Calabrese Sr. didn't know what his son was truly seeking from him. Frank Calabrese Junior was wearing a wire as part of a personal quest to keep his homicidal father in prison for the rest of his life. As per that mission, he was cooperating with the FBI against his own father — hence, the significance of t...