Judge James Zagel Empowers Internet Reporters
Federal Judge James Zaqel has empowered internet reporters. Even non-reporters interested in the "Family Secrets" mob murder trial in Chicago can listen to the tapes and see the photographic exhibits.
You don't have to settle for what print and electronic reporters think is important.
You can gain access to the U.S. Attorney’s exhibits, including tape recordings, by clicking on this page on the U.S. Attorney's web site.
Judge James Zagel has allowed their dissemination, but only by the internet. 
That's what U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's spokesman Randall Samborn wrote earlier today:
"Please be advised that Judge Zagel has authorized the Government to release trial exhibits publicly only via the Internet on the U.S. Attorney’s Office website.How's that for an innovation?We are endeavoring to establish a webpage containing the trial exhibits that have been admitted and published to the jury so far, but I do not
expect it to be available until sometime this evening, hopefully, and probably not until after the 6 p.m. news cycle. I will send out another email notice when it is launched with a link to the page. It will contain the photos that were admitted yesterday, along with the audio/video tapes and transcripts that were presented today."
Samborn later advised,“The exhibits are now available on theThe top photo was labeled "group photo" by the prosecutors. Can anyone name the diners?Internet via the link above. Please note that audio/video recordings are embedded in the pdf transcripts of each consensual conversation; that is, if you click on the pdf link corresponding to the date of a conversation, separate links to the audio/video recordings will appear beneath the transcript."
Below left is Joseph Lombardo with dark hair. A bit lower and to the right appears to be a booking photo of Anthony Spilotro. 
Frank Schweihs is seen below Lombardo. Below Spilotro is Anthony Daddino. Marshall Caifano is below Spilotro. Mike Glitta is bottom left. Louis Eboli is bottom right.I haven't listened to the tape recordings yet, but you might find them interesting in their entirety after you read or hear snippets. The tape recordings are from 1987 and 1988.
All photos can be enlarged by clicking on them. Can anyone identify the restaurant without reading its name in a newspaper?
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8 comments:
I forgot the name of the Restaurant but it was on Roosevelt Rd west of Harlem and east of Circle. Maybe a little farther west.
Tonn Accardo of course is front and center. Jack Cerone and Joe Lombardo standing in back. The others I can't place.
My step Dad had a barber shop near our Lady of Angels on Augusta. They told stories of Cerone as a kid stealing one of those little ponies photographers used to take pictures of kids years ago.
I lived a few blocks from Giancana (and later Tony Spilotro who lived in a modest duplex at Maple and Harvard in Oak Park).
Giancana always gave a full box of cracker jack on holloween to kids but you had to go aroud to the back basement door with the "Go Away" dormat to get it.
His handiman had the first snowblower I had ever seen. He would do the sidewalks of all Wisconsin Ave with it.
On warm summer evenings, people in the neigborhood would stand around his house and watch the FBI guys watch sit in cars watching the house.
You gotta wonder about the Feds making it so easy to follow this trial compared to some others. Let's hope the transparency hold for future political trials.
Hey Bill, I wonder if anyone at the Rolling Meadows Courthouse is spending time listening to those tapes on the Internet? (One of the judges assigned there is Jack Cerone's granddaughter, the Hon. Jill Cerone-Marisie.) She had the somewhat dubious honor of being the only Republican elected to the Cook County Circuit Court bench in 2006.
One advantage to being related to the mob is the Feds know the ins and outs of your personal life.
Sort of an advantage...
William Roemer wrote in one of his books on how he gave a reference to the NFL for Accardo's nephew. Roemer said he had listened to endless conversations and could give a reference on the integrity of the kid, plus said Accardo's personal ethics as Father, Husband, and Uncle were exlempary and far better than some of our public officials. (Roemer writing in the 90s of course...)
These are brutal guys on trial, don't get me wrong, but you know the Feds love this kind of media coverage.
I just hope this openess and internet access becomes a new standard for them. There have been some recent trials where that DOJ webmaster was pretty mum.
It was Judge Zagel who instructed the information be placed on the internet.
He's a worthy model for his peers.
Now if Fitzgerald would have put the information about the Bob Creamer trial on the internet, perhaps WBEZ/NPR would have noticed that Creamer was married to Jan Schakowsky when reporting the story.
JBP
These photos look like the Sangamon County Republican Party. Sangamon has very little Ginny's and most run the Government and are employees of the Government.
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