![]() I really don,t have any warning signs that I am going to have a seizure other than these painful stabs in my head, once I start having them frequently I will have the calm before the storm cliche. Now these ice pick headaches are occurring again I eventually had a small seizure which I blacked out and had memory loss. My neuro now has me on keppra (750 mg, twice a day) to help control my balance problems because it was getting out of control, some people even asked if I was drunk while I was at work. I was on Dilantin for about 2 years that kept everything under control except abscent seizures and bad balance issues. (CT scan, MRI, Eeg, act.) I was diagnosed with epilepsy. I eventually had several grand-mal seizures back-to-back that hospitalized me and I have no memory of half that day. I was concerned at the time because the were starting to be more painful and more frequent over several weeks and I all I could think of was that I might have a blood clot in the brain. It was there somewhere, rolling and recording, even as Calabrese punched and stomped his way to mob infamy.I started having these extremely sharp pains in my head as if I was being stabbed. He even strip searched the guy, desperate to find a recorder. "Jimmy I" is considered a leader in the mob's 26th Street crew, a rigid organization where hoodlums like Calabrese are bred to go down with the ship.Ĭalabrese's lawyer says that Anthony believes he was brought into the world as a man and will go out as a man.Īs meticulous as Anthony Calabrese was running his criminal ventures, and as paranoid as he was that someone might turn on him, Calabrese somehow missed the tape recorder that probably did him in. Inendino has been known to use for eye examinations. Mob experts say Calabrese has reported to James "Jimmy I" Inendino. Cooper is now serving time for driving the getaway vehicle.Ĭalabrese has never been charged with the Chiaramonti hit, although authorities are said to be building a murder case against him.Īt age 47, he faces a minimum 50 years behind bars just for the stick-ups.Ĭalabrese's lawyer says that amounts to a life sentence.įederal agents hope such a bleak existence behind bars might entice Calabrese to cooperate and give up the names of top Chicago Outfit bosses who arranged Chiarmonti's murder. Eve allowed the violent tape to be played over Calabrese's objections.Ĭalabrese's lawyer admits the tape wasn't pretty and did-in the hoodlum in the eyes of the jury.Ĭooper has also admitted to police that he was Calabrese's partner in the murder of Tony The Hatch. The tape was played last week by federal prosecutors, who had charged Calabrese in a series of suburban stick-ups.Ĭalabrese's accomplice during the recorded attack, Robert Cooper, testified that it was a "stomping" with "steel-toe boots."Ĭooper helped convict Calabrese of armed robberies in Morton Grove, Maywood and Lockport. Investigators believe Calabrese was paranoid that authorities would connect him to the parking lot murder of Chiaramonti two months earlier.Īt one point, Calabrese and one of his henchmen pounced on the suspected rat. "Tony, do I look like I wanna be dead?" answered the associate.Ĭalabrese threatened to kill the associate if he went to the feds. I mean, you understand what'll happen?" asked Calabrese. ![]() **Strip off your clothes," barked a twitchy Calabrese, concerned one of his underlings had turned on him and was wearing a hidden FBI tape recorder, which he was. Two months later, at Tony C's Auto Shop in Alsip, business owner Anthony "Tony C" Calabrese convened a meeting. Mobster Anthony "The Hatchet" Chiarmonti was chased and gunned down in 2001 by an assassin who escaped in a getaway minivan. The last known gangland murder occurred in the entryway of a west suburban restaurant. There have been 1,100 mob hits in Chicago since the Roaring Twenties. This is the story of Anthony Calabrese, who carries the same last name as one of Chicago's most notorious mob families.Īnthony is not even related to the bloodthirsty Calabreses, who made news last summer during the operation Family Secrets mob murder trial.īut Anthony Calabrese is in the same line of work as his infamous namesakes.
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