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Operation Family Secrets is the chilling true story of how the son of the most violent mobster in Chicago made the unprecedented decision to work with the FBI and the US Attorneyrsquos Office to incriminate his own father and to help bring down the last great American crime syndicatemdashthe one-hundred-year-old Chicago OutfitThe Calabrese family of Chicago is a close-knit middle-class multi-generational Italian-Irish-American clan They operate family businesses They work day and night striving for the American Dream All three sons forge a bond with their controlling father Frank Sr and their soft-spoken favorite uncle Nick As a boy the oldest son Frank Jr realizes that his father and uncle are also ldquomaderdquo members of another close-knit family the outfit In Operation Family Secrets Frank Calabrese Jr tells the turbulent tale of a family dominated by a violent patriarch who breaks a longstanding unwritten outfit code and ldquobrings the street into his homerdquo by enlisting two of his sons into the outfitrsquos th StreetChinatown crew Frank Jr reveals for the first time the outfitrsquos ldquomaderdquo ceremony and describes being put to work alongside his father and uncle in loan sharking gambling labor racketeering and extortion and plotting the slaying of a fellow gangster while they commit the bombing murder of a trucking executive the gangland execution of two mobsters whose burial in an Indiana cornfield was reenacted in Martin Scorsesersquos blockbuster film Casino and numerous other hits The Calabrese Crewrsquos colossal earnings and extreme ruthlessness make them both a dreaded criminal gang and the object of an intense FBi inquiry Eventually Frank Jr his father and Uncle Nick are convicted on racketeering violations and ldquoJuniorrdquo and ldquoSeniorrdquo are sent to the same federal penitentiary in Michigan Upon arrival Frank Jr makes a life-changing decision to go straight rather than agree to his fatherrsquos plans to resume crew activities after serving his sentence But he needs to keep his father behind bars in order to regain control of his life and save his family Frank Jr makes a secret deal with prosecutors and for six monthsmdashunmonitored and unprotectedmdashhe wears a wire as his father recounts decades of hideous crimes Frank Jrrsquos cooperation with the FBi for virtually no monetary gain or special privileges helps create the governmentrsquos ldquooperation Family Secretsrdquo campaign against the Chicago outfit The case reopens eighteen unsolved murders and also implicates twelve La Cosa Nostra soldiers and two outfit bosses it becomes one of the largest organized crime cases in US history Operation Family Secrets intimately portrays how organized crime rots a family from the inside out while detailing Frank Jrrsquos deadly prison-yard mission the FBIrsquos landmark investigation and the US attorneyrsquos officersquos daring prosecution of americarsquos most dangerous criminal organization.
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On the film front, Huey has been optioned for a mini-series by HBO, and Hell's Angel will star Mickey Rourke with Fox studios and director Tony Scott (Top Gun, True Romance) at the helm. Operation Family Secrets is also in development as a motion picture.