No matter what you think of Frank Calabrese Sr.'s guilt or innocence in the Family Secrets case, anyone who reads the transcripts of the secretly recorded conversations between Frank Sr. and his son cannot escape one conclusion.
Frank Calabrese Sr. is a seriously paranoid mobster.
Take for instance, the uses of nicknames.
In one recorded conversation, Frank Calabrese Sr. refers to a fellow mobster he thinks might be a stool pigeon, James DiForti, by his nickname Poker.
DiForti was called Poker because he was always playing poker.
But Calabrese Sr. decides that calling DiForti Poker in conversations with his son isn't good enough.
Calabrese Sr. is apparently concerned someone could be listening in and apparently know whom he's referring to.
So the elder Calabrese decides DiForti will be codenamed Tires in the conversation.
But wait, that's still not good enough.
Calabrese Sr. decides to call DiForti the codename Tires in Italian - Rota.
That is, when Calabrese Sr. remembers to use the code at all. A few times he just calls him Jimmy.
Also, for those who are following along at home, in the secret recordings, a man is sometimes referred to as a woman, and a short guy, reputed mob killer and Calabrese Sr. pal, Ronald Jarrett, is referred to as the Tall Guy.
Except when Calabrese Sr. refers to him as Ronnie.
But consider this one fact for a moment.
Calabrese Sr. constructs all these elaborate codes, and then does the one thing he's never supposed to do.
He talks about Outfit murders that he's allegedly taken part of.
Now, Calabrese Sr.'s attorney, Joseph R. Lopez, will say any murder chat was an old man bragging to his son, a little chest thumping, and nothing more.
Calabrese Sr. is a man who is so paranoid he comes up with nicknames upon nicknames.
He would park a block away to walk to the most harmless locations.
Yet in a prison yard with his son, he suddenly became a motormouth when it came to facts that could put him in prison for the rest of his life.
As the jurors and trial watchers hear more of the secret recordings between father and son, a big mystery of the trial may be solved.
What did the son ever do to get the father to talk?
Seems like the question really is what did the father ever do to make the son do this? I cant imagine the issues this son must have to treat his father and step monther and younger siblings wirh no respect what so ever. He must be very angry and harboring a lot of hurt over something because this is out of the norm...over the top....vengeful behavior that has nothing to do with him wanting to make things right but moreover to get even .
I shake my head thinking of his remark about how the stepmom spoke in the wrong tone of voice to him so he screweed her over too....OK folks is he on a power quest or what ??
I hope they do a phsych analysis on him while hes on the stand...they'll tear him to shreds...he needs a mental institution and help getting over his "poor me oh but now i'm God syndrome". Sure theres plaenty of big bad men who could help him shake that bug lol.