Frank Calabrese Sr. apparently found religion while in prison.
Or at least found some messages in the Bible that spoke to him.
Take for instance, a conversation in 1999 he had with two allegedly crooked cops, Anthony "Twan" Doyle and Michael Ricci, who were trying to figure out how close the FBI was to linking a 1986 Outfit murder to Calabrese Sr.'s brother, hitman Nick Calabrese.
Calabrese Sr. was worried. He didn't want the feds to have any leverage over his brother they could use to get him to cooperate.
His conversation with the two men in the visiting room in the federal prison in Milan, Mich., was secretly recorded and played for the jurors on Tuesday.
In one selection, Calabrese Sr. told them: "I'm gonna bring you guys a point. Pick up the Bible sometimes. Pick it up and read it. And it tells you, brother, don't hurt your brother, 'cause it will come back to haunt you."
In another conversation in 1999, Calabrese Sr. told his son, Frank Jr., that he preferred the Old Testament because the God in that portion of the Bible was "a little stern."
Calabrese Sr., accused of 13 murders, had taken time to reflect on his life.
He found it good.
"Not that I'm holy roller, Frank," Calabrese Sr. told his son. "But I never betrayed God in all my life."
Frank Sr. states he never betrayed God in all his life, now exactly which God would that be?
Sweetart,
I think these guys believe that their oath to one another comes before God.its a way of "compartmentalizing" their lives that makes sense to them. Look at how he took the verse about "hurting your brother or it will come back to haunt you"...In what may appear to be his defense, he believes he hasnt betrayed God because God came second to his oath to the Family.