Frank "The German" Schweihs
Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to keep jurors' names secret in the upcoming trial of reputed mob hitman Frank "The German" Schweihs.
"Schweihs' calculated, and at times explosive and violent, conduct has indeed for decades been a matter of public record," according to the prosecution's filing by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Markus Funk, Amarjeet S. Bhachu and Marny Zimmer.
"Schweihs' lifelong habit of conducting himself in a fashion calculated to intimidate and control those around him in fact provides what arguably is the most compelling justification for juror anonymity," prosecutors wrote.
Prosecutors point out that even the brutal Spilotro brothers were worried about Schweihs.
Age did not mellow Schweihs. In 1990, at his sentencing in a federal case, Schweihs told the federal prosecutor he hoped to see him "in hell."
In 2001, Schweihs was released from prison and allegedly almost immediately began shaking down an adult bookstore in Indiana and a stripclub in the Chicago suburbs.
In 2006, Schweihs showed his temper when he spewed out profanities over the phone as he talked to his girlfriend about her testimony before a federal grand jury, according to the court filing.
Schweihs was supposed to go to trial with five other defendants in the Family Secrets case but was severed from that trial because he was too sick at the time.
Now, he's going to trial Oct. 28, and the federal court in Chicago may be the site of another anonymous jury hearing terrible tales of violence.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaa
This should be a good one!
free the clown & liljimmy
i thought the federal prosecutors and the spilotro's were buddies....
STEVE WARMBIR RESPONDS: Anthony and Michael Spilotro are dead, while there were a few other Spilotro family members who testified at the Family Secrets trial.
He's just misunderstood.
May all these scumbags rot in jail.
I think we need to get Frank on video mincing words with someone that has quick wit!