Frank Calabrese Sr., in his youth
Federal prosecutors have just filed a document in the Family Secrets trial that details mob hitman Frank Calabrese Sr. allegedly discussing killing his brother, Nick Calabrese, if Nick Calabrese is cooperating with the feds.
The prosecution filing responds to one filed by the attorney of Nick Ferriola, a protege of Calabrese Sr. who pleaded guilty in the case. Ferriola is coming up for sentencing and insists that the Bible talk between him and Calabrese Sr. was just that, Bible talk. The feds secretly recorded conversations between the two men when Ferriola visited Calabrese Sr. in prison where Calabrese Sr. was serving time on a loansharking case.
On Wednesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Markus Funk included some additional excerpts from a conversation between Ferriola and Calabrese Sr. that Ferriola's attorney left out of his court filing.
The additional details of the conversation between the two men are fascinating.
First, some background.
The conversation occurred in March 1999, during a time when Calabrese Sr. is obsessed over who among his inner circle might be cooperating with federal investigators. Authorities were taking a fresh look at a mob murder Calabrese Sr. took part in. Chief among Calabrese's top suspects as snitches was his brother, Nick Calabrese, who was also behind bars.
Calabrese Sr. talks to Ferriola about the Bible, saying, "all these places mentioned in the Bible are still there. Some of the town's names have changed, but all these places that were mentioned in the Bible are still there."
Nick Ferriola
"But I want to get to the point, this is a very interesting point, that I, I wanted you to ask Kelly if she had read," Calabrese Sr. tells Ferriola, referring to Ferriola's fiance at the time.
"Brother. Brother who tells on brother. Brother, brother who betrays brother should be killed," Calabrese Sr. says.
"Wow," Ferriola replies.
"What did you ever hear, you never thought that Christ would say that, right?" Calabrese Sr. says. "Sister, father, mother, anyone of them kids that betray their mother or father, should be killed. Okay, I will come to punish you, this is in the Bible, ask Kelly. But I will come to punish you for what you did, two and three generations later, through your kids."
"A lot of common sense in the Bible," Ferriola replies. according to the government transcript of the conversation.
Wow, Franky Breeze.......Jesus was right about getting punished by your kids.....although I don't think it was Jesus that actually said that........