Student photo of reputed mobster is a hit - Have you seen this "Clown"?

Chicago Tribune ^ | April 27, 2005 | Jon Yates and Brendan McCarthy; Matt O'Connor contributed

[Right Angler]

Goodfellas is the greatest mob movie of all time. The movie was spot on true to the book. I too read the book years before the movie came out and I was floored that a movie could be that true to the book. The book is actually titled "Wiseguys", but the movie came out at a time when a television show entitled "The Wiseguy" was popular.

[BBell]

re 33

But they had to make it into a "Leonardo Faggio" movie to attract the chicks. Movies don't seem to do well anymore unless the teen girl factor is added in. Too bad isn't it.

[the invisib1e hand]

so good to see Tourist Guy again! Is he back?

[Sir Gawain]

There are, it's estimated, anywhere from 47,000 to 100,000 such machines in the state. Do the math. It's a staggering amount of cash, and the Outfit takes half off the top. The owner gets the other half. The state doesn't get a dime.

Now that's my kind of business!

[LauraJean]

This is not the only photo the Trib got wrong. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0504270017apr27,1,4739014.story?coll=chi-news-hed
The mobster arrested was Frank Calabrese Jr. The Trib publishes the photo of Frank Calabrese, a major horse owner in the Chicago area.

[texasflower]

It looks just like him to me.

[stylin19a]

i still don't see it.

go here for the updated story...

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/042705_ns_trib_picture.html

[texasflower]

I just got the link to open. Well it sure looked like the same guy to me and to his own lawyer!

Interesting. Thanks for the link.

[Petruchio]

Nope

That guy on the bike is not the clown.

[stylin19a]

I'm still scratchin my head why his attorney id'd the guy as Lombardo....I'm thinking the attorney stepped in it and the Feds will be knockin on his door.

[Lancey Howard]

Excellent!
'Little Caesar' was a great movie, and Edward G. Robinson is one of my all-time favorite actors (obviously).

[texasflower]

Could be....

[LibertarianInExile]

Didja click the link? That was my favorite part of posting it...although perhaps this link would have been better, given the subject matter. Different movie, though. : )

[sheik yerbouty]

"Killer Klowns from Outer Space"? Or at least from the wrong side of the tracks..

[Smokin' Joe]

NO driver to 'turn' on you.

No license requirement or plates.

You can go the wrong way on a one-way and live.

Can ride/park virtually anywhere.

Nothing to search, no secure area to preserve 'evidence'.

No place to hide a bug or bomb, and no ignition system to power either.

Nobody would look for a mob boss on a bicycle.

Makes sense to me...

[Smokin' Joe]

Good Heavens! No way he rides that thing much with those birdlegs!

[Major_Risktaker]

Good Heavens! No way he rides that thing much with those birdlegs!

LOL! I noticed that also. Ann Coulter's legs are thicker.

[Smokin' Joe]

Good Heavens! No way he rides that thing much with those birdlegs!

LOL! I noticed that also. Ann Coulter's legs are thicker.

Much more appealing, too, imho.

[iopscusa]

Good driver, I liked GoodFellas also, IMO, the movie about the NY Jewish boys who grew into mobsters was great too...was that movie "Once upon a time in NY"??
Just got back to SC, where I also live on an Atlantic Island, after a visit with the NY/NJ in-laws. Spent last Sunday in the City for 1st time in yrs...saw the WTC site up close as well as walked thru Central Park on a sunny Sunday afternoon...I always love to visit and spend a day (especially a Sunday) meandering Manhattan. I cannot help thinking that NYC and most of this region is really distinctly not American and probably hasn't been for a good while. NYC as well as the NE USA has been revolving around some strange Sun system that could be called a Secular System of Urbanity. The SSU also appears to be moving towards a new galaxy, orbiting a powerful Black Hole, the UN Star...or maybe I just spent too much time at the Museum of Nat.Hist....lol.

[KneelBeforeZod]

gangster on a bike? Everyone knows the classiest mafiosos hang out in bathrobes.