Family Secrets Trial Part 2

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Chicago Outfit historian James Imlach tells listeners about watching Frank Calabrese Sr. testify on his own behalf and how he could not hold his anger back. He also describes how funny and engaging Joey Lombardo was when he took the stand in his defense. Finally, he describes the rambling testimony of former Chicago cop Twan Doyle and how he had other Chicago cops testify what a great cop he had been. Then he watched as the prosecutor asked this question of each character witness, “Did you ever go visit a mob boss in prison?” Venmo me @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Well, welcome all you wiretappers out there. We're back here with part two of a two-part series on the
0:06.8	Family Secrets trial with my friend James Emlack, who attended this trial and was given us some
0:12.4	really invaluable insights, I think, and learned a lot more about it. Well, this week, folks,
0:18.8	James is going to tell us about the three outfit guys that
0:21.6	took the stand in their own defense, Frank Calabrese Sr., Joy Lamberto, and Twan Doyle,
0:30.5	who was ex-policeman. So settle back and listen to in. It's going to be really interesting.
0:38.2	I'll never forget, Gary, seeing Frank Calabrese testifying his own defense.
0:43.7	Again, let's do that.
0:44.8	Let's go down that path.
0:45.7	Let's go down that path.
0:46.9	That's good transition there.
0:49.3	The guys that testified in their own defense, James.
0:52.9	Frank, again, Frank, a real killer, a real mob boss, just to see him in court was something to see.
1:00.9	For the most part, Frank was on his best behavior.
1:04.4	It almost seemed at times like he was enjoying this attention.
1:08.5	He would smile.
1:09.7	He would crack jokes.
1:12.5	And then at other times,
1:19.4	he showed his real colors, yelling, swearing. At one point, he was banging his fist on the table, yelling how his son stole money. So Frank, the reason Frank took the stand was he wanted to get up there and explain his
1:30.1	side of the story that his brother, Nick, and his son, Frank Jr. conspired to steal all his money
1:39.1	and put him away for life. However, Judge Zago would not allow Frank to just go on and on and on.
1:46.5	So during Frank's testimony, he was losing his temper. He was getting frustrated with the
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.