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Court opinion
1997-07-29
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United States v. Zizzo, 120 F.3d 1338 (7th Cir. 1997)
Seventh Circuit opinion of July 29, 1997 in the Carlisi Street Crew gambling and loansharking case; it vacates Samuel Carlisi's conviction because he died while the appeals were pending and affirms the others.
- Date
- 1997-07-29
- Kind
- court-opinion
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
- Docket
- 120 F.3d 1338 (7th Cir. 1997)
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- Opinion of a United States court. Works of the federal judiciary are in the public domain in the United States. The text was read on CourtListener.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, decided July 29, 1997, before Bauer, Flaum, and Evans, Circuit Judges; the opinion is by Evans.
It opens: “In December 1992 a grand jury indicted eleven members of the Chicago Outfit, the Windy City’s notorious crime syndicate, for their roles in the illegal gambling and loansharking operations of two of the Outfit’s street-crew subdivisions.” It continues: “After we consolidated their appeals, one of the defendants, Samuel ‘Wings’ Carlisi, the Outfit’s former boss of all bosses — a title once held by the likes of Al Capone and Tony ‘Big Tuna’ Accardo — died.” (CourtListener’s text of this sentence reads “A1 Capone” and “Aecardo”, errors in its scan of the printed names.)
The opinion describes the Carlisi Street Crew as “an arm of the Outfit operating in western Cook and DuPage Counties throughout the 1980’s,” and says Carlisi “was the leader and financial backer of the group.” The court remanded “the case of Sam Carlisi to district court with instructions to vacate his conviction and dismiss the indictment as to him,” and affirmed the convictions and sentences of the other defendants.