Record
Press release
2007-01-11
U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois (justice.gov archive)
U.S. Attorney, N.D. Illinois: deputy marshal charged with disclosing information about protected witness Nicholas Calabrese (January 11, 2007)
A U.S. Attorney's release on a complaint against a deputy U.S. marshal. Citing the FBI's affidavit, it says Nicholas Calabrese admitted being a "made" member of the Chicago Outfit, agreed in 2002 to cooperate, and entered the Witness Security Program in August 2002 on an application describing his ability to testify about 16 murders in which he participated and 22 others.
- Date
- 2007-01-11
- Kind
- press-release
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Docket
- 02 CR 1050
- Rights
- A press release of the U.S. Department of Justice. A work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105.
Release of Thursday, January 11, 2007, from the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. A deputy U.S. marshal was charged by complaint with theft of government property for revealing information “relating to the status, substance of cooperation, and travel of cooperating witness/defendant Nicholas Calabrese, while Calabrese was in the United States Marshals Service’s Witness Security Program (WSP), also known as “WITSEC.”” The deputy’s later appeal is filed here as United States v. Ambrose.
“According to the FBI’s detailed complaint affidavit, Nicholas Calabrese admitted to the government that he was a “made” member of the “Chicago Outfit” … In 2002, he agreed to cooperate in the investigation of alleged Outfit members, including his brother Frank Calabrese, Sr.” He “was formally admitted to the WSP in August 2002 … based upon an application prepared by federal agents and prosecutors detailing his ability to testify about 16 murders in which he participated and 22 other murders about which he had some secondary information from others.”
The release says the investigation “resulted in the April 2005 indictment of 14 defendants in U.S. v. Nicholas Calabrese, et al., 02 CR 1050,” with trial scheduled for May 2007, and that WSP inspectors brought Calabrese to Chicago twice, in 2002 and 2003. The statements about him are the release’s summary of an FBI affidavit. Charges in a complaint are allegations.
