Record

Press release

2007-01-11

U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois (archived release, PDF)

U.S. Attorney, N.D. Illinois: deputy marshal charged with disclosing information about a protected witness (January 11, 2007)

The release announces a complaint against Deputy U.S. Marshal John Thomas Ambrose for disclosing information about Nicholas Calabrese, a witness in federal protection who, it says, admitted being a 'made' member of the 'Chicago Outfit' and agreed in 2002 to cooperate.

Date: 2007-01-11
Kind: press-release
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois (archived release, PDF)
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Docket: U.S. v. Nicholas Calabrese, et al., 02 CR 1050 (as cited in the release)
Rights: A work of the United States government, prepared by federal officers or employees as part of their official duties. Public domain in the United States. 17 U.S.C. § 105.

Release of January 11, 2007. It announces a criminal complaint charging John Thomas Ambrose, a deputy United States Marshal, with disclosing information about Nicholas Calabrese while Calabrese was in the federal witness security program.

The release says Nicholas Calabrese admitted he was a “made” member of the “Chicago Outfit,” agreed in 2002 to cooperate against alleged Outfit members including his brother Frank Calabrese, Sr., and the brothers James and Michael Marcello, and could testify about 16 murders he took part in and 22 others. It cites the case as U.S. v. Nicholas Calabrese, et al., 02 CR 1050, with trial then scheduled for May 2007.

A complaint is an allegation, and the release’s descriptions of the Calabreses and Marcellos are the government’s. The Seventh Circuit’s 2012 opinion in United States v. Ambrose records the conviction that followed.

itemUnited States v. Ambrose, 668 F.3d 943 (7th Cir. 2012)Seventh Circuit opinion of February 16, 2012 in the case of a Deputy U.S. Marshal convicted of disclosing witness-security information about a cooperating witness in the Family Secrets investigation.itemU.S. Attorney, N.D. Illinois: Family Secrets indictment release (April 25, 2005)Press release of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois announcing a 14-defendant racketeering indictment that named the "Chicago Outfit" as the RICO enterprise and charged 18 murders and one attempted murder between 1970 and 1986.itemUnited States v. Schiro, 679 F.3d 521 (7th Cir. 2012)Seventh Circuit opinion of May 1, 2012 on the appeals of the five defendants convicted at the 2007 Family Secrets trial: Calabrese, Marcello, Lombardo, Schiro, and Doyle.