Jonny Lang’s “Lie To Me”
When we last looked in on our hero, he was engaged…
SNIFF! :scrabbles around for more Kleenex, breaks open yet another box of Frangos:
I read about this case several months ago, and was interested to see the following in the papers. Of course, the readers of TLPC will be transfixed as well.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/mob/703400,CST-NWS-mob19.article
Ambrose, 39, is charged with lying to the feds about leaking secret information about mob killer Nicholas Calabrese, who decided to cooperate with the government and was in the witness protection program.
The feds caught on tape two mobsters, reputed Chicago Outfit boss James Marcello and his half brother, Michael, talking about Calabrese’s “baby-sitter” — their code name for Ambrose — and the information “the baby-sitter” was providing to them.
The hearing was to determine whether statements that Ambrose made to U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and Robert Grant, the head of the FBI in Chicago, should be tossed out.
Ambrose contends he was in custody when he made statements and was not read his Miranda rights, so the statements shouldn’t be allowed in. The feds say he wasn’t in custody and gave the statements freely in talks with Fitzgerald and Grant in September 2006.
Okay, here’s a question as dumb as paste. When one finds oneself in a room with a (somewhat irritated, according to the other accounts I read,) US Attorney and the head of the FBI in Chicago, wouldn’t it be a good thing to ask for a lawyer and just shut up? If you did this stuff for a living, why would you not know this? Of course, I’m sure I totally don’t understand, but I’m just throwing that one out there. It would seem to me it wasn’t a social visit or anything. They’re not talking baseball.
Ambrose broke down on the witness stand as he described how he was confronted by Fitzgerald and Grant.
“I was thinking about my wife and how she was going to raise the kids if we were separated, how we were going to provide,” Ambrose said, tears coming to his eyes.
“I felt I had been hurled into a vat of quicksand, and Mr. Fitzgerald was throwing bricks at me,” Ambrose said.
Again, I’m sure my little questions are dumb as paste — really. Then again, it’s always good to think through these things before they allegedly happen, isn’t it?
(Allegedly, allegedly, allegedly – I feel like Kathy Griffin.)
It’ll be interesting to see how this goes.
-S
Need more Frangos!
