Ex-cop sentenced to 12 years in prison in ‘Family Secrets’ mob case
'CHUMBOLONE' | Gave him info on bloody glove linked to '86 Outfit hit
A man can be a good cop one day, a corrupt one the next, a federal judge noted as he sentenced a former Chicago Police officer to 12 years in prison for helping mob killer Frank Calabrese Sr. get critical information about a federal investigation into an Outfit hit.
Anthony "Twan" Doyle, 64, was once a Chicago Police officer of the month, and while he had a decent career, "he picked the wrong people to try to help," U.S. District Judge James Zagel said in giving Doyle a break from the 15 years or more in prison he could have received.
Doyle repeatedly visited Calabrese Sr. when the mob killer was in prison in Michigan and took messages to the man running Calabrese's street operations back home.
More important, Doyle told Calabrese Sr. when the FBI retrieved a bloody glove from a police evidence warehouse where Doyle worked.
That information was a key piece to the puzzle Calabrese Sr. was trying to put together at the time.
The mob killer was obsessed with whether his brother, mob killer Nick Calabrese, was cooperating with the FBI. Calabrese Sr. feared that glove could link Nick Calabrese to a 1986 mob murder, and that leverage, in turn, could force Nick Calabrese to cooperate with authorities.
Calabrese Sr.'s worst fears came true, and Nick Calabrese's cooperation led to the Family Secrets case.
Calabrese Sr. had hoped to get Doyle to destroy the glove but never got the chance.
Doyle's attorney, Ralph Meczyk, said Doyle was only visiting Calabrese Sr. because they had grown up together and had been longtime friends, but he never knew what a monster Calabrese Sr. was.
Doyle "was a chumbolone, but he was a chum," said Meczyk, using a street slang word that Doyle himself used during his testimony to describe a fool.