Outfit hit man Frank Calabrese Sr. apparently doesn’t know when to shut up.
He’s on the hook for seven murders in a racketeering case — convicted in part by his own secretly recorded words.
He was overhead threatening to kill a prosecutor, Markus Funk.
And he’s now under the kind of security lockdown at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago usually reserved for terrorists — or as his defense attorney, Joseph Lopez, has suggested, Hannibal Lecter.
Mainly odd in that I knew Markus in the late 1980s when he dated a friend of mine. His family owned Funks Seeds in McLean County and he was attending the University of Illinois at the time. Not terribly comforting him, I’m sure, but he’s making all the right enemies.
That the same Funk of Funk’s Grove maple syrup up in McLean County?
Definitely the same name for Funk’s Grove–not sure if the same family owns the maple syrup business or if it’s just named after the grove.