Another Rat Snitch Surfaces

-- It started with a toothache......And another Beefer
Dr. Patrick Spilotro -- the brother of two men allegedly murdered by city mobsters -- testified Tuesday that he helped authorities nab one member of Chicago's organized crime family when the man came to his suburban Chicago dental office to have a tooth abscess treated.

Spilotro, who said he had been funneling information and being a snitch bitch about the mob to the FBI for two decades, tipped off authorities when then-fugitive Joseph "Joey the Clown" Lombardo sought treatment. Lombardo was arrested after he made another visit to Spilotro.

The testimony came during the trial of Lombardo, 78, James Marcello, 65, Frank Calabrese, 69, Paul Schiro, 70, and Anthony Doyle, 62.(ALL INNOCENT TILL PROVEN GUILTY WE ALL MUST REMEMBER) More than this circumstantial evidence we have seen till this point.. They are charged with taking part in a racketeering conspiracy that included gambling, extortion, loan sharking and 18 killings, including those of Tony and Michael Spilotro.


Patrick Spilotro said he asked Lombardo about how his brothers ended up dead and buried in an Indiana cornfield.

"I recall his words vividly," Spilotro said. "He said, 'When you get an order, you follow it. If you don't, you go, too."'

Lombardo sat just yards from the wood-paneled witness stand as Spilotro spoke. Lombardo was brought into the courtroom in a wheelchair and was clutching a cane.

Sometimes pausing to choke back tears, the gray-haired Spilotro told the court that he had spent the years -- at great peril to himself -- informing on the mob in a bid to catch his brothers' killers.

He described receiving a call from another of his brothers in June of 1986 telling him Michael and Tony were missing.

"He told me Tony and Michael didn't come home. He says he thinks something's terribly wrong," he said, his voice cracking. Spilotro said he spent years speaking to anyone who might know something about his brothers' deaths, then passed on what he found to the FBI.

"I was always looking for those rumors or leads," he said.

In tough cross-examination, defense attorneys grilled the dentist, suggesting his memory might be faulty and that he conducted a personal investigation that wasn't credible.
Pat Spilotro told the defense that his brothers were going to see Marcello when they were killed.(Unfounded again) That allegation had previously come out in court. He said the FBI may have already had that information because for years, he informed on the mob to authorities.

In testimony last week, Dr. John Pless said Michael and Tony Spilotro, whose bodies were found buried in an Indiana cornfield in 1986, likely were punched and kicked to death with bare fists, knees and feet. The autopsy showed no evidence they were alive when they were buried in the shallow grave, he said.

Tony Spilotro, known as the mob's man in Las Vegas, was the inspiration for the Joe Pesci character in the 1995 movie "Casino." In the film, Pesci's character was beaten with bats and buried alive.

Earlier in the trial, star witness Nicholas Calabrese, Frank Calabrese's brother, testified that mobsters were mad at Tony Spilotro because he was "bringing too much heat" on them and romancing the wife of a Las Vegas casino executive.

He said the Spilotros were lured in June 1986 to the basement of a Bensenville home where they were told Tony would be dubbed a "capo," or mob captain, and Michael a "made guy."

Pat Spilotro told the court he began informing on the mob shortly after his brothers disappeared.