Frank Schweihs was supposed to have been tried last summer with the other top hoodlums during Operation Family Secrets, the landmark mob trial. When Schweihs was too ill with cancer to even leave ...

Schweihs, who at the time was under indictment in the Family Secrets case that also targeted Outfit bosses Joey “The Clown” Lombardo and Frank Calabrese, was on the run at the time.

Frank Schweihs was supposed to have been tried last summer with the other top hoodlums during Operation Family Secrets, the landmark mob trial. When Schweihs was too ill with cancer to even leave ...

Secret recordings cite ties between Berrios relative, Chicago mobster: ‘Jimmy and Frank were good friends’ Prosecutors revealed secretly recorded conversations Wednesday as they sought a ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Frank 'The German' Schweihs, reputedly one of Chicago's most feared mob enforcers, has died while awaiting trial on charges he took part in a conspiracy that included ...

Schweihs, who according to authorities spent decades as a reputed enforcer for the mob’s Grand Avenue street crew, died of cancer in 2008 while awaiting trial.

Schweihs, who according to authorities spent decades as a reputed enforcer for the mob’s Grand Avenue street crew, died of cancer in 2008 while awaiting trial.

"Frank wanted to have his day in court," said Paul Brayman, Schweihs' lawyer. Brayman told the I-Team that he saw Schweihs the day before he died. "He looked pretty grim," the attorney recalled.

And Frank Schweihs was a rising star in the Outfit, living in the west suburban home of his Outfit boss. By '62, Schweihs had been arrested as often as his age - he was 32 years old - for crimes ...

Weiss also falsely denied hearing that his brother “had a problem and went for protection to somebody” and that his brother had “reached out to Frank Schweihs, who was out of town, and ...