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I’ve always felt that Mob documentaries are the funniest shows on TV, mostly from the (hilarious) ‘code’ they speak in, when talking over phones that might be bugged. I suppose it’s a bit like ‘hit signs’ in baseball, where the goal is to muddle your message, but –at the same time– it’s not like you have high level cryptographers working for you, so it can only be so complicated, given the abilities of your employees.
Today’s Sun Times has a great example of these hilarious, easy-to-crack codes, in an update on the Frank Calabrese, Family Secrets Mob trial.
According to FBI wire taps, Calabrese hid so many real estate assists in his mother’s name that she (his mom) started to become annoyed at all the paperwork. In a secretly recorded call, Calabrese’s wife then warns him, in code, that his mother is refusing to sign anything until she gets copies of the documents:
His wife tells Calabrese that “she gave some ‘cookies’ for her mother to sample and she wants a copy of all the ingredients before she samples.”
(the entire article is pretty funny…. …Frank Calabrese’s attorney, for example, is Joseph “The Shark” Lopez- that detail alone –having a defense attorney who goes by Joey “The Shark”– makes it worth the read)
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