What was the real name of Frankie Breeze whom Nicholas Calabrese testified against along with Joseph Lombardo and James Marcello.
Frank Calabrese Sr. Frank Calabrese Sr. (March 17, 1937 – December 25, 2012), also known as "Frankie Breeze", was a made man and a caporegime who ran major loansharking and illegal gambling operations for the Chicago Outfit. He is best known as a central figure in Operation Family Secrets and the subsequent Federal trial. Calabrese, who was battling a myriad of ailments, died on Christmas Day 2012 at the Federal Medical Center, Butner, in North Carolina.
George Appo George Washington Appo (born in New Haven, Connecticut on July 4, 1856; died in New York City on May 17, 1930) was a pickpocket and fraudster whose manner of speech in a testimony became influential in depictions of criminals. George himself wrote an autobiography, unpublished, and became the subject of a book. His father was a criminally insane Chinese American called "Quimbo Appo", Chinese name "Lee Ah Bow", while his mother, Catherine Fitzpatrick, was an Irish American. The origins of this criminal led a Louis Beck to present Appo as a story warning against "miscegenation".