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March 15, 1996
* The federal government in 1992 said it made significant inroads into organized crime when four Macomb County people were indicted on charges of operating a nationwide gambling operation at the Wolverine Golf Course.
But a jury in 1993 concluded those people weren't guilty. Despite hundreds of taped conversations and years of federal investigation, the jury saw no traces of organized crime.
* Vito Giacalone, Jack Vito Giacalone and Michael Polizzi were imprisoned in 1987 for operating a sports-betting operation at a Detroit warehouse.
* Anthony Zerilli was convicted in 1972 of having a hidden ownership of the Frontier Casino in Las Vegas.
* In 1976, Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone was a central figure in a federal investigation related to fraudulent use of the Teamsters union's health care plan. He was convicted of income-tax evasion in 1976 and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He received a 12-year sentence when he pleaded guilty to extortion charges in Saginaw in 1979.