11 Facts About Marco D'Amico

Marco "The Mover" D'Amico was a Chicago mobster and consigliere of the Chicago Outfit crime organization.

Marco D'Amico admitted his role in the Chicago Outfit in federal court in 1995.

Marco D'Amico was involved in a fight at the corner of Oak Street and Rush Street, in Chicago, in 1978.

Marco D'Amico is related by marriage to Robert Abbinatti, who is a made man in the Chicago Outfit.

Marco D'Amico has been arrested twice for DUIs, once in 1983 and another time in 1989.

For years Marco D'Amico was believed by organized-crime watchers to be the Chicago Outfit's top sports-gambling figure, and he was frequently spotted at funerals for top mob figures.

On May 20,1992, Marco D'Amico was brought before a federal grand jury in Chicago after the bombing of a BMW sports car outside the home in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood of Sharon Patrick, the estranged daughter of turncoat mobster Leonard Patrick, who was set to testify for the prosecution against his old boss, mob fixer Gus Alex.

On November 18,1994, with a five-year statute of limitations set to expire, Marco D'Amico was indicted on charges of conspiring to commit robbery, operating sports bookmaking and poker businesses, using extortion to collect gambling debts and "juice" loans, and conspiring to commit racketeering.

However, federal prosecutors had been set to call as many as eight witnesses, including several former mob insiders, to testify that Marco D'Amico was second-in-command in the Chicago Outfit's Elmwood Park "street crew," under John DiFronzo.

Marco D'Amico was released from federal prison on July 21,2005.

Marco D'Amico was married to his wife Patricia for over 50 years and has 4 children.