'Since then they're partners on everything'; Feds say brother of Berrios relative described how friendship with Outfit hitman led to mob alliance

The now-convicted son-in-law of former Cook County Democratic boss Joseph Berrios was allegedly “good friends” with notorious mob hitman Frank “The German” Schweihs and once went to him for protection for his massage parlors being threatened by other gangsters. That’s the story about James Weiss that was caught on a federal wiretap and revealed in a court filing late Wednesday, where ...

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