A federal jury in Detroit has acquitted the son of convicted Mafia boss Vito Giacalone of racketeering and extortion charges resulting from a government investigation into illegal sports gambling.
It took less than one hour for the jury to find Jack V. Giacalone of West Bloomfield not guilty on the sports gambling charges. He was indicted on March 3rd, 2006 among the total of 15 defendants, most of them pleading guilty on the illegal betting case. Fourteen of the charged defendants were arrested in Detroit.
Investigators accused Jack Giacalone of attempting to collect a gambling debt from a man who told a grand jury that he felt intimidated. Even after the man testified that he didn't feel threatened. He was indicted on two counts of racketeering conspiracy under the RICO act.
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