Joseph “Jerry” “The Monk” Scalise
June 29, 2011 (CHICAGO) (WLS) — Three Chicago Outfit geriatric burglars, Jerry Scalise, Art Rachel and Robert Pullia, will have to wait a few months for their day in court. DNA tests on some evidence in their racketeering case has stalled the start date of the big Chicago mob trial . Chuck Goudie, wls reports
Thirty-one years ago, the case that made Scalise and Rachel famous was the daring theft of the 41-carat Marlborough diamond from a London jeweler. They were convicted and did lengthy prison sentences in the UK in a case that had no DNA sampling because the use of DNA testing was still a few years away in criminal cases