Reputed mobster gets year and a day on tax charge
Reputed Chicago mobster Rudy Fratto has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for tax evasion.
Judge Matthew Kennelly on Wednesday also ordered the 66-year-old Fratto to pay $141,192 in restitution for the taxes he didn't pay.
At the sentencing, four of Fratto's relatives pleaded for leniency, saying they depended on him for financial support.
Kennelly said anything short of prison would send the wrong message to people who might be thinking of dodging their taxes.
Fratto's name came up in testimony in two major organized crime cases over the last decade and is listed on a 1997 chart of the mob drawn up by the Chicago Crime Commission.
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