- Harry Aleman
Harry "The Hook" Aleman (born
January 19 ,1939 ) was a suspect in the unsolved murder of Salvatore "Sam," "Mooney" Giancana. However, with little evidence, authorities were unable to charge him.He was acquitted for the 1972 murder of Chicago
Teamsters Union stewardWilliam Logan .A year later, Aleman was charged and later convicted under the
RICO Act of organizing a number ofhome invasion robberies. Sentenced to thirty years imprisonment, Aleman was transferred to a series of correctional facilities inMarion, Illinois ,Atlanta, Georgia ,Oxford, Wisconsin , andMilan, Michigan serving eleven years until being paroled onApril 28 ,1989 .In 1991, Aleman was charged with extortion, pled guilty to the charges and was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment.
Aleman was reindicted for the murder of Logan while in prison and eventually retried in September 1997. In 1998, a federal court ruled ("Harry Aleman v. Judges of the Criminal Division, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, et al.", 138 F.3d 302 (7th Cir. 1998)) that an
acquittal by a bribed judge in a bench trial is invalid because the defendant in such a case was never in jeopardy in the first place, and that the legal concept ofdouble jeopardy is therefore inapplicable. This meant Aleman could be reprosecuted. Aleman was convicted at his retrial.References
* Cooley, Robert. "When Corruption was King: How I Helped the Mob Rule Chicago, Then Brought the Outfit Down", Carroll & Graf (December 13, 2005) ISBN 0-7867-1583-9
External links
* [http://www.ipsn.org/aleman2.html Harry Aleman: Legacy of a Vicious, Reputed Mob Hitman] by James McGough
* [http://www.search-international.com/Articles/chicagomob/aleman.htm Testing the Limits of Double Jeopardy: Harry "the Hook" Aleman - The Life and Times of a Mob Enforcer Recalled] by Richard C. Lindberg
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