The dentist told the court he had spent years speaking to people who might know something about his brothers' deaths and feeding that information to the FBI. Lombardo was no exception, Spilotro said, telling the jury he asked Lombardo why his brothers ended up dead.
"I recall his words vividly," Spilotro said. "He said, `When you get an order, you follow it. If you don't, you go, too.'"
Lombardo was arrested after he made another visit to the dentist's office.
Three of the defendants testified.
Lombardo, who lived up to his "clown" nickname by wisecracking on the stand, told jurors he is not a member of the Outfit and learned everything he knows about the mob from James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson gangster movies.
Doyle testified that during a secretly recorded conversation with Frank Calabrese Sr in prison, he had agreed with much of what the prisoner wanted without knowing what it was, and that the code words Calabrese used were "mind-boggling gibberish."
Calabrese Sr told jurors that he associated and did business with Outfit members, but insists that he never took the oath of a so-called "made" guy.
But first, he had to endure the testimony of his brother Nicholas, who admitted participating in more than a dozen murders. He linked all the defendants but Doyle to a murder scene.
Nicholas Calabrese was labeled a "grim reaper," a "walking piece of deception" and "a man who would kill you for serving him cold pasta" by attorney Lopez, representing Calabrese Sr.
Mars said one thing jurors should have learned from the trial is, "Once you belong to the Outfit, you belong for life."
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