Chicago mob sweep

CHICAGO – Fourteen reputed mob figures were charged Monday with murders and other crimes spanning four decades, in what authorities called the most sweeping organized-crime bust in Chicago's rich gangland history."Monday the Outfit takes a hit," U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Patrick Fitzgerald said, referring to the Chicago branch of the La Cosa Nostra.Perhaps the most notorious slayings covered in Monday's indictment were of brothers Anthony and Michael Spilotro, who were beaten and buried in an Indiana cornfield in 1986, apparently for skimming mob profits in Las Vegas. The double-murder was later depicted in the movie "Casino."