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Frank "The German" Schweihs was in court today, weakened but not defeated by his battle cancer. Schweihs was supposed to face prosecution as part of the Family Secrets, but he was too sick, so his trial is set for this October. He was in court today for a hearing, and boy oh boy was he chock full of insults and bad language, largely directed at prosecutors. When one apparently looked at Schweihs, the alleged mobster shouted, "Yeah you, you making eyes at me? Do I look like a fag to you?" He also called one of the prosecutors an "a[ss]hole," and upon observing that assistant US attorney wears a turban, asked his lawyer if they were "in a foreign country." You stay classy, The German! [S-T, Trib, AP]
For those of you keeping score at home, here's how three different media outlets published what Schweihs said:
- "Fag":
- Ran in the Sun-Times as: "Do I look like a fag to you?" Schweihs asked.
- Ran in the Trib as: "Do I look like a [expletive] to you or something?"
- Ran in the AP story as: not mentioned
- Ran in the Sun-Times as: "Do I look like a fag to you?" Schweihs asked.
- "Asshole"
- Ran in the Sun-Times as: Schweihs later referred to another federal prosecutor in court as "another a--hole."
- Ran in the Trib as: He then used another expletive for Funk as the hearing broke up.
- Ran in the AP story as: Before the hearing was finished and marshals wheeled him away, Schweihs spat out one last insult -- an obscenity -- to describe one of the prosecutors[.]
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Normally I try to have compassion for people with cancer, but now know my limit.
Part of me wants to go to court when he's on trial and make kissy-faces at him. Then I remember he's in the mob (allegedly).
Where was the judge? This type of language should not be tolerated by anyone...old, sick, skilled mobster, whatever.
@Herstory:
It is ESSENTIAL that this language is tolerated. Talking like an asshole is not against the law, nor should it be.
I wish other people who think like Frank Schweihs were more open about it, then I'd know where NOT to spend my money.
I'm sorry, but this story is hysterical. An old gangster who's so out-of-it from chemotherapy that he doesn't grasp he's shouting homophobic, racist taunts inside a courtroom. That is damn FUNNY.
What's funny is that Margaret Lyons, who is known herself to make some unaesthetic choices in her use of language, should be the one to point it out when it's done by others.