She Married Into the Chicago Mob — Then Came FBI Raids, Surveillance and Murder

The Growth Time Machine with Daniel Curtis · Sep 28, 2026 · 1h 22m

Lisa Swan was warned about Frank Calabrese Jr.’s family before their relationship had even really begun.She married him anyway.What followed was a life she could never have imagined.Lisa found herself caught inside the world surrounding Frank Calabrese Sr. and his family — a world of control, fear, drugs, prison, FBI investigations and secrets she says she knew nothing about at the time.She remembers being called into a basement for her own “mob sit-down.” She remembers the morning the FBI arrived at her home and began arresting members of the family. And she remembers eventually discovering…