Article: The Chicago Tribune John Kass column: Feds' informant kept stable of secrets.

Byline: John Kass

Jun. 27--Ex-porn merchant William "Red" Wemette was pink and fleshy in his suit and tie in the federal witness box on Tuesday.

As he talked, I thought about a triple homicide of three young boys that the pink man knew something about, even as he worked as a government informant, as the parents of those boys went to their graves not knowing who killed their sons.

In TV courtroom sketches, Red Wemette will be fixed like some insect on a pin, a witness in the Operation Family Secrets prosecution against top members of the Chicago Outfit, featuring 18 unsolved mob assassinations.

In the flesh, Wemette was sober and ...

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