1. - Anonymous - Thursday, Apr 28, 05 @ 7:12 am:

   You broke the story here Rich. By the way, Pesek did not make a “wisecrack.” Those quotes have no attribution and are false - the Tribune has the most accurate version of events, and it contains no such “wisecrack” claim. The whole thing was unprovoked - from someone who knows.




2. - Mongo - Thursday, Apr 28, 05 @ 8:29 am:

   I know those two communities a bit…Berwynites sneer at North Riverside (and Brookfield too) and I bet a lot of NR residents used to be Berwyn residents…sort of a white flight phenomena but white to whiter!

   no love lost between these two towns but imagine your police chief beating the heck out of my village manager…ouch!

   the wild west lives…




3. - Anonymous - Thursday, Apr 28, 05 @ 3:00 pm:

   I’ve been watching this story and waiting for indictments. I’ve also heard from people in the know that there was no “wisecrack” and the beating was unprovoked.

   Good luck to the new Berwyn Mayor. Its difficult to change an organizational culture of greed and corruption.




4. - cermak_rd - Thursday, Apr 28, 05 @ 4:20 pm:

   I heard about this around the time of the election and just shook my head. Marzullo resigned right after the election, mainly because he knew that O’Connor would fire him anyway.

   His salary was an issue during the mayoral campaign because he makes more than NYC’s top cop. He was the Director of Public Safety which is technically the head of both the fire and police departments.




5. - Anonymous - Thursday, Apr 28, 05 @ 4:33 pm:

   Is Marzullo now going to show up in a six-figure city or county job?




6. - Anonymous - Saturday, Apr 30, 05 @ 1:32 pm:

   The biggest shame in all of this is that Jerry Marzullo, Frank’s son, has been dragged into the Berwyn sleeze. Jerry Marzullo is a bright, caring person. This is not typical of Jerry, and it’s a shame his committment to his family has placed him in such a horrible position.




7. - Anonymous - Wednesday, May 4, 05 @ 3:31 am:

   What goes around comes around I used to work for the city and its all one big scam. Its all about who you know and not what you know Berwyn is just its own little world.




8. - Anonymous - Wednesday, May 4, 05 @ 3:32 am:

   Jerry Marzullo is just as bad as his old man




9. - Anonymous - Friday, May 20, 05 @ 1:45 pm:

   I know the Marzullo family very well and i know that something like this is oversretched and that they were just there at the wrong place and the wrong time.




10. - From 1 who knows - Tuesday, Jul 19, 05 @ 4:58 pm:

    The harder they come, the harder they fall!!!

    I have no axes to grind with anyone personally however after being exposed to all the false publicity surrounding this matter of what really happened April 5th at the Golden Steer and in the interest of fairness - no matter how unfair the odds were when Wayne Pesek was beaten up by at least four or five assailants and late that evening.

    I happen to personally know all the parties involved with the exception of the Berwyn policeman hanging around with Frank.

    I almost feel nauseous whenever I hear the defense attorneys talk about Frank trying to break the fight up, and what a nice young man Jerry is.

    One of the reasons Jerry lost his recent election for Alderman is that he has earned the reputation of a punk, brat, reprobate who incidentally perpetrated this unfair “mob action” to begin with.

    The victim Pesek, said nothing to provoke Jerry, Russell or Frank. Pesek was the victim of being the wrong person in the wrong place, and at the wrong time the Marzullos decided they were going to exercise their own sadistic brutallity at the time they fomented this violent act against Pesek on the evening of Tuesday April 5th following the election loss the Marzullos suffered.

    Jerry started the fight by repeatedly asking Pesek if “he had an issue” which Pesek repeatedly replied (as respectfully as he could) realizing he was being set up in a malicious manner by Jerry - that he had none.

    Russell Marzullo, I’ve learned from sources in attendance, did everything in his power to provoke his nephew Jerry into starting the incident and assisted at least two or three others(maybe more) by draging Pesek out of the Golden Steer.

    When Pesek tried to cover his head with his hands while being assailed and kicked in the head and elsewhere, Russell Marzullo tried his best to demonstrate what a real man he was by punching a lady (the bar maid) in her face when she came to the aid of her friend Pesek, and tried to stop the lopsidedly unfair and unprovoked and outnumbered thugs who were beating Pesek up eventually resulting in him being admitted to the Loyola Hospital Intensive Care Unit immediately afterward.

    One of the witnesses to this excessive unbalanced unprovoked mob action incidentally was a campaign worker for the regular Berwyn Democratic Party (Marzullo’s “machine”) who worked canvassing his own neighborhood for Michael Woodward, the Mayoral candidate who was whipped by outsider newly elcted mayoral victor, O’Connor.

    This same witness, was at the time prior to the beating seated right next to Pesek at the time, witnessed the entire incident he suffered bruises and minor injuries (from attempting to thwart this attack while Frank failed to show a thread of disapproval and never lifted a finger)when Pesek was forcefully abducted and involuntarily dragged outside against his will.

    It may be hard for someone to believe that not one word was ever said by Pesek to any of the party at that time to Frank, to Russell, or Jerry Marzullo.

    Could the Marzullo’s have heard “voices” after the people of the Village of Berwyn decisively and overwhelmingly voted against the regular party’s candidate (Woodward) and voted in Independent O’Connor. Realizing the “good ole days” are being ended and never to be recreated could bring about episodes of paranoia and imaginary voices I suppose.

    Unsuccessfuly trying to prevent this from getting more out of hand the witness who happened to be seated next to Pesek was injured and bruised when he was thrown to the ground and was forced to watch as the others beat up Pesek prior to the Forest Park Police arriving immediately in the nick of time to save Pesek from what could have been a beating to death by this disproportionate number of assailants reattempting a sick reenactment of the bar scene in the movie Good Fellas.

    Despite his recent pleadings and falacious attempts by Frank and his attorney - Frank, the entire time, did not say or do a thing to stop the beatings even after Pesek pleaded with Frank not to allow this to happen.

    Frank Marzullo deliberately avoided stepping in and doing the right thing. In some sick reversal of this accounting Frank was noted by one observer appeared to have never been prouder or more approving of his son Jerry and what his brother Russell were doing.

    Frank Marzullo, inspite of what I believe to be obviously incorrect pleadings of his attorney - did absolutely nothing to halt a bad situation from getting worse.The sad part of this story is Frank could have stopped it dead in it’s tracks but decided not to.

    Frank does appear on the Forest Park Police tape demonstrating his “official misconduct” by telling the Forest Park Police that he was in charge.

    The only thing Frank Marzullo was in charge of at the time of this incident unfortunately was his responsibility of allowing a mob action that his son and brother were the two chief perpetrators participating in the violent beating up of an innocent customer of the Golden Steer who again never said or did nothing to either Frank, Russell or Jerry at anytime. What I want to know is what could Wayne Pesek say or do to deserve the bloody beating that he was very fortunate to survive???

    It will eventually come out in court that Frank Marzullo (clearly shown on the Forest Park Police tapes) attempted to send witnessess and perpetrators away from the scene so they wouldn’t testify what really happened.

    Russell Marzullo, Mr. Macho,a real man’s man, needs to punch women in the face and gang up on innocent people with at least four or five other men (as opposed to a single one) when he does choose to engage in a fight, will find things much different in Joliet than what he has become accustomed to.

    As for Jerry Marzullo, it’s a good thing that public patronage positions which my Cook County taxes will continue to support have one less overindulged parasite on the payroll.

    If there can be something comforting to any of us it must be that tax rolls will no longer be expending further financial resources to any of the Marzullos after everything that has culminated since April 5, 2005.

    Jerry,who has been spoiled his entire life hopefully can learn a trade while paying his debt to society and learn how to make some type of positive contribution he has failed to parlay in any past public service endeavors he has been paid to perform.

    The public will still be responsible for the costs associated with prosecuting and incarcerating these three but this financial outlay will be better applied than all previous disbursements to their livliehoods.

    The people of Berwyn have spoken and I wish to applaud their wise decision to exercise their political rights and throw Frank out and prevent Jerry from ever becoming Alderman…..

    Frank for all practical and political purposes is done now. He has no more power, influence or importance. After he gets convicted for this deal he will probably lose his pension after all of this…..

    Nobody is going to want to associate with or assist Frank Marzullo now and many will cross the street to avoid him if they are ever presented with a choice.

    Frank Marzullo will never work for anybody in any official or unofficial capacity ever.

    Frank Marzullo’s inside-out life living outside the law is history also. Frank they gotcha this time! And none of this would have happened had you had the intelligence and the courage to show yourself to be a man of good intention and break up the fight before it ever got started.

    Frank, how are you going to convince a jury that you were unable to keep all parties under control being Police and Fire Chief???

    Frank it is one thing losing an election - it is another to lose all semblances of class and honor as you have seemed to do with a noted distinction.

    Frank you pretend you tried to prevent this fight now but at the time you had every opportunity to extinguish it but you deliberatley chose otherwise to approve.

    Richard Nixon wasn’t impeached because of the Watergate burglary. He was forced to resign because of all the illegal acts to cover up that burglarly….Nixon previous and during this time thought he was beyond the law also…..It proved to be his undoing…..

    No man is outside the law - not Russell with his City of Chicago Department of Transportation job, Jerry at the State’s Attorney’s office or you as the former Commissioner of Public Safety.

    Best of luck in your new future surroundings after your high paid attorneys are unable to forestall the inevitable your new correctional accomodations preferably in Joliet.




11. - Anonymous - Thursday, Nov 17, 05 @ 11:56 pm:

    MOre Berwyn corruption coming to light The former building director (and fundraiser for Democratic Committeeman Robert Lovaro…waiving code violations of major structures; wonder how much they made? How much did Marzullo walk away with too? Berwyn finds errors in fallen condo’s wall
    Collapse crushed nearby sports bar

    By Brett McNeil
    Tribune staff reporter
    Published November 15, 2005

    A Berwyn condominium building where third-story walls collapsed in a weekend wind storm and crushed a nearby tavern was a “disaster waiting to happen” because of questionable construction methods, according to a memo issued Monday by the city’s building director.
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0511150137nov15,1,7163857.story




12. - Anonymous - Friday, Nov 18, 05 @ 3:00 pm:

    Word is that Berwyn had some type of hearing on Marzullo and both daddy and sonny showed up to defend sonny’s honor after Berwyn said no to his coming back to join the Berwyn Fire Dept. Both Marzullos were seen roaming into city hall, and walked out not looking very happy.




13. - sorry for you - Thursday, Apr 20, 06 @ 11:41 pm:

    these messages about the marzullos are just insane. you people should get lives of your own.




14. - Family - Wednesday, Jun 28, 06 @ 1:59 pm:

    Why don’t all of you people worry about what is going on in your own lives, mind your own business and quit bashing my family? You are all ignorant and need to grow up.




15. - the truth - Wednesday, Oct 11, 06 @ 11:42 am:

    i heard the marzullos are actually witches. look into it




16. - deep oral - Wednesday, Jan 31, 07 @ 11:15 pm:

    Since one of the ideas is to split strings not into words, but hopefully into phrases more semantically informative than the words they are made of, doing that better should mean better suggestions, and avoiding what essentially are word n-tuples should make for smaller data and slightly faster querying.




17. - Anna Marzullo - Thursday, May 17, 07 @ 10:30 am:

    All of you that claim that you know my family you do not, and for those of you who have talked bad about them I find you both ridiculous and hilarious. They were all found innocent yesterday so why dont we hear some positive things since obviously the three of them did NOTHING!




18. - NRresident - Thursday, May 17, 07 @ 12:06 pm:

    Wayne Pesek is going to have to re-think his retirement plans now that his civil case has taken the same beating he got in the bar that night!




19. - ChefSLpatron - Friday, May 18, 07 @ 11:16 am:

    Leave it to someone like Wayne Pesek to leave the residents of NR AND Berwyn feeling sorry for the Marzullo’s. Stay out of bars and your neighbors yard!




20. - apexnc - Friday, May 18, 07 @ 12:16 pm:

    hey anna, 5 guys (wussie’s) beat the crap out of this guy are you trying to say the marzullo’s didn’t hit him because if you are your going to be in confession for a long time on sunday.

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