Sentencing
On March 26, 2009, Nick Calabrese was sentenced by United States District Judge James Zagel to 12 years and four months in prison. Prior to sentencing Calabrese, Zagel told some of Calabrese's victims' family members who were in the courtroom, "the law provides for leniency, undeserved leniency, for those who can testify truthfully about what has happened to those missing loved ones...Few in prisons will ever come forward to confess if leniency is not possible." Upon sentencing Calabrese, Zagel told him, "I think what you did does make amends by allowing penalties to be paid for the murders of others and for allowing families to know how and why their (loved ones) died." Zagel also noted that Calabrese never will fully live as a free man. "The organization whose existence you testified to will not forgive or relent in their pursuit of you," Zagel told Calabrese.
Calabrese likely will be released from federal prison in 2013, although he is expected to live the rest of his life in the United States Federal Witness Protection Program.
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