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#OTD (Dec. 28)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history

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On this date, December 28...
... in 1875, 'Nine-Fingered Frank' Romeo surrenders to New Orleans police and is charged with the September murder of cigar merchant Bernard Ditte.
... in 1922, A janitor finds Eugenio Orgento dead of stab wounds in the back of his New York shop.
... in 1926, Jack and Eddie Diamond, Salvatore 'Charlie Luciano' Lucania and James Walsh are arrested in New York for felonious assault.
... in 1929, Chicago police raid the headquarters of the remnants of the 'Bugs' Moran gang.
... in 1931, Frank Cammarata surrenders to the Wayne County MI sheriff for questioning about the Wyandotte Massacre.
... in 1936, Texas gambling czar Benny Binion is released by police after questioning.
... in 1945, Mafia faction leader Vincent 'the Dude' Benevento is shot and critically wounded in the rear room of his Chicago cheese store.
... in 1953, Joseph 'Doc' Stacher and others are sentenced for illegal casino gambling at Saratoga NY.
... in 1963, Joe Magliocco, disgraced former boss of New York's Profaci Crime Family, dies of a heart attack at a New York hospital.
... in 1968, G.P. Putnam's Sons releases The Valachi Papers by Peter Maas.
... in 2007, a federal jury convicts Alphonse 'Allie Boy' Persico and Jackie DeRoss of conspiring in 1999 to kill Colombo Crime Family underboss William Cutolo.
... in 2010, Anthony Volpe, reputed boss of the Genovese Crime Family-linked Hartford CT underworld, dies at the age of 78.

#OTD (Dec. 27)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history

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On this date, December 27...
... in 1906, a Black Hand bomb destroys a grocery on Manhattan's Elizabeth Street.
... in 1907, suspected regional Black Hand leader Valentino Piazza is arrested in Pittsburgh.
... in 1908, New York mafiosi Pietro Inzerillo and Carlo Comigliano are both wounded during a gunfight on Elizabeth Street.
... in 1917, imprisoned Mafia leader Ignazio Lupo is believed to have had advance knowledge of a fatal attack by inmate Dimiter Popoff against an Atlanta Prison deputy warden.
... in 1927, with a Buffalo Catholic church refusing to hold a funeral for murdered gangster Filippo Mazzara, hundreds attend services at the Mazzara home.
... in 1934, John Alioto of Milwaukee is sentenced to prison following convictions for forgery and larceny.
... in 1935, prosecutor Thomas Dewey prepares a secret list of Manhattan's top-dozen racketeers. Newspapers report that 'Lepke' Buchalter, 'Gurrah' Shapiro and 'Dutch Golberg' Shomberg are on the list.
... in 1938, Santo Vultaggio dies in Brooklyn at age 60.
... in 1961, eleven defendants, including Joseph Valachi, Charles Schiffman and Vito Agueci, are convicted in New York federal court of running a narcotics smuggling operation.
... in 1965, members of the press learn that Peter Maas is preparing the memoirs of gangster Joe Valachi for publication.
... in 1982, 'Jack the Dandy' Parisi, alleged to be a former gunman for Murder Inc., dies in Hazleton PA at the age of 83.

#OTD (Dec 22) in 1965, the U.S. Justice Department notifies Peter #Maas (shown) that he has been authorized to edit for publication the extensive memoirs of turncoat mafioso Joe #Valachi.

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#OTD (Nov 21) in 1924, Joseph #Valachi is shot while escaping from a botched #Bronx burglary.

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#OTD (Nov 18) in 1959, Joseph #Valachi, wanted in #NewYork on #narcotics charges, is arrested in #Connecticut.

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#OTD (Nov 10) in 1921, identifying himself as Anthony Sorge, Joseph #Valachi is arrested in #JerseyCity NJ for weapons possession.

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#OTD (Nov 01) in 1944, Joseph #Valachi is charged in #Brooklyn with violating federal #narcotics law.

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#OTD (Oct 26) in 1923, Joseph #Valachi begins a nine-month prison sentence at #SingSing.

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#OTD (Oct 23) in 1923, a #BronxNY judge sentences Joseph #Valachi to between 15 and 30 months in prison for attempted #burglary.

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#OTD (Oct 19) in 1922, Joseph #Valachi, using the alias of Anthony Sorge, and codefendants Charles Chisingo, Joseph Pellegrina and Dominick Puccarelli are fined in #NewJersey on an illegal weapons charge.

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#OTD (Oct 14) in 1952, #NewJersey detectives question Joseph #Valachi about the recent murder of Willie #Moretti.

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#OTD (Oct 10) in 1963, an informant tells the #FBI that mafiosi Tommy #Eboli (shown) and Gerry #Catena have paid Joseph Valachi's wife $10,000 to give the press information that will undermine her husband's credibility.

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#OTD (Oct 03) in 1903, Joseph #Valachi is born in #NewYork City as Giuseppe Vilacio.

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Manhattan birth certificate of Giuseppe Vilacio (Joseph Valachi), dated October 3, 1903.

#OTD (Oct 02) in 1963, Joseph #Valachi tells a Senate rackets committee that gangster Red #Levine (shown) admitted a role in the 1931 assassination of #Mafia boss Salvatore #Maranzano.

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#OTD (Oct 01) in 1963, Attorney General Robert #Kennedy announces that turncoat mafioso Joseph #Valachi will be used as a government witness in federal criminal trials.

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#OTD (Sep 29) in 1929, a charge of attempted extortion against Joseph #Valachi is dismissed in magistrate's court.

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#OTD (Sep 28) in 1963, informant Joseph #Valachi states that Vito #Genovese is boss of bosses of the American #Mafia.

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#OTD (Sep 27) in 1963, the first day of testimony of informant Joe #Valachi before the #Senate Investigations subcommittee is broadcast on radio and TV.

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