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Showing posts with label Genovese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Genovese. Show all posts
08 April 2020

Going out for 'a few minutes'

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Hasn't been seen since 1962 New York Daily News On this date in 1962... Anthony "Tony Bender" Strollo, sixty-two-year...
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13 January 2020

Crime bosses receive hundred-year sentences

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Judge hands out 740 years in prison terms, $1.75 million in fines On this date in 1987... Rockland County NY Journal-News Seven lea...
25 November 2019

Bringing Joe Valachi's memoirs to the Web

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The 1000-plus page memoirs of Mafia turncoat Joseph Valachi are valuable source material for organized crime historians. The manuscript, e...
24 June 2019

Peers salute Genovese after murder acquittal

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On this date in 1946... Leaders of Mafia crime families based in the eastern U.S.  assembled at Midtown Manhattan's Hotel Diplomat, ...
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11 January 2019

He did it, but they couldn't prove it

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Carmine Galante of Bonanno clan is regarded as Tresca's killer On this date in 1943... Tresca Carlo Tresca, sixty-three-year-old...
19 December 2018

'Chin' Gigante dies in prison hospital

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On this date in 2005... Vincent "Vinny the Chin" Gigante, longtime boss of the Genovese Crime Family, died December 19, 2005, ...
10 September 2018

Valachi recalls assassination of boss of bosses

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On this date in 1931... Reigning Mafia boss of bosses Salvatore Maranzano was shot and stabbed to death in his Park Avenue, Manhattan, off...
08 September 2018

Jury selected as Mafia bosses head to trial

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On this date in 1986... Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Jury selection began September 8, 1986, in the federal trial of alleged Ma...
06 August 2018

Unlucky date for Steel City underworld bosses

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August 6 has been a bad date to be a Pittsburgh Mafia boss. On that date in 1929, thirty-nine-year-old underworld chief Stefano Monaste...