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Showing posts with label Philadelphia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philadelphia. Show all posts
15 March 2022

Remote bomb shreds Philly boss Testa

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On this date in 1981... Just before three o'clock on Sunday morning, March 15, 1981, an explosion shook the Girard Estates neighborhood ...
17 August 2018

Mafia boss shot down at Philly's 'Bloody Angle'

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On this date in 1936... Camden Morning Post Local Mafia boss John "Big Nose" Avena and associate Martin Feldstein were stand...
17 January 2018

Historian reveals identities of Mafia informants

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The FBI makes every effort to hide the identities of its confidential underworld informants. Unlike the famous Joe Valachi and other Bureau ...
30 May 2017

Zanghi 'squeals' after brother's murder

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On this date in 1927, two men were felled by shotgun and automatic pistol fire as they chatted outside a South Philadelphia restaurant. The ...
16 May 2017

1929: Capone meets City of Brotherly Love

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Arrested with concealed weapon on his way home from Atlantic City peace conference May 16, 1929 - Chicago crime lord Al Capone and h...
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07 February 2017

Future Buffalo mob boss arrives in NYC

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On this date in 1909: Seventeen-year-old Stefano Magaddino of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, arrived in New York City aboard the S.S. San ...
28 December 2016

They gave at the office

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Eighty-five years ago today, Philadelphia gangsters Sam Grossman and Al Skale sat in the office of their second-story gambling and drinking...