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Showing posts with label Profaci. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Profaci. Show all posts
06 June 2021

1962: Cancer claims mob boss Profaci

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On this date in 1962... Brooklyn-based crime boss Joseph Profaci died at ten minutes to eleven o'clock in the evening of Wednesday, Ju...
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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25 October 2019

Anastasia delayed, did not escape death in 'chair'

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On this date in 1957... Perhaps Albert Anastasia was fated to die in "the chair." The longtime New York-area underworld figure...
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29 January 2019

Mob mayhem on a Monday morning

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On this date in 1962... NY Daily News It was a bad Monday morning for Michael F. Albergo of Ridgewood Queens. A bad one also for Mich...
06 October 2018

'Schatz' follows Yale to wealth, influence, grave

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On this date in 1928... New York Daily News   Michael "Mike Schatz" Abbatemarco, a top lieutenant in Frankie Yale's Broo...
02 July 2018

July 1958: Profaci infuriates McClellan Committee

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On this date in 1958... Profaci New York City-based Mafia boss Joseph Profaci, accompanied by attorney Samuel Paige, appeared July 2, ...
14 November 2017

Apalachin party-crashers expose Mafia network

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[Following is an excerpt from DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime - Vol. II .] On November 14, 1957, Sergeant Edgar Croswell o...
30 April 2017

Mafia boss leads protests at FBI headquarters

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New York Times, May 2, 1970. On April 30, 1970, Mafia boss Joseph Colombo responded to the arrest of his son, Joseph Jr., by organizing...
31 January 2017

Brooklyn's Gallo mobsters become heroes

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On this date in 1962... Gallo gangsters became neighborhood heroes. Noticing a fire in a nearby apartment building on Jan. 31, 1962, Lawr...