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Showing posts with label New Jersey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Jersey. Show all posts
26 November 2024

Joe 'Adonis' Doto dies in exile

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On this date in 1971: New York Daily News Giuseppe Doto, better known by gangland nickname Joe Adonis, died Friday, November 26, 1971, at t...
26 October 2019

The Jersey Kid

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“Are you hurt buddy? Are you hurt?” George Lee, twenty-six-year-old over-night cashier for the Public Service Coordinated Transport, was...
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21 March 2019

'Sally Bugs' is killed to ensure his silence

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On this date in 1978... Briguglio A Teamsters union official, suspected of involvement in James R. Hoffa's 1975 disappearance, was...
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26 February 2019

'Longie' Zwillman takes his life

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Jersey rackets boss is found hanging in basement of his West Orange home On this date in 1959... Zwillman Abner "Longie" Z...
04 October 2018

Pals' pistols quiet garrulous gangster

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On this date in 1951... Asbury Park NJ Press Guarino "Willie Moore" Moretti, 57, was shot to death, Oct. 4, 1951, at Joe...
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29 August 2018

Trial of king's killer takes just one day

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On this date in 1900... Bresci Gaetano Bresci, accused assassin of Italy's King Umberto I, stood trial August 29, 1900, in Milan...
30 July 2018

Murders his pal on "Good Killers" orders

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On this date in 1921... Asbury Park Press Aug. 19, 1921 Two old friends from Sicily, recently reacquainted in New York City, went out ...
18 July 2018

Mafia infiltrates Federal Bureau of Investigation

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On this date in 1975... Camden Courier-Post Former FBI office clerk Irene Kuczynski on July 18, 1975, admitted in federal court to pho...
09 December 2016

Death of former Boardwalk boss

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On this date in 1968, eighty-five-year-old Enoch "Nucky" Johnson died of natural causes at the Atlantic County Convalescent Home i...