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Showing posts with label New York. 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...
21 May 2022

Agents arrest woman counterfeiter in 1902

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‘Pretty Italian woman’ was ‘genius’ of Mafia-linked phony coin ring On this date in 1902... Paterson NJ Morning Call U.S. Secret Service a...
05 November 2021

Author discusses Polly Adler bio, 'Madam'

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In this interview by Gerald Howard for CUNY's Leon Levy Center for Biography, biographer Debby Applegate discusses her just-released boo...
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...
25 April 2020

Sláinte: The Strange Tale of “Durable Mike” Malloy

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One of my favorite criminal stories of Prohibition isn’t gangster-related, but the story of “Durable Mike” Malloy, a New York derelict who h...
24 April 2020

Owney Madden dies at Hot Springs, Arkansas

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On this date in 1965... NY Daily News. Owen "Owney" Madden, once a gangland power in New York City, died of lung disease in ...
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