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#NewOrleans #Mafia boss Joseph #Agnello had survived previous assassination attempts. But, #OTD (Sept 12) in 1871, the odds (and his underworld rivals) caught up with him.

https://mobhistory.substack.com/p/bloody-ends-of-early-nola-bosses-5f4?r=12oapz

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#OTD (Sep 12) in 1931, bootlegger Joseph #Manino is shot to death in a #Brooklyn neighborhood known as Death Valley.

https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2019/09/death-valley-end-for-ambitious-gangster.html

#NYC #MafiaHistory #History #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Sep 12)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history.

#NewOrleans #Brooklyn #CarbondalePA #Pittsburgh #BuffaloNY #Dallas #Philadelphia #NewYork #Mafia #MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Sep 11)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history.

#Brooklyn #SewickleyPA #EastHarlem #Poughkeepsie #Chicago #BuffaloNY #Florida #Milwaukee #NewYork #Mafia #MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Sep 10) in 1931, #Mafia boss of bosses Salvatore #Maranzano was shot and stabbed to death. Joseph #Valachi later provided authorities with background on the assassination.

https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2018/09/valachi-recalls-assassination-of-boss.html

#NYC #MafiaHistory #History #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Sep 10)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history.

#Bronx #Colorado #Ohio #NewJersey #Chicago #NewYork #Mafia #MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (June 20)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history.

#EastHarlem #Brooklyn #ProvidenceRI #Atlanta #BeverlyHills #Boston #WorcesterMA #Cleveland #NewHavenCT #NewYork #Mafia #MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#ICYMI: a year ago today, the MobHistory Substack took a look at a #Mafia judicial body known as the "Council of Six."

https://mobhistory.substack.com/p/the-mafias-council-of-six?r=12oapz

#Valachi #NewYork #MafiaHistory #History #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (June 05)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history.

#ConeyIsland #Boston #Tampa #RhodeIsland #NewOrleans #NewJersey #Pittsburgh #RochesterNY #WestSpringfieldMA #NewYork #Mafia #MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (April 9) in 1966, Joseph #Valachi attempts to take his own life while held in federal prison at #MilanMI.

https://mobhistory.substack.com/p/michigan-move-led-to-valachi-suicide?r=12oapz

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#OTD (March 19) in 1943, Frank #Nitti takes his own life after learning he and six other #Chicago Outfit leaders have been indicted for #racketeering conspiracy.

https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2017/03/74-years-ago-chicago-boss-suicide.html

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New today on Mafia Genealogy: The father of West Springfield, Massachusetts' Pugliano brothers, and co-founder of the popular Monte Carlo Restaurant, was a prolific bootlegger during Prohibition. https://mafiagenealogy.com/2026/02/13/the-bootlegging-pugliano-family-of-west-springfield-massachusetts/ #MafiaHistory #WestSpringfieldMA #SpringfieldMA #Genovese #Patriarca

#OTD (Dec. 28)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history

#NewOrleans #NewYork #Chicago #Detroit #Texas #SaratogaNY #HartfordCT #Valachi #Mafia #MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Dec. 27)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history

#NewYork #Pittsburgh #Atlanta #Buffalo #Milwaukee #Brooklyn #Narcotics #Valachi #HazletonPA #Mafia #MurderInc
#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Dec 22) in 1965, the U.S. Justice Department notifies Peter #Maas (shown) that he has been authorized to edit for publication the extensive memoirs of turncoat mafioso Joe #Valachi.

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#Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Dec 11) in 1997, a federal grand jury indicts Lenine #Strollo (shown), his brother Dante Strollo and numerous others for #racketeering offenses in the #YoungstownOH area.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Dec 11) in 1990, federal #racketeering charges are lodged against #Gambino Crime Family leaders John J. #Gotti, Frank #Locascio, Salvatore #Gravano (shown) and Thomas Gambino.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Dec 09) in 1999, #NewEngland #Mafia leader 'Cadillac Frank' #Salemme pleads guilty to federal #racketeering charges, admits conspiring with #SouthBoston racketeer 'Whitey' #Bulger (shown) in the #extortion of bookmakers, loan sharks and drug dealers.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Dec 03) in 1991, Raymond J. 'Junior' #Patriarca pleads guilty in federal court to #racketeering and related charges.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Nov 30) in 1928, bootlegger Joseph #Martino is fatally shot outside his #ChicagoHeights soft drink parlor.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Nov 29) in 1998, brothers Lenny (shown) and Danny #Strollo of #YoungstownOH and several associates are charged with #racketeering and other crimes.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Nov 29) in 2006, A four-man #TampaFL crew of the #Gambino Crime Family is convicted of #racketeering by a federal jury.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Nov 27) in 1957, #FBI Chief J. Edgar #Hoover issues a memo setting out the requirements of an enhanced Top Hoodlum Program focusing on interstate racketeers.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory #THP

#OTD (Nov 25) in 1991, Nicholas L. #Biano of #ProvidenceRI is sentenced to 11 years and five months in prison for #racketeering.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Nov 21) in 1924, Joseph #Valachi is shot while escaping from a botched #Bronx burglary.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Nov 18) in 1959, Joseph #Valachi, wanted in #NewYork on #narcotics charges, is arrested in #Connecticut.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Nov 14) in 1980, five southern #California #Mafia defendants - Dominic #Brooklier, Louis Tom #Dragna (shown), Michael Rizzitello, Samuel Sciortino and Jack LoCicero - are convicted of #racketeering offenses but acquitted of the murder of informer Frank #Bompensiero.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Nov 10) in 1921, identifying himself as Anthony Sorge, Joseph #Valachi is arrested in #JerseyCity NJ for weapons possession.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Nov 01) in 1944, Joseph #Valachi is charged in #Brooklyn with violating federal #narcotics law.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Oct 26) in 1923, Joseph #Valachi begins a nine-month prison sentence at #SingSing.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Oct 23) in 1923, a #BronxNY judge sentences Joseph #Valachi to between 15 and 30 months in prison for attempted #burglary.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Oct 19) in 1922, Joseph #Valachi, using the alias of Anthony Sorge, and codefendants Charles Chisingo, Joseph Pellegrina and Dominick Puccarelli are fined in #NewJersey on an illegal weapons charge.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Oct 14) in 1952, #NewJersey detectives question Joseph #Valachi about the recent murder of Willie #Moretti.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Oct 10) in 1963, an informant tells the #FBI that mafiosi Tommy #Eboli (shown) and Gerry #Catena have paid Joseph Valachi's wife $10,000 to give the press information that will undermine her husband's credibility.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory #Valachi

#OTD (Oct 03) in 1903, Joseph #Valachi is born in #NewYork City as Giuseppe Vilacio.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Oct 02) in 1963, Joseph #Valachi tells a Senate rackets committee that gangster Red #Levine (shown) admitted a role in the 1931 assassination of #Mafia boss Salvatore #Maranzano.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Oct 01) in 1963, Attorney General Robert #Kennedy announces that turncoat mafioso Joseph #Valachi will be used as a government witness in federal criminal trials.

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#OTD (Sep 29) in 1929, a charge of attempted extortion against Joseph #Valachi is dismissed in magistrate's court.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory #NYC

#OTD (Sep 28) in 1963, informant Joseph #Valachi states that Vito #Genovese is boss of bosses of the American #Mafia.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Sep 27) in 1963, the first day of testimony of informant Joe #Valachi before the #Senate Investigations subcommittee is broadcast on radio and TV.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Sep 21) in 1908, Giacomo #Reina, son of Gaetano Reina, is born in #Manhattan.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory #NYC

#OTD (Sep 20) in 1952, Eugene #Giannini of #NewYork is murdered by hit men assigned by Joseph #Valachi.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Sep 18) in 1932, Joseph #Valachi and Mildred #Reina are married in a church ceremony two months after being joined in a civil ceremony.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Sep 14) in 1963, the #Philadelphia Bulletin newspaper reports that Joseph #Valachi was found to be mentally ill one week before he became an informer.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons

Decades after the incident, Joseph #Valachi was an inside source, providing information on the Sept. 10, 1931, assassination of #Mafia boss of bosses Salvatore #Maranzano.

Read about it on Writers of Wrongs:
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2018/09/valachi-recalls-assassination-of-boss.html

#OTD #NYC #MafiaHistory @mafiahistory #Histodons

Valachi-focused issue of Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement is now widely available in magazine, book and electronic formats.

Description here:
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2024/11/valachis-world.html

#MafiaHistory #Valachi #Histodons

Video intro to Informer's 2024 issue: The Treacherous World of Joseph Valachi.
https://youtu.be/r-EbxTT3Oso?si=wIY8uBUKjY8QRITo

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#OTD in 1962: Joe #Valachi and ten codefendants are sentenced to long federal prison terms for #narcotics conspiracy.

See the image for other crime-related events occurring #OnThisDate.

#CrimeHistory #MafiaHistory #Histodons