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#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 24)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history.

#Illinois #NewOrleans #Chicago #Brooklyn #Atlanta #NewJersey #UnionCityNJ #NewYork #Mafia #MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (June 23)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history.

#SyracuseNY #Brooklyn #Baltimore #NewJersey #UnionCityNJ #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 (May 06)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history.

#Louisiana #NewOrleans #WilkesBarre #PuebloCO #Pittsburgh #NewJersey #Cuba #UnionCityNJ #NiagaraFallsNY #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

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Feb. 18) in 1925: #BlackHand gangsters are blamed for a massive #bomb blast that destroys produce warehouses in #Pittsburgh.

Read about it on Writers of Wrongs.
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2017/02/92-years-ago-explosion-in-pittsburgh.html

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#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.

#MafiaHistory
#Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Dec 19) in 1917, the father of murdered Pietro #Matranga - a former #LosAngeles #BlackHand gangster who became an informant - refuses to identify his son's remains.

#MafiaHistory
#Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD (Dec 17) in 1917, Pietro #Matranga provides police with information on southern #California #BlackHand racketeers.

#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 1994, #NewEngland #Mafia leader Nicholas #Bianco dies in federal prison in #SpringfieldMO.

#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 06) in 1913, a #Connecticut jury finds 'Chicago Joe' #Buonomo guilty of the 1912 murder of Jennie #Cavalieri. Buonomo is sentenced to be hanged.

#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 1909, former #HillsvillePA #BlackHand leader Rocco #Racco is executed by hanging at New Castle PA for the 1906 #murder of Deputy Game Warden L. Seeley Houk.

#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 11) in 1905, #Brooklyn butcher Gaetano #Costa, who refused #BlackHand demands, is fatally shot.

#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 10) in 1911, Giuseppe #Costabile, called 'the Fox of the #BlackHand,' is convicted in #NewYork of carrying a #bomb.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory #NYC

#OTD (Oct 09) in 1911, reputed #BlackHand gangster Giuseppe Costabile goes on trial in #NewYorkCity for carrying a #bomb.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#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.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#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 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 17) in 1903, #Brooklyn merchant Nicolo #Cappiello receives a threatening letter signed 'La Mano Nera.' It arrives with two cents postage due.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons #NYC @mafiahistory #BlackHand

#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

#MafiaHistory #Valachi

#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