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#OTD (Oct 02)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history.

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On this date, Oct 02...
• in 1919, gang boss Salvatore Giannola is shot to death in Detroit. In Pittsburgh, Orazio Leone, J.C. Catalano and Philip Catalano are charged as accessories to murder and committed to jail without bail.
• in 1921, Tommy Lucchese and John Spina are arrested at Bay Shore NY for auto theft.
• in 1926, after spending time in Sicily, mafioso Nicola Gentile returns to New York aboard the S.S. Roma.
• in 1930, Frank Catania of Dearborn MI confesses to the accidental fatal shooting of gangster Frank Marino.
• in 1931, Coll gangsters are believed responsible for the killing of Dutch Schultz aide Joe Mullens.
• in 1963, Joseph Valachi tells a Senate rackets committee that gangster Red Levine admitted a role in the 1931 assassination of Salvatore Maranzano.
• in 1974, after reviewing portions of The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano, the FBI dismisses the work as a complete fraud.
• in 1994, former Kansas City mafioso Carl J. Civella dies in federal custody in Fort Worth TX.
Image of Carl Civella.

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