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Events in U.S. organized crime #history.

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On this date, Sept 16...
• in 1903, Manhattan gangster Monk Eastman is held on suspicion after a recent deadly riot.
• in 1904, the New York Police Department assigns six detectives to a new Italian Branch of the Detective Bureau.
• in 1921, a Niagara Falls judge finds insufficient evidence connecting Angelo Palmeri to the murder of Emilio Gnazzio.
• in 1930, Joseph Bonanno is arrested in Brooklyn and charged with grand larceny and illegal weapons possession.
• in 1937, Joseph 'Adonis' Doto is charged with assault and robbery.
• in 1947, Mike Miranda surrenders to police in Brooklyn in connection with the murder of Ferdinand Boccia twelve years earlier.
• in 1950, brothers Meyer and Jack Lansky, George Sadlow and seven codefendants plead guilty to gambling charges at Fort Lauderdale FL and pay fines.
• in 1952, Joseph Valachi postpones a hit on Eugene Giannini because the assigned gunmen are not sure of their escape route.
• in 1966, undercover FBI agents obtain evidence against gambling operators at the Red Dog Casino in Chester WV.
• in 1973, Mike Miranda, leader in the Genovese Crime Family, dies at age 82.
Image of Mike Miranda.

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