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#OTD (Sep 06)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history.

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On this date, Sept 6...
• in 1911, Manhattan gangster Owen Madden shoots and kills Luigi Molinari, who opposed a strike of soap factory workers.
• in 1930, German authorities return New York gangster Jack 'Legs' Diamond to the U.S. on a freighter bound for Philadelphia. New York detectives search for Tommy Lucchese, in connection with the killing of Bonaventura Pinzolo.
• in 1932, Sam 'Medal' Medaglia disappears after leaving a Manhattan restaurant.
• in 1941, as he is released from East Cambridge Jail, Raymond Patriarca is locked up in Charles Street Jail on a robbery charge.
• in 1955, a bomb explodes outside the Hammond IN office of Las Vegas developer Ben Jaffe.
• in 1963, convicted of contempt, Eugene 'Checkers' Smaldone is sentenced to four months in jail.
• in 1972, Emanuel Cammarata is fatally shot in Miami FL.
• in 1975, Joseph Spinuzzi, reputed boss of the Mafia in Colorado, dies of natural causes.
• in 1978, New England mafioso Joseph Napolitano and a companion are found murdered in New York.
Image of Tommy Lucchese.

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