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On this date, Oct 17... • in 1873, future Buffalo crime boss Giuseppe DiCarlo is born in Vallelunga, Sicily. • in 1911, Giuseppe Costabile of Manhattan is sentenced to 3.5 to 7 seven years in prison for violating Sullivan Law. • in 1924, John Bazzano of New Kensington PA and Dominic Cimino of Pittsburgh are charged with conspiring in the theft of whiskey from a government warehouse. • in 1926, Peter and Angelo Guardalabene of Milwaukee are charged with Prohibition violations. • in 1929, Salvatore 'Charlie Luciano' Lucania is found severely beaten and bleeding on Staten Island. • in 1930, Brooklyn grape merchant Giovanni Anselmo is shot and mortally wounded. • in 1931, Chicago crime boss Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion. • in 1946, convicted protection racketeer James Licavoli of Toledo OH is granted parole after less than a year of his 1 to 5-year sentence. • in 1956, regional Mafia leaders meet in Binghamton NY. • in 1963, Frank Rosenthal is arrested in Miami FL on a fugitive warrant from North Carolina. • in 1972, Eddie Coco is sentenced in Miami FL to 15 years for conspiracy, extortion and loansharking. • in 1980, Aladena Fratianno testifies about the murder of Frank Bompensiero by Los Angeles mafiosi. • in 2018, Joey Merlino, ex-boss of the Philadelphia Mafia, is sentenced two years in prison for gambling. Image of Al Capone.