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#OTD (Oct 12)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history.

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On this date, Oct 12...
• in 1909, Salvatore 'Sam' Lucchino of Pittston PA provides Secret Service with information on New York City counterfeiters.
• in 1920, Giuseppe Piraino is shot and wounded by police as he steals a shipment of alcohol on the Brooklyn waterfront.
• in 1928, William Flynn, former chief of the U.S. Secret Service and the Bureau of Investigation, dies at the age of 60 at his home in Larchmont NY.
• in 1930, Jack 'Legs' Diamond is seriously wounded by an unknown gunman at New York's Monticello Hotel.
• in 1936, following extortion charges, Ignazio Lupo's federal parole is formally revoked.
• in 1950, during testimony before a Senate committee, Meyer Lansky acknowledges associating with Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, Frank Erickson and Charles Fischetti.
• in 1957, mafiosi Joseph Bonanno, Carmine Galante and Santo Sorge arrive together at the Grand Hotel et Des Palmes in Palermo, Sicily, and are joined there by Bonanno's uncle John Bonventre.
Image of Jack Diamond.

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