Events

• The Mexican Mafia
  Mexican Mafia
  The Mexican Mafia , also known as La Eme , 13 is a Mexican American criminal organization, and is one of the oldest and most powerful prison gangs in the United States.-Foundation:...
  
   criminal group is created by Chicano
  Chicano
  The terms "Chicano" and "Chicana" are used in reference to U.S. citizens of Mexican descent. However, those terms have a wide range of meanings in various parts of the world. The term began to be widely used during the Chicano Movement, mainly among Mexican Americans, especially in the movement's...
  
   gang members in the Deuel Vocational Institution
  Deuel Vocational Institution
  Deuel Vocational Institution is a state prison located in unincorporated San Joaquin County, California, near Tracy.-Facilities:DVI opened in 1953 and named for the late California state senator Charles H. Deuel who sponsored legislation establishing the institution. The facility has been...
  
   in Tracy, California
  Tracy, California
  Tracy is the second most populated city in San Joaquin County, California, United States and an exurb of the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 82,922 at the 2010 census.-History:...
  
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• March - Teamster's Union President Dave Beck
  Dave Beck
  Dave Beck was an American labor leader, and president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1952 to 1957...
  
   is brought before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management
  United States Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management
  The United States Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management was a select committee created by the United States Senate on January 30, 1957, and dissolved on March 31, 1960...
  
   (McClellan Committee) where he is charged with misappropriation of union funds well as his ties to organized crime figures by Senator Robert Kennedy and is imprisoned later that year. Nathan Shefferman, a Chicago Teamsters Union official and long time associate, is also called before the committee to testify on related charges.
• March 11 - Frank Costello
  Frank Costello
  Frank Costello was an Italian New York City gangster who rose to the top of America's underworld, controlled a vast gambling empire across the United States and enjoyed political influence.Nicknamed the "Prime Minister of the Underworld", he became one of the most powerful and influential Mafia...
  
   is released from federal custody as his case is reviewed by the United States Supreme Court.
• May 2 - Frank Costello
  Frank Costello
  Frank Costello was an Italian New York City gangster who rose to the top of America's underworld, controlled a vast gambling empire across the United States and enjoyed political influence.Nicknamed the "Prime Minister of the Underworld", he became one of the most powerful and influential Mafia...
  
  , surviving an assassination attempt, retires as the leader of the Luciano crime family as Vito Genovese
  Vito Genovese
  Vito "Don Vito" Genovese was an Italian mafioso who rose to power in America during the Castellammarese War to later become leader of the Genovese crime family. Genovese served as mentor to future mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante...
  
   assumes control.
• June 17 - Frank Scalise, Anastasia Family underboss, is killed by Jimmy Squilante, on Anastasia's orders, after selling La Cosa Nostra memberships for $50,000 and screwing up a heroin deal. Anastasia lieutenant Carlo Gambino is named underboss.
• July 25 - Johnny Dio is convicted of bribery and conspiracy as part of a labor racketeering case in New York City garment district
  Garment District, Manhattan
  The Garment District, also known as the Garment Center, the Fashion District, or the Fashion Center, is a neighborhood located in the Manhattan borough of New York City. The dense concentration of fashion-related uses give the neighborhood, which is generally considered to span between Fifth Avenue...
  
   and sentenced to two years in prison.
• September 19 - Joseph Scalise is killed by Vincent Squilante (Albert Anastasia's nephew) and disposed of by Squilante's garbage hauling interests after a welcome home party for threatening to avenge his brother, Frank Scalise's murder.
• October 12-16 - Grand Hotel des Palmes Mafia meeting
  Grand Hotel des Palmes Mafia meeting 1957
  Over four days, between October 12–16, 1957, the American gangster Joseph Bonanno allegedly attended a series of meetings between some high-level Sicilian and American mafiosi in the Grand Hotel des Palmes in Palermo, Sicily – the most splendid in town at the time...
  
  . American gangster Joseph Bonanno
  Joseph Bonanno
  Joseph Charles Bonanno, Sr. was a Sicilian-born American mafioso who became the boss of the Bonanno crime family. He was nicknamed "Joe Bananas," a name he despised.-Early life:...
  
   attendeds a series of meetings between some high-level Sicilian and American mafiosi
  Mafia
  The Mafia is a criminal syndicate that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century in Sicily, Italy. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct, and whose common enterprise is protection racketeering...
  
   in the Grand Hotel des Palmes (Albergo delle Palme) in Palermo
  Palermo
  Palermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...
  
  , Sicily
  Sicily
  Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...
  
  . The Sicilian Mafia decides to compose its first Sicilian Mafia Commission
  Sicilian Mafia Commission
  The Sicilian Mafia Commission, known as Commissione or Cupola, is a body of leading Mafia members to decide on important questions concerning the actions of, and settling disputes within the Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra...
  
   and appoints Salvatore Greco
  Salvatore Greco
  Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco was a powerful mafioso and boss of the Mafia Family in Ciaculli, an outlying suburb of Palermo famous for its citrus fruit groves, where he was born...
  
   as its first "secretary". According to some, one of the main topics on the agenda was the organisation of the heroin trade on an international basis. The FBI believed it was this meeting that established the Bonanno Crime Family
  Bonanno crime family
  The Bonanno crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia ....
  
   in the heroin trade.
• October 25 - Albert Anastasia
  Albert Anastasia
  Albert Anastasia was boss of what is now called the Gambino crime family, one of New York City's Five Families, from 1951-1957. He also ran a gang of contract killers called Murder Inc. which enforced the decisions of the Commission, the ruling council of the American Mafia...
  
   is murdered in a New York
  New York
  New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
  
   barbershop on the orders of Vito Genovese
  Vito Genovese
  Vito "Don Vito" Genovese was an Italian mafioso who rose to power in America during the Castellammarese War to later become leader of the Genovese crime family. Genovese served as mentor to future mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante...
  
   and Lt. Carlo Gambino
  Carlo Gambino
  "Don" Carlo Gambino, was a Sicilian mafioso who became Boss of the Gambino crime family, that still bears his name today. After the 1957 Apalachin Convention he unexpectedly seized control of the Commission of the American Mafia. Gambino was known for being low-key and secretive...
  
   (the decision was supported by Tommy Lucchese
  Tommy Lucchese
  Gaetano "Tommy" Lucchese , also known as "Tom Brown" or "Three-Finger Brown", was an American mobster who became the Boss of the Lucchese crime family in New York City...
  
  , Meyer Lansky
  Meyer Lansky
  Meyer Lansky , known as the "Mob's Accountant", was a Polish-born American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the "National Crime Syndicate" in the United States...
  
   and Tampa Boss Santo Trafficante Jr.).The Genovese-Gambino-Lucchese alliance wanted to make Gambino Boss of Anastasia's Family,the Lansky-Trafficante alliance was angered by Anastasia muscleing into the Havana,Cuba casino rackets.
• November 10 - A meeting is held in Livingston, New Jersey
  Livingston, New Jersey
  Livingston is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 29,366.Livingston was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 5, 1813, from portions of Caldwell Township and Springfield...
  
  , possibly in connection to the Apalachin Conference.
• November 14 - Over sixty organized crime figures including Vito Genovese, Carlo Gambino, Paul Castellano, Joseph Bonanno, Joseph Profaci, Joseph Magliocco and John Montana are arrested at the home of Joseph Barbara, Sr. during the Apalachin Conference
  Apalachin Meeting
  The Apalachin Meeting was a historic summit of the American Mafia held on November 14, 1957, at the home of mobster Joseph "Joe the Barber" Barbara in Apalachin, New York. The meeting was attended by roughly 100 Mafiosi from the United States, Canada, and Italy...
  
  . Following this incident, federal authorities are forced to admit the possibility of the existence of organized crime.

Deaths

• David Berman
  David Berman (mobster)
  David "Davie the Jew" Berman was a Jewish-American organized crime figure in Iowa, New York City, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was also one of the pioneers of gambling in Las Vegas, Nevada...
  
  , Las Vegas
  Las Vegas, Nevada
  Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...
  
   mobster
• June 17 - Frank Scalise, New York
  New York
  New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
  
   mobster
• September 19 - Joseph Scalise, brother of Frank Scalise
• October 25 - Albert Anastasia
  Albert Anastasia
  Albert Anastasia was boss of what is now called the Gambino crime family, one of New York City's Five Families, from 1951-1957. He also ran a gang of contract killers called Murder Inc. which enforced the decisions of the Commission, the ruling council of the American Mafia...
  
   "Lord High Executioner"/"The Mad Hatter", Gambino crime family
  Gambino crime family
  The Gambino crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia . The group is named after Carlo Gambino, boss of the family at the time of the McClellan hearings in 1963...
  
  boss