Events

• Sicilian
  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,...
  
   Capo of the Porta Nuova Clan Giuseppe "Pippo" Calo
  Giuseppe Calò
  Giuseppe 'Pippo' Calò is a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was referred to as the "Mafia's Cashier" because he was heavily involved in the financial side of organized crime, primarily money laundering....
  
   is arrested for money laundering
  Money laundering
  Money laundering is the process of disguising illegal sources of money so that it looks like it came from legal sources. The methods by which money may be laundered are varied and can range in sophistication. Many regulatory and governmental authorities quote estimates each year for the amount...
  
  , mafia association and organizing the bombing of a train in 1984.
• Sicilian Capo of Ciaculli Clan Pino Greco is killed on the orders of Salvatore "Toto" Riina
  Salvatore Riina
  Salvatore "Totò" Riina is a member of the Sicilian Mafia who became the most powerful member of the criminal organization in the early 1980s. Fellow mobsters nicknamed him The Beast due to his violent nature, or sometimes The Short One due to his diminutive stature...
  
  . Greco had become a very influential member of Cosa Nostra after the 1981-83 war who not only inspired fear, but also had a loyal following with the younger men of honor. This was seen as a threat to Riina's control and, with Greco's wartime service all but forgotten, he was considered expendable.
• Frank "Flowers" D'Alfonso, an influential associate of the former Bruno crime family Boss Angelo Bruno, is murdered by seven members, including soldier Eugene "Whip" Milano, belonging to Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo
  Nicodemo Scarfo
  Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Domenico Scarfo is a member of the American Mafia who eventually became the Boss of the Philadelphia crime family after the death of Angelo Bruno and Phil Testa...
  
  's organization for refusing to pay a street tax to Scarfo.
• Massachusetts mobster Vincent Limoli is murdered on the orders of captain Vincent "The Animal" Ferrara. http://news.bostonherald.com/columnists/view.bg?articleid=152570 http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/08/11/ruling_that_freed_mafia_captain_is_upheld/
• February 25 - The leadership of New York's Five Families
  Five Families
  The Five Families are the five original Italian-American Mafia crime families which have dominated organized crime in America since 1931. The Five Families in New York remain as the powerhouse of the Italian Mafia in the United States.-History:...
  
   - The Commission
  The Commission
  The Commission may refer to:*The Commission , the governing body of the Mafia in the United States*Sicilian Mafia Commission, governing body of the Mafia in Italy*European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union...
  
   , leaders Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno
  Anthony Salerno
  Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno was a New York mobster who served as front boss of the Genovese crime family to family boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante from the 1970s until his conviction in 1986...
  
   (Genovese crime family
  Genovese crime family
  The Genovese 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 Genovese crime family has been nicknamed the "Ivy League" and "Rolls Royce" of organized crime...
  
  ) Boss , Philip "Rusty" Rastelli
  Philip Rastelli
  Phillip "Rusty" Rastelli was a New York mobster and former boss of the Bonanno crime family.-Biography:...
  
   (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 ....
  
  ) Boss , Colombo crime family
  Colombo crime family
  The Colombo crime family is the youngest of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia ....
  
   Boss Carmine "Junior" Persico
  Carmine Persico
  Carmine John Persico, Jr. also known as "Junior", "The Snake" and "Immortal", has been the de-facto boss of the Colombo crime family since the early 1970s. Persico has overseen gang wars, murders, and major rackets, most of the time from prison. He has been serving life imprisonment without...
  
   , Colombo Acting Boss Gennaro "Jerry Lang" Langella, Paul "Big Pauly" Castellano
  Paul Castellano
  Constantino Paul "Big Paul" Castellano , also known as "The Howard Hughes of the Mob" and "Big Paulie" , was an American Mafia boss in New York City. He succeeded Carlo Gambino as head of the Gambino crime family, at the time, the nation's largest Mafia family...
  
   (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 , Gambino Underboss Aniello "The Lamb" Dellacroce
  Aniello Dellacroce
  Aniello John "Mr. Neil" Dellacroce , also known as "Father O'Neil" and "The Tall Guy", was an Italian-American gangster and underboss of the Gambino crime family. A capo of his own crew for many years he rose to the position of underboss when Carlo Gambino moved Joseph Biondo aside.-Early...
  
  , Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo
  Anthony Corallo
  Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo was a New York City mobster and boss of the Lucchese crime family.-Early life:...
  
   (Lucchese crime family
  Lucchese crime family
  The Lucchese 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 family originated in the early 1920s with Gaetano "Tommy" Reina serving as boss up until his murder...
  
  ) Boss, Lucchese Underboss Salvatore "Tom Mix" Santoro
  Salvatore Santoro
  Salvatore T. "Tom Mix" Santoro, Sr. served as Underboss in the Lucchese crime family during the 1980s before being convicted in the Mafia Commission Trial and sentenced to 100 years in federal prison.-Early life:...
  
   , Lucchese Consiglieri Christopher "Christy Tic" Furnari
  Christopher Furnari
  Christopher "Christie Tick" Furnari, Sr. is a Lucchese crime family mobster serving life in prison. During the 1980s, Furnari served as the family consigliere until his 1986 racketeering conviction.-Early years:...
  
   , 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 ....
  
   soldier Anthony "Bruno" Indelicato
  Anthony Indelicato
  Anthony "Bruno" Indelicato , also known as "Bruno", "Whack-Whack" and "Anthony Indelligado" is a capo with the Bonanno crime family in New York City,-Biography:...
  
   and Colombo crime family soldier and "concrete club" overseer Ralph Scopo
  Ralph Scopo
  Ralph "Little Ralphie" Scopo was a New York mobster with the Colombo crime family who became a powerful labor racketeer. He was the father of Colombo mobsters Joseph Scopo and Ralph Scopo Jr., and the grandfather of Joseph Scopo Jr...
  
   are indicted under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
  Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
  The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization...
  
   (RICO) by a federal grand jury for operating a criminal enterprise. Included in the indictment are violations under the Hobbs Act
  Hobbs Act
  The Hobbs Act, named after Congressman Sam Hobbs and codified at , is a U.S. federal law that prohibits actual or attempted robbery or extortion affecting interstate or foreign commerce. Section 1951 also proscribes conspiracy to commit robbery or extortion without reference to the conspiracy...
  
   including extortion, labor racketeering and murder for hire, in the famous "Commission Case".
• May 11 - The leaders of the alleged New York's Five Families are charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
  Federal Bureau of Investigation
  The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...
  
   as the result of a major prosecution into organized crime.
• June 25 - Colombo crime family leader Carmine "Junior" Persico is charged with extortion and murder.
• October 10 - Opening statements commence in the Federal trial United States of America v. Paul Castellano, et al.. Gambino boss Paul Big Pauly" Castellano and nine others were accused of operating an international auto-theft ring that shipped stolen cars to Kuwait
  Kuwait
  The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab state situated in the north-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south at Khafji, and Iraq to the north at Basra. It lies on the north-western shore of the Persian Gulf. The name Kuwait is derived from the...
  
   and Puerto Rico
  Puerto Rico
  Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
  
  , among other destinations. The defendants were also accused of committing five murders to protect the interests of the operation.
• November 12 - Anthony "Bruno" Indelicato, a soldier in 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 ....
  
  , is charged with the gangland slayings of former 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 ....
  
   Boss Carmine "Lilo" Galante
  Carmine Galante
  Carmine Galante, also known as "Lilo" and "Cigar" was a mobster and acting boss of the Bonanno crime family...
  
  , Capo Leonardo "Nardo" Coppolla, and soldier Giuseppe "Joe" Turano.
• November 23 - Cleveland crime family Boss James T. "Blackie" Licavoli dies of a heart attack at the age of 81 while serving a prison sentence at the Oxford Federal Correctional Institution in Oxford, Wisconsin
  Oxford, Wisconsin
  Oxford is a village in Marquette County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 536 at the 2000 census. The village is located within the Town of Oxford.-Geography:Oxford is located at ....
  
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• December 2 - Aniello "Mr. Niel" Dellacroce, Underboss of the 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...
  
  , dies of brain cancer. A protege of Albert "The Mad Hatter" 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...
  
   (also a mentor to future Gambino leader John "Johnny Boy" Gotti
  John Gotti
  John Joseph Gotti, Jr was an American mobster who became the Boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. Gotti grew up in poverty. He and his brothers turned to a life of crime at an early age...
  
  ), having been passed over for leadership of the organization for the less popular Paul Castellano and the fact that "Big Paul" didn't pay his last respects to his loyal Underboss at the wake causes much animosity throughout the organization. Despite Dellacroce's wishes for its members to remain loyal to the Boss, his death triggers a coup against Boss Paul Castellano.
• December 16 - Gambino crime family Boss "Big" Paul Castellano is murdered, along with his new Underboss and bodyguard Thomas "Tommy" Bilotti
  Thomas Bilotti
  Thomas Bilotti was a New York mobster and then Underboss for the reputed Boss of the Gambino crime family, Paul Castellano.-Early years:...
  
  , outside of Manhattan
  Manhattan
  Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
  
  's Sparks Steakhouse. John Gotti, the prime suspect in Castellano's assassination, quickly assumes leadership of the Gambino crime family.
• December 19 - Michael Franzese
  Michael Franzese
  Michael Franzese , is a former New York mobster with the Colombo crime family who was heavily involved in the gasoline tax rackets in the 1980s...
  
  , a top Capo in the Colombo crime family
  Colombo crime family
  The Colombo crime family is the youngest of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia ....
  
  , is indicted under the RICO Act in connection to selling gasoline to retailers while failing to pay federal, state, and local taxes. Franzese is the son of legendary Colombo Family member Jonn "Sonny" Franzese and is one of the biggest earners in Cosa Nostra history at one time making $5 million in cash per week for three years from his gasoline-bootlegging operations, delivering 30% to the Colombo hierarchy each week.

Arts and literature

• Prizzi's Honor
  Prizzi's Honor
  Prizzi's Honor is a 1985 American black comedy film directed by John Huston. It stars Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Loggia and Anjelica Huston.The film was adapted by Richard Condon and Janet Roach from Condon's novel of the same name...
  
  (film) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089841/ starring Jack Nicholson
  Jack Nicholson
  John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson is an American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is renowned for his often dark portrayals of neurotic characters. Nicholson has been nominated for an Academy Award twelve times, and has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice: for One Flew Over the...
  
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Deaths

• Frank D'Alfonso "Frankie Flowers", Philadelphia crime family
  Philadelphia crime family
  The Philadelphia crime family, also known as the Scarfo crime family, Bruno crime family, Philadelphia Mafia, or Philly Mob, is an Italian American criminal organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is one of the most active American Mafia families outside of the Five Families of New York...
  
   associate
• Pino Greco, Sicilian Capo of the Ciaculli Clan and the Corleonesi Clan's favorite hitman
  Hitman
  A hitman is a person hired to kill another person.- Hitmen in organized crime :Hitmen are largely linked to the world of organized crime. Hitmen are hired people who kill people for money. Notable examples include Murder, Inc., Mafia hitmen and Richard Kuklinski.- Other cases involving hitmen...
  
  
• Vincent Limoli, Massachusetts
  Massachusetts
  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
  
   mobster
• December 2 - Aniello Dellacroce
  Aniello Dellacroce
  Aniello John "Mr. Neil" Dellacroce , also known as "Father O'Neil" and "The Tall Guy", was an Italian-American gangster and underboss of the Gambino crime family. A capo of his own crew for many years he rose to the position of underboss when Carlo Gambino moved Joseph Biondo aside.-Early...
  
   "Mr O'Neil"/"Polack", 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...
  
   Underboss
• December 16 - Thomas Bilotti
  Thomas Bilotti
  Thomas Bilotti was a New York mobster and then Underboss for the reputed Boss of the Gambino crime family, Paul Castellano.-Early years:...
  
   "The Rug", Gambino crime family Underboss
• December 16 - Paul Castellano
  Paul Castellano
  Constantino Paul "Big Paul" Castellano , also known as "The Howard Hughes of the Mob" and "Big Paulie" , was an American Mafia boss in New York City. He succeeded Carlo Gambino as head of the Gambino crime family, at the time, the nation's largest Mafia family...
  
  "Big Paul", Gambino crime family leader