Murderer of Dutch Schultz Goes Free
Mar. 10, 1964 - Charles (Charlie the Bug) Workman (pictured in 1941) was released from Trenton state prison today after serving 23 years...
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Dec 13, 2023
Profaci Mobster Surrenders
Dec. 13, 1963 - A key figure in the notorious Profaci gang surrendered this morning to the Kings County District Attorney’s office. The...
Dec 10, 2023
Brooklyn Authorities Arrest Gallo Criminal Gang
Dec. 10, 1963 - Brooklyn authorities sought today to end the bloody Gallo-Profaci Mafia war by arresting and arraigning one of the...
Oct 16, 2023
Valachi Testifies Before Queens Grand Jury
Oct. 16, 1963 - Protected by dozens of federal marshal and cops toting submachine guns, shotguns, rifles, and binoculars, Joseph Valachi,...
Oct 9, 2023
Valachi Airs More of Mob’s Dirty Laundry
Oct. 9, 1963 - Underworld songbird Joseph Valachi today told Senate racket probers how he recruited three killers and then fingered...
Oct 7, 2023
Sinatra Pulling Out of Vegas
Oct. 7, 1963 - Frank Sinatra said today he was pulling out of his Nevada gambling interests, estimated to be worth $3.5 million. The...
Oct 3, 2023
Some Italian-Americans Resent Spotlight on Valachi
Oct. 3, 1963 - Italian-Americans in New York expressed resentment today over the national spotlight that is being given the story of...
Oct 2, 2023
Valachi Continues to Sing
Oct. 2, 1963 - The Cosa Nostra stopped accepting new members in 1958, Joseph Valachi (pictured right today speaking to counsel) told...
Oct 1, 2023
Cosa Nostra Songbird Valachi Exposes Mob Secrets
Oct. 1, 1963 - Joseph Valachi calmly recited today the bloody history of a war for control of the Cosa Nostra crime syndicate. From this...
Sep 25, 2023
RFK Commends LAPD in Fight Against Organized Crime
Sept. 25, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy today commended the Los Angeles Police Department for its fight against organized...
Sep 25, 2023
RFK Testifies before Senate Committee on Organized Crime
Sept. 25, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (pictured with Senator Edmund Muskie) said today that organized crime had become a...
Sep 11, 2023
Nevada Gaming Commission Hits Sinatra-Giancana Connection
Sept. 11, 1963 - The Nevada Gaming Control Board issued a complaint today against Frank Sinatra (picured with his son, Frank Jr.),...
Aug 31, 2023
Sinatra’s Vegas Club Under Investigation for Mob Ties
Aug. 31, 1963 - Frank Sinatra’s Cal-Neva Lodge on the north shore of Lake Tahoe is threatened with closure pending investigation of...
Aug 13, 2023
Valachi Closely Guarded in New Jersey
Aug. 13, 1963 - The United States Army is guarding Mafia canary Joe Valachi behind barbed wire at Fort Monmouth, N.J. The mobster who...
Aug 6, 2023
$100,000 Bounty on Valachi's Head
Aug. 6, 1963 - The underworld has set a $100,000 bounty on the head of Joseph Valachi. The reason: he talked. “If we let Valachi out on...
Aug 4, 2023
Underworld Figure Providing Feds with Critical Information on “Cosa Nostra”
Aug. 4, 1963 - Somewhere in a secret hideout today, FBI agents are guarding an underworld figure who has given the Justice Department the...
Jun 11, 2023
Tony Pro Convicted of Extortion in Newark
June 11, 1963 - Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano (pictured), 46, hulking president of Teamsters Union Local 560 and friend of Teamsters czar...
May 20, 2023
Mob Roundup in Brooklyn
May 20, 1963 - In the wake of an early morning shooting attack on two Profaci mobsters, Brooklyn detectives last night rounded up the...
Apr 4, 2023
Brooklyn Hoods Face Wrath of Government and Underworld for Attack on FBI Man
Apr. 4, 1963 - Four Brooklyn hoodlums accused of attacking and stomping an FBI agent outside a church just before the funeral of Carmello...
Apr 3, 2023
FBI Agent Beaten by Mafia Thugs
Apr. 3, 1963 - An FBI agent was severely beaten and stripped of his pistol today while observing a funeral gathering outside a Brooklyn...
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