1934 in organized crime

"See also:"
1933 in organized crime,
other events of 1934,
1935 in organized crime and the
list of 'years in Organized Crime'.

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Events

*Phil D'Andrea is elected president of the Unione Siciliana, a Sicilian fraternal organization, in Chicago.
*April 22 - Baby Face Nelson, hiding out with John Dillinger, at the Little Bohemia Lodge just outside Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin kills FBI Special Agent W. Carter Baum in a shootout.
*Spring - Headed by Meyer Lansky and Johnny Torrio, organized crime leaders hold a conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York to discuss the formation of a National Crime Syndicate.
*July 2 - Paul Castellano is arrested for the armed robbery of a Hartford, Connecticut store. Sentenced to one year imprisonment in the Hartford County Jail, Castellano serves three months before being released in December.
*July 22 - John Dillinger killed in Chicago by the FBI.
*October - New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia orders a police raid on gambling parlors. This raid damages over 1,000 slot machines owned by mob boss Frank Costello.
*October 9 - Ferdinand "The Shadow" Boccia is abducted by Willie Gallo and Ernest "The Hawk" Rupolo after a dispute with Vito Genovese over a fixed card game. Boccia is later murdered.

Arts and literature

*"When the Kellys Rode" (film) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122314/]
*"Jimmy the Gent" (film) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025330/] starring James Cagney.

Births

*Americo Petrillo "The Cigar", Patriarca crime family soldier and associate of William P. Grasso
*Frank Salemme "Cadillac Frank", Patriarca crime family leader and former member of the Winter Hill Gang

Deaths

*July 22 - John Dillinger killed by the FBI
*October 9 - Ferdinand Boccia, New York mobster