- 1942 in organized crime
"See also:"
1941 in organized crime ,
other events of 1942,1943 in organized crime and the
list of 'years in Organized Crime'.Events
*Following his release from prison, Salvatore "Sam," "Mooney" Giancana becomes a high ranking member of the
Chicago Outfit and a personal advisor and primaryenforcer for Antonino "Tony," "Joe Batters" Accardo.
*Moey Wolinsky , a lieutenant of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, is murdered. Many suspect that Wollinsky mislead Buchalter about a deal to reduce Buchalter's prison sentence during his 1939 trial.
*Eugenio "Gene" Giannini, a soldier for theLucchese crime family , is apprehended by federal agents on heroin conspiracy charges. While while serving fifteen months imprisonment, Giannini agrees to become a government informant for theBureau of Narcotics and later theFBI .
*February 19 -Murder, Inc. membersHarry Maione andFrank Abbandando are executed by the state of New York following their murder trial the previous year.
*May 12 - New York mobsterCharles Luciano is transferred from Clinton State Prison in Dannemora, New York, to Great Meadow State Prison in Fort Ann, New York. Luciano meets with US military intelligence in prison to negotiate his early parole. Intelligence wants him to contact Sicilian mafiosi to aid the Sicily Invasion and to prevent sabotage on the waterfronts of theEast Coast of the United States byNazi sympathizers.
*December 5 -Vincenzo Capizzi , former leader of thePittsburgh , Pennsylvania crime syndicate (reportedly succeeded byJohn Sebastian LaRocca in 1937), is arrested by FBI agents for conspiracy to violate the National Bankruptcy Act.Arts and literature
Births
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Francesco Bonura , Sicilian mafia member
*Stephen Caracappa ,NYPD officer and mob hitman
*Richard V. Gotti , member of theGambino crime family
*Gennaro Langella (Jerry Lang), member of theColombo crime family
*August 6 -George Jung ,Medellín Cartel drug traffickerDeaths
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Moses Annenberg "Moe",newspaper publisher andAl Capone associate
*Moey Wolinsky , a lieutenant ofLouis Buchalter
*February 19 -Harry Maione , Murder, Inc. hitman
*February 19 -Frank Abbandando , Murder, Inc. hitman
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