On this date, January 21... • in 1905, Giuseppe 'Joe' Bonanno is born in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily. • in 1906, Rev. Antonio Cerutti attempts to expand his Carbondale PA anti-Mafia protective society into Scranton PA. • in 1908, Robert Vanella, a former New York gangster and a pal of Johnny Torrio, is tried for murder in Montana. • in 1919, Joseph Florino is arrested in Brooklyn and charged with assault. He is later discharged. • in 1929, Raymond Patriarca of Providence is sentenced to two years in prison for breaking and entering, and larceny. • in 1936, Joseph Castaldo and four other members of the Union Pacific Produce Company go on trial for monopolizing the sale of artichokes in New York. • in 1941, Bartolomeo Fontana is released from New Jersey State Prison after serving almost 19 years for the Mafia-ordered murder of his friend Camillo Caiozzo. • in 1942, a Bronx jurist proclaims all pinball machines to be illegal gambling devices. • in 1946, Frank Covelli, considered a small-time hoodlum, is found dead behind the wheel of a car on Van Buren Street in Chicago. • in 1973, two jeweled crowns stolen from the Regina Pacis shrine in Brooklyn are recovered in a locker at the East Side Air Terminal. The crowns also had been stolen and returned 21 years earlier.

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On this date, January 14... • in 1885, future Chicago underworld leader Johnny Torrio arrives with his mother in New York City. • in 1904, Carbondale PA anti-Mafia crusader Joseph Colandri is mortally wounded at his home by four assailants wielding razors. Colandri was a former Italian police chief. • in 1909, Ignazio Lupo is ordered to appear in bankruptcy court. • in 1924, a Brooklyn court injunction restrains police from interfering with slot machines and punchboards. • in 1954, prosecutors prove that New York gangster Joe Adonis, who asserted that Passaic NJ was his birthplace, was actually born in Italy. He is on trial for making false statements relating to his immigration. • in 1963, Joseph Riccobono, said to have been an Apalachin convention attendee, apparently attempts suicide at the Commodore Hotel in Manhattan. • in 1982, New Orleans underworld leader Carlos Marcello, charged with bribery, puts up his Metairie LA home as bond for his release. • in 2017, Philadelphia mob boss Nicodemo Scarfo, 87, dies in federal custody. He has been imprisoned since 1988. Image of Joe Adonis.

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