On this date, March 7... • in 1906, young kidnap victim John Bozzufi identifies New York mafioso Ignazio Lupo as one of the men who held him at a 59th Street house. • in 1907, Nicola Vario is brought to trial in Buffalo for extorting money from Bruno Cefoli. • in 1910, fruit merchant Leoluca Vasi pleads guilty to possession of more than 1,000 counterfeit $2 bills. • in 1912, New York gangster Louis 'the Lump' Poggi is arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. • in 1925, gangsters Ludwig 'Dutch' Augustine, Frank LaPuma, John 'Bum' Rogers and Raymond Fallon escape with $738 after a payroll robbery at Valley Stream, Long Island. • in 1928, Meyer Lansky, Samuel Levine and Joseph Benzole go free after John Barrett fails to identify them as the men who shot him. • in 1930, Salvatore 'Charlie Luciano' Lucania pays a $1,000 fine for running a gambling operation in Miami. • in 1933, Philadelphia underworld leaders Salvatore Sabella and John Avena are found not guilty of the killings of Cocozza and Zanghi. An 83-acre Dutchess County NY farm mortgaged in 1925 by the late Salvatore Maranzano is sold at auction. • in 1949, a fugitive for nearly three decades, Nicolo Failla, 63, is arrested in Brooklyn and charged with grand larceny and bail jumping. • in 1960, Gregory Scarpa Sr. is arrested in Brooklyn and charged with hijacking conspiracy. • in 1967, Teamsters union leader James Hoffa begins an eight-year federal prison sentence for jury tampering. Image of John Avena.
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