On this date, April 7... • in 1916, Giuseppe Archiello is convicted of the first degree murder of Manhattan poultry merchant Barnet Baff. Near Asbury Park NJ, Paul Siciliano is arrested in connection with a Long Island City NY murder. • in 1923, Albert Anastasia and Giuseppe Florina are believed responsible for the fatal shooting of Vincent Busardo in Brooklyn. • in 1925, Joseph Valachi is sentenced in Bronx NY court to three years in prison for burglary. • in 1933, Joseph Castaldo and five others are indicted for anti-trust violations related to artichoke sales. • in 1936, Salvatore 'Charlie Luciano' Lucania is given a ten-day period in which to appeal his extradition from Arkansas to New York. • in 1945, a dead body found in a Chicago catch basin days earlier is identified as Onofrio Vitale. • in 1951, police in Italy detain New Yorker Frank Callace as he arrives at Rome airport with $100,000 worth of heroin in his luggage. • in 1961, deported New Orleans crime boss Carlos Marcello tells a newspaper report that the U.S. government kidnapped him. • in 1971, the remains of Joseph Valachi are buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Lewiston NY. • in 1972, renegade mafioso Joey Gallo is fatally shot and his bodyguard Peter Diapoulas is wounded at Manhattan's Umberto's Clamhouse. • in 1992, Chicago mobster Dominic Cortina pleads guilty to a money laundering scheme channeling racket income from Florida through a Baltimore bingo hall. Image of Joey Gallo.
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