On this date, January 26... • in 1910, the counterfeiting trial of Giuseppe Morello, Ignazio Lupo and six others opens in New York federal court. • in 1912, an informant tells the Secret Service in New York that two underworld visitors from Kansas City are seeking an audience with Brooklyn boss Sebastiano DiGaetano. • in 1929, bootlegging conspiracy indictments are dismissed against Chicago gang boss Al Capone and 68 other defendants. • in 1937, 'Cokey Flo' Brown formally recants her testimony in the New York vice trial against 'Lucky Luciano' Lucania and others. • in 1939, a federal judge in Pittsburgh overturns bootlegging convictions of Dominic Mallamo and Joseph Angelo, both of Youngstown OH. • in 1956, Joseph Profaci is fined $4,000 in Brooklyn federal court for mislabeling a diluted product as 100% pure olive oil. • in 1962, Salvatore 'Charlie Luciano' Lucania dies of an apparent heart attack at a Naples, Italy, airport, where he was to meet movie producer Martin Gosch. • in 1963, the governor of Wisconsin launches an inquiry into links between the Grande Cheese Company and organized crime. • in 1973, the body of crime boss Carlo Gambino's nephew Emanuel Gambino is found by FBI agents in a shallow grave in Colts Neck, NJ. • in 2009, Paul Schiro, convicted of racketeering in the Chicago Family Secrets trial, is sentenced to 20 years in prison. Image of Lucania
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