On this date, February 5... • in 1918, New York mobster Francis Clementi is fatally shot in Philadelphia. William Flynn, who built the Secret Service case against the Morello-Lupo counterfeiting gang, writes to the President recommending a sentence reduction for Ignazio Lupo. • in 1921, Frankie Yale of Brooklyn and his associates emerge victorious from a free-for-all gang fistfight at Park Row in Manhattan. • in 1922, Joseph 'Adonis' Doto is arrested in Brooklyn for assault and battery. • in 1926, mafioso Salvatore Maranzano passes through Niagara Falls on the way to a farm he has purchased at Saltfleet Township, Ontario, Canada. • in 1932, Secret Service agents break up a counterfeiting operation that includes Manhattan mobster Louis Reggione. • in 1934, the tax evasion trial of John Lazia opens in Kansas City federal court. • in 1948, the Manhattan district attorney investigates underworld connections of boxer Rocky Graziano's management team. • in 1953, Meyer Lansky is arrested near Saratoga NY on gambling conspiracy charges. • in 1960, six men, sentenced to prison for running stolen military weapons to Cuban revolutionaries, convince a federal appeals court to release them on bail during their legal appeals. • in 2009, Chicago Outfit leader James Marcello is sentenced to life in prison for racketeering and murders. Image of John Lazia.
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