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The US Military grants Sicilian mafioso Michele Navarra permission to collect up abandoned military vehicles left by the Italian army during the allied invasion of Sicily in the second World War.
January 11 - Carlo Tresca, editor of the Socialist Italian-language newspaper Il Martello, is murdered in Manhattan after seeking political asylum in the United States. Tresca's assassination, supposedly carried out by mobster Carmine Galante, was said to have been arranged by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's fascist government.
January 25 - New York mobster Gaetano Lucchese becomes a naturalized US citizen.
February 2 - Chicago's "Queen of the Dice Girls", Estelle Carey, is found brutally murdered and burned, possibly in connection to the Hollywood extortion scandal then under federal investigation.
March 18 - Several high ranking members of the Chicago Outfit including Frank Nitti, Paul Ricca, Phil D'Andrea, Charles Gioe, Lou Kaufman, Louis Campagna and John Roselli are indicted by a federal grand jury in connection to extortion operations against Hollywood studios by William Morris Bioff.
March 19 - Shortly after being indited, Chicago Outfit leader Frank Nitti commits suicide near a Riverside, Illinois railyard, due to Underboss Paul Ricca's insistence Nitti take responsibility for the extortion operation and serve the prison term. Tony Accardo succeeds Nitti as leader of the organization following their indictment.
October 28 - Former leader of the New Orleans crime family Carlo Matranga dies in Los Angeles, California of natural causes.
December 22 - Paul Ricca, Louis Campagna, John Roselli and four other defendants are convicted of extortion with each fined $10,000 and receiving prison sentences ranging from 7 to 10 years.