1944 in organized crime

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See also: 1943 in organized crime, other events of 1944, 1945 in organized crime and the list of 'years in Organized Crime'.


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  • Following the Allied invasion of Sicily, Sicilian mafiosi Calogero Vizzini defects to the American forces after collaborating with Mussolini's fascist government to become leader of the Sicilian Mafia.
  • New York mobster Joe Adonis leaves Brooklyn eventually moving to Palisade, New Jersey.
  • Chicago Outfit enforcer William Daddano, Sr. arrested for attempted robbery of three million war ration stamps.
  • Emmanuel Weiss, a syndicate hitman and a suspected gunman in the murder of Dutch Schultz, is executed.
  • Benjamin "Zookie the Bookie" Zuckerman, a member of the Chicago syndicate involved in illegal gambling, is killed.
  • March 4 - Murder Inc. leader Louis Buchalter is sent to the electric chair and executed by the state of New York. He is the last member of Murder Inc. to be executed.
  • April 22 - Frank Abatte, a major racketeer of Calumet City, Illinois, is murdered.
  • July 25 - Corrado Giacona, head of the New Orleans crime family for over two decades, dies and succeeded by Frank Todaro. Todaro himself would die only a few months later on November 28 and succeeded by Sam Carollo.
  • August 7 - Vito Genovese, eluding U.S. authorities for over a decade following his indictment for the 1934 murder of Ferdinand Boccia, is finally apprehended in Italy and deported back to the United States to stand trial. However, shortly after his arrival on June 1, 1945, the governments star witness dies of an "overdose of sedative" while in protective custody and was eventually acquitted of charges on June 10, 1946.
  • October 19 - Cleveland crime syndicate Alfred "Big Al" Polizzi pleads guilty for failing to pay federal liquor taxes and, following his release from prison in 1945, retires to Coral Gables, Florida. John Scalish assumes Polizzi's role as head of the Cleaveland family, shortly after Polizzi's imprisonment.

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