1980 in organized crime

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See also: 1979 in organized crime, other events of 1980, 1981 in organized crime and the list of 'years in Organized Crime'.

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  • Whilst on a day release from prison, Sicilian mafioso Tommaso Buscetta flees to Brazil to escape the war going on within the Sicilian mafia.
  • Patriarca crime family soldier Louis R. Failla is charged with the attempted bribery of the East Hartford police chief.
  • Nicholas A. DeLucia Jr., owner of several Pittsburgh massage parlors for the LaRocca crime family, is convicted of tax evasion.
  • Teamsters Union official Frank Sheeran is charged with conspiracy to commit murder assault, and bombings in Wilmington, Delaware but is acquitted of all charges.
  • January - Seven Rochester mobsters, including Frank D. Frassetto, are convicted in a federal court of racketeering crimes including several mob-related bombings. [1]
  • March - Gambino crime family member James Eppolito is murdered alongside his father.
  • March 21 - Angelo Bruno, long time head of the Philadelphia crime family, is murdered. Bruno's death, reportedly ordered by rival and Bruno family consigliere Anthony "Tony Bananas" Caponigro, sets off a gang war among the Philadelphia underworld resulting in 15 gangland slayings of former Bruno crime family members and associates fought among themselves until former Underboss Philip Testa assumes leadership of the Philadelphia Mob, with Peter Casella taking Testa's position.
  • March 21 - Chester Mayor John Nacrelli is charged with accepting bribes from Delaware County gambling racketeer Frank Miller and sentenced to six years imprisonment.
  • March 27 - Italian banker and mafia associate Michele Sindona is sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in the United States on 65 counts including fraud, perjury, creating false bank statements and missappropriating bank funds.
  • April 17 - Philadelphia crime family consigliere Antonio Caponigro, along with his chauffuer and cousin Alfred Salerno, are killed for plotting Angelo Bruno's assassination. They had apparently been decieved into beliving they had Commission approval by Genovese family boss Frank "Funzi" Tieri because Tieri wanted Caponigro's lucrative New Jersey bookmaking operations.
  • July 11 - Gabriel Mannarino, Capo of the LaRocca crime family, dies of natural causes. Although John Bazzano, Jr. is said to have succeeded him, his former territory falls to syndicate mobster Thomas A. Ciancutti.
  • August 7 - Tijuana Cartel member Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix is arrested after selling 205 grams of cocaine to an undercover DEA agent.
  • September 19 - John "Johnny Keys" Simone, Capo for the Philadelphia crime family, is murdered in New York. A member of the Antonio Caponigro-faction, Simone was supposedly invloved in Bruno's assassination despite being a cousin to Angelo Bruno.
  • October 30 - Philadelphia Capo Frank Sindone, overseeing loan shark operations under Angelo Bruno and Philip Testa, is killed in South Philadelphia.
  • December

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