1947 in organized crime

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See also: 1946 in organized crime, other events of 1947, 1948 in organized crime and the list of 'years in Organized Crime'.

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  • The "Black Diamond Meeting", a mafia conclave, May 5th is attended in New Orleans by Sam Carolla's Underboss Frank Todaro and Capos Thomas Rizzuto, Nick Grifazzi, Joseph Capro and Frank Lombardino as well as Carolla's son Anthony Carolla, Carlos Marcello and his closest associates to name a successor to "Silver Dollar" Sam Carolla who was being deported.
  • New York gangster Albert Anastasia moves to Palisade, New Jersey where he becomes an associate of Joe Adonis, meeting regularly with other New Jersey organized crime figures such as Anthony "Tony Bender" Strollo and the Moretti brothers.
  • Jacob Shapiro dies in prison while serving a life sentence.
  • Carl Shelton, member and co-founder of the Prohibition-era Shelton Gang, is murdered by former member Frank "Buster" Wortman.
  • Edwin Rogers Lowenstein, supported by Cleveland mobsters Moe Dalitz and Morris Kleinman, establishes bookmaking operations under E.R. Lowe & Co. with Harold Fischer and Fred Kreisler in Tucson, Arizona and Albuquerque, New Mexico as one of the earliest syndicate criminal activities in the American southwest, eventually becoming known as the Cleveland Mob's "Tucson Front" which would later include front businesses such as the hotel chain run by George Gordon.
  • January 8 - Andy Hintz, a New York stevedore and local waterfront hiring boss, is shot six times and severely wounded by three unidentified men while leaving his Greenwich Village apartment. Hintz survives for three weeks, indentifing his assailants as longshoreman John M. "Cockeye" Dunn, Andrew "Squint" Sheridan and Danny Gentile before his death on January 29.
  • January 25 - Al Capone dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in his Miami estate as a result of advanced syphilis.
  • February 22 - Charles "Lucky" Luciano is arrested by Cuban authorities after the United States protested Luciano he had been residing their since October 1946. It has been suggested Luciano was in contact with high ranking organized crime figures including Vito Genovese, Frank Costello, Albert Anastasia, Tony Accardo, Carlos Marcello and Meyer Lansky before he was finally deported to Italy on March 20.
  • April 30/May 30 - New Orleans crime leader Sylvestro Carolla,passes leadership of the New Orleans crime syndicate to his Underboss Frank Todaro (Black Diamond Meeting) after Carolla's is deported to Sicily by US authorities. By 1950, Underboss Carlos Marcello becomes the head of organized crime within the city.
  • May 1 – At the labour parade in Portella di Ginestra 11 people are killed and over thirty are wounded. The attack was attributed to the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano. Mafia leaders like Calogero Vizzini initially supported the separatist movement in Sicily and its main protagonist Salvatore Giuliano. Vizzini soon changed sides, however, joining the Christian Democrat party (DC – Democrazia Cristiana) when it became clear that an independent Sicily was not feasible. Bernardo Mattarella, one of the party’s leaders, welcomed Vizzini's joining the DC in an article in the Catholic newspaper Il Popolo in 1945. Vizzini allegedly helped to capture and kill Giuliano in 1950. Vizzini’s support for the DC was not a secret. During the crucial 1948 elections that would decide on Italy’s post-war future, Vizzini and Mafia boss Giuseppe Genco Russo sat at the same table with leading DC politicians, attending an electoral lunch.
  • May 7/9 - Nicholas DeJohn,Chicago mobster and San Francisco crime leader, is found in the trunk of a car after being strangled to death in San Francisco, California. Leonard Calamia, a syndicate gunman and known drug trafficer, is later acquitted of his murder.
  • June 20 - After losing several million dollars on the syndicate owned casino The Flamingo, Benjamin Siegel is killed by an unidentified gunman at the Beverly Hills home of girlfriend Virginia Hill.
  • September 20 - New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, a major opponent of organized crime, dies of cancer.

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