Dominick Petrilli

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Dominick "The Gap" Petrilli (d. 1953) was a New York mobster associated with mobster and later government informant Joe Valachi, later sponsoring him for induction into the Lucchese crime family (although other sources claim the Genovese crime family). A member of Gaetano Reina's organization, he would turn against him during the Castellammarese War and later participated in the 1931 murder of Joe ""The Boss" Messeria with Valachi.

In 1942, Petrilli was arrested in Tuson, Arizona on narcotics charges and sentenced to five years imprisonment. Petrilli himself would inform on several organized crime figures and associates shortly before being deported to his native Italy by federal authorities. He would eventually be killed after illegaly re-entering the country in 1953.

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