1922 in organized crime

Events

New Orleans crime family leader Carlo Matranga retires from the organization appointing Sylvestro "Sam" Carolla in his place.
Moses Annenberg purchases the Daily Racing Form gaining a virtual monopoly over the distribution of race track information in the United States.
Louis Buchalter is sent to prison for burglary.
New York crime family founders Joseph Profaci and Vincent Mangano arrive in the United States from Palermo, Sicily.
Louis Romano, an associate of Francesco "Frank 'The Enforcer' Nitti" Nitto, is indicted for murder, however is later found acquitted. On Nitti's behalf, Romano would later assume control of the Chicago Bartender and Beverage Dispenser's Union, Local 278.
May 6 - Pellegrino Scaglia, a member of the Colorado syndicate, is shot to death. Scaglia's death causes Colorado and Kansas City gangsters to hold a conference with representatives from New York to act as mediators.
May 6 - Timothy D. "Big Tim" Murphy, Cornelius Shea and six other labor leaders are indicted for murdering a Chicago policeman. The state withdraws the indictment in June for lack of evidence, refiles in August, and withdraws a final time in November.
May 8 - Vincenzo Terranova is killed outside his home, most likely by Rocco Valenti.
July 9 - Joseph Peter DiCarlo, founder of the present day Bufalino crime family, dies of natural causes and succeeded by Stefano Magaddino.
August 9 - Rocco Valenti, a leading member of the Morello crime family, attempts to assassinate Joe Masseria after killing his two bodyguards, and upon cornering Masseria in a Second Avenue millinery shop Masseria manages to escape. Two days later, during peace negotiations with Morrello and Messeria, Valenti is killed by Charles Luciano outside a Twelfth Street restaurant while trying to escape an apparent attempt on his life. During the shootout an eight-year-old girl and a street cleaner are wounded.
December 5 - New York gangster Benjamin Levinsky is killed by William Lipshitz.

Deaths

Richard Croker, Tammany Hall politician and former member of the Fourth Avenue Tunnel Gang
May 6 - Pellegrino Scaglia, Colorado syndicate member
May 8 - Vincenzo Terranova, New York gangster and underboss of the Morello crime family
July 9 - Joseph Peter DiCarlo, founder of the present day Bufalino crime family
August 11 - Rocco Valenti, New York gangster and member of the Morello crime family
December 5 - Benjamin Levinsky, New York gangster and labor racketeer