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1934 in organized crime

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See also: 1933 in organized crime, other events of 1934, 1935 in organized crime and the list of 'years in Organized Crime'.

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Events

  • Phil D'Andrea is elected president of the Unione Siciliana, a Sicilian fraternal organization, in Chicago.
  • April 22 - Baby Face Nelson, hiding out with John Dillinger, at the Little Bohemia Lodge just outside Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin kills FBI Special Agent W. Carter Baum in a shootout.
  • Spring - Headed by Meyer Lansky and Johnny Torrio, organized crime leaders hold a conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York to discuss the formation of a National Crime Syndicate.
  • July 2 - Paul Castellano is arrested for the armed robbery of a Hartford, Connecticut store. Sentenced to one year imprisonment in the Hartford County Jail, Castellano serves three months before being released in December.
  • July 22 - John Dillinger killed in Chicago by the FBI.
  • October - New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia orders a police raid on gambling parlors. This raid damages over 1,000 slot machines owned by mob boss Frank Costello.
  • October 9 - Ferdinand "The Shadow" Boccia is abducted by Willie Gallo and Ernest "The Hawk" Rupolo after a dispute with Vito Genovese over a fixed card game. Boccia is later murdered.

    • Arts and literature

  • When the Kellys Rode (film) [1]
  • Jimmy the Gent (film) [2] starring James Cagney.

    • Births

  • November 6 - Isoji Koga, the founder of the Dojin-kai
  • Americo Petrillo "The Cigar", Patriarca crime family soldier and associate of William P. Grasso
  • Frank Salemme "Cadillac Frank", Patriarca crime family leader and former member of the Winter Hill Gang

    • Deaths

  • May 23 - Clyde Barrow, outlaw shot dead by Federal marshals
  • May 23 - Bonnie Parker, outlaw shot dead by Federal marshals
  • July 22 - John Dillinger, Public enemy #1 shot dead by the FBI
  • October 9 - Ferdinand Boccia, New York mobster
  • October 22 -Charles Arthur Floyd, Public enemy #1 shot dead by the FBI
  • November 27 - Babyface Nelson, Public enemy #1 died from wounds suffered in a shootout with 2 FBI agents

    • References

    1934 in organized crime Wikipedia
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