1980 in organized crime

Events

  • January - Seven Rochester mobsters, including Frank D. Frassetto, are convicted in a federal court of racketeering crimes including several mob-related bombings. [1]
  • March 7 - Joseph Coppolino is stabbed to death and then decapitated, his headless corpse left on the street to be discovered by authorities. Coppolino was murdered by the DeMeo Crew, who suspected him of providing information about their marijuana trafficking operation to narcotics agents.[2]

Arts and literature

Deaths

Notes

  1. http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060620/NEWS01/606200334/1002/NEWS
  2. Capeci, Jerry and Mustain, Gene, Murder Machine: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and the Mafia; Onyx Books, 1993. ISBN 0-451-40387-8.
  3. "Gloria".
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