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Joseph Valachi – également connu sous les noms de « Joe Cago », « Charles Chanbano » ou « Anthony Sorge » – né le 22 septembre 1904 1 à New York et mort le 3 avril 1971 à El Paso, est le premier mafieux à révéler la présence de la Cosa nostra aux États-Unis, devant la Commission d'enquête sénatoriale McClellan en ...
- 3 avril 1971 (à 66 ans)El Paso, États-Unis
- Américaine
- 22 septembre 1904,New York
Joseph Michael Valachi (September 22, 1904 – April 3, 1971) was an American mobster in the Genovese crime family who was the first member of the Italian-American Mafia to acknowledge its existence publicly in 1963. He is credited with the popularization of the term cosa nostra.
Joseph Valachi was an American gangster, a member of Lucky Luciano’s mob family, who turned informer in 1962. Valachi held a rank in the Mafia equivalent to that of a sergeant, with interests chiefly in the numbers rackets and other gambling from the 1930s to the ’50s. In 1959 he was convicted of.
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16 févr. 2024 · Discover the riveting story of Joseph Valachi, the first mobster to break the Mafia's sacred code of silence. Born into a life of crime, Valachi's journey from a 107th Street gang member to a...
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Joseph Valachi – également connu sous les noms de « Joe Cago », « Charles Chanbano » ou « Anthony Sorge » – né le 22 septembre 1904 à New York et mort le 3 avril 1971 à El Paso, est le premier mafieux à révéler la présence de la Cosa nostra aux États-Unis, devant la Commission d'enquête sénatoriale McClellan en 1963.
- 3 avril 1971 (à 66 ans)El Paso, États-Unis
- Américaine
- 22 septembre 1904,New York
3 juin 2019 · Gerald Shur, a former justice department attorney, invented the witness protection programme in the 1960s to break the code of silence of organised crime. He was the first to interview Joseph Valachi, the mobster who confirmed the existence of the mafia, and later helped convict John Gotti and Sammy Gravano.
8 août 2023 · Learn about the life and crimes of Joseph Valachi, a made member of the Mafia who broke the code of silence and testified before Congress in 1963. Read his hand-written manuscript online, donated by journalist Peter Maas, and explore his insights into the early U.S. Mafia history.
