1932 in organized crime

Events

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  • July 29 - Pittsburgh bootleggers John, Arthur, and James Volpe are shot to death in a Pittsburgh coffee shop. The hits were reportedly ordered by Pittsburgh crime family leader John Bazzano.
  • August 8 - John Bazzano is found stuffed in a burlap sack on a Brooklyn street He had been strangled, then stabbed to death. Bazzano's murder may have been connected to the gangland slaying of the Volpe brothers weeks earlier. Vincenzo Capizzi would later succeed Bazzano as head of the Pittsburgh crime family.
  • September 1 - New York Mayor James J. Walker resigns from office, following his testimony before the Seabury Commission.

Arts and literature

Births

Deaths

  • Vito Cascio Ferro, Sicilian mafiosi
  • February 9 - Vincent Coll "Mad Dog", New York Prohibition, Irish-American mobster
  • March 16 - Antonio Lonzo, New York mobster
  • March 16 - Gerard Vernotico, New York mobster
  • July 29 - John Volpe, Pittsburgh bootlegger
  • July 29 - Arthur Volpe, Pittsburgh bootlegger
  • July 29 - James Volpe, Pittsburgh bootlegger
  • August 8 - John Bazzano, Pittsburgh crime family leader
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