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Which gangsters didn't "die by the sword"? #202734
07/09/05 05:23 PM 07/09/05 05:23 PM
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Which gangster managed to die of natural causes and as a free man? Just a few on top of my head:

Carlo Gambino
Lucky Luciano
Joe Bonnano

Any others?

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Re: Which gangsters didn't "die by the sword"? #202735
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Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, Joe Profaci, Joe Magliocco, Tony Accardo, Santos Trafficante, Al Capone, and Carlos Marcello just to name a few.

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Re: Which gangsters didn't "die by the sword"? #202736
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In fact, most of them didn't die by the sword. And the only one who was executed by the government was Louis (Lepke) Buchalter.
The trick is to find a Don who never served a day in prison. Not easy.

Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu,
E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
Re: Which gangsters didn't "die by the sword"? #202737
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Carlo Gambino didn't serve one day in prison.

Re: Which gangsters didn't "die by the sword"? #202738
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Quote:
Originally posted by Peter_Clemenza:
Carlo Gambino didn't serve one day in prison.
After Prohibition was repealed, Gambino participated in a racket to sell booze without paying Federal taxes. In 1939, he was arrested for conspiracy to avoid paying liquor taxes and was sentenced to nearly two years in prison. After eight months, the conviction was reversed. He was free, but he'd lost eight months of his life to prison. The government arrested him several times as an "illegial alien," but he always beat that rap.

Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu,
E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
Re: Which gangsters didn't "die by the sword"? #202739
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My mistake.

Re: Which gangsters didn't "die by the sword"? #202740
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Interesting Turnbull, i always thought that Carlo Gambino never served 1 day in prison, i think nearly everybody did. Every site will tell that lie:).

And what about Tony Accardo?

I do know one: Donnie Brasco;)

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Re: Which gangsters didn't "die by the sword"? #202741
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"Lefty" Ruggiero died of a heart attack in his home back in 1995.

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Re: Which gangsters didn't "die by the sword"? #202742
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Quote:
Originally posted by juventus:
And what about Tony Accardo?

Accardo was indicted four times for various crimes. In the most serious, he was indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced to six years in prison for tax evasion. But his lawyers got the conviction overturned on appeal. He appeared once in a lineup of criminals suspected of murder and was held in contempt of Congress, but again, he didn't go to jail. He boasted that he never spent a night in jail, and he may have been telling the truth.

Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu,
E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
Re: Which gangsters didn't "die by the sword"? #202743
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Technically Capone did die by the sword, but thats a whole other Springer show...

I came, I saw, I had no idea what was going on, I left.
Re: Which gangsters didn't "die by the sword"? #202744
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don vencent Offline
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Meyer Lansky never was in jail
Re: Which gangsters didn't "die by the sword"? #202745
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Quote:
Originally posted by don vencent:
Meyer Lansky never was in jail
Lansky served three months in a county lockup in Saratoga Springs, NY, in the early '50's for a gambling conviction. He took it philosophically, as a fallout from the Kefauver hearings.

Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu,
E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
Re: Which gangsters didn't "die by the sword"? #202746
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And what about Joe Adonis?

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