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EVENTS

Following his release from prison, Sam Giancana becomes a high ranking member of the Chicago Outfit as a personal advisor and primary enforcer for Tony Accardo .

Moey Wolinsky , a lieutenant of Louis Buchalter , is murdered. It is suspected this may have been retribution for misleading Lepke claiming a deal had been arranged to reduce Buchalter's prison sentence during his 1939 trial.

February 19 - Murder Inc. members Harry Maione and Frank Abbandando are officially executed by the state of New York following their murder trial the previous year.

May 12 - After being transferred from Clinton State Prison to Great Meadow Prison in Comstock, New York , New York mobster Charles Luciano meets with US military intelligence, presumably to negotiate his early parole in exchange for his assistance in possibly becoming a liaison between Sicilian mafiosi or arranging organized crime leaders in preventing sabotage on the US East Coast.

ARTS AND LITERATURE

BIRTHS

Richard V. Gotti , member of the Gambino Crime Family

August 6 - George Jung , Medellin Cartel drug trafficker

DEATHS

Moey Wolinsky , a lieutenant of Louis Buchalter

June 12 (?) - Harry Maione , Murder Inc. hitman

June 12 - Frank Abbandando , Murder Inc. hitman