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May 2 - Meyer Lansky is convicted of illegal gambling, after pleading guilty to five of the total twenty one charges, and serves three months in a New York prison. He is additionally fined $2,500 and, after his release, receives three years Probation .

July 16 - Shortly after his release from prison, Joe Adonis is faced with perjury charges.

August 5 - U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. orders the deportation of Joe Adonis after it is found Adonis had lied of his birthplace in Passaic, New Jersey and found to have immigrated from Naples, Italy .

October 29 - New York mobster Frank Costello is released from prison, following his arrest for contempt of court during the Khuever Committee the previous year.

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