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Michele Greco becomes a member of the Mafia Commission in Sicily .

Paul Castellano forms a working partnership between the Gambino Crime Family and the Westies street gang of Manhattan 's Hell's Kitchen .

June 28 - After several years in a coma following a failed assassination attempt on his life in 1971, Joe Columbo dies in his home.

March 21 - Salvatore Briguglio , a Teamsters Union official involved in Provenzano's New Jersey chapter, is gunned down in New York 's Little Italy while at the Andrea Doria Social Club. Briguglio who had been schedualed to appear with Anthony Provenzano and Harold Konigsberg in court for the the 1961 murder of Anthony Castellito.

June 15 - Anthony Provenzano , along with enforcer Harold Konigsberg , is convicted by a grand jury in Kingston, New York as an accessory for the 1961 murder of Teamsters Union rival Anthony Castellito .

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March 21 - Salvatore Briguglio , Teamsters Union official and associate of Anthony Provenzano

June 28 - Joe Columbo - New York mobster and founder of the Colombo Crime Family