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Sicilian , Mafia prosecutor Cesare Terranova is shot dead. Imprisoned mobster, Luciano Leggio is brought to trial but is aquitted due to lack of evidence. Terranova was the prosecutor responsible for Leggio's imprisonment; a Life Sentence for the murder of Michele Navarra .

January 12 - Johnny Dioguardi dies of natural causes at a Pennsylvania hospital, while was serving a sentence for Stock Fraud .

July 11 - Anthony Provenzano , had been extorting payments from trucking firms at the threat of instigating union strikes, is convicted of labor racketeering and sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.

July 12 - Carmine Galante , formerly the Underboss of the Bonanno Crime Family , is gunned down while having dinner at Joe & Mary's Italian Restaurant in Brooklyn .

November 9 - John Paul Spica , associate of Anthony Giodano and a suspect in the assassination of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. , is killed by a car bomb in his Cadillac.

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Cesare Terranova , Sicilian prosecutor

January 12 - Johnny Dioguardi ( Johnny Dio ), Lucchese Crime Family member and labor racketeer

November 9 - John Paul Spica , associate of Anthony Giodano