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Cocaine importer, George Jung , arrested at his mansion near Chatham in Massachusetts but skips bail only to become involve in another drug trafficking plot.

February - Pasquale "Paddy Bulldog" Varriale , a minor gambler and con artist, is killed after receiving $10,000 from the Bonanno Crime Family , and later backing out of, an agreement to bribe a juror connected to the Pizza Connection case. His brother Carmine Varriale , a made man within the Lucchese Crime Family , would be murdered in September.

October 21 - Pietro Alfano , whose Oregon, Illinois pizzaria was the center of Midwest drug traffiking for the Pizza Connection , was convicted for narcotics conspiracy and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.

December 16 - The Maxi Trial , a purge of hundreds of Sicilian mafiosi, comes to an end. Of the 474 defendants 360 were convicted and 114 aquitted. Michele Greco was convicted of 4 murders and received Life Imprisonment .

December 16 - Defendant Antoninio Ciulla is shot dead on his way home from the Maxi Trial .

ARTS AND LITERATURE

'' A Better Tomorrow II '' (film) {Link without Title}

'''' (non-fiction book) by Joseph D. Pistone .

'', Sean Connery , Charles Martin Smith , Andy Garcia and Robert DeNiro .

BIRTHS

DEATHS

Dennis Allen "Dr. Death", Melbourne based Drug Dealer and Murderer .

February - Pasquale Varriale "Paddy Bulldog", New York criminal and associate of the Bonanno Crime Family

September - Carmine Varriale , Lucchese Crime Family member and brother of Pasquale Varriale

December 16 - Antoninio Ciulla , Sicilian Mafioso