March – Federal authorities, helped by government informant , discover a Mafia "graveyard" in New Jersey.
March 16 – Chicago businessman , owing a substantial amount of money to Felix Alderisio, is beaten to death by members of the Chicago Outfit.
March 22 – Milwaukee mob boss Frank Balistrieri is convicted of two counts of tax evasion by a federal jury in Illinois.
April 7 – Henry Hill and Thomas DeSimone burglarize Kennedy Airport's Air France shipment of $420,000.
May – Joseph Bonanno is accused by federal authorities of running an international drug trafficking operation between Montreal, Quebec, and New York City, New York.
June – Genovese and Gambino crime families are charged by federal authorities to hold a monopoly on Westchester County garbage carting and waste disposal.
June 23 – Two hitmen kill the French-Corsican mob boss close to Marseille, in France[1].
July 13 – Thomas Lucchese, after being hospitalized on and off since August 1965, dies of natural causes at his Lido Beach, home in Long Island, New York. Carmine "Mr. Gribbs" Tramunti was chosen at the "La Stella-Little Apalachin" meeting on September 22, 1966, as acting boss of the Lucchese crime family.
November 10 – is murdered along with and at the in Queens[1] shortly after defecting from the Bonanno crime family to the rival Gasperino DiGregorio faction. Johnny Dio is convicted of bankruptcyfraud and is sentenced to five years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine.[2]
August 1 – Charles Grandiere convicted of theft at a local fruit stand on the streets of New York City. Sentenced to ten years for theft and attempted murder of the store owner. Eventually sent to Guantanamo Bay.
July 13 – Thomas Lucchese "Three Finger Brown", New York mobster and founder of the Lucchese crime family
Notes[]
^"Machine-Guns Three Patrons in Queens Bar," by Daniel O'Malley and William McFadden, Daily News, November 11, 1967.
^Kaplan, Morris. "Dio Is Convicted On Fraud Charges." New York Times. November 11, 1967; Ranzal, Edward. "Dio Gets 5 Years in Bankruptcy Fraud." New York Times. December 12, 1967.