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January – The bosses of the 5 New York families – The Commission – are sentenced. All 8 defendants return to court to hear Judge Richard Owen hand down the sentences. All 6 bosses, Genovese boss (front boss) Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno-100 years, Lucchese boss Antonio "Tony Ducks" Corallo-100 years, Lucchese underboss Salvatore "Tom Mix" Santoro-100 years, Lucchese consigliere Christopher "Christie Tick" Furnari-100 years, Colombo boss Carmine Junior" Persico-100 years, Colombo acting boss/underboss Gennaro "Jerry Lang" Langella-100 years. The other 2 Colombo soldier Ralph Scopo-100 years, Bonanno soldier Anthony "Bruno" Indelicato-45 years
January 15 – Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo, boss of the Philadelphia crime family, is arrested and charged with planning an extortion scheme with a city councilman. Scarfo is ordered by Federal Magistrate to be held without bail as public danger pending his eventual trial.
January 16 – Bonanno crime family boss Philip "Rusty" Rastelli is convicted of labor racketeering over a 20-year period between 1964 until 1985 and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment.
January 20 – Former Teamsters Union President Roy L. Williams' appeal before the U.S. Parole Commission on the grounds of ill health is denied, ordering the 71-year-old former labor union leader to serve his full prison term. Williams, who had been imprisoned for conspiring to bribe a U.S. Senator, will eventually be released from prison on May 31, 1992.
February – , 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 , a made man within the Lucchese crime family, would be murdered in September.
March 2 – The defendants of the "Pizza Connection" are officially convicted of drug trafficking after being found guilty by a New York jury. Another 175 mobsters and their Sicilian counterparts are eventually indicted in the aftermath of the federal investigation. In Italy, only Vito Badalamenti, the son of Sicialian mafioso and former and Capo di tutti capiGaetano "Don Tano" Badalamenti, would be acquitted.
March 10 – After four years as a government informant, Cleveland mobster Angelo "Big Ange" Lonardo's prison sentence is reduced to time served by U.S. District Court Judge and is released on 5 years probation.
March 12 – , consigliere of the Patriarca crime family, is sentenced to a consecutive 30 years imprisonment on illegal gambling and extortion charges. During the trial Zannino publicly threatened, and later apologized to the jurors.
April 29 – William Ciccone, a mentally ill Ozone Park, Queens resident, fired a shot at Gambino crime family boss John Gotti outside the Bergin Hunt and Fish Club. Ciccone was apprehended, taken to a Staten Island candy store and tortured and murdered by associate Joe Watts. Former soldier testified that Watts pumped six bullets into Ciccone's head.
May 19 – A U.S. District Court clerk, , is indicted by a Federal grand jury and charged with supplying information to members of the Gambino crime family for more than a decade.
August 4 – Philadelphia mobster Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo, along with 6 associates, pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and murder in 1 of 3 gangland slayings, including the July 1985 murder of .
October 21 – and nephew of Gaetano Badalamenti, , whose Oregon, Illinois pizzeria was the center of Midwest drug trafficking operations for the Pizza Connection, was convicted for narcotics conspiracy and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. Among those convicted include and Giuseppe Lamberti who each receive twenty years.
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