1990 in organized crime

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List of years in organized crime

Events[]

  • August 30 - The body of Lucchese Family mobster Bruno Facciolo, who had been missing since August 24, is discovered in the trunk of a car in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, following an anonymous complaint to police of foul odor. He had been shot several times in the head, and stabbed multiple times in the chest and back.[1]
  • September 28 – English drug trafficker Roy Francis Adkins is shot dead in Amsterdam.
  • December 11 – The FBI arrests Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano and consigliere Frank Locascio on racketeering charges.

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References[]

  1. ^ "Reputed Mobster Shot Dead," by Molly Gordy, Newsday (New York edition), September 20, 1990.
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