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Joseph Michael Valachi (September 22, 1904 – April 3, 1971) was an American mobster in the Genovese crime family who was the first member of the Italian-American Mafia to acknowledge its existence publicly in 1963.
Named after the major government witness against the American Mafia, foot soldier and made man Joseph Valachi, the trial exposed American organized crime to the world through Valachi's televised testimony.
The Valachi Hearings Joseph Valachi during the McClellan hearings, 1963. Genovese soldier Joe Valachi was convicted of narcotics violations in 1959 and sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
Joseph Valachi was an American gangster, a member of Lucky Luciano’s mob family, who turned informer in 1962. Valachi held a rank in the Mafia equivalent to that of a sergeant, with interests chiefly in the numbers rackets and other gambling from the 1930s to the ’50s.
Aug 8, 2023 · New York mobster Joseph Valachi sits at the witness table, bottom right, facing members of a U.S. Senate investigation subcommittee in Washington, D.C., on October 8, 1963. In the background are four charts of New York crime families with names and pictures of mobsters identified by Valachi.
Joseph Michael Valachi was an American criminal who was a member of the Genovese crime family. He is most remembered for being the first gangster belonging to the Italian-American Mafia to publicly admit its existence.
Joseph Michael Valachi (September 22, 1904 [nb 1] – April 3, 1971) Was a career member of Organized Crime in the Genovese crime family; Valachi was convicted of drug trafficking in 1959, and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. In 1962 while he and Genovese family boss Vito Genovese were in prison together, he murdered an inmate he thought ...
