April 1 –
Michael Consolo former veteran
Bonanno Crime Family member, having defected to the
DiGregorio Faction was killed by his own men for speaking cordially to Bill Bonanno in front of the Manhattan courthouse; it was taken that he was re-defecting back to the
Bonanno Crime Family.
September 18 –
Bonanno Crime FamilyunderbossFrank Mari and
consigliereMichael Adamo disappear from
Brooklyn. It is rumored that Mari and Adamo were plotting to remove boss Paul Sciacca from power so that they could take over the crime family, but their plans were revealed and they were eliminated, never being seen again.
December 22 – Verdict of the
Trial of the 114 in
Catanzaro. Anti-Mafia judge
Cesare Terranova had signed the order to send the men to trial in 1965. The defendants were accused of crimes relating to the
First Mafia War. Amongst those on trial were the heads of the opposing factions in the Mafia War,
Salvatore Greco and
Angelo La Barbera, as well as the man who had actually triggered the war by framing La Barbera,
Michele Cavataio. Also there were
Giuseppe Calo and
Luciano Leggio. The trial opened in December 1967. It resulted in few convictions, with several of those being just for "organized delinquency". This only carried a sentence of a few years, and most of those convicted of it were released instantly thanks to time already served. The longest sentence was handed to
Angelo La Barbera, who was given twenty-two-years for ordering the kidnap and murder of two rival mobsters who had vanished in 1963 after they were seen being bundled off the streets; someone who witnessed the kidnapping testified for the prosecution despite death threats, one of the few witnesses to do so.
Tommaso Buscetta was given a thirteen-year sentence for kidnapping the men but his conviction was in absentia because he was not present at the trial. He had fled Sicily after the Ciaculli Massacre to avoid the inevitable crackdown. Buscetta was captured in
Brazil in 1973 and sent back to Sicily to serve his sentence. Salvatore Greco was sentenced to four years in absentia. No one was found guilty of the
Ciaculli massacre.
April 1 –
Michael Consolo former veteran
Bonanno Crime Family member, having defected to the
DiGregorio Faction was killed by his own men for speaking cordially to Bill Bonanno in front of the Manhattan courthouse; it was taken that he was re-defecting back to the
Bonanno Crime Family.
September 18 –
Bonanno Crime FamilyunderbossFrank Mari and
consigliereMichael Adamo disappear from
Brooklyn. It is rumored that Mari and Adamo were plotting to remove boss Paul Sciacca from power so that they could take over the crime family, but their plans were revealed and they were eliminated, never being seen again.
December 22 – Verdict of the
Trial of the 114 in
Catanzaro. Anti-Mafia judge
Cesare Terranova had signed the order to send the men to trial in 1965. The defendants were accused of crimes relating to the
First Mafia War. Amongst those on trial were the heads of the opposing factions in the Mafia War,
Salvatore Greco and
Angelo La Barbera, as well as the man who had actually triggered the war by framing La Barbera,
Michele Cavataio. Also there were
Giuseppe Calo and
Luciano Leggio. The trial opened in December 1967. It resulted in few convictions, with several of those being just for "organized delinquency". This only carried a sentence of a few years, and most of those convicted of it were released instantly thanks to time already served. The longest sentence was handed to
Angelo La Barbera, who was given twenty-two-years for ordering the kidnap and murder of two rival mobsters who had vanished in 1963 after they were seen being bundled off the streets; someone who witnessed the kidnapping testified for the prosecution despite death threats, one of the few witnesses to do so.
Tommaso Buscetta was given a thirteen-year sentence for kidnapping the men but his conviction was in absentia because he was not present at the trial. He had fled Sicily after the Ciaculli Massacre to avoid the inevitable crackdown. Buscetta was captured in
Brazil in 1973 and sent back to Sicily to serve his sentence. Salvatore Greco was sentenced to four years in absentia. No one was found guilty of the
Ciaculli massacre.