Joseph Valachi | American gangster

Joseph Valachi, American gangster, 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. In 1959 he was convicted of narcotics

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