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24: 459:. 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 463:, 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. 420:. 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. 392:
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
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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
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had signed the order to send the men to trial in 1965. The defendants were accused of crimes relating to the
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in 1973 and sent back to Sicily to serve his sentence. Salvatore Greco was sentenced to four years
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was given a thirteen-year sentence for kidnapping the men but his conviction was
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New York drug trafficking syndicate, controlled Harlem's drug scene for 15 years
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