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Petrosino was an Italian-American detective in the New York City Police Department in the early 1900s who was assigned to investigate the Mafia, an Italian organized-crime group that was well established in the immigrant Italian community in New York but about which very little was actually known. Petrosino's investigations resulted in many arrests and convictions for extortion... See more trivia »

Born:

Giuseppe Petrosino
August 30, 1860 in Salerno, Campania, Italy

Died:

March 12, 1909 (age 48) in Palermo, Sicily, Italy

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1993 American Justice: Target - Mafia (TV mini-series documentary)
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Petrosino was an Italian-American detective in the New York City Police Department in the early 1900s who was assigned to investigate the Mafia, an Italian organized-crime group that was well established in the immigrant Italian community in New York but about which very little was actually known. Petrosino's investigations resulted in many arrests and convictions for extortion... See more »

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Italian Sherlock Holmes See more »

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Virgo