Rocco Valenti (born in 1895, date of death unknown) was a
New York City
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gangster and prominent member of the
Camorra in New York during the early 1910s.
He is often confused with contemporary Mafioso
Umberto Valenti.
Mafia–Camorra War
Valenti joined the
Neapolitan
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* Duchy of Naples, in existence during the Early and Hig ...
Navy Street Gang in the early 1910s. On July 20, 1916, Valenti and fellow gang member Nick Sassi helped George "Lefty" Esposito, Tom Pagano, and Giuseppe Verizzano escape after murdering Joe DeMarco and Charles Lombardi.
On September 7, 1916, Valenti was arrested in a local pool hall for carrying a concealed weapon. His arrest came several hours after a shootout that resulted in the deaths of
Nicholas Morello and
Charles Ubriaco. However, Valenti was later released.
On January 26, 1918, Valenti was arrested in
Troy, New York
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and convicted as an accessory in the DeMarco and Lombardi murders. After serving ten months in prison, Valenti was released in November 1918. He also testified for Charles Giordano during his trial in March 1919.
He disappears from the written record at that point.
References
Further reading
*Critchley, David. ''The Origin of Organized Crime: The New York City Mafia, 1891-931''. New York,
Routledge
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, 2008.
*Sifakis, Carl. ''The Mafia Encyclopedia''. New York:
Da Capo Press
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History
Founded in 1964 as a publisher of music books, as a division of Plenum Publishers, it had additional of ...
, 2005.
External links
GangRule: The Mafia-Cammora War (1914-1918)
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American gangsters of Italian descent
American Camorristi
1895 births
Year of death missing