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Valachi was the son-in-law of Gaetano Reina after he married Reina's oldest daughter Mildred, over the objections of his baby. Valachi's motivations for becoming an informer have been the subject of some debate. Insanity ran in his family, with four of his brothers and sisters winding up in mental institutions, and two committing suicide. On February 3, 1931 Valachi was involved along with Sebastiano Domingo aka Buster from Chicago in mortally wounding Joseph Catania aka "Joe Baker" an underboss to Joe "the Boss" Masseria during the Castellammarese War. {See

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  • Valachi was the son-in-law of Gaetano Reina after he married Reina's oldest daughter Mildred, over the objections of his baby. Valachi's motivations for becoming an informer have been the subject of some debate. Insanity ran in his family, with four of his brothers and sisters winding up in mental institutions, and two committing suicide. On February 3, 1931 Valachi was involved along with Sebastiano Domingo aka Buster from Chicago in mortally wounding Joseph Catania aka "Joe Baker" an underboss to Joe "the Boss" Masseria during the Castellammarese War. {See
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  • Valachi was the son-in-law of Gaetano Reina after he married Reina's oldest daughter Mildred, over the objections of his baby. Valachi's motivations for becoming an informer have been the subject of some debate. Insanity ran in his family, with four of his brothers and sisters winding up in mental institutions, and two committing suicide. On February 3, 1931 Valachi was involved along with Sebastiano Domingo aka Buster from Chicago in mortally wounding Joseph Catania aka "Joe Baker" an underboss to Joe "the Boss" Masseria during the Castellammarese War. {See In October 1958, Valachi (a "soldier" in New York City's powerful Genovese crime family, whose primary "job" within the family was that of a driver) had testified before Arkansas Senator John L. McClellan's congressional committee on organized crime that the Mafia did exist. Although the low-ranking Valachi's disclosures never led directly to the arresting of many Mafia leaders, he was able to provide many details of its history, operations and rituals, aiding in the solution of several uncleared murders, as well as naming many members and the major crime families. His testimony, which was broadcast on radio and television and published in newspapers, was devastating for the mob, still reeling from the November 14, 1957, Apalachin Meeting where state police had accidentally discovered several Mafia bosses from all over the United States meeting at the Apalachin, New York, home of mobster Joseph Barbara. After the Apalachin exposures and Valachi's testimony, the mob was no longer invisible to the public.
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