Events
- Cleveland Black Hand leader Rosario Borgio along with Paul Chiavaro, Vito Mezzano, and Lorenzo Biondo (Bionde) are convicted of the murder of several Akron police officers and executed.
- Al Capone leaves New York, after an altercation with a member of the White Hand Gang, where he becomes a top lieutenant to Johnny Torrio.
- Recently imprisoned criminal Joe Valachi encounters inmate and future mentor New York mobster Alessandro Vollero.
- Salvatore Sabella becomes leader of the Philadelphia crime syndicate.
- Frank Costello forms a novelty company which makes Kewpie dolls in punchboard games. By the following year Costello had made $80,000 which he used to become a bootlegger at the start of Prohibition.
- July 29 - New York labor slugger Johnny Spanish is killed by three unidentified gunman possibly including rival gangster Nathan Kaplan.
Read more about this topic: 1919 In Organized Crime
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