Mob Mafia Boss Joe Adonis Testifies at 1951 Kefauver Investigation Original Press Photo Basketball Memorabilia Chicago Stags

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Smukler decided to leave football and join the United States Army

which in later years often featured son Jeremy as a correspondent

4 points a game for his career at a time when the national team scoring average was 40 points

Mob Mafia Boss Joe Adonis Testifies at 1951 Kefauver Investigation Original Press Photo Basketball Memorabilia Chicago StagsJoe Adonis was a New York mobster, born Giuseppe Antonio Doto (1902 1971), who was influential in the rise of the modern Cosa Nostra. Organized crime boss Joe Adonis was born Giuseppe Antonio Doto in the small town of Montemarano, Italy, near Naples. In 1915 he sneaked aboard an ocean liner docked in Naples on its way to the US. He hopped off in Brooklyn, where he had relatives (his cousin was a Vito Genovese family capo named Alan Bono). Adonis soon