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- 01Valachi mistook Joseph Saupp for a Genovese hitman and crushed his skull with an iron pipe in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, 1962.
- 02To avoid execution for Saupp's murder, Valachi agreed to testify — becoming the first made man to confirm the Cosa Nostra's existence publicly.
- 03His 1963 Senate testimony named 317 mob figures and introduced the word 'Cosa Nostra' to the American public.