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The Italian lottery in this country has been based on numbers drawn in the legal, lottery conducted in Italy. (92-2834-2; 62-9-62, p. 119; 64-31396-45, pp. 15-17) | Another important Mafia leader in the New York area is Vito Genovese Genovese, along with "Lucky" Luciano, is reputed to have helped organize the various criminal growps in the New York area into a well-knit system. Each | . | group had its own criminal specialty and territory and was required to pay tribute lo Genevese and Luciane. Genovese also organized the bookmakers in | New York City engaged in the Italian lottery, the numbers game, and other | ° rackets. (92-2718-3, pp. 36, 362, 36b; 92-2709-6) a Genovese has been actively associated with such notorious New York hoodhies ag Frank Costello and the late Albert Anastasia. Another prother! Carmine Genevese, has been a bookmaker and a numbers runner in New Jersey. An informant ctated in 1909 that Genovese controlled the Italian lottery through his brother, Michael; the numbers game through Anthony Strollo; and the slot . “machines in New Jersey through Willie Moretti, a hoodlum who was killed by : (90) gangsters in 1951, (G2-75147-34-110, pp. 11, 13; 92-2709-6, 11, 12, 14; 64-31396 -45) An unusually irrcgular event in Vito Genovese's personal affairs occurred following the death of his first wife. He married her sister, allegedly after he had had her husband murdered. (64-31396-45, pp. 3-4, 41)