Joe Valachi Net Worth

Joe Valachi net worth is
$800,000

Joe Valachi Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family

A lower-level Mafia hoodlum for most of his life, Joe Valachi became a household name in the 1960s as the first Mafioso to break the code of "omerta" (silence) about the notorious organized crime syndicate. Valachi was a member of the family run by Vito Genovese and had been convicted and sent to prison for 20 years on narcotics charges in the ...

Net Worth	$800,000
Date Of Birth	September 22, 1904
Place Of Birth	New York City, New York, USA
Star Sign	Virgo

#	Quote
1	[Upon learning that the man he had beaten to death in prison had not been sent to murder him, as he had originally thought] You can imagine my embarrassment when I learned that I had killed the wrong man.

#	Fact
1	Was born in the East Harlem section of New York City.
2	Initially wanted the government to enter him into witness protection but the government refused his request.
3	Coined the phrase Cosa Nostra to mean "Our Thing" has been referenced to in civil and federal litigation law enforcement, even pop culture.
4	When the government refused his request to be entered into witness protection they offered him a plea bargain deal.
5	During his federal testimony he described the initiation ritual that every associate must take to become an official member of that crime family.
6	Described before the Senate subcommittee, the initiation ritual that every mafia associate must take to become an official member of that crime family which is to prick a finger of the associate, repeat the oath spoken by the head of the family while they roll back and forth the prayer card of the family's saint.
7	In the history of Italian American mafia, he is the first mafia associate to publically and formally acknowledge the existence of the mafia both here in America and its origins from Italy.
8	Accepted a plea bargain deal which was to spend life imprisonment instead of the death penalty but a condition of this deal was he had to testify to the Senate subcommittee regarding organized crime here in America and abroad in Italy.