The Apalachin meeting was a 1957 gathering of organized crime leaders in upstate New York that was raided by police. Although Joseph Bonanno was not arrested, authorities publicly identified him as the head of a Mafia family. The raid attracted widespread media attention and helped confirm the existence and leadership structure of the American Mafia.
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