Eliot H. Lumbard, Who Investigated the Apalachin Mob Meeting, Is Dead at 88

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NY Times

WILLIAM YARDLEY

November 13, 2013

 

Eliot H. Lumbard, a New York prosecutor and law-enforcement leader who helped expose organized crime through his investigation of the infamous Apalachin meeting of mob leaders in 1957, died on Nov. 6 in Nashua, N.H. He was 88.

 

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In the late 1950s, as an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Mr. Lumbard had been prosecuting corruption inside the Internal Revenue Service when he joined the newly formed State Investigation Commission, created by Gov. W. Averell Harriman to fight organized crime and improve policing.

 

The commission was in part a response to what happened on the night of Nov. 14, 1957, in Apalachin, a rural town in south-central New York not far from the Pennsylvania border.

 

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