2000 in organized crime
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- August 23 – Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo, longtime head of the Lucchese crime family, dies in prison after serving 13 years of a life imprisonment sentence.
- September 6 – Lucchese crime family acting boss Steven Crea, captains Dominic Truscello and Joseph Tangorra, soldiers Joseph Datello, Philip DeSimone, Anthony "Razor" Pezzullo, Joseph Truncale, and Arthur Zambardi, as well as associates Anthony Reynolds, Giuseppe Palmieri, Alessandro Palmieri, Michael Forde, President of both Local 608 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and the N.Y.C. District Council of Carpenters and Martin Deveraux, a Local 608 business agent, were charged in a massive labor racketeering, kickback and extortion indictment handed down by the Manhattan District Attorney.[1] All men would either be convicted or plead guilty, but a judge would later throw out Forde and Deveraux's convictions, citing anti-Irish sentiment expressed by members of the jury.