Editing Joe Adonis (Giuseppe Antonio Doto) (section)

==Legal Troubles and Deportation==
The 1950–1951 Kefauver Committee hearings on organized crime spotlighted Adonis, who refused to testify, leading to a contempt indictment. In 1951, he pleaded guilty to violating New Jersey gambling laws, serving a two-year sentence. In 1954, investigations revealed Adonis’s Italian birth, contradicting his sworn claims of being born in Passaic, New Jersey. Facing perjury charges and a New York gambling indictment, he accepted deportation to avoid further prosecution. On August 6, 1953, the U.S. Department of Justice ordered his deportation, finalized in 1956 when he sailed to Naples on the Conte Biancamano, leaving his wife, Joan, and four children—Joseph Jr., Dolores, Anna, and Elizabeth—in New Jersey.