Mathew Bowyer is the former illegal bookmaker for Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter. Now out of prison, he questions his recent inclusion in Nevada’s Black Book, which bans him from casinos in the state. Bowyer told The Mob Museum that he wishes that gaming regulators would make it possible for individual bookkeepers to do business.
A few pages in a memoir led to a murder conviction for Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who was charged with…
When singer Al Martino was a showroom headliner performing on the Las Vegas Strip years ago, the mobsters who ran…
The Alto Knights, the film written by Nicholas Pileggi and directed by Barry Levinson, is named for a once-prominent Manhattan social…
The newest Mob movie written by journalist and screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, The Alto Knights, is his third major script focused…
In the 1980s, video arcades loaded with coin-operated gaming cabinets were a common shopping mall destination for people with quarters…
When Scarface premiered in 1983, starring Al Pacino as a Cuban drug trafficker in South Florida, the movie was regarded…
On the set of The Godfather, during the early days of filming, Al Pacino was worried about being fired. Francis…
The Mafia movie Alto Knights features veteran actor Robert De Niro playing dual roles as rival mobsters Vito Genovese and…
The CIA’s alliance with the Mafia during the Kennedy years to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro is at the center…
