TMM: What sparked your interest in federal law enforcement history and the memorabilia that you have collected? Raymond Sherrard: Over the last thirty years I began to collect any federal insignia and badges I could get my hands on; the older the better.  I am now beginning to specialize just on IRS...

Just a few years ago, Michael Franzese was named one of the biggest money earners the mob had seen since Al Capone by Vanity Fair.At the age of 35, Fortune Magazine listed him as number 18 on its list of the “Fifty Most Wealthy and Powerful Mafia Bosses,” just 5 behind John Gotti.Avoiding...

Tim Donaghy had it all. As a ref in the NBA, he had a job many envied, as well as a wife and four daughters. But his life was turned upside down by a debilitating gambling addiction that led him in a downward spiral, eventually causing him to bet on...

Brian Paco Alvarez has seen it all. As the former curator of the Las Vegas News Bureau Photos and Film Archives, he was the gatekeeper of the largest photo collection of post-World War II Las Vegas history. An urban historian and enthusiastic advocate of cultural arts in Southern Nevada, Alvarez serves...

The tattoos that decorate the old-school Russian gangsters are very telling – art imitating life if you will.  For example, the number of onion-domes atop buildings in the artwork represent the number of prison terms served. The missing fingers among some of Russia’s mafia are equally as symbolic – representing...