Travolta Gotti Movie

“Gotti” Starring John Travolta Set For June Release

A movie originally set for release in December about celebrity Mob boss John Gotti is now scheduled to hit theaters…


Eighty years ago, Ciro ‘The Artichoke King’ Terranova ‘died of a broken heart’

Eighty years ago last month, one of Mob history’s oddball characters crossed into the great gangland netherworld. Ciro “The Artichoke…


‘A good man in a bad business’

The 1930s were a tumultuous time in the Tampa underworld. Dubbed the “Era of Blood” by local journalists, the sound…


Scorsese movie, Merlino trial highlight Philadelphia’s Mob past

The City of Brotherly Love is generating Mob-related headlines again. The city’s Mob history has popped up in stories about…