Who killed Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel?
To this day no one knows who killed Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel. The shooting in Southern California happened on June, 20,…
Year: 2018
‘El Chapo’ calls solitary confinement ‘torture 24 hours a day’
Aging Mexican drug cartel boss Joaquin Archivaldo “El Chapo” Guzman Loera has described his life in solitary confinement while awaiting…
A Mob boss sings, incognito
Cleveland Mafia boss Angelo “Big Angie” Lonardo was the first sitting American Mafia don to become a witness for the…
The seedy side of Mob life
George V. Higgins, a former New England journalist and federal prosecutor who achieved acclaim as a novelist, disliked being pigeonholed…
“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…
A Midwestern Mob Murder Mystery
Amid heavy snowfall during the winter of 1963, FBI agents and sheriff’s deputies in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, worked together to…
Separating fact from fiction in ‘Casino’
Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro) is surrounded by the press at a Nevada Gaming Commission meeting portrayed in Casino. Rothstein’s…