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Commitment to Safety

Big Mob trouble in the Big Easy

Year: 2020


Big Mob trouble in the Big Easy

Posted on December 30, 2020January 7, 2021 by Brian Freeman

Organized crime’s influence in New Orleans is at the center of a legal drama airing on Showtime through January. Titled…


Re-edited ‘Godfather: Part III’ wins applause

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Brian Freeman

Francis Ford Coppola’s re-edit of The Godfather: Part III is receiving praise from critics who say the changes have streamlined…


Blowing the whistle on Mob-connected sports betting

Posted on November 30, 2020 by Brian Freeman

In the fourth quarter of a 2002 NBA conference playoff game, Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant elbowed the Sacramento…


The Kefauver hearing in Las Vegas

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Brian Freeman

The U.S. Senate’s Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, chaired by Tennessee Democrat Estes Kefauver, focused attention…


‘The Godfather: Part III’ is getting a makeover

Posted on October 30, 2020October 30, 2020 by Brian Freeman

With a thunderstorm raging outside the kitchen window, Michael Corleone in The Godfather: Part III expresses anger at the Mafia…


Did the Chicago Outfit elect John F. Kennedy president?

Posted on October 22, 2020October 22, 2020 by Brian Freeman

A number of authors assert, based on claims by individuals who were linked in one way or another to organized…


Federal law enforcement agencies announce series of major busts

Posted on October 19, 2020October 19, 2020 by Brian Freeman

While most of us are focused on the pandemic and the final weeks of the presidential campaign, federal law enforcement…


Decades of temperance activism led to passage of Prohibition 100 years ago

Posted on September 29, 2020 by Brian Freeman

All the tumult of 2020 makes it easy to forget that it is a huge anniversary in the history of…


‘Goodfellas’ still going strong after 30 years

Posted on September 10, 2020September 10, 2020 by Brian Freeman

In the painting, a man with white hair and beard, his left hand steering an outboard motor, is piloting a…


Capone, Torrio and the Sunshine City, St. Petersburg, Florida

Posted on August 27, 2020August 27, 2020 by Brian Freeman

Ninety-five years ago, during the summer of 1925, Florida was in the midst of a massive land boom. Real estate…


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