Longtime Colombo figure John ‘Sonny’ Franzese dies at 103
The violent, sociopathic and amazingly long life of John “Sonny” Franzese, a former Colombo crime family underboss who once ran…
Month: February 2020
FBI director outlines threats from transnational organized crime
Editor’s note: On February, 5, 2020, Christopher Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, delivered a report to the…
Giovanni Brusca: No. 5 on list of Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen
In this fifth and final installment in our series on the Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen, we profile a…
Joe “The Animal” Barboza: No. 4 on list of Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen
In this fourth installment in our series on the Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen, the focus shifts to the…
Roy DeMeo: No. 3 on list of Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen
In this third installment in our series on the Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen, we focus on a particularly…
Abe ‘Kid Twist’ Reles: No. 2 on list of Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen
In this second installment in our series on the Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen, we move from the Chicago…
‘Machine Gun’ Jack McGurn leads list of Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen
Faced with more than 200 unsolved gangland murders in the Brooklyn area since the early 1930s, in 1940 the District…