DEA report: Drug overdoses top cause of death for Americans
Drug poisoning was the chief cause of injury deaths among Americans from 2011 to 2017, more than the loss of…
Year: 2020
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…
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…
Two popular TV series will highlight Midwest mobsters this spring
The Kansas City Mob is being featured in two popular crime series that will be kicking off new seasons this…
Last call before the Dry Decade
At 12:01 a.m. on January 17, 1920, “last call” parties wrapped up across the nation, as the United States officially…