Nick Pileggi adds a new entry to the extensive library of Mob movies in March with The Alto Knights. Pileggi also wrote Goodfellas and Casino, both mainstays of the organized crime film genre. Courtesy of Kate Henry

New movie ‘The Alto Knights’ revives bitter feud between major mobsters

The newest Mob movie written by journalist and screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, The Alto Knights, is his third major script focused…


After the indictments, U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani, left, and FBI Director William Webster held a press conference and showed a diagram outlining defendant’s position within the Commission’s hierarchy. Bettmann/Corbis

The bosses of the Mafia Commission were indicted 40 years ago

New York, like other major cities across the United States, faced waves of crime during the 1970s and ’80s. What…


The top 5 organized crime video games

In the 1980s, video arcades loaded with coin-operated gaming cabinets were a common shopping mall destination for people with quarters…