Frank Sinatra’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year
In a gift shop at the Sands hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Sammy Davis Jr., practicing with a golf putter by…
Author: Brian Freeman
Culling out the card sharks
Gambling was always a backdrop in the nascent years of Las Vegas, a popular if illicit activity for railroad workers,…
‘White Boy Rick’ seeks new life after more than 30 years behind bars
The gates couldn’t swing open soon enough. Former Detroit teenage drug boss and illegal underage FBI mole Richard “White Boy…
Zeroing in on Jimmy Hoffa’s unmarked grave
Editor’s note: On July 8, The Mob Museum published an essay by investigative journalist Dan E. Moldea — author of…
Fake products are huge business for European organized crime
For organized crime groups, the business of counterfeiting and pirating legitimate products is booming. Europol, Europe’s top law enforcement agency,…
Finding Jimmy Hoffa
Editor’s note: After investigating the Jimmy Hoffa murder case since Hoffa’s disappearance forty-five years ago this month, investigative journalist Dan…
Multiple podcast series put ‘Sopranos’ stars back in limelight
Sitting around in pajama pants, Robert Iler and Jamie-Lynn Sigler, friends who starred together on The Sopranos, decided to start…
Mob Museum debuts ‘Rise of the Cartels’ exhibition
Pablo Escobar, the ruthless Colombian drug kingpin and world’s first billionaire criminal, pioneered mass-market drug trafficking, fueled by bribery and…
Cocaine trafficking breeds violence in ZeroZeroZero
About 10 cartel assassins armed with AK-47s and grenade launchers stormed the deputy police chief’s house at 5 a.m., snuffed…
One hundred years ago: Murder of ‘Big Jim’ Colosimo spawned one of the most powerful crime syndicates in American history – the Chicago Outfit
Three weeks after his marriage to the beautiful singer Dale Winter, James Colosimo remained giddy, and nervous. Known as “Big…