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Commitment to Safety

‘El Chapo’ calls solitary confinement ‘torture 24 hours a day’

Author: Brenda Hengel


‘El Chapo’ calls solitary confinement ‘torture 24 hours a day’

Posted on May 3, 2018May 30, 2018 by Brenda Hengel

Aging Mexican drug cartel boss Joaquin Archivaldo “El Chapo” Guzman Loera has described his life in solitary confinement while awaiting…


A Mob boss sings, incognito

Posted on May 1, 2018May 8, 2018 by Brenda Hengel

Cleveland Mafia boss Angelo “Big Angie” Lonardo was the first sitting American Mafia don to become a witness for the…


The seedy side of Mob life

Posted on April 27, 2018May 1, 2018 by Brenda Hengel

George V. Higgins, a former New England journalist and federal prosecutor who achieved acclaim as a novelist, disliked being pigeonholed…


Eighty years ago, Ciro ‘The Artichoke King’ Terranova ‘died of a broken heart’

Posted on March 23, 2018May 25, 2018 by Brenda Hengel

Eighty years ago last month, one of Mob history’s oddball characters crossed into the great gangland netherworld. Ciro “The Artichoke…


Scorsese movie, Merlino trial highlight Philadelphia’s Mob past

Posted on March 1, 2018March 2, 2018 by Brenda Hengel

The City of Brotherly Love is generating Mob-related headlines again. The city’s Mob history has popped up in stories about…


A Midwestern Mob Murder Mystery

Posted on February 15, 2018March 21, 2018 by Brenda Hengel

Amid heavy snowfall during the winter of 1963, FBI agents and sheriff’s deputies in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, worked together to…


Separating fact from fiction in ‘Casino’

Posted on January 30, 2018March 1, 2018 by Brenda Hengel

Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro) is surrounded by the press at a Nevada Gaming Commission meeting portrayed in Casino. Rothstein’s…


“Breaking Bad” still resonates on 10th anniversary of its debut

Posted on January 20, 2018February 7, 2018 by Brenda Hengel

Ten years ago today, Breaking Bad debuted on the AMC network. Few could have predicted at the time that the…


The dark side of global soccer

Posted on December 27, 2017 by Brenda Hengel

What started in 2013 with one-time top American soccer official Charles Blazer agreeing to cooperate with federal prosecutors in New…


Forty years ago, Jimmy “The Weasel” Fratianno turned on his Mob family

Posted on December 8, 2017June 29, 2018 by Brenda Hengel

Some mobsters left their legacy by the gun, some by the knife, but Jimmy “the Weasel” Fratianno is best known…


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