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…
Author: Jackie Apoyan
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…
Citing coronavirus risks, Italy releases four imprisoned Mob bosses
During the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s prisons are among the hotspots for the disease. Inmates living in close proximity create…
Mexican cartels deliver care packages to citizens amid pandemic
From mobster Al Capone’s Chicago soup kitchen that served three meals a day during the Great Depression to Colombian cocaine…
Who bombed Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal’s car?
Flames two or three inches high emerged from the defroster vent as he sat in his car with takeout food…