Was 1929 Atlantic City Mob meeting a strategy session to address the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre?
Ninety years ago this week, “America’s Playground” – Atlantic City, New Jersey – played host to a mysterious convening of…
Author: Jackie Apoyan
Several Mob movies in the making
“Everyone loves gangster movies.” This sentence, written by former FBI agent Joseph Pistone, leads off the forward to The Ultimate…
Were Richard Nixon’s alleged ties to organized crime real or mere speculation?
In the final days before the 1968 presidential election, the so-called “war on crime” was the top domestic issue of…
European Union: Organized crime deemed ‘highest’ security risk, greater than terrorism
Many of Europe’s top police officers were in the Netherlands last week attending a high-level conference focused on doing a…
White Boy Rick: From Teenage FBI Informant to Poster Boy for Criminal Justice Reform
Richard “White Boy Rick” Wershe is a living, breathing casualty of America’s war on drugs, locked away for the past…
Fifty years ago this spring, Mario Puzo changed the way we view organized crime
Mario Puzo needed money. His first two novels, The Dark Arena (1955) and The Fortunate Pilgrim (1965), received good reviews…
Happy New Beer’s Eve!
On the evening of April 6, 1933, lines formed outside of bars and breweries. In Chicago, WGN Radio broadcast special…
New movie rekindles debate over Jimmy Hoffa killing
Martin Scorsese’s upcoming movie The Irishman is reviving a dispute over who killed former national labor leader Jimmy Hoffa. The…
‘Mob Cops’ saga still reverberates 10 years after their life sentences
A former New York garment dealer, Burton Kaplan, sat down with DEA agents in 2004 to tell them an incredible…
Ninety years ago, Thomas ‘Fatty’ Walsh died as he lived — by the gun
The setting was a suite on the 14th floor of the lavish Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Florida. Thomas Walsh,…