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DEA report: Drug overdoses top cause of death for Americans

Author: Jackie Apoyan


DEA report: Drug overdoses top cause of death for Americans

Posted on March 4, 2020March 4, 2020 by Jackie Apoyan

Drug poisoning was the chief cause of injury deaths among Americans from 2011 to 2017, more than the loss of…


Longtime Colombo figure John ‘Sonny’ Franzese dies at 103

Posted on February 27, 2020 by Jackie Apoyan

The violent, sociopathic and amazingly long life of John “Sonny” Franzese, a former Colombo crime family underboss who once ran…


FBI director outlines threats from transnational organized crime

Posted on February 21, 2020 by Jackie Apoyan

Editor’s note: On February, 5, 2020, Christopher Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, delivered a report to the…


‘Machine Gun’ Jack McGurn leads list of Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen

Posted on February 10, 2020February 27, 2020 by Jackie Apoyan

Faced with more than 200 unsolved gangland murders in the Brooklyn area since the early 1930s, in 1940 the District…


Two popular TV series will highlight Midwest mobsters this spring

Posted on January 28, 2020 by Jackie Apoyan

The Kansas City Mob is being featured in two popular crime series that will be kicking off new seasons this…


Last call before the Dry Decade

Posted on January 16, 2020 by Jackie Apoyan

At 12:01 a.m. on January 17, 1920, “last call” parties wrapped up across the nation, as the United States officially…


The violent saga of ‘Sally Bugs’

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Jackie Apoyan

During a rainy Tuesday night in New York City’s Little Italy, two assassins in jackets approached their target from behind,…


Dueling views of who killed Jimmy Hoffa

Posted on December 19, 2019December 19, 2019 by Jackie Apoyan

Three veteran journalists participating in a panel discussion at The Mob Museum on the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa challenged the…


‘Mob Town’ movie spotlights notorious Mafia summit

Posted on December 12, 2019December 13, 2019 by Jackie Apoyan

One of the major events in organized crime history, the 1957 Apalachin summit, a gathering of Mafia leaders at a…


Ernest Hemingway on gangsters

Posted on November 25, 2019November 26, 2019 by Jackie Apoyan

Here’s how the story goes: Two hit men, Al and Max, enter Henry’s “lunch-room” in a town outside Chicago, looking…


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