Major Italian Mafia group churning up political controversy in Australia
One of the major Italian Mafia organizations is deeply entrenched in the Australian underworld. Italy’s violent Calabrian Mafia group ‘Ndrangheta…
Author: Jackie Apoyan
‘Flip Lips’ and the Mob
The recent “What Happened to Jimmy Hoffa?” panel discussion at The Mob Museum set off memories of my own fleeting…
Drugs, human trafficking and counterfeit goods among most lucrative markets for organized crime groups in Europe
Part 1 Part 2 Organized crime groups in Europe – numbering about 3,600 — are increasingly adapting to…
Working for Lucky and Dutch
Stanley Grauso, a real Prohibition-Era hoodlum who died recently at age 104, sat down with The Mob Museum two days…
Organized crime in Europe: A country-by-country breakdown
Organized crime in Europe: A country-by-country breakdown The second of three parts on the state of organized crime in Europe….
Organized crime in Europe major contributor to $120 billion per year in illicit rackets
European Union-funded study outlines illegal markets infiltrated by thirty-five organized crime group The first of three parts on the state…
Big Easy mobster headed to prison
In July 2014, I wrote a post about an unusual arrest just outside New Orleans. Police had pulled over a…
Texas shootout puts outlaw motorcycle gangs in organized crime spotlight
Organized crime charges filed against 170 suspects in a fatal shootout between rival motorcycle gangs in Waco, Texas, has sparked…
The Cassava Connection: Mafia-linked drug smuggling bust in New York echoes infamous 1980s racket
When authorities in the United States and Italy on May 7 announced charges against four people in an international drug…
Arrest in Beverly Hills murder has ties to Las Vegas Mob history
Arrest in Beverly Hills murder has ties to Las Vegas Mob history Fifteen years ago, a writer named Susan Berman…