The Jimmy Hoffa disappearance: The 46th anniversary
Editor’s note: Since July 30, 1975, the law enforcement community on the federal, state and local levels, along with an…
Author: Jackie Apoyan
Recently released FBI documents tie Whitey Bulger to horse race-fixing scheme
The recent release of FBI documents about the late mobster James “Whitey” Bulger does more than shed light on a…
Hoffa’s missing body leads list of top 5 Mob mysteries
Organized crime, by its nature, is a secretive activity, with the threat of violence often reserved for those who might…
The good and evil of Meyer Lansky
Eytan Rockaway is intrigued by complex gangsters. The film director’s new movie, released last week, explores an underworld figure he…
Dennis Griffin, true crime author who chronicled the Mob in Las Vegas and elsewhere, dies
If there was a hall of fame for true crime authors, Dennis Griffin would be in it. He was a…
Wife of drug kingpin El Chapo pleads guilty to drug trafficking
Standing in a federal court dressed in a green prison jumpsuit and white face mask, the wife of imprisoned Mexican…
Eighty-five years ago this week, Lucky Luciano convicted of pandering
A few years after the fall of Chicago’s Al Capone in 1931, a new recognizable face of organized crime emerged…
Historians of the underworld
When media outlets need an expert to explain what might have happened to former labor leader Jimmy Hoffa’s remains, they…
Former New York Mafioso shines light on syndicate ‘treachery’
When he was 20 years old, John Pennisi shot a man to death in a dispute over a girlfriend. “The…
The 10-week-long Commission trial played to full courtrooms
Last of two parts. The Commission trial continued through November and into December of 1986. The eight men on trial…