Capone tax evasion trial: Jury finds Chicago mobster guilty on 5 of 22 counts
Last of two parts. On October 10, 1931, a Saturday, the prosecution read into the record Al Capone’s admissions to spending $200 to $250 a week in Miami on meat, $3 to $4 a day on bread and cake, $21,550 on furniture and $6,180 on suits in 1925, as well as $3,160 on a Columbus Day party and $4,925 on a Kentucky Derby shindig, both in 1926. His phone bill in Miami totaled $3,141 for 1929 (about $56,500 today). Meanwhile, he sent $15,600 to his church in 1926 and $58,000 to a police and widow’s fund in 1925. Capone also paid ...
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The story of Al Capone and Eliot Ness is headed for Showtime
The shooting death of seven gangsters in Chicago on February 14, 1929, was “the most cold-blooded massacre in the history…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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