‘November 1963’ puts Chicago Outfit at center of JFK assassination
A new feature film about the Kennedy assassination puts the Chicago Outfit at the center of a plot to kill the nation’s 35th president. Directed by Roland Joffé, November 1963 stars John Travolta as mobster Johnny Rosselli, Jefferson White as accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, and Mandy Patinkin as Outfit boss Tony Accardo. It also features Robert Carlyle as Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner with suspected Mob ties who fatally shot Oswald on live TV two days after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The movie, filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is set to debut in theaters on December 4. The official details of ...
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From shoe-leather reporter to Mob movie screenwriter, Nick Pileggi remembers it well
Author and screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi is enjoying a couple of major career milestones this year. Two groundbreaking Mob movies he…
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DEA report: Drug overdoses top cause of death for Americans
Drug poisoning was the chief cause of injury deaths among Americans from 2011 to 2017, more than the loss of…
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Longtime Colombo figure John ‘Sonny’ Franzese dies at 103
The violent, sociopathic and amazingly long life of John “Sonny” Franzese, a former Colombo crime family underboss who once ran…
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FBI director outlines threats from transnational organized crime
Editor’s note: On February, 5, 2020, Christopher Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, delivered a report to the…
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Giovanni Brusca: No. 5 on list of Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen
In this fifth and final installment in our series on the Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen, we profile a…
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Joe “The Animal” Barboza: No. 4 on list of Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen
In this fourth installment in our series on the Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen, the focus shifts to the…
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Roy DeMeo: No. 3 on list of Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen
In this third installment in our series on the Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen, we focus on a particularly…
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