‘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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Federal judge hands El Chapo life sentence
For Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the journey through the American justice system that started with his extradition…
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Organized crime roundup: U.S. seeks $12.6 billion in El Chapo drug proceeds, Peter Gotti seeks ‘compassionate’ release, eight convicted in ‘modern slavery’ racket in Britain and more
Only days before a U.S. judge is expected to impose a long prison sentence on him for leading a major…
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‘The Cigar’ burns out in Brooklyn
When Bonanno crime family don Carmine “The Cigar” Galante declared himself the so-called “capo di tutti i capis,” or “boss…
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Sixty years ago, Nevada entered the modern era of gambling regulation
Marshall Caifano, the Chicago Outfit’s overseer of casinos in Las Vegas, went by more than a dozen fake names before…
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Las Vegas Mob stories attract Hollywood interest
Of the many Mob movies and television shows now in the works, several are focused on underworld figures who had…
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The gay rights movement and the Mob
Nearly 50 years ago, on June 28, 1969, LGBT people – led by drag queens – rebelled against a raid…
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Organized crime roundup: Sex trafficking in Venezuela, ‘waste crimes’ in England, political corruption in Central America and more
In the South American nation of Venezuela, in both good times and bad, the trafficking of misled teenage girls into…
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