Mark Wahlberg portrays Mafia killer Gregory Scarpa Sr. in ‘By Any Means’
During the summer of 1964, New York City mobster Gregory Scarpa Sr. traveled south to rural Mississippi and, using violent scare tactics, helped the FBI learn where the Ku Klux Klan had buried three slain civil rights workers. Later, when the KKK killed another civil rights leader in Mississippi by firebombing his house, Scarpa went back to help authorities solve that crime. The FBI’s secret alliance with a hardened Mafia criminal is the subject of a new movie, By Any Means, scheduled to open in theaters on September 4. Directed by Elegance Bratton, the movie stars Mark Wahlberg as Scarpa and Yahya Abdul-Mateen ...
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Drama-drenched El Chapo trial nears its end
Mob News & Notes is a new monthly feature in the Mob Museum’s blog. It highlights recent stories on American…
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Twenty years later, The Sopranos remembered fondly
Twenty years ago, The Sopranos television crime series began airing on HBO, featuring a fictional New Jersey Mafia boss and his family,…
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Forensic scientists examine Mob Museum artifacts for evidence of criminal past
Forensic science, including DNA analysis and other fields related to examining blood found at a crime scene, is a powerful…
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The rise of Castro and the fall of the Havana Mob
When Fidel Castro, his brother Raul, Che Guevara and 79 other Cuban rebels piled into the 43-foot yacht Granma on…
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The Kansas City connection
In the 1995 movie Casino, the Mob’s control of skimming at Las Vegas casinos is exposed when authorities learn about…
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Hoodlums at the Statler
In the early morning hours of December 5, 1928, patrol officer Frank Osowski was walking his beat in downtown Cleveland…
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Gus Greenbaum, Las Vegas casino operator for the Mob, and his wife were murdered 60 years ago this week
After nightfall on December 2, 1958, Bess Greenbaum, wife of Las Vegas casino boss Gus Greenbaum, drove from their Phoenix…
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