Geraldo Rivera uncovered ‘The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults’ on live television 40 years ago
On April 21, 1986, television reporter Geraldo Rivera completed his final on-air shot in a live broadcast from the Chicago hotel where Prohibition-era Mob boss Al Capone supposedly had an underground vault. With 30 million viewers watching, the vault contained not much more than a couple of decades-old bottles and a cloud of dust. Afterward, sensing that critics would pounce, Rivera went on a bender, convinced his career was over. “He said he got tequila drunk across the street,” William Elliott Hazelgrove told The Mob Museum. Hazelgrove is the author of the newly released book, Capone’s Vault: The Real Story of the Biggest ...
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Casino boom added four new properties to Las Vegas 70 years ago
Seventy years ago, in April and May of 1955, Las Vegas welcomed four new hotel-casinos in a six-week period. This…
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New Mob movies point to continued demand
While some question whether Mob movies have run their course, a recent slate of gangster films indicates public interest remains…
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Mobbed-up power broker Charles Binaggio gunned down in Kansas City 75 years ago
Mobbed-up power broker Charles Binaggio gunned down in Kansas City 75 years ago
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Alison Martino recalls her father’s Las Vegas
When singer Al Martino was a showroom headliner performing on the Las Vegas Strip years ago, the mobsters who ran…
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New film ‘The Alto Knights’ named for one of Mob’s many social clubs
The Alto Knights, the film written by Nicholas Pileggi and directed by Barry Levinson, is named for a once-prominent Manhattan social…
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New movie ‘The Alto Knights’ revives bitter feud between major mobsters
The newest Mob movie written by journalist and screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, The Alto Knights, is his third major script focused…
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The bosses of the Mafia Commission were indicted 40 years ago
New York, like other major cities across the United States, faced waves of crime during the 1970s and ’80s. What…
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