‘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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Al Capone: The story behind his rise and fall
Born: January 17, 1899, Brooklyn, New York Died: January 25, 1947, Palm Island, Florida Nicknames: Scarface, Snorky, the Big Guy,…
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Undercover, under stress
On September 28, 1977, 200 state troopers and FBI agents from all over New Jersey met at the armory in…
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He told one of his cohorts, Florence “Cokey Flo” Brown, that he wanted to run his string of New York…
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Reader’s guide to Mob rub-outs
In New York’s long, rich history of organized crime, the death of Antonio Flaccomio is considered the city’s first Mafia…
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On April 2, 1956, Charles Tuso, former armed robber and associate of New York labor racketeer Johnny Dio, entered a…
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Losing billions to save millions
This year’s deadline to file federal tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service is today, April 18. That’s because the…
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From Capone to FIFA and the Silk Road
The Internal Revenue Service this year is expected to review more than 190 million returns expected for tax year 2015….
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