‘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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Working for Lucky and Dutch
Stanley Grauso, a real Prohibition-Era hoodlum who died recently at age 104, sat down with The Mob Museum two days…
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Organized crime in Europe: A country-by-country breakdown
Organized crime in Europe: A country-by-country breakdown The second of three parts on the state of organized crime in Europe….
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Organized crime in Europe major contributor to $120 billion per year in illicit rackets
European Union-funded study outlines illegal markets infiltrated by thirty-five organized crime group The first of three parts on the state…
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Big Easy mobster headed to prison
In July 2014, I wrote a post about an unusual arrest just outside New Orleans. Police had pulled over a…
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Texas shootout puts outlaw motorcycle gangs in organized crime spotlight
Organized crime charges filed against 170 suspects in a fatal shootout between rival motorcycle gangs in Waco, Texas, has sparked…
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The Cassava Connection: Mafia-linked drug smuggling bust in New York echoes infamous 1980s racket
When authorities in the United States and Italy on May 7 announced charges against four people in an international drug…
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Arrest in Beverly Hills murder has ties to Las Vegas Mob history
Arrest in Beverly Hills murder has ties to Las Vegas Mob history Fifteen years ago, a writer named Susan Berman…
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