Hoodlums at the Statler
In the early morning hours of December 5, 1928, patrol officer Frank Osowski was walking his beat in downtown Cleveland…
A Mob boss sings, incognito
Cleveland Mafia boss Angelo “Big Angie” Lonardo was the first sitting American Mafia don to become a witness for the…
Forty years ago, Jimmy “The Weasel” Fratianno turned on his Mob family
Some mobsters left their legacy by the gun, some by the knife, but Jimmy “the Weasel” Fratianno is best known…
What Moe Dalitz didn’t say to Kefauver
“Well, I didn’t inherit any money, Senator. … If you hadn’t have drunk it, I wouldn’t have bootlegged it.” Many…
James Licavoli, ruthless Cleveland Mob chief, born August 18 in 1904
In the first week of October 1977, Cleveland mobster James Licavoli, nicknamed “Blackie” and “Jack White,” was on a boat…