The biggest Mafia sweep in American history
The morning of January 20, 2011, was a particularly early one for many in law enforcement. Before dawn, more than…
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FBI director outlines threats from transnational organized crime
Editor’s note: On February, 5, 2020, Christopher Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, delivered a report to the…
European Union: Organized crime deemed ‘highest’ security risk, greater than terrorism
Many of Europe’s top police officers were in the Netherlands last week attending a high-level conference focused on doing a…
White Boy Rick: From Teenage FBI Informant to Poster Boy for Criminal Justice Reform
Richard “White Boy Rick” Wershe is a living, breathing casualty of America’s war on drugs, locked away for the past…
Leave no trace
In 1934, John Dillinger was one of America’s most wanted. He was in hiding in Chicago and looking for a…
The Don of Silicon Valley
Joe Cerrito died on September 7, 1978, from a heart attack at age 67. He was a successful businessman in…
A Midwestern Mob Murder Mystery
Amid heavy snowfall during the winter of 1963, FBI agents and sheriff’s deputies in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, worked together to…
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…
Too early for obituaries
The recent indictments of 46 bosses, capos and members of several marquee New York organized crime families suggests that the…
Blinded by acid
On April 2, 1956, Charles Tuso, former armed robber and associate of New York labor racketeer Johnny Dio, entered a…