The Stardust Hotel, longtime cash cow for the Mob, debuted 60 years ago on the Las Vegas Strip
One of the Las Vegas Strip’s most iconic casino resorts opened 60 years ago today. The Stardust was renowned for…
The life and death of Joe Colombo
Three rounds from an assassin’s gun all but silenced Joseph Colombo, one of the Mafia’s most publicly vocal bosses. Although…
Robert F. Kennedy’s crusade against the Mob: Part 1
First of Three Parts In a lengthy memo to his brother President John F. Kennedy, dated January 10, 1963, meant…
The Gangsters at the Heart of Russia’s Story
Russian gangsters are often fascinated by the Cosa Nostra, and one once asked me, can one write the history of…
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…
The seedy side of Mob life
George V. Higgins, a former New England journalist and federal prosecutor who achieved acclaim as a novelist, disliked being pigeonholed…
“Gotti” Starring John Travolta Set For June Release
A movie originally set for release in December about celebrity Mob boss John Gotti is now scheduled to hit theaters…
Eighty years ago, Ciro ‘The Artichoke King’ Terranova ‘died of a broken heart’
Eighty years ago last month, one of Mob history’s oddball characters crossed into the great gangland netherworld. Ciro “The Artichoke…
‘A good man in a bad business’
The 1930s were a tumultuous time in the Tampa underworld. Dubbed the “Era of Blood” by local journalists, the sound…
Scorsese movie, Merlino trial highlight Philadelphia’s Mob past
The City of Brotherly Love is generating Mob-related headlines again. The city’s Mob history has popped up in stories about…