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Commitment to Safety

Don’t dare call him ‘Three Finger Brown’

Frank Costello


Don’t dare call him ‘Three Finger Brown’

Posted on July 13, 2017February 6, 2020 by Brenda Hengel

The 1960s marked the end of an era for some of America’s underworld leaders. The forward-thinking, Prohibition-era architects of New…


The hit that could have sunk Las Vegas

Posted on May 4, 2017June 24, 2017 by Brenda Hengel

On May 2, 1957, Frank Costello thought he had problems, but he had no idea. He was appealing a five-year…


Sixty years ago, the Tropicana opened under Mob’s hidden control

Posted on April 4, 2017April 3, 2018 by Brenda Hengel

Las Vegas was in the middle of a slump. It was April 1957, and the town was still coming to…


Seventy years ago, Luciano’s Havana sojourn was cut short

Posted on February 22, 2017February 26, 2018 by Brenda Hengel

Written February 2017 In 1946, Charles “Lucky” Luciano was persona non grata in America. Though he was granted a pardon…


The Hollywood legend, the Mob and the jukebox racket

Posted on January 5, 2017January 6, 2017 by Brenda Hengel

The venerable actress and singer Debbie Reynolds, who died last week at age 84, was a risk-taker for decades when…


Reader’s guide to Mob rub-outs

Posted on May 10, 2016October 6, 2016 by Misha Ray

In New York’s long, rich history of organized crime, the death of Antonio Flaccomio is considered the city’s first Mafia…


Elizebeth Friedman: The rumrunner’s worst nightmare

Posted on March 29, 2016August 23, 2018 by Misha Ray

Last in a series of profiles for Women’s History Month. In the waning weeks of Prohibition in 1933, Elizebeth Friedman,…


Virginia Hill: ‘Queen of the Mob’ was no one’s pushover

Posted on March 21, 2016May 14, 2019 by Brenda Hengel

Third in a series of profiles for Women’s History Month. On March 24, 1966, passersby walking on a footpath beside…


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