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Ninety years later, Arnold Rothstein murder still a mystery

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Ninety years later, Arnold Rothstein murder still a mystery

Posted on November 6, 2018November 6, 2018 by Jackie Apoyan

Ninety years ago this week, with the dying breath of New York’s most provocative Mob entrepreneur, one of America’s great…


When the Mafia ruled Times Square

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Jackie Apoyan

The latest television series featuring Mob figures continues this fall with the second season of HBO’s The Deuce, focusing on…


Joe Gallo’s ‘Crazy’ celebrity status

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Jackie Apoyan

Though Joseph Gallo was only in his early 40s when he was gunned down, his status in American popular culture…


Eighty years ago, Ciro ‘The Artichoke King’ Terranova ‘died of a broken heart’

Posted on March 23, 2018May 25, 2018 by Brenda Hengel

Eighty years ago last month, one of Mob history’s oddball characters crossed into the great gangland netherworld. Ciro “The Artichoke…


Don’t dare call him ‘Three Finger Brown’

Posted on July 13, 2017September 11, 2017 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…


El Chapo’s lawyers complain about strict rules at New York prison

Posted on March 16, 2017September 11, 2017 by Brenda Hengel

The lawyers defending accused Sinaloa Cartel drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman are claiming that on its last day in…


Florida Mafia boss Santo Trafficante Jr. died 30 years ago March 17

Posted on March 15, 2017March 13, 2018 by Brenda Hengel

At 7:25 p.m. on January 3, 1953, Florida Mafia boss Santo Trafficante Jr. had just finished dinner with his wife…


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…


Fat Herbie’s rise and fall

Posted on January 10, 2017December 8, 2017 by Brenda Hengel

Second of two parts. Part One looks at Herbie Blitzstein’s murder twenty years ago. Herbert “Fat Herbie” Blitzstein was born…


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