Hollywood’s ‘Bugsy’ is entertaining but plays fast and loose with the facts
In the 1991 movie Bugsy, Warren Beatty, portraying mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, stands in the desert near Highway 91 south…
When the Mafia ruled Times Square
The latest television series featuring Mob figures continues this fall with the second season of HBO’s The Deuce, focusing on…
Joe Friday tackled the Los Angeles crime syndicate
William H. Parker, a hardnosed police chief in midcentury Los Angeles, did not want organized crime in his city. In…
Who killed Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel?
To this day no one knows who killed Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel. The shooting in Southern California happened on June, 20,…
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…
“Breaking Bad” gets permanent display at Mob Museum
Purchase Museum Admission The line on which the title of Breaking Bad is based comes during the television show’s pilot…
Mob classic “Goodfellas” debuted in theaters twenty-five years ago
Monday marks a quarter-century since Goodfellas was released in American theaters. It was the highest-grossing movie of the September 21-23,…