Al Capone gun on display at Mob Museum
A .38-caliber revolver believed to have been seized from Al Capone during a 1928 arrest in Miami is now on…
Gangster-built Golden Nugget turns 70
By the late summer of 1946, Guy McAfee was the best-known big shot in Las Vegas. McAfee, 58, had spent…
Elizebeth Friedman: The rumrunner’s worst nightmare
In the waning weeks of Prohibition in 1933, Elizebeth Friedman, chief cryptologist for the U.S. Treasury Department, was called as…
Mabel Willebrandt: Prolific prosecutor of Prohibition laws
Second in a series of profiles for Women’s History Month. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, one-time public defender and tax lawyer to…
Ten legacies of Prohibition
The end of Prohibition was perhaps the biggest political reversal in American history. The passage of the 21st Amendment to…
Best Bars in Downtown Las Vegas
Home to lavish resorts and grandiose casinos, Las Vegas has earned quite the reputation for its extravagant lodging and gambling…
News site releases pages from huge FBI file on notorious New England Mob boss
Raymond Patriarca, leader of a major New England crime family from the 1940s to the mid-1980s, seemed to live the…
Working for Lucky and Dutch
Stanley Grauso, a real Prohibition-Era hoodlum who died recently at age 104, sat down with The Mob Museum two days…