For decades, John "Sonny" Franzese was a notorious mobster in the Colombo crime family and a formidable figure in the New York Mafia. Born in 1917, Franzese's criminal career spanned everything ...

The Lucchese Family is one of the notorious “five families” of the Italian-American Mafia, each with its own territory, set up to control criminal activities in New York City. Gioia became a ...

This naturally attracts society’s underbelly, and as a youngster growing up there in the 60s, for Frank Dimatteo that meant ...

A woman who was searching for information about her long-lost dad has discovered his secret life as a New York City mafia informant. Paula Colville, 60, was raised by her mom Elizabeth ...

Soldiers, captains, ranking members of the notorious Lucchese crime syndicate, one of the five ruling families of the New York Mafia. Gioia was told to take a seat and put out his hand ...

A former New York detective who moonlighted by working for a mafia family and helped fuel a mini-mob war on Long Island while trying to protect its gambling operations was convicted Wednesday of ...

Those roots? As Charles “Lucky” Luciano would later say, “Half the people I met in Sicily were in the mafia.” The New York Mafia’s Sicilian roots were evident in 1903 when on 11 th ...

One day in the 1980s, this Irish American gang nearly changed gangland history by wiping out the entire New York Mafia. It was the gang’s legendary propensity for extreme violence that ...

Businesses that remained open were frequently raided by the police. Already a strong presence in New York, members of the Mafia saw a business opportunity in catering to the otherwise shunned gay ...

Historian Jack Fritscher interviewed Wally Wallace, who founded and managed the Mafia-owned bar in New York City’s Meatpacking District for nine years from October 8, 1976, to November 7 ...