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No-stra. A Mafia captain was sentenced Wednesday for running an illegal online betting operation that netted nearly $25 ...
Netflix's new documentary miniseries, Fear City: New York vs. the Mafia, isn't about political figures with mob-like tendencies—it's about the real-life mafia, which exercised huge power over ...
And the killing was captured on surveillance video, New York City police said Thursday. Still, “mob hits” of top bosses are now rare, a further sign of the Mafia’s steady decline since its ...
Swedish House Mafia sparked online chaos with a surprise Times Square billboard last Wednesday reading “New York See You Soon ...
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 ...
Fear City: New York vs The Mafia targets the mob bosses. In the mid-80s, the FBI decided to target Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno, boss of the Genovese family, the largest crime family in the U.S.
As a child born and raised in Red Hook, Brooklyn, all the young Frank Dimatteo ever wanted to be was a mobster, as he and co-author Michael Benson write in ‘Red Hook – Brooklyn Mafia, Ground ...
The Bonannos and Genoveses, two of New York City's five mafia families, generally kept to their separate spheres during the 1980s and into the early 2000s, said a long-time mob investigator.
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, 1985.
(The Mafia) truly formed in the 1930s but became unraveled in the 1990s for a range of reasons, including the decision by Rudy Giuliani (then U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York ...
In the 1980s, New York City's Italian Mafia was spared by the Irish Mob after a few too many glasses of Irish whiskey got in the way. Seamus Hanratty @IrishCentral. Mar 22, 2023.