No-stra. A Mafia captain was sentenced Wednesday for running an illegal online betting operation that netted nearly $25 ...

A captain in the infamous Lucchese crime family was sentenced to nearly two years in prison for running a lucrative and ...

The New York Mafia is controlled by five organized crime families, each with their own geographic boundries created in 1931. Local Sports Things To Do Politics Travel Advertise Obituaries ...

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 ...

Gioia ended up awaiting trial in Otisville, New York, a medium-security federal prison about 80 miles north of the city. That’s where he was in 1994, when he got a visit from his cousin, Vincent ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

A new, multi-night, six-hour documentary series will explore the inception, rise and fall of New York City’s five mafia families. “American Godfather: The Five Families” will debut Sunday ...