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In 1931, following decades of turf warfare, Brooklyn bootlegger Salvatore Maranzano established the leaders of New York City’s five largest Italian-American criminal organizations and declared himself ...
In “The Alto Knights,” DeNiro plays not one, but two infamous mobsters: Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, a pair of mafia ...
A New York jury on Wednesday convicted a former detective of lying to authorities in an effort to protect the mafia family whom he moonlighted for.
I interviewed former Philadelphia Cosa Nostra underboss and cooperating government witness Philip “Crazy Phil” Leonetti.
A former police detective was convicted Wednesday of lying to the FBI in order to protect a Mafia family's illegal gambling operations in the New York City suburbs. Hector Rosario, a former ...
An associate is a term used to describe members of a mafia family who have not become ... once an associate of the Bonanno crime family, one of New York’s infamous ‘Five Families ...
Pennisi was born and raised in an Italian New York neighborhood where the mob had a huge influence. He speaks on how he ended up being an associate with the Gambino family through John Gotti Jr ...
The rivalry between the two gangsters is the premise of a new mob movie, Alto Knights, starring Robert DeNiro playing both arch-criminals. In addition to DeNiro, the crime drama also stars Debra ...
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 ...