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Current Mafia News on Organized Crime, Gangs, & Political Corruption with Historic Research Archive of Mobsters, Gangsters, & Crime Syndicates.
2024-03-01 15:26
A Mafia member was sentenced Wednesday to more than four years in federal prison for his role in a long-running scheme in which he and others extorted funds from a New York City labor union… Read More
2024-02-23 14:16
Inside, by Scott M. Hoffman is an intriguing work detailing the internal workings of the Outfit, an organized crime family, which originated on the South Side of Chicago during prohibition a… Read More
2024-02-21 14:53
Crypto GambinosNFT Projects with a Touch of Mafia CultureCrypto Gambinos, an innovative NFT project merging Web3 technology with the allure of Mafia history and movies, is poised to become t… Read More
2024-02-15 19:07
The Biden Crime Family, is a short, engaging description of the evidence that supports the case that President Joe Biden and his family are deeply corrupt. They are so corrupt that when form… Read More
2024-01-19 21:41
With the 125th anniversary of Al Capone's birth upon us on January 17, the legacy of the notorious American gangster remains a subject that intrigues both Hollywood producers and novelists t… Read More
2023-11-21 14:30
Italy’s largest mafia trial in decades concluded yesterday with the conviction of more than 200 people accused of being part of, or collaborating with, the country’s most powerfu… Read More
2023-11-08 20:25
Federal prosecutors in New York on Wednesday announced the arrests of 10 men allegedly belonging to or associated with the Gambino Mafia family, as well as the arrests in Italy of six other… Read More
2023-10-02 19:34
An immigrant Sicilian family triumphs over The Mafia in turn of the century New Orleans, just not in the way they'd planned.We Do What We MustBlood, Wine, and the Birth of the American Mafia… Read More
2023-09-19 20:00
Al Capone - Scarface
Albert Anastasia - Lord High Executioner and Mad Hatter
Albert Gallo - Kid Blast
Albert Vena - Albie the Falcon
Anthony Accardo - Big Tuna and Joe Batters
Anthony C… Read More
2023-09-14 15:54
Eric Ulrich rose through the ranks of city government with modest momentum, first elected as a city councilman before Mayor Eric Adams appointed him a senior adviser and, finally, his commis… Read More
2023-08-23 13:12
Gambler:Secrets from a Life at RiskBilly WaltersThe wild and highly anticipated autobiography of Billy Walters—“the greatest and most controversial sports gambler ever” (ES… Read More
2023-08-01 20:46
NARCAS:The Secret Rise of Womenin Latin America's CartelsYou’ve heard of Pablo Escobar, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, and Rafael Caro Quintero. Their names conjure ghoulish im… Read More
2023-07-20 15:18
A Missouri man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations (RICO) charges stemming from his membership in the Aryan Circle (AC), a white supremacy… Read More
2023-06-30 13:41
U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced Genaro Deleon, III of Lehigh Acres, Florida to 11 years and 3 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. He is… Read More
2023-06-02 14:35
MS-13 Gangster Going to PrisonChief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced El Salvadoran national Jose Lopez Rivera, age 27, of Elmont, New York, formerly residing in Maryland, to 26… Read More
2023-06-01 18:53
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Diego Mateo, a/k/a “Casa,” was sentenced to 27 years in prison in connection wit… Read More
2023-05-18 17:49
El Jefe: The Stalking of Chapo Guzman.
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is the most legendary of Mexican narcos. As leader of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel, he was one of the most dangerous… Read More
2023-05-03 19:33
In size, wealth and influence, today's Cosa Nostra doesn't match the Mafia of days gone by. However, there's one area in which modern Mafiosi are upholding a proud tradition of organized cri… Read More
2023-05-03 18:53
A federal jury has found four former Commonwealth Edison (“ComEd”) executives and associates guilty on all counts charged, including conspiring to influence and reward Mike Madig… Read More
2023-04-26 20:24
In The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin', author Bill Zehme presents a masterful assembly of the most personal details and gorgeous minutiae of Frank Sinatra's… Read More
2023-04-25 14:03
Last week, in federal court in Houston, Jose Wilfredo Ayala-Alcantara, also known as “Indio de Hollywood,” a high-ranking leader of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as “MS-1… Read More
2023-04-11 20:37
From the godfathers of American Mafia history, the brutal and blood-stained biography of Carmine Galante, the ruthless Bonnano boss who rose from tenement street thug to masterminding the le… Read More
2023-04-10 13:10
Mafia MammaWhile seeing to her long estranged (and now deceased) grandfather’s affairs in Italy, Toni Collette, a mild mannered suburban mom, unexpectedly inherits his mafia empire and… Read More
2023-04-07 14:42
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents assigned to the Laredo South Station arrested a gang member with an extensive criminal history in Laredo, Texas.
U.S. Border Patrol agents while working t… Read More
2023-04-06 19:34
Last weekend, Jorge Ivan Gastelum Avila, 42, of Mexico, aka Cholo Ivan, was extradited to the United States and made his initial appearance in the U.S. District Court for the District of Col… Read More
2023-04-04 15:24
As gripping as it is prescient, Gangbuster: One Man's Battle Against Crime, Corruption, and the Klan, is the first-ever history of the battle waged by one rookie District Attorney, Philip Va… Read More
2023-03-14 19:08
Nick CalabreseFormer Chicago mob hitman Nicholas Calabrese has died, a source said Monday.
A source confirmed to CBS 2's John Drummond that Calabrese had died. Calabrese was 80.
Calabrese w… Read More
2023-02-23 20:45
R. Kelly sentenced to 20 years in PrisonRecording artist “R. Kelly,” was sentenced by Judge Harry D. Leinenweber to 20 years in federal prison, with one year to run consecutive t… Read More
2023-02-10 19:15
The U.S. State Department is announcing a reward offer of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Yulan Adonay Archaga Carías, also known as &ldquo&hell…Read More
2023-02-09 16:24
Two individuals associated with an 18-defendant armed drug trafficking network centered in Tifton, Georgia, were sentenced to prison for their crimes recently resulting from an Organized Cri… Read More
2022-12-28 13:35
Adam Fox was sentenced to 16 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to kidnap the Governor of Michigan and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction… Read More
2022-12-16 14:32
The Biden administration released thousands of classified documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination nearly 60 years ago.
The release of 13,173 documents is the go… Read More
2022-12-14 14:25
Inmates at a West Virginia federal prison knew well in advance that convicted Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger was being transferred there and placed bets on how long it woul… Read More
2022-12-07 15:35
The story of a former FBI undercover task force officer who spent years penetrating New Jersey's DeCavalcante crime family, the criminal organization known to law enforcement as “the r… Read More
2022-12-01 21:04
According to unsealed court documents, 21 individuals have been charged for their roles in transnational money laundering networks, including those that laundered millions of dollars stolen… Read More
2022-11-17 14:34
Stephan Sanderson, also known as “Birdy” and “Beans, 24, of Covington, Georgia, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to a firearms traff… Read More
2022-11-07 20:56
It's 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster--now infamous names like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. Bank robberies at gunpoint are commonplace and kidnapping for… Read More
2022-10-24 15:17
Eight people were charged for their respective roles in a heroin, fentanyl, and crack cocaine distribution organization that sold large quantities of controlled substances in the area of Col… Read More
2022-10-04 18:20
Boston had its Strangler. California had the Zodiac Killer. And in the depths of the Great Depression, Cleveland had the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run.
On September 5th, 1934, a young beachc… Read More
2022-09-29 15:55
A Michigan man pleaded guilty today to assaulting law enforcement officers with a dangerous weapon during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of other… Read More
2022-08-30 15:56
At a half-built house in a barrio, a longtime Sinaloa cartel employee used a shovel to mix chemicals in a simmering oil barrel.
His concoction was an illegal form of fentanyl, which Mexican… Read More
2022-08-10 19:02
An Iranian national and member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was charged by complaint, unsealed in the District of Columbia, with use of interstate commerce facili… Read More
2022-08-02 19:37
The book behind the 'DEADLY ASSOCIATES' docu-series on REELZChannel™!
Step into Chicago during the 1960s and ‘70s, where mobsters influence everyone from strip-club owners to Te… Read More
2022-07-27 13:44
Nicknamed "Liquor Island," Long Island was rumrunner's paradise during Prohibition.
Rumrunning in Suffolk County: Tales from Liquor Island.
With its proximity to major markets and coastal… Read More
2022-07-26 15:28
The CEO of Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services Inc. (TBIS) pleaded guilty in the Central District of California for his role in a cryptocurrency fraud scheme involving TBIS’s i… Read More
2022-07-20 19:01
A member and associate of the Lucchese organized crime family, along with two Texas brothers, have had their convictions upheld for a criminal takeover that drained over $14 million from a D… Read More
2022-07-13 19:18
A member of a violent Chicago street gang has been sentenced to more than 35 years in federal prison for engaging in a pattern of racketeering activity that included multiple murders, armed… Read More
2022-07-07 14:46
This book aims to describe and demystify what makes criminal gangs so culturally powerful. It examines their codes of conduct, initiation rites, secret communications methods, origin myths… Read More
2022-07-05 13:44
A federal grand jury indicted Emerson Pires, 33, and Flavio Goncalves, 33, both of Brazil, and Joshua David Nicholas, 28, of Stuart, Florida, in connection with a global cryptocurrency-based… Read More
2022-06-24 13:21
A Brooklyn judge sprang a violent mobster from prison because he said the federal Bureau of Prisons did a lousy job taking care of the wiseguy’s medical problems.
Federal Court Judge… Read More
2022-06-24 12:26
Hector Alejandro Cabrera Fuentes, 36, a Mexican citizen who had resided in Singapore and spent significant time in Russia, was sentenced in the Southern District of Florida to four years and… Read More
2022-06-02 13:15
Criminology on Trump, is a criminological investigation of the world's most successful outlaw, Donald J. Trump. Over the course of five decades, Donald Trump has been accused of sexual assau… Read More
2022-06-01 19:13
Bashkim Osmani, the alleged mafia boss who was arrested in February this year, has been released from Palma prison having paid bail of 400,000 euros. On Tuesday, a court in Palma agreed to h… Read More
2022-05-10 13:45
Before John Lennon retreated peacefully into private life in 1975, he fought a major legal battle that went under the public radar.
Just as his Rock 'n' Roll oldies album hit the market, M… Read More
2022-05-05 19:28
A former special agent with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) was found guilty by a federal jury of dozens of criminal charges for accepting cash payments and other benefits to help an… Read More
2022-04-26 18:03
A documented member of a white supremacist organization that is sometimes affiliated with the Ghost Face Gangsters pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a firearm in a Project Safe Neighbor… Read More
2022-04-20 12:20
Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chron… Read More
2022-04-08 12:54
A former leader of the Boston Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (Latin Kings) was sentenced to prison on racketeering charges.
Angel Calderon, a/k/a “K… Read More
2022-03-31 16:34
A Florida man pleaded guilty to a felony charge related to his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in… Read More
2022-03-24 13:42
3 members of a violent criminal gang were convicted in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) by a federal jury for RICO conspiracy, murder, attempted murder, robbery, and drug dealing.
According t… Read More
2022-03-16 19:41
An Arizona man was arrested for assaulting law enforcement during the insurrection of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in the p… Read More
2022-03-08 18:20
Michael Madigan rose from the Chicago machine to hold unprecedented power as Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. In his thirty-six years wielding the gavel, Madigan outlasted g… Read More
2022-03-03 13:26
A federal grand jury in Chicago indicted former Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives MICHAEL J. MADIGAN on racketeering and bribery charges for allegedly using his official posit… Read More
2022-03-02 21:02
The Annotated Godfather (50th Anniversary Edition): The Complete Screenplay, Commentary on Every Scene, Interviews, and Little-Known Facts. Hardcover – Special Edition.
Celebrating th… Read More
2022-03-01 15:09
Snowmobiles and Ice Fisherman were not the only ones out on Embden Pond yesterday. A team of federal, state, and local authorities surrounded a residence in Embden, Maine in order to capture… Read More
2022-02-23 16:13
In a remarkably personal and intimate account, Jerry Tillinghast, one of the most popular characters from the first season of Crimetown, talks about his life and the choices he made in Choic… Read More
2022-02-14 16:01
Most Texas game wardens work alone much of the time in very rural out of the way and unnamed places.
It is not uncommon for wardens to find themselves in situations where they are enforcing… Read More
2022-02-11 13:53
A Bronx woman was sentenced to 21 months in prison for fraudulently obtaining over $200,000 worth of Apple iPhones.
Rosanna Lucrecia Cruel Blanco, 39, of Bronx, New York, previously pleaded… Read More
2022-02-03 14:25
A shocking exposé of widespread corruption and mob influence throughout the National Football League—on the field, in the owners’ boxes, and in the corporate suites
Accor… Read More
2022-01-28 20:11
The Boston Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Child Exploitation-Human Trafficking Task Force is asking for the public’s assistance in locating longtime fugitive M… Read More
2022-01-21 21:09
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the administrator of James (Whitey) Bulger’s estate, who had argued that prison officials placed the notorious Boston mob boss in harm… Read More
2022-01-18 20:02
A criminal Information filed charges Melissa Goodwin, 55, of Nashville, Tennessee, with wire fraud in relation to a fraudulent scheme in which she embezzled over $3.7 million from the T.J. M… Read More
2022-01-13 19:26
Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group, has been arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Ten other peop… Read More
2022-01-11 14:28
Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer.
In 1974, Dennis Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had rea… Read More
2022-01-05 12:10
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their Read More
2022-01-03 20:06
A pair of mobsters who conspired to kill Gambino crime boss John Gotti are trying to get sprung — and their fates are inextricably tied to the Trump family.
Louis Manna, 92, and Richar… Read More
2021-12-30 14:25
In the fall of 2020, amidst riots, looting, and an alarming uptick in senseless killings, journalist Matt Rosenberg returns to his native Chicago to see if the city can dig itself out of the… Read More
2021-12-29 14:52
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order as follows:
Section 1. Purpose. Transnational organized cri… Read More
2021-12-07 03:57
Located along a lazy, swampy slow-moving river, in a sea of prairie grasses as far as the eye could see along its flat plain, Chicago unexpectedly arose as a thriving, prosperous city. Chica… Read More
2021-11-16 14:20
A federal jury has convicted a leader of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang of participating in a criminal organization that committed murders and other acts of violence while brutally pro… Read More
2021-10-29 13:13
Fifteen members and associates of the Sin City Deciples have been charged in a Superseding Indictment with a racketeering conspiracy as well as a conspiracy to distribute controlled substanc… Read More
2021-10-14 18:28
With the homicide rate having spiked by an average of 34% in 50 of the biggest U.S. cities between Q3 2019 and Q3 2021, WalletHub released its report on the Cities With the Highest Increase… Read More
2021-10-01 15:27
FOX Nation has greenlit the return of the iconic series COPS and will premiere season 33 on October 1st. The debut will include the first four episodes and each new installment of COPS there… Read More
2021-09-30 18:24
Chicago attorney and banker James J. Banks, who has served on the board of the Illinois Tollways system for decades overseeing the state agency, has been rejected his application for a video… Read More
2021-09-24 13:34
In celebration of the Rat Pack's 60th anniversary comes an amazing, historical, and wild ride of a tome called "Deconstructing The Rat Pack: Joey, The Mob and the Summit."
For 28 consecuti… Read More
2021-08-27 20:32
Top Ten Articles In The Mob Mafia Magazine (2008 Edition)
10. How To Get Abs Like Tony Soprano
9. What Your Tracksuit Says About You
8. Lemon Bars: The Perfect Post-Hit Snack
7. Queens, St… Read More
2021-08-11 19:09
A 16-month investigation by the Baltimore OCDETF Strike Force into drug dealing in Baltimore has led to eleven alleged wholesale drug suppliers being charged in a federal indictment for cons… Read More
2021-08-10 19:36
Yesterday, a nine-count superseding indictment was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn charging four members of the Ninedee Gang, a violent street gang based at the Louis H. Pink Houses (… Read More
2021-08-09 15:17
Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up
The cold-case murder of John Hughes, the son of a Chicago Outfit member suspected of pulling the trigger, and… Read More
2021-08-05 13:30
When I was a kid and told people not from Chicago, the city of my birth and upbringing, where I was from, it wasn’t uncommon for them to raise their arms as if holding a machine gun, m… Read More
2021-07-14 14:50
The ringleader behind an extensive drug trafficking ring was sentenced to 33 years in prison for distributing large amounts of fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine in Newport News and North Carolin… Read More
2021-07-09 14:00
William P. Ready has announced his intention to run for the Board of Selectmen ahead of the Tuesday, July 20, GOP Caucus.
Skills developed during Mr. Ready’s 30 years in the FBI as bo… Read More
2021-07-07 18:18
A Florida man and member of the Oath Keepers was arrested for crimes related to the Insurrection of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was… Read More
2021-06-22 13:08
A former Enforcer for the New Bedford Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (Latin Kings) was sentenced on drug charges.
Jeremia Medina, a/k/a “King Sweepy… Read More
2021-06-17 15:21
Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs.
The basis for the hit TV series Gangland Undercover!
The gripping account from an ex-con who went undercove… Read More
2021-06-09 12:31
The wife of notorious Mexican drug kingpin "El Chapo" is expected to plead guilty this week to charges stemming from her alleged assistance in helping him run his multi-billion dollar empire… Read More
2021-06-07 14:06
Biker Gangs and Transnational Organized Crime, Second Edition, describes and analyzes a rapidly expanding global problem: criminal acts committed by motorcycle gangs. Thomas Barker, one of t… Read More
2021-06-02 15:31
Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America, is the tenth book in Bill O'Reilly's #1 New York Times bestselling series of popular narrative histories, with sales of nearly… Read More
2021-06-01 18:29
Prosecutors appear to be treating their investigation of former President Donald Trump's business empire as if it were a mafia family, according to several reports out this week.
Manhattan… Read More
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