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New York Mafia
Sections covering New York’s five families of La Cosa Nostra:
The Bonanno Crime Family
The Colombo Crime Family
The Gambino Crime Family
The Genovese Crime Family
The Lucchese Crime Family
Various articles and profiles dealing with topics related to the New York Mafia:
Eating With The Mafia: Death at The Table
“My life was never normal” – The Godfather actor Gianni Russo talks movies, the American Mafia, and mobsters doing podcasts
How I joined The Godfather: A tale of the New York Mafia and showbiz
Can UFC star Conor McGregor get President Trump to order the DEA to back off the Kinahan Cartel?
The wiseguy who made New York Mafia boss Carlo Gambino dive for cover
“These are not real police” – The New York Mafia, a gambling rivalry, and a crooked cop
Eunice Hunton Carter: The African American Woman Who Took Down Lucky Luciano
The Father, the Son… the Mafia, the Bloods Gang, and Greed
Philadelphia Mafia boss Joey Merlino poses for photo with former President Donald Trump
Rochester mob hitman had 1 year to serve before prison escape, now sentenced to 3 more years
The Book of Mafia
“I thought my dad was a candy man” – Daughter of Harlem drug kingpin Frank Lucas talks about her father
The Corner on Pleasant Avenue: The Mafia, crooked cops and drugs
They whacked the payphone! The American Mafia bids it farewell with tears in its eyes
The Rules of The Game: The Mafia’s Code
Rochester Mafia family hitman escapes from federal custody in Florida
The Gunman. A Mafia Story
What is this Thing called Thing? A Very Brief History of The Mafia
Is the Mafia in Buffalo making a comeback?
How gangsters try (and fail) to evade government surveillance
Philly underboss “Crazy Phil” Leonetti talks about hanging out with Meyer Lansky, calls Merlino a “lowlife”
Pinky rings and murder: Brooklyn gangland of the ‘80s comes to life in new Mafia series Gravesend
The Shoot-Out on Troutman Street: The Mafia at War
Only the Dead know Brooklyn
The Christmas Verdict: How Colombo Mafia family leader “Wild Bill” Cutolo got the present he wished for
Five Minutes to Midnight: The Sicilian and New York Mafias, the Catholic Church and a huge finance scandal
Barstool Sports reviews alleged Buffalo Mafia boss’ pizza place
Son of famed mob attorney says Trump may face RICO, which destroyed the Mafia
Paul Ragusa sentenced to 6 years in prison on gun charges
The Real John Wick: Separating fact from fiction in Hollywood’s violent gangster vengeance blockbuster
Fuggedaboutit! Former mobster, pro MMA fighter and writer-director are becoming YouTube sensation
If a man looks like a mobster, is he also guilty of being one?
Mobsters of New York’s Gambino and Bonanno crime families sentenced on drug and gambling charges
High-ranking Bloods gangster arrested for murder of Bonanno mobster
How did Mafia hit squad Murder Inc. get its name?
Gangster Pets: Animal tales from the American Mafia to Pablo Escobar
The Irishman: Jimmy Hoffa’s friend and the man who put two bullets in the back of his skull
VIDEO: Bloods gangster talks about doing time with Mafia boss John Gotti in 1997
The Big Bankroll: Rise and fall of mob boss Arnold Rothstein
Mr. Undercover details life of Ron Fino, son of Mafia capo who became undercover operative
How Mafia families in New York and Canada cooperate in global drug trade
Read the first chapter of the new book Dock Boss: Gang Rule
Son who ran Mafia-linked cocaine trafficking ring from family’s Queens restaurant sentenced to 20 years in prison
New York cocaine trafficker with links to Italian ‘Ndrangheta who used Queens restaurant as front gets 18 years
Young mobster admits lamming it until after the Super Bowl so he could run illegal gambling operation
Keeping the New York docks in the (Mafia) family: The Gigantes to the daughter of Donnie Brasco’s “Lefty”
Prison Breaks – From mobsters to serial killers and drug lords:The men who escaped from jail
“Joey No Socks:” The persisting rumors about Donald Trump and the American Mafia
Deadly, bizarre, and morbid: Murder Inc. unique says author Christian Cipollini
Donald J. Trump’s Gangbusters: How will America’s new president take on the Mafia and drug cartels?
Rumble at Rao’s: It’s not over ’till The Fat Lady Sings – The night Louie Lump Lump chose the gun over the cannoli
The American Mafia and its use of colorful nicknames
Philly mob boss and mobsters of 5 Mafia families charged with racketeering
New York father and son convicted of smuggling over 50 kilos of coke with Calabrian Mafia
$15 million drug ring led by New York Mafia families busted
How Muhammad Ali took the heavyweight boxing championship belt from the Mafia
Top 4 stone cold gangsters who look like wimps
How Meyer Lansky laundered the American Mafia’s dirty cash- and made them bigger than US Steel
My loving dad was a gangster and Bugsy Siegel’s close friend
Murder Inc.: Earning a Place in History
New map shows mob social clubs in New York
Insulting mobsters with comedian Don Rickles
Legit Feast of San Gennaro almost as greedy as Mafia
The Humble Origins of Joe Masseria and Lucky Luciano
Kennedy Targets Labor Boss Jimmy Hoffa
Gangsters Inc. sits down with FBI agent Jack Garcia
The Man in Black: Gaspare Magaddino
The Man Who Stole the French Connection
The Star of Forrest Hills: Mob Meeting at La Stella
The Mafia and Labor Racketeering
The Prison Writings of Seth Ferranti: Supermax
Genovese and Gambino Mobsters in Garbage Bust
The Time I Hurt Mobster Henry Hill’s Feelings
Three Dead Mobsters, Three Different Stories
Mafia Hits Caught On Video Tape
Kill The Chinaman: The Murder of Mafia Boss Joe Masseria
The Mob: Art Imitating Life Imitating Art
The Rat Infested Mob
Another Mob Social Club Bites The Dust
Mob Meeting at Apalachin
Will Historic Mob Bust Really Go Down As Historic?
Yidfellas: The Kosher Nostra
The Mafia in the Second World War
Mobsters in Prison: A Story From Behind Bars
Hit in Harlem: The Life and Times of Eugenio Giannini
The Mafia Cops: How Two NYPD Cops Killed for the Mob
Other crime groups in New York
Harlem’s Godfather: Profile of New York crime boss Ellsworth Raymond “Bumpy” Johnson
Attempt to bribe juror in New York trial of heavyweight boxer charged with $1 billion drug plot
Thirteen people, including one “Don Eladio,” busted in takedown of major New York drug trafficking ring
New York drug boss tricked by feds: Convicted of plot to import 150 kilograms of cocaine into U.S.
Brooklyn Pure Armenian Blood member admits racketeering and fraud
Living in a KavKaz Nation – Profile of New York crime boss Roman Nikoghosyan
Coast-to-Coast “Pure Armenian Blood” gang under patronage of US-based “Vor v Zakone” busted by Feds
Hells Angels charged in broad daylight execution of rival Pagans biker boss in the Bronx
Realism is key in Bronx-based “Albanian Gangster” as it depicts “war-torn psyche fused with honor code”
Stoned to Death – Profile of Jamaican crime boss Wayne “Sandokhan” Smith
Porsches and Yeezys – Profile of New York crime boss Aleksey Tsvetkov
NYPD cop, who moonlighted as bodyguard for El Chapo’s wife, had side gig trafficking cocaine
The deadly battle for control over New York’s Chinatown
Jumping Bail: How legendary drug kingpin “Black Caesar” Matthews disappeared forever
“American Gangster” Frank Lucas dead at 88
Elusive drug boss Frank Matthews to hit the big screen: From narco billionaire at 28 to mysterious phantom
Sex Money Murder: The violent rise and fall of Bronx gang ingrained in New York underworld’s history
United Blood Nation Godfather says he is part of “the last ones that God put in power”
New York drug boss Jimmy Rosemond never changed
“I’ve been doing this for 25 years!” – Bronx drug boss caught on wiretap gets over 6 years for narcotics trafficking
Mob rat John Alite got beat up at a strip club
NYPD cop moonlighted for drug gang but finds no loyalty in return
Albanian gangster guilty of extortion schemes carried out with NYPD cop
Gangster and corrupt NYPD cop go down in violent extortion scheme
The Gangster Alpo From Spanish Harlem
Supreme: Gangster giant towers over Queens rap
Alex Rudaj (in prison)
Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff (in prison)
Leroy “Nicky” Barnes (flipped, dead)
Frank Matthews
An Introduction To The New York Albanian Mob
Vietnam Vet-Turned-Harlem Drug Dealer Pens Memoir
Folk Nation Gang Leader Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison
Very Bad Men: How Jewish racketeers beat the system
MS-13 Gang Boss Carlos “Silencio” Ortega
Black Caesar: The Rise of America’s Biggest Kingpin
Former Gangsters Beefing About Books
Bloods Gang Leader Ronald “Ra Diggs” Herron Charged With Three Murders
DEA Bust: World Famous Music Labels Used By Gangsters to Traffic Millions of Dollars in Cocaine
New Arrests in Violent Albanian Drug Gang Bust
The Israeli Mafia’s brief invasion of New York
Former Drug Kingpin Ike Atkinson Tells All In New Documentary
New Jersey
La Cosa Nostra
Other New Jersey crime groups
“Corey Hamlet is as smart as any CEO we’ve prosecuted” – Profile: Grape Street Crips leader Corey Hamlet
Mafia author shares dark stories behind Garden State Gangland: The Rise of the Mob in New Jersey
Drug boss Rufus Young gets 15 years for selling kilos of heroin
Chili Pimping in Atlantic City
Philadelphia
La Cosa Nostra
Others crime groups in Philadelphia
The Irishman: Jimmy Hoffa’s friend and the man who put two bullets in the back of his skull
Music label or violent gang? Original Block Hustlaz provided soundtrack while it flooded Philadelphia with drugs
How Muhammad Ali took the heavyweight boxing championship belt from the Mafia
Profile of Philadelphia drug boss Roland Bartlett
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Mafia
Others Chicago crime groups
Chicago middleman convicted in Mexican drug cartel money laundering scheme
Ex-Chicago Gangster Larry Hoover Eligible for State Parole: Will Gov. Pritzker Commute Hoover’s 200 Years? If Parole Board Deny Him Freedom
The black crime boss who defied the Chicago Mafia: Profile of Theodore “Teddy” Roe
A Frame Before Dying: The Life and Crimes of Chicago Gangster Roger Touhy
Living the high life and driving a Maserati – Profile of Chicago drug boss Levaughn “Sweet Bobby” Collins
America’s fascination with the Gangster era: From John Dillinger and Machine Gun Kelly to their pretty molls
A Chicago Mob Story: The Man who loved being a Gangster
How bank robber “Machine Gun” Kelly got his nickname
Chicago Vice Lord Nation gang boss dead at 64
The North Side – Profile of Chicago mob boss George “Bugs” Moran
Rockford
Profile: Rockford’s Black Gangster Disciples boss Karl Fort
Profile: Rockford crime family mobster Salvatore Galluzzo
The Rockford mob’s takeover of the Negro Policy Racket
Boston
La Cosa Nostra
The New England Patriarca Crime Family
Others crime groups in Massacusetts
Lookout for men who whacked Boston mob boss “Whitey” Bulger gets time served
UFC president Dana White versus “Whitey” Bulger’s Boston Mob
Oh so predictable, yet mysteries surround prison murder of mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger
WATCH | “He wanted to leave this earth,” former enforcer for mob boss “Whitey” Bulger says
Revenge is a dish best served cold – The men charged with killing mob boss Whitey Bulger know this all too well
Homicide at Rough Point: The billionairess and the mobbed up police chief
Boston gangland legend Howie Winter dead at 91
Ralph DeMasi, ex-mobster and pal of Whitey Bulger, found not guilty of 1991 murder of armored truck guard
“Freddy hated rats” – Meet the hitman who allegedly murdered mob boss Whitey Bulger behind bars
Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger killed inside federal prison
The Italian Mafia, Irish gangs, Chinese Tongs: Welcome to Gangland Boston
Stranger Things: Dropping acid with Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger
The Blackfriars Massacre
Boston Boss James “Whitey” Bulger Found Guilty
The Making of Mob Boss Whitey Bulger
The Kennedys: Whiskey Barons in the White House
The Arrest of Irish Mob Boss James “Whitey” Bulger
Detroit
“I was the boogeyman” – Former enforcer of the Detroit Mafia shares old war stories on his podcast
The Irishman: Jimmy Hoffa’s friend and the man who put two bullets in the back of his skull
Running poker and dice games for the Detroit Mob
How I became an enforcer for the Detroit Mafia Family
Ex-mobster reflects on growing up in Detroit’s Mafia family
Detroit Mafia Boss “Black Jack” Tocco Dies
Chester Wheeler Campbell: The 007 of the Detroit Drug Mob
The Color Purple: Detroit’s Early Mob
The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
Baltimore
Profile of Baltimore Mafia boss Louis Morici
Baltimore drug distributor pleads guilty to selling 80 kilos of cocaine after being caught following wiretap investigation
Female Drug Boss Jean Brown
Maurice “Peanut” King
Baltimore: A Gangster History
Washington
Taliban Glizzy gets 18 years: Rapper-turned-ringleader led multi-state jewel heist crew
The Blind Kingpin is Punished: Blind rapper Mac Wayne gets 6 years in prison for drug trafficking
Profile: Washington D.C. drug boss Rayful Edmond
The Murder of Fray; A Washington D.C. Street Legend
Florida
Boss of Jacksonville drug crew gets 35 years in prison after brazen I-95 retaliation shooting
WATCH | The DEA agent who brought down “Cocaine Godmother” Griselda Blanco tells all
Profile of Tampa Mafia boss Vincent LoScalzo, the man who followed in Santo Trafficante’s footsteps
Nine sentenced for running meth and coke from Mexico through California, Arizona, and Florida
My Brand of Cocaine: From Adolf Hitler and Cosa Nostra bosses to LeBron James and Ferrari
Robert Lee Ward, the Florida drug boss who ordered FBI informant in his organization killed and continued biz
Former Trafficante crime family mobster charged with pilfering $3.8 million in Medicare fraud
When the American government asked the Mafia for a favor:The assassination of Fidel Castro
“Cocaine Cowboy” Mickey Munday charged in $1.6M car theft ring
Trafficante family mobster Cesar Augustus Rodriguez
“This is where Tampa mobster Jimmy Velasco was shot and killed” | Spotlight on Tampa Mafia with tour and magazine
Santo Trafficante: Building the Family Business
A Tale of Espionage, the CIA, the Mafia, double agents, Cuban exiles, and President Kennedy: Plot to kill Fidel Castro
California
Doing it for the gram: LA drug trafficker who sold fentanyl in bulk and flaunted guns and cash on Instagram off to prison
Gang War in Baghdad by The Bay
Those Who Go By Night: Dominic Di Ciolla and the Los Angeles Mafia
California drug boss who bribed DEA Special Agent sentenced to over 11 years in federal prison
The one thing a Menendez brother feared more than the Mexican Mafia
The Modern-Day Pimp: Toronto boss operated dozens of illegal Asian brothels in US, Canada, and Australia
Gang Rules: Growing up inside the LA gang life
Killing Frank: How the Los Angeles Mob Removed a Problem
Coast-to-Coast “Pure Armenian Blood” gang under patronage of US-based “Vor v Zakone” busted by Feds
Johnny Stompanato: A Gangster’s Life
Knowing the Way to San Jose: The Mafia family of San Jose
“We were elite and acted like it.” Former Hells Angels boss George Christie sits down with Gangsters Inc.
Elderly Cowboy Gun Bandits went on robbery spree with large-caliber handgun, will spend decades in prison
Drug kingpin “Freeway” Rick Ross: Moving tons of cocaine with a nod of approval from the Reagan White House
All In The Game: Two men who went from fighting organized crime to refereeing star athletes
Gangster Squad cop celebrates 100th birthday
My loving dad was a gangster and Bugsy Siegel’s close friend
Prison Gangs: The Aryan Brotherhood
Profile: Armenian Power leader Mher Darbinyan
Los Angeles Capo Jimmy Caci Has Passed Away
Prison Gangs and the Analogy of Hate
Michael Harris: Convicted drug kingpin who gave actor Denzel Washington his start
Las Vegas
Las Vegas casino boss and Mafia associate Allen R. Glick | Victim or Conspirator?
Profile of Mafia hitman Frank Cullotta
The beginnings of Tony Spilotro’s infamous Hole in the Wall gang
The lucrative and violent years of Las Vegas mobster Tony Spilotro’s infamous Hole in the Wall gang
The demise of Chicago mobster Tony Spilotro’s Hole in the Wall gang
“His demeanor was very vulgar, coarse and he used many profanities” – The Kansas City Mob and the skimming of Las Vegas casinos
The Kansas City Mob and the skimming of Las Vegas casinos
The Secret Police in the United States: How local law enforcement took on organized crime and LCN
Cradle of Crime: My Armed and Dangerous Father
My loving dad was a gangster and Bugsy Siegel’s close friend
Insulting mobsters with comedian Don Rickles
Wisconsin
Son of American Mafia royalty passes away – Father ran Milwaukee crime family for decades
The Life and Times of Frank Balistrieri: The Last, Most Powerful Godfather of Milwaukee
The gangster who joined Witness Protection Program but never left his life of crime
A short history of La Cosa Nostra in Madison, WI
The Milwaukee Mafia Family: Small but deadly
Ohio
Killing The Irishman | Profile of Cleveland mobster Ronald “Ronnie the Crab” Carabbia
The death of Cleveland Mafia boss Joe “Loose” Iacobacci – From crazy soldier to cunning mob leader
The Rise of Mafia Boss Joe “Loose” Iacobacci: The California Swing
Cleveland Mafia boss Angelo Lonardo swore an oath of loyalty to La Cosa Nostra, ultimately broke it
Trafficking drugs and dismembering bodies with the Graewe brothers, associates of the Cleveland Mafia
The Uneasy Accord of Mobster Danny Greene and a Cop
Former Gambino family mobster shows his soft side
Don King: From street thug to street name?
Gambino family mobster Carmine Agnello’s propensity to repeat history
Ohio mobster and brother of Youngstown Mafia boss dies
Gambino soldier Carmine Agnello busted in Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Former Pittsburgh Mafia underboss Charles Porter dies at 82
Kansas City
In Cold Blood: A Mafia Hit in Kansas
Stoned to Death – Profile of Jamaican crime boss Wayne “Sandokhan” Smith
Kansas City Mafia boss Nick Civella and betting on the Super Bowl
“His demeanor was very vulgar, coarse and he used many profanities” – The Kansas City Mob and the skimming of Las Vegas casinos
“Sometimes the most obvious is the best way” – The Kansas City Mob and the skimming of Las Vegas casinos
Full-Time Gangsters Part-Time Rappers
New Orleans
Out of Africa: The Story of New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello
New Orleans mobsters caught with “sniper van”
South Carolina
All Business: Spartanburg drug organization ran smooth, but still ended up in shambles
North Carolina
Gone in 60 seconds: Crew ran Charlotte-based multi-million dollar luxury car theft ring
Cagey Goldsboro drug trafficker linked to murder, dismemberment, disposal of confidential informant gets 40 years
Various articles and interviews
WATCH | Ex-inmate reveals what it is like to do time at a federal supermax prison like ADX Florence
Alabama drug boss gets life after feds dismantle massive cocaine and meth pipeline
The former US Marine who built his own drug cartel with links to Los Zetas, El Chapo, and Jalisco New Generation
Can UFC star Conor McGregor get President Trump to order the DEA to back off the Kinahan Cartel?
Rampage behind bars: The world’s bloodiest prison riots
Midland drug boss who shot a Texas cop gets life in federal prison
“Did you make this worth it?” – Crooked DEA agent bribed by drug kingpin gets 11 years in prison
U.S. Marshals arrest over 84,000 fugitives in 2021
A New York Mafia capo, a member of the Yakuza, a mob soldier, ex-convicts & an Irish gangster rate crime movies
What happened to Tony Soprano? Series creator David Chase reveals New Jersey mob boss’ fate
Fitness Behind Bars: Gangsters tell how they train their bodies and minds in prison
Silk Road: Online Drug Lords and Cyber-whackings
A Mafia Christmas: Five stories, three end in murder
Pinky rings and murder: Brooklyn gangland of the ‘80s comes to life in new Mafia series Gravesend
The Irishman: Meet the real Mafia muscle behind Martin Scorsese’s gangster epic
America’s fascination with the Gangster era: From John Dillinger and Machine Gun Kelly to their pretty molls
Deep in the Heart of Texas: The Rise of the Italian Mafia in the Lone Star State
The Real John Wick: Separating fact from fiction in Hollywood’s violent gangster vengeance blockbuster
Fuggedaboutit! Former mobster, pro MMA fighter and writer-director are becoming YouTube sensation
Gangster Pets: Animal tales from the American Mafia to Pablo Escobar
Investigation: Cocaine delivered faster than a pizza, cost varies around the world
Death Penalty for Drug Lords: Is lethal injection the solution to the War on Drugs?
Gangsters Inc.’s Mafia Speak
How Mafia families in New York and Canada cooperate in global drug trade
Prison Breaks – From mobsters to serial killers and drug lords: The men who escaped from jail
Donald J. Trump’s Gangbusters: How will America’s new president take on the Mafia and drug cartels?
All In The Game: Two men who went from fighting organized crimeto refereeing star athletes
Deadly, bizarre, and morbid: Murder Inc.
The American Mafia and its use of colorful nicknames
How guards keep assaulting inmates without consequences
How Muhammad Ali took the heavyweight boxing championship belt from the Mafia
Top 4 stone cold gangsters who look like wimps
How Meyer Lansky laundered the American Mafia’s dirty cash– and made them bigger than US Steel
Ten Must-Visit Mob Bars and Lounges
Multimillion-dollar photo of Billy the Kid bought for $2 at junk shop
The American Mafia bets on the world and wins big
Cops make the deadliest Mafia hit men
Always a gangster: Racketeering in the nursing home
Mexican Drug Cartel’s Link To American Banks
5 of the dumbest moves in Mafia history
Top 5 of True Stand Up Wiseguys
The Jamaican Shower Posse: A Family Business
US Soldiers Busted in Drug Cartel Murder-For-Hire Plot
American Gangsters
Exclusive Interview With Convicted LSD Kingpin Turned Author Seth Ferranti
Did the Mafia Turn the United States into a Better Country?
Online Players: A Live Shakedown – Gangsters Target NFL Super Bowl in Multi-Billion Gambling Extortion
With Broome Street Boys director brings back gritty mob flick
