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By David Amoruso
Read Franzese's obituary here.
Also read: In the Company of Saints. The life and times of America’s oldest Mobster
John “Sonny” Franzese is an old school gangster walking around in a world that has changed significantly since when
By David Amoruso
To survive in prison one has to be ruthless. Especially when one is severely outnumbered in a sea filled with thousands of sharks. The founders of the Aryan Brotherhood understood this when they formed their prison gang somewhere aro
By Gangsters Inc. Editors
The government’s crackdown on the Pagans Outlaw Motorcycle Club continued on Monday with the arrest of two of its high-ranking members for assault in aid of racketeering. “Today’s arrests are the latest in a long-running inv
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
Fourteen years ago everything went black, when hit television series The Sopranos aired its final episode. Today, fans rejoiced as the silver screen lit up with the trailer of the upcoming movie "The Many Saints of
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
A triangle of death existed, connecting two towns and the biggest city in Sicily. It contained events that stretched over six years, cost the lives of two police officers and confirmed something that all researcher
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
Guillermo León Acevedo Giraldo, one of the world’s most elusive and mysterious drug lords, was arrested In Bogota, Colombia, on Friday. He is considered one of Colombia’s most powerful narco kingpins, yet he manage
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
Few American Mafia bosses have mesmerized the public over such a long period of time as Meyer Lansky has. From the early days of the Commission to his final days living in Miami during the Cocaine Cowboys years, La
By Niko Vorobyov for Gangsters Inc.
Life imitates art… or is it the other way round? It’s no secret that crooks have always looked up to antiheroes on the big screen: just look at the fanbase of Scarface. But does it actually lead to more crime? What
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
All is fair in love and war, but if one gets involved in either, prepare for things to get messy and end in disaster. As it did for Lucchese Mafia family mobster John Perna when he got involved in the love affairs
By Gangsters Inc. Editors
A leader of the Brentwood Locos Salvatruchas (BLS) clique of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13, was sentenced on Tuesday to 25 years in prison. 30-year-old Ronald Catalan (photo above) led the BLS clique from 2015 unt
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
A woman who worked for the US government tracking guns used in crimes, had no one do that for her after someone shot her dead.
The man who became the most logical suspect in her murder is married to the niece of on
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
Doing time is no picnic. In prison you’re away from your loved ones, your home, and surrounded by stone-cold killers, gangsters, and crazies, who could shank you if they feel like it. How does one remain sane and h
By “Asian Gangsters” for Gangsters Inc.
Female gangsters have always been a rare phenomenon in any time and place. Female gangsters like Bonnie Parker and Griselda Blanco are some of the best known lady outlaws, but little is known about the women fr
By Gangsters Inc. Editors
One of Colombia’s top cocaine producers pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Brooklyn to leading a continuing criminal enterprise as charged in a superseding indictment. 46-year-old Roman Narvaez Ansazoy faces a mand
By Wayne Clingman and Zack Long for Gangsters Inc.
Frank Balistrieri died in Milwaukee on a chilly February day in 1993. It was a death by natural causes; two months earlier he was in St. Mary’s Hospital for colon surgery. He was 74 at the time. In m
By Gangsters Inc. Editors
40 alleged members of the Santapaola-Ercolano family in Catania, Sicily, were arrested on Tuesday and charged with Mafia association, drug trafficking, extortion, social security and pension fraud. The Santapaola-Ercolano cl
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” - Henry David Thoreau
Francesco Di Carlo knew what it was about. And so did Angelo Fontana and Francesco Onorato, and Francesco Marino Mannoia, Giovanni Brusca, Ni
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
The Nigerian Mafia in Italy has been on the rise in recent years. Italian authorities took notice and on Monday made 30 arrests throughout Italy targeting the Black Axe, a Nigerian crime group viewed as one of the
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