Why We Care About Jimmy Hoffa
Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa was the stuff of legends — defending the working man, sitting down face-to-face with mafia gangsters, and then, seemingly, disappearing into thin air. It’s no wonder he’s...
View ArticleTurkish Riot Police Fight Protesters, Inside the Mind of "Whitey" Bulger, How...
Are Too Many People Issued "Top-Secret" Security Clearances? | Turkish Riot Police Force Protesters Out of Taksim Square | Understanding the Mind of James "Whitey" Bulger | Understanding the Mind of...
View ArticleNew Documentary Goes Inside the Trial of Mobster Whitey Bulger
Was notorious Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger a cold-hearted killer or a neighborhood protector? Was he an informant or a rat?It's hard to separate the man from the legend and gossip from the truth....
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The Real Sons of Anarchy: Inside the World of Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
In the final season of the hit FX show "Sons of Anarchy," the lead character asks if every member of his biker gang is willing to die. While it's a stirring scene for a televised drama, that scenario...
View ArticleDavid Remnick on Organized Crime
Kurt Andersen and writer David Remnick talk about pop culture’s fascination with organized crime. Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Lenin’s Tomb and is the...
View ArticleAlleged Bribery and Extortion at the WTC
Eight people with links to organized crime have been charged in a federal case involving bribery and extortion at the World Trade Center site.An indictment unsealed in Brooklyn alleges that a trucking...
View ArticleLargest Medicare Fraud Ring in History Charged in New York City
Federal prosecutors are touting it as the largest single Medicare fraud ever charged. More than 40 people have been indicted in New York as part of a nationwide investigation that spanned 25 states and...
View ArticleMore Than 100 in Custody for Alleged Organized Crime
Correction: An earlier version of this story stated that Andrew Russo was charged with the 1993 murder of Colombo underboss Joseph Scopo. This is incorrect. Anthony Russo was charged with the crime....
View ArticleThe Indictments in the Organized Crime Sweep
Here are the indictments released in connection to the U.S. Department of Justice arrests of more than 100 alleged organized crime figures. U.S. v. Alesi et alU.S. v. Balzano and CollinaU.S. v....
View ArticleVeteran NJ Prosecutor: The Mob Is Not Dead
Veteran New Jersey prosecutor Peter Harvey said the mob is very much alive -- even in the wake of the FBI's largest takedown of organized crime members that resulted in the multi-state arrests of more...
View ArticleMessage in Mass Arrests: We Haven't Forgotten About You
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country, we bring you the unmissable quotes from the morning's political conversations on WNYC. Today on the Brian Lehrer Show, Tom...
View ArticleThe New Mafia
William Rashbaum, New York Times reporter, talks about where the modern Mafia make their money.
View ArticleThe New York Mob
Jerry Capeci writes a weekly column on organized crime at GangLandNews.com, and has covered the mafia as a journalist for decades. He discusses why Bonanno family boss Joseph Massino is cooperating...
View ArticleBringing Down the Cali Cartel
Investigative reporter William C. Rempel tells the story of former Cali cartel insider Jorge Salcedo, an ordinary man forced to risk everything to escape the powerful and treacherous Cali crime...
View ArticlePeter Hessler on an American crime reporter in Japan
This week in the magazine, Peter Hessler profiles Jake Adelstein, an American who reports on organized crime in Japan. Here Hessler talks with Blake Eskin about the yakuza, and how his own experiences...
View ArticleWhitey Bulger, Tony Soprano, and How We View Gangsters
Slate contributor Seth Stevenson discusses his coverage of the ongoing trial of crime boss Whitey Bulger, and describes growing up in Boston during Bulger's criminal career. Plus: With the death of...
View ArticleNicholas Pileggi, The Mafia in New York City
In a one-hour talk that has the easy-going feel of a conversation in a diner, Nicholas Pileggi provides an account of how the Mafia came to power in New York City. Pileggi, born February 22, 1933, may...
View ArticleJimmy Hoffa Speaks Out on His Way to Jail
Today in 1975 Jimmy Hoffa, former Teamsters union president, disappeared in Michigan. His remains were never found. In March, 1967 reporter Eleanor Fischer interviewed Hoffa prior to his imprisonment...
View ArticleWiseguys and Goodfellas
Thirty years ago, the book "Wiseguy" by Nicholas Pileggi was published. It's the tale of Brooklyn gangster Henry Hill, who spent 30 years in the Luchese crime family."They got pleasure from violence....
View ArticleThe Gang Wars that Ruled Chinatown
Demand for opium, gambling, and prostitution combined with a bloated and corrupt city government were defining features of New York's Chinatown during the 1930s, which created the conditions for rival...
View ArticleFormer Federal Prosecutor Says Trump Blocked Mafia Investigation
In the 1980s, federal prosecutors going after mob-controlled labor unions investigated a series of dealings between organized crime and real estate developers in the New York and New Jersey area.One...
View ArticleSix Degrees of Vinny Gorgeous: NYPD Chief's Mob Ties
NYPD Assistant Chief Edward Delatorre scooped up multiple mob-connected properties after federal law enforcement agencies crippled the Bonanno crime family in the late 2000's. Among the deals was a...
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