Organized Crime Roundup: Mobs killed 1 million from 2000-2017, big Mafia takedown in Italy and more
Criminals kill far more people than do armed conflicts and terrorist attacks put together, and organized crime groups and street…
Year: 2019
Mob fixer Johnny Rosselli is back in the spotlight
“Strategist.” That word on Johnny Rosselli’s business card summed up his role as a Mob fixer whose colorful adult life,…
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar spent seven years on Forbes list of world’s richest
In the summer of 1989, the world’s most wanted drug lord had narrowly averted assassination, challenged extradition treaties, dared the…
Santo Trafficante Sr., a ‘Sicilian of the old school,’ ruled Tampa’s underworld for more than a decade
On August 12, 1954, Tampa, Florida, Mafia boss Santo Trafficante Sr. died from stomach cancer. Laid to rest in a…
New Mob movies focus on women
Women are taking center stage in several Mob movie projects now in the news. Hitting movie theaters this summer is…
Hank Greenspun, iconoclastic Las Vegas newsman who played both sides of the Mob, died 30 years ago
In the spring of 1952, Hank Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun newspaper, embarked on one of his many…
Federal judge hands El Chapo life sentence
For Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the journey through the American justice system that started with his extradition…
Organized crime roundup: U.S. seeks $12.6 billion in El Chapo drug proceeds, Peter Gotti seeks ‘compassionate’ release, eight convicted in ‘modern slavery’ racket in Britain and more
Only days before a U.S. judge is expected to impose a long prison sentence on him for leading a major…
‘The Cigar’ burns out in Brooklyn
When Bonanno crime family don Carmine “The Cigar” Galante declared himself the so-called “capo di tutti i capis,” or “boss…
Sixty years ago, Nevada entered the modern era of gambling regulation
Marshall Caifano, the Chicago Outfit’s overseer of casinos in Las Vegas, went by more than a dozen fake names before…