Longtime Colombo figure John ‘Sonny’ Franzese dies at 103

The violent, sociopathic and amazingly long life of John “Sonny” Franzese, a former Colombo crime family underboss who once ran…


FBI director outlines threats from transnational organized crime

Editor’s note: On February, 5, 2020, Christopher Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, delivered a report to the…


Giovanni Brusca: No. 5 on list of Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen

In this fifth and final installment in our series on the Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen, we profile a…


Joe “The Animal” Barboza: No. 4 on list of Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen

In this fourth installment in our series on the Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen, the focus shifts to the…


Roy DeMeo: No. 3 on list of Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen

In this third installment in our series on the Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen, we focus on a particularly…


Abe ‘Kid Twist’ Reles: No. 2 on list of Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen

In this second installment in our series on the Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen, we move from the Chicago…


‘Machine Gun’ Jack McGurn leads list of Top 5 most notorious Mob hitmen

Faced with more than 200 unsolved gangland murders in the Brooklyn area since the early 1930s, in 1940 the District…