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…
Month: August 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…