Whitey in Hollywood
One of the most overtly symbolic scenes in Mob movie-making comes at the end of Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning film The…
Month: November 2018
The world’s top five Mob bosses
There was a time when Mob bosses in the United States were household names, but not anymore. Consider the FBI’s…
World War I played key role in passage of Prohibition
In January 1919, Albert Von Tinzler and Edward Laska published “The Alcoholic Blues,” a song describing the feelings of a…
Ninety years later, Arnold Rothstein murder still a mystery
Ninety years ago this week, with the dying breath of New York’s most provocative Mob entrepreneur, one of America’s great…