The reputed members and associates of the Lucchese organized crime family had been raking in the “scharole” with their “Rhino ...

Instead, The Godfather showed us a world where criminals were businesspeople organized, in New York, into the Five Families. These were based on the real Five Families of New York, and the way ...

"Blood and the Badge" by Michael Cannell is the tale of two NYPD officers who were paid to provide information and even kill for the Mob.

This naturally attracts society’s underbelly, and as a youngster growing up there in the 60s, for Frank Dimatteo that meant the Mafia ... delinquency in New York City’s five boroughs.

Already a strong presence in New York, members of the Mafia saw a business opportunity in catering to the otherwise shunned gay population. By the mid-1960s, the Genovese crime family controlled ...

Pennisi was born and raised in an Italian New York neighborhood where the mob had a huge influence. He speaks on how he ended up being an associate with the Gambino family through John Gotti Jr ...

The 86-year-old man who was struck by a truck and decapitated at a Brooklyn crossing was a former acting captain for the ...

Five Mafia members and associates have pleaded guilty to racketeering, money laundering and gambling charges for running an illegal betting operation in New York City ...

But the former New York Times editor decided to go back to ... Louis Eppolito was born into a prominent Mafia family, his father, Fat the Gangster, and uncle, Jimmy the Clam, were capos, they ...