MLB All Time Great Dizzy Dean, Eddie Karam Linked To Same Detroit Mob Case
What do imprisoned Detroit mafia associate Mitchell (Steady Eddie) Karam and St. Louis Cardinals legend and MLB Hall of Fame pitcher Jerome (Dizzy) Dean have in common? They were both unindicted...
View ArticleThe Art Of The Heist: An American Unsolved Mystery
As Gangster Report celebrates its one-year anniversary this summer, let’s look back on one of the site’s first long-form investigative pieces, published in the fall of 2014. THE ART OF THE HEIST – How...
View ArticleHow The Feds Finally Toppled Detroit Mafia Czar Tony Giacalone
In the months and years after the disappearance of Teamsters union power Jimmy Hoffa, which famously took place in Metro Detroit exactly 40 years ago this summer on July 30, 1975, Motor City mob...
View ArticleMidwest Mafia Bulletin: Chicago & Detroit
Top-ranking Chicago mob associate Michael (Mickey D) Davis is clearing his schedule, possibly for the next few decades. The 58-year old Davis, at times over the years a driver and bodyguard for Outfit...
View ArticleGR EXCLUSIVE: Outlaws MC’s “Mad” Yager Tabbed Suspect In Brother’s Slaying
Tucked away in a federal prison cell awaiting trial on racketeering charges filed nearly two decades ago, former Indiana Outlaws Motorcycle Club president Randy (Mad Dog) Yager is a suspect in the...
View ArticleMikey Lance Making Life A Little Easier For Handsome Stevie In Philly Mob
Philadelphia mob captain Michael (Mikey Lance) Lancellotti is recovering from a bout with cancer and aiding the top levels of the mafia in the City of Brotherly Love in running the former Bruno-Scarfo...
View ArticleFamous Stolen Painting Sent Detroit Mob Power Horseface Pete To Twilight...
Deceased Detroit mob underboss Peter (Horseface Pete) Licavoli did a year in prison for trying to move a historically-significant piece of artwork on the black market in the years before his death in...
View ArticleTark The Shark’s Path To The L.A. Lakers Blocked By Mob Hit Of Agent
A notorious unsolved California mafia murder prevented Jerry Tarkanian from coaching the “Showtime” L.A. Lakers of the 1980s.Tarkanian, a legendary college basketball coach who led University of...
View ArticleFats Corrado’s Death In ’85 Led To Last Made Guy Getting Killed In Detroit
Longtime Detroit mob captain Dominic (Fats) Corrado died of a nagging heart ailment 30 years ago this week, laying the groundwork for the grisly gangland slaying of his brother-in-law and renegade...
View ArticleThe Mafia & The 2015 American Presidential Election
Rumored ties between the White House and the mafia date back to the JFK era and even beyond. Two potential future United States Presidents, both considered top candidates for the job in the 2016...
View ArticleProvidence Mafia Figure Tony Parillo Lost Best Friend To Brutal Mob Hit As He...
Reputed New England mob consigliere Anthony (Ponytail Tony) Parillo saw his best friend and gangland running buddy, tough-as-nails Irishman Dennis Roche, killed in late 1981, while Parillo himself was...
View ArticleThe Flores Brothers: How the Feds helped Flood Chicago with Drugs
In late January, two of the biggest drug dealers ever convicted in U.S. court were sentenced in downtown Chicago; but despite moving an estimated 70 thousand! kilos of cocaine and heroin and sending $2...
View ArticleHow Joe Colombo Killed The Mob
It may amaze the reader exactly how similar organized crime and nations are. These sorts of sentiments have found resonance in our times of mandatory taxation on any and every thing. Claims of armed...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Mob Enters New Era, Borgesi, Angelina Set To Return To Action...
The coming summer days will be some interesting ones in the Philadelphia mafia. At the end of the week (Friday to be exact), one-time syndicate consigliere George (Georgie Boy) Borgesi will be “off...
View ArticleBig Mike Spano Free At Last In Chicago, Says He’s Hanging Up His Mob Spurs
One-time Chicago mob heavyweight Michael (Big Mike) Spano is a free man. The 74-year old Spano, the former captain of the Outfit’s powerful Cicero crew, was released from a Windy City halfway house...
View ArticleDetroit Strip Club Mogul Weathers Philly Mob Shakedown Efforts
The strip club king of Detroit hasn’t received a very loving welcome to the City of Brotherly Love, especially not so by the notoriously unfriendly Philadelphia mafia. Alan Markowitz, Michigan’s...
View ArticleAttack On Fitzsimmons Straw That Broke Camel’s Back In Hoffa Saga
The car-bombing of a brand-new Lincoln Continental sedan belonging to Teamsters union executive Richard (Little Fitz) Fitzsimmons 40 years ago this week laid the groundwork for the infamous July 30,...
View ArticleDetroit’s Big Paulie To Gangster Report: ‘You Guys Got It All Wrong!’
Paul (Big Paulie) Corrado has reached out to Gangster Report through multiple conduits to set the record straight. He says Gangster Report’s categorization of him as a newly-promoted captain in the...
View ArticleKardashian-Ex Damon Thomas Tempted Fate W/ GJ Testimony In BMF Case
R&B music producer Damon Thomas, the ex-husband of the undisputed queen of reality television Kim Kardashian, gambled with his life 10 years ago when he cooperated with the FBI, DEA and IRS in...
View ArticleCheck Out Gangster Report’s First EBook, ‘The Hit List’
Gangster Report is in the book business. The exciting world of Ebooks to be specific. Support Gangster Report with a purchase of Scott Burnstein’s new book The Hit List The post Check Out Gangster...
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