Breaking Down Bumpy’s Boys: NYC Black Mob Boss Of Old Surrounded Himself With...
New York City’s Black Godfather of the 1940s, 50s and 60s, Ellsworth (Bumpy) Johnson ran the rackets in Harlem for almost three decades, forging an alliance with the area’s Italian mafia, also known as...
View ArticleSpringfield (MA) Mob News Update: One Santaniello Pleads Guilty In NY Fed...
News out of Western Massachusetts this week is that Springfield mafia crew leader Ralphie Santaniello has pled guilty to financing loansharking operations as part of a federal racketeering indictment...
View ArticleFlorida Outlaws MC Clubhouse Burns To The Ground In Suspected Arson, Ends...
The Outlaws Motorcycle Club’s headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida was destroyed by a fire last week amid undergoing renovations. Authorities believe arson was involved in the blaze which occurred...
View ArticleDetroiter, One-Time Drug Dealer “Jaguar Nick” Saved From Deportation At The...
Former Detroit Iraqi mob lieutenant Najah (Jaguar Nick) Konja recently secured a reprieve from deportation back to Baghdad with proof of a permanent Green Card that awarded him amnesty via a court...
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Kid Rock Rubbed Elbows With Gangsters, Greek Mobster In His Past, Will...
Multi-platinum recording artist Kid Rock was known to pal around with a notorious Detroit mobster and once dealt drugs for the city’s most dangerous urban narcotics syndicate according to sources. Kid...
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The D12 Murders: Rap Superstar Eminem Lost Two Close Friends, Group Members...
When rap superstar Eminem shot to international fame in the late 1990s, he did so with his group D12 at his side. Sadly, two of the original six founding members of D12, Karnail (Bugz) Pitts and...
View ArticleTo The Heart Of The Matter: “Moe Heart” Gibbs, Once Of Detroit’s Iconic YBI...
An infamous inactive former Detroit drug gang lieutenant has taken time to do an interview with the media regarding a lesser-known one-time contemporary caught up in trouble again with the law. On the...
View ArticleNew England Mafia Leader “Little Cheese” DiNunzio Let Loose By Feds, Mob...
Boston mob bigwig Anthony (The Little Cheese) DiNunzio is a free man once again. Welcome to the Trump Era, Cheeseman No. 2! DiNunzio, the 58-year old former acting boss of the New England mafia and...
View ArticleThe Rochester Mob Wars Scorecard Gets A Boost From In-Depth New Book:...
Former Rochester, New York Teamsters union member and east coast labor and mob historian Blair T. Kenny recently put out his second book, The Rochester Mob Wars (purchase a copy here) , chronicling the...
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Stephen Graham Comes On Board Scorsese’s New Mob Flick ‘The Irishman’ As N.J....
Well acclimated to portraying high-profile American gangsters of the past, British actor Stephen Graham has been hired to play deceased east coast mob captain Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano in The...
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The Irishman Movie Gets Its ‘Fat Tony’ Salerno, Familiar Face Domenick...
Veteran character actor Domenick Lombardozzi is slated to portray portly 20th Century New York mafia don Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno in The Irishman, the much-anticipated upcoming Martin Scorsese-helmed...
View Article‘Righteous Mike’ Ramsey Brought Sons Of Silence MC To Midwest In 1970s,...
The Sons of Silence Motorcycle Club established its foothold in the Midwest in the 1970s when Michael (Righteous Mike) Ramsey brought the Sons of Silence to the heartland, setting up a chapter in...
View Article‘White Boy Rick’s’ Right-Hand Man ‘Freaky Steve’ Roussell Met An Unhappy...
Former Detroit drug world figure Stephen (Freaky Steve) Roussell was slain 30 years ago this week in the fall of 1987, a victim of romance-gone-wrong amid the city’s bullets-and-brawn charged crack...
View ArticleLike A Bull In A China Shop: Jake LaMotta Landed On Law Enforcement Radar In...
Iconic prize fighter Jake LaMotta, who died of pneumonia in a Florida nursing home this week at 95, had his name appear on numerous FBI and Michigan State Police surveillance reports for his mingling...
View ArticleMotor City Mob Homecoming: The Detroit Mafia’s Tocco Crew Gets One Of Its Own...
Trusted Detroit mob associate Tommy Mackey was released from federal prison this week after doing 14 months behind bars for running an internet sports gambling ring based out of a popular eastside...
View ArticleMotown Biker Takes One On The Chin In Court, Highwaymen’s ‘Junior’ Ball Sees...
United States District Judge Nancy Edmunds nullified efforts by imprisoned Highwaymen Motorcycle Club member Gary (Junior) Ball to get a new trial last week, ruling the uncovering of a co-defendant’s...
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Flying The Chicken Coup…..Right To The Big Screen: Philly Mafia’s ‘Chicken...
Slain Philadelphia mob boss Phil (The Chicken Man) Testa was memorialized in song by Bruce Springsteen back in the 1980s. Now, he’ll get the Hollywood treatment and appear on the silver screen....
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Scorsese Rounds Out Casting Of Provenzano Crew For ‘Irishman’ Movie, Gets His...
The final on-screen pieces are in place for movieland’s version of Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano’s infamous mob crew, a colorful collection of bad guys, bandits and bullies, who worked for the Genovese...
View Article“The Schvitz” Bathhouse In Detroit, For Decades A Mobster Hangout & Meeting...
The echoes of the notorious Purple Gang will now be heard in more posh surroundings. The historic Oakland Avenue Bath House, better known as simply, “The Schvitz,” — a set of steam rooms and swimming...
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Hugh Hefner Escaped Feds Wrath In The 1970s, Lost Friend, Executive Secretary...
Playboy Magazine founder Hugh Hefner died this week at 91, an icon of the American sex revolution and having endured a painful, emotionally-taxing federal drug probe at the height of his fame and...
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