Aftermath Of Hankton Trial In New Orleans Isn’t Pretty, More Murders &...
The fallout from last year’s Hankton family drug gang trial in New Orleans has been fierce: two witnesses dead, one more Hankton family lieutenant convicted…..twice. That lieutenant, Julius Hankton, a...
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‘Don Juan’ Of Detroit-To-Pennsylvania Drug Network Down For The Count, Hit...
There was no romancing the man with the gavel. Detroit drug dealer Stephen (Don Juan) Barry-Gibbons was sentenced this week by a state judge in Erie, Pennsylvania to 55 years in prison for narcotics...
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Teamsters’‘Big Fitzy’ To Be Part Of Scorsese’s ‘Irishman’ Movie, Director...
Martin Scorsese has brought aboard Canadian actor Gary Basaraba to play deceased Teamsters union boss and reputed mob puppet Frank (Big Fitzy) Fitzsimmons in The Irishman, the much-anticipated...
View ArticleConclusion Of 1970s Cleveland Mob War Marks Anniversary: Irish Crime Lord...
Danny Greene lived explosively. He died the same way. The brash and fearless Cleveland Irish mob boss was killed in a car bombing 40 years ago this week on the afternoon of October 6, 1977. His murder...
View ArticleThe Cleveland Mob Wars Timeline: Danny Greene Dueled With Italians In 1970s,...
In the 1970s, Danny Greene and his Irish mob, known as the “Celtic Club,” locked horns with the Cleveland mafia for control of the city’s underworld. Throughout most of the decade, bombings, beatings...
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‘The Irishman’ Hoffa Movie Fills Tony Giacalone Role, Scorsese Selects...
The man probably responsible for arranging the details of labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa’s kidnapping and murder, snarling, steely-eyed Detroit mafia captain Anthony (Tony Jack) Giacalone, will be...
View ArticleReal-To-Reel: DeVito & Nicholson’s ‘Hoffa’ Film – What’s Fact, What’s Fiction...
Back in the early 1990s, Danny DeVito and Jack Nicholson told Jimmy Hoffa’s life story on the silver screen to a lukewarm response. The 1992 Christmas Day release of Hoffa by 20th Century Fox Studio...
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Hoffa’s Affairs Of The Heart Examined In Scorsese’s ‘Irishman’ Movie, Oscar...
Jimmy Hoffa’s love life will be addressed in Martin Scorsese’s heavily-anticipated mob “supergroup” movie The Irishman, currently filming and chronicling the relationship between the iconic slain...
View ArticleBoston Mobster ‘Spucky’ Spagnolo Sprung From Prison, Back On The Scene In...
Former acting boss of the New England mafia, Anthony (Spucky) Spagnolo was released from federal prison late last week after serving two years for extortion. The 75-year old Spagnolo collected...
View ArticleDetroit’s Famous Kronk Gym Destroyed By Fire, ’94 Drug Case Part Of Storied...
The fabled Kronk Boxing Gym, once home to dozens of world champion prize fighters and the “King of Kronk” himself, legendary trainer Emanuel Steward, burned to the ground on Detroit’s westside over...
View ArticleMotor City Rapper’s Murder Possible Drug Hit, Doughboy Roc Took Narcotics...
Recently-slain Detroit rapper Rodney (Doughboy Roc) Yeargin was convicted of narcotics trafficking last summer and per sources his murder earlier this week is being investigated by authorities for...
View ArticleGR SOURCES: Tip Out Of Suburbs Put Slain Detroit Rapper Doughboy Roc On DEA’s...
Federal investigators had recently-slain Detroit rapper Rodney (Doughboy Roc) Yeargin in their sights, at least partially due to a tip received following a drug raid carried out in a Southeast Michigan...
View ArticleMurder Of Detroit Stick-Up Kid Loosely Linked To 1990s Kronk Gym Narcotics Probe
The 1989 gangland revenge slaying of Sherman Christian was tangentially tied to the so-called Kronk boxing drug case of the 1990s. Christian was gunned down in a highway drive-by on the orders of Olee...
View ArticleExploding Onto The Big Screen: Detroit Teamsters Leader Dave Johnson’s Boat...
The string of violence preceding the kidnapping and murder of historic labor union chief Jimmy Hoffa in 1975 will be depicted in The Irishman, Martin Scorsese’s much-anticipated mob “supergroup” film...
View ArticleThe Three Finger Salute: N.J. Teamster ‘Three Finger Tony’ Castellitto’s...
The brutal labor-union related murder of Anthony (Three Finger Tony) Castellitto over a half-century ago will be shown on the big screen in acclaimed director Martin Scorsese’s highly-anticipated...
View ArticleOne-Time Charlotte Biker Boss ‘Chains’ Flamont Dies In Car Wreck, Was At...
Former North Carolina biker chief William (Chains) Flamont died in a motorcycle crash this fall. The 70-year old Flamont headed the Charlotte chapter of The Outlaws Motorcycle Club in the 1970s and...
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Jesse Plemons Cast As Chuckie O’Brien In New Hoffa Flick, Will Play Role Of...
Jimmy Hoffa’s surrogate son, Chuckie O’ Brien, one of the suspects in Hoffa’s still-unsolved kidnapping and murder conspiracy, will be played by actor Jesse Plemons in the upcoming gangster...
View ArticleDetroit’s Westside Bids Farewell To Beloved Son, Rapper ‘Doughboy Roc,” Heads...
Detroit rapper Rodney (Doughboy Roc) Yeargin was laid to rest earlier this week in a funeral fit for royalty. Considering the 29-year old Yeargin was one of the young princes of the Midwest hip-hop...
View ArticleThe Final Days Of The Mafia In Upstate New York: Utica Mob Murder Timeline...
The mob in upstate New York was based around Utica, a notoriously tough region in Oneida County nicknamed by some in the past the Empire State’s Sin City, has been gone for more than a quarter century...
View ArticleThe Wedding Of The Year: Mob Lawyer’s Daughter’s Wedding Will Get Scene In...
The upscale wedding of a famous mob lawyer’s daughter held in the days following Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance will be depicted in the much-anticipated Martin Scorsese movie,The Irishman, about the...
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