The Race Is Over: Former Jewel Of Detroit Mob’s White Collar Resume, Hazel...
The Hazel Park Raceway, the centerpiece of the Detroit mafia’s legitimate business portfolio for decades, shut its door last week after nearly 70 years of operation. The horse race track was a college...
View ArticleMob Informant: Former Patriarca Crime Family Boss ‘Baby Shacks’ Manocchio...
Retired New England mafia don Luigi (Baby Shacks) Manocchio oversaw the planning of rogue Patriarca crime family enforcer Kevin Hanrahan’s 1992 gangland slaying, according to a new court filing...
View ArticleFrom The Horse’s Mouth: Senate Testimony From Cleveland Mafia Lord ‘Big...
Cleveland mob boss Angelo “Big Angie” Lonardo was the first sitting American mafia don to become a witness for the government. Thirty years ago this week, on April 15, 1988, Lonardo testified in front...
View ArticleLawyers In New England Mob Murder Trial Don’t Want Defendant’s Violent...
Defense attorneys for New England mobster Paul (Paulie the Plumber) Weadick are fighting to keep mention of Weadick’s past mafia dealings, including allegedly taking part in more than one homicide...
View ArticleThe Detroit Mob & The Porn Racket: ‘Frankie Rah Rah’&‘Joe Hooks’ Ran Sex...
Before an endless trove of nude photos and a countless catalogue of sex videos were available in a matter of seconds with a simple click of a computer mouse, the world of pornography was controlled by...
View ArticleFreeze Frame: Motown Drug Chief ‘Chill’ Peterson Goes Down In W. Virginia...
Federal authorities have dismantled a Detroit narcotics conspiracy operating in West Virginia for the past 15 years. On Tuesday, reputed kingpin Willie (Chill) Peterson and his younger brother and...
View ArticleTeaming With Flair: Who Was Who In Queens 1980s Game-Changing Drug Gang, The...
In the 1980s, the Supreme Team was the most well-known, prolific and feared drug-dealing organization on the east coast, operating out of the Baisley Park Projects in Queens, New York. The gang was...
View ArticleGangland Meet & Greet: Future Witness At Boston Mafia Murder Trial Will...
Former New England mob associate Tommy Hillary will testify that he introduced slain nightclub owner Stevie DiSarro to then Patriarca crime family boss Francis (Cadillac Frank) Salemme at the 84-year...
View ArticleWhite House Rejects Dying Chicago Mafia Soldier ‘Tough Tony’s’ Bid For...
Imprisoned Chicago mob enforcer Anthony (Tough Tony) Calabrese was denied clemency from the White House last week in a last-ditch effort to live out his remaining days a free man. The 57-year old...
View ArticleAl Profit’s “American Dope” Hits Amazon, Tells Tale Of Intersection Between...
Gangster Report co-founder Al Profit has unveiled his new fascinatingly-layered docu-series, titled American Dope, exploring the complex web of how the United States government itself actually created...
View ArticleThe Color Red: Bringing Terror To Detroit’s Eastside, Seven Mile Bloods Roll...
The Seven Mile Bloods have been the most dominant street gang in Detroit’s underworld for the past decade, controlling the drug trade on the Motor City’s notoriously dangerous northeast side (dubbed...
View ArticleThe Heist Index: Windy City Wiseguy Was Boosting Businesses Before Murdering...
In the months leading up to his alleged murdering of a well-known Chicago mob figure, reputed Outfit hit man Anthony (Tough Tony) Calabrese organized and ordered three armed robberies that proved to...
View ArticleChanging The Channel: How Boston Mob Took Control Of Southie Night Club &...
Nearly three decades ago, the Booras brothers owned The Channel, a rock, punk and new wave music venue in the Fort Point section of South Boston, until they were edged out by then-New England mafia don...
View ArticleActing The Part: Roles For Chicago Gangland Figures Johnny Torrio, “Bottles”...
Oscar-nominee Matt Dillon will play former Chicago mob boss John (Johnny the Fox) Torrio and Sopranos and House of Cards alum Al Sapienza will play one-time Chicago mob captain Ralph (Bottles) Capone...
View Article“Cadillac Frank” Salemme Tried To Shift Blame For 1993 N.E. Mob Murder To...
According to recent federal court filings, former New England mafia boss Francis (Cadillac Frank) Salemme gave authorities alternate versions of who he believed killed his business partner, Stevie...
View ArticleCourt Filing: Murdered Mob Muscle Kevin Hanrahan Planned On Knocking Off N.E....
Slain Providence mob enforcer Kevin Hanrahan intended on assassinating the top two leaders of the New England mafia in the weeks preceding his own homicide in 1992. Per new federal court filings...
View ArticleSpeaking French: Former New England Mafia Crew Leader Gerard Ouimette Gets...
From Miami Vice in the 1980s to Providence vice in the 1970s. Don Johnson is playing deceased New England mobster Gerard (The Frenchman) Ouimette in the first of two upcoming films about the notorious...
View ArticleMob Informant: Incarcerated N.E. Mafia Chief Patriarca, Jr. Paid To Have...
An informant told the FBI that deposed New England mob don Raymond Patriarca, Jr. backed and financed Kevin Hanrahan’s unsuccessful plot to assassinate a pair of Patriarca Jr.’s successors from behind...
View Article“Whitey” Bulger Blew Slain Mafia Associate Stevie DiSarro’s Cover As An FBI...
Historic Irish mob boss James (Whitey) Bulger tipped off former New England mafia boss Francis (Cadillac Frank) Salemme to the fact that Salemme’s business partner Stevie DiSarro was cooperating with...
View ArticleFormer New England Mob Don “Cadillac Frank” Salemme Bad Mouthed Murder Victim...
One-time New England mafia boss Francis (Cadillac Frank) Salemme called his business partner Stevie DiSarro a “snake” to a member of New York’s Gambino crime family in a conversation picked up by an...
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