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New Scorsese Movie Has Dave Johnson & Billy Giacalone Characters, Supergroup...
Historic Detroiters Dave Johnson and Vito (Billy Jack) Giacalone have roles based on them in the highly-anticipated upcoming Martin Scorsese film The Irishman about the murder of Teamsters boss Jimmy...
View ArticleWindy City Biker World Big Shot Orvie The Anvil Cops Plea, Outlaws MC Boss...
Chicago biker boss Orville (Orvie the Anvil) Cochran of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club pleaded guilty to racketeering offenses this week out of federal court in Milwaukee, a case tied to an indictment...
View ArticleGR EXCLUSIVE: Chicago Mafia’s Grand Ave. & Cicero Crews Getting Glimpses From...
Federal authorities in Illinois are probing cold-case Chicago mob murders, including the 1977 Chuckie Nicoletti hit and the 1983 Allen Dorfman hit, according to sources in Windy City law enforcement....
View ArticleChicago Vice: The Lloyd-Williams War For Control Of Vice Lords Empire Raged...
The Vice Lords street gang erupted into war 25 years ago, as legendary Chicago crime lord Willie (The Chief) Lloyd squared off with his acting boss Tyrone (Baby Ty) Williams for bragging rights on the...
View ArticleChewing The Fat: Crimetown Season 2 Delves Into Detroit Drug Boss Eddie...
The quiet storm that was the 1970s Detroit drug empire led by Eddie (The Fat Man) Jackson is getting a deep dive this week in the acclaimed Crimetown podcast. Jackson ruled over the booming Motown...
View Article21 Questions: Jeff Fort’s Black P Stone Rangers’‘Main 21’ Made Mark In...
Chicago’s Black P Stone Rangers were founded on the Windy City’s South Side in 1962 when Jeff Fort’s Black Stone Raiders gang and Eugene (Bull) Hairston’s Harper Boys gang merged. Fort went on to...
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Super Cop & Cleveland Mob Nemesis Ed Kovacic Dies At 88, Leaves Behind...
Famous Midwest mob buster Ed Kovacic, the man who spearheaded the dismantling of the Cleveland mafia in the late 1970s and early 1980s, died of natural causes last week when he suffered a stroke....
View ArticleKanye’s Fake News: Rapper Shows Ignorance In Pleading For Chicago Gang Boss’...
Hip hop superstar and the music world’s resident provocateur Kanye West spewed so-called “Fake News” in his much-publicized appearance at the White House last week, ranting vociferously, yet extremely...
View ArticleHead Games, ChiTown Style: Operation Headache Crashed Larry Hoover’s Gangster...
Larry Hoover’s Gangster Disciples street gang empire in Chicago crumbled 25 years ago when a top lieutenant flipped and the government got innovative. Hoover was already behind bars on a murder...
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Facing The Music: Killer Of Disgraced New Orleans Wiseguy Gets Four Years In...
The man who murdered New Orleans gangland figure Kent (Frenchy) Brouillette was sentenced to four years in Louisiana state prison this week. Big Easy guitarist Bill Bonham fatally stabbed the...
View ArticleReturning To The Frontlines: Philly Mob Figure Faffy Iannarella Gets In...
According to sources in South Philadelphia and the newest edition of the cult classic Mob Talk Sitdown video blog hosted by award-winning journalists and Philly mobologists Dave Schratwieser and...
View ArticleThe G-Man Who Jumpstarted ‘White Boy Rick’ Urban Legend Dies, Fmr. Star Teen...
Retired FBI agent Jim Dixon, the man responsible for the controversial recruitment of Detroit teenager Richard (White Boy Rick) Wershe, Jr. as a confidential informant fresh out of the eighth grade at...
View ArticleThe Young & The Wealthy: Crimetown Podcast Points The Spotlight On Detroit’s...
The acclaimed Crimetown podcast tackles the groundbreaking Detroit drug gang, Young Boys, Incorporated (YBI) in Episode 5 of its second season. YBI boldly and flamboyantly ruled Motown’s heroin trade...
View ArticleWhat Position Is Faffy Iannarella Playing In The Philly Mafia? Scarfo Era...
Philadelphia mobster Francis (Faffy) Iannarella has a heavier workload these days. The old-school Mafioso is in line to be the Bruno-Scarfo crime family’s new consigliere and has been middling for...
View ArticleWhitey Bulger & The Detroit Mafia: Boston’s Winter Hill Gang Came To Motown...
The Detroit mafia did business with legendary Boston Irish mob boss James (Whitey) Bulger in the late 1970s, as the Zerilli-Tocco crime family and Bulger’s Winter Hill Gang joined forces to fix horse...
View ArticleBoston’s Brutal Irish Mob War Set The Stage For Whitey Bulger’s Ascent In The...
The path to power for epic Boston crime lord James (Whitey) Bulger was paved by a blood-spattered Irish mob war which lasted over a decade. The war first saw mob crews from Charlestown and Somerville...
View ArticleWhitey Bulger Had Paintings From Famous Gardner Museum Robbery, Sent Them To...
According to a retired European cop, recently-slain Boston Irish crime lord James (Whitey) Bulger sent the IRA the stolen masterpieces from the notorious Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist back in...
View ArticleThe Whitey Bulger Hit List Timeline (1969-1985): Boston’s Legendary Crime...
Storied South Boston Irish mob boss James (Whitey) Bulger was killed last week behind bars at a federal correctional facility in West Virginia. Bulger, 89, was one of America’s most powerful crime...
View ArticleAdios Kiko: Mexican Drug Boss “Kiko” Trevino To Do Life In Prison, U.S. Judge...
Mexican drug lord Juan Francisco (Kiko) Trevino was sentenced to five concurrent life prison sentences in a U.S. Federal Court in Texas this week, following a seven-count conviction for racketeering...
View ArticleJack In The Box: Detroit Don “Black Jack” Tocco Benefited From Controversial...
Many people close to the situation point to the aftermath of Detroit mob boss Giacomo (Black Jack) Tocco’s 1998 federal racketeering conviction as an example of how far and deep his connections ran in...
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