In 1931, following decades of turf warfare, Brooklyn bootlegger Salvatore Maranzano established the leaders of New York ...

For your source for fact-checking mob depictions in media, look no further than Michael Franzese, a former boss of the Colombo crime family, who, after departing from the criminal life ...

MICHAEL Franzese once ran the streets of New York City as a caporegime (captain) for the Colombo crime family. Back in the 1970s, the city was a hotbed for organised crime, and now, years later, ...

The wise guy grew up as the son of the notorious Underboss of New York’s violent and feared Colombo crime family ... crime bosses in the world in the 80s with a role in cult mob movie ...

for the Colombo crime family. Back in the 1970s, the city was a hotbed for organised crime, and now, years later, the former mob boss has opened up about it all on Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a ...

The Alto Knights tells the story of two mob bosses who are at loggerheads. Nicholas Pileggi (who also wrote Goodfellas) wrote the biographical crime drama, which Barry Levinson directed.

Mob justice is best served cold. A crooked Nassau County police detective moonlighting as a Bonanno soldier helped fuel a mini-mob war on Long Island — choosing "the crime family over the public ...

Mob justice is best served cold. A crooked Nassau County police detective moonlighting as a Bonanno soldier helped fuel a mini-mob war on Long Island — choosing “the crime family over the ...

One debated real-life detail in director Martin Scorsese's Netflix gangster movie gets addressed by an expert who gave it a ...

The Mafia Commission Trial ... and chances were the bosses of the Genovese family, Frank “Funzi” Tierri, and of the Colombos, Carmine “the Snake” Persico, would be as well. Even the man who ruled ...

A former boss ... crime in the city, which is near the Italian border, was said to have been dominated by gangsters with blood ties to the northern Italian mafia. The Malderas were ‘the last ...