The Story of Carlos Lehder
*This is an excerpt from Crazy Charlie:Revolutionary or Neo-Nazi? A book about Carlos Lehder from the Medellin Cartel By Ron Chepesiuk In September 1981, a little more than a year after acquiring Norman’s Cay, Carlos …
Category: Mafia
American loves its bad guys. Pop culture has been fascinated by the Mafia for decades. Hollywood has immortalized mobsters in films like the Godfather, Goodfellas and shows like the Sopranos. Check out these stories on real life Mafia dons in federal prison.
Twentieth Anniversary of Casino
Its the twentieth anniversary of Casino, the seminal mob movie that starred Joe Pesci and Robert DeNiro as high profile mob players who ruled the roost in Las Vegas at the height of the casino …
New Jersey Godfather Dies by Scott M. Burnstein
New Jersey Godfather dies at 90, leaves behind hefty mob legacy in Garden State On the cusp of walking free at the start of the New Millennium after a 10-year stay in prison on a federal …
Cartel Land- New Documentary
Cartel Land– New Documentary Cartel Land is a new documentary that films the events surrounding two vigilante groups as they take on the violent Mexican drug cartels in Mexico and along Arizona’s borders. Follow filmmaker …
The State of New England’s Mafia
The State of New England’s Mafia by Mark Silverman In 2005, the Boston newspapers were reporting that Luigi (Baby Shacks) Manocchio was running a noxious, unhappy mafia family. A street beef between Anthony (Spucky) Spagnolo and the …
Silk Road New Age Gangster
The Silk Road new-age gangster can profit and inflict harm with a few simple strokes of a computer keyboard as easily, if not easier, than with a gun or a knife. …
The Beginning of the Mexican Cartels
The Beginning of the Mexican Cartels- During the early 1980s, the Medellin cartel ran the bulk of its cocaine into North America through Florida. It was nine-hundred-miles from Colombia to …
The Milwaukee Mafia
“What does the word “Mafia” bring to mind? Murder, car bombs, bootlegging and other devious crimes. The back alleys of Chicago and New York. Al Capone and John Gotti. What the word rarely brings to …
Murder Inc.: Mysteries of the Mob’s Most Deadly Hit Squad
Part 1 – Irving “Big Gangi” Cohen Walter Sage was being taken for a ride, but he was the only person in the vehicle unaware of this mortally significant fact. He would not have surmised …
The Gangster Report by Scott M. Burnstein – The Chronicles of Nick the Blade
Last week, Pittsburgh mobster Eugene (Nick the Blade) Gesuale rang in the New Year at home for the first time in almost three decades. Gesuale, 71, is one of Pennsylvania’s all-time most-feared gangsters and was …