A web visitor just wrote to inquire about a story she heard. The letters in the word "Mafia" each stand for a word in a sentence. The name "Mafia" is an...
What are you reading about the history of organized crime? Would you like to provide us with your comments about the work? I'd be very interested to learn what...
The last mob book I read was "On the Run" by Greg and Gina Hill. I found there story to be more truthful only because they told it as they saw it. Nothing was...
I haven't read that one yet. I confess that I have a difficult time working up interest in Hill. I do appreciate that his story helped illuminate (for many...
I have read "Bound by Honor" He isn't the only mobster that tends to think of him self as an honorable man. Or believes that he did what he had to for his...
... According to Nick Gentile, there was always a commission. The new idea that became a reality with Luciano's rise to power was to eliminate the "president"...
... Actually, I didn't state that very well (the "president" isn't a good analogy, as there was still a commission president after 1931). I'm sorry. Let me try...
The execution of Charles Sberna is still cited by opponents of capital punishment. Sberna was by no means an "innocent" man, but there is abundant evidence...
Michael James Genovese, reputed head of Pittsburgh's Mafia family, died of natural causes at his West Deer PA home on Tuesday at the age of 87. He reportedly...
It was a casino for the masses, but its profits were for the mob. "The purple dusk of twilight time" has set upon Las Vegas' Stardust hotel and casino, once...
The Denver Post recently ran an excellent feature by staff writer Dick Kreck on the Smaldone Crime Family of Denver. The feature was prompted by the death from...
The latest issue of the quarterly current events-oriented MobNews Digest is available for download: http://www.onewal.com/mn200612.pdf The regularly updated...
Another account of the Smaldones is provided, oddly enough, by Gaetano's Restaurant of Denver. The restaurant was once owned by the Smaldone family and reveals...
Havana's Hotel Nacional, home to a casino venture co-owned by gangster Meyer Lansky (and his brother) and Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, was the site of a...
Rick Mattix tells us that the Winter issue of the On the Spot journal ( http://www.onthespotjournal.com/winter.html ) of crime and law enforcement will be just...
... I believe Sammy Gravano's office was at #1809 Stillwell Avenue, Brooklyn, near the corner with Highlawn Avenue. He was ostensibly in the drywall business....
... BTW: I notice the New York Times (Nov. 15, 1991) put 1809 Stillwell Avenue "in Coney Island." If that's the case, it would not be at the Highlawn Avenue...
... avenue ... the ... about ... Coney ... side ... have ... on "1809 Stillwell Ave." also produces a couple of public record spreadsheets showing New York...
Recently on the history channel show "lost and found" The said the barber chair Albert Anastasia was shot in is on display in the window front of a store in...
... MB, The chair was reportedly part of the exhibition, "Made in America," put on by curator Arthur Nash in a storefront - 178 Mulberry Street - next to...
Thank you!!! Does anyone know how to get incontact with Arthur Nash? ... MB, The chair was reportedly part of the exhibition, "Made in America," put on by...
You can get a glimpse of the Made in America" exhibition at Arthur Nash's website at www.myspace.com/MOBinAmerica Nash says the show went over "like...
Well, I was off just a little there, Tom. We mailed out the Winter issue today. Below is the lineup this time. All fine articles that we're especially proud of...
The Mob-News blog (current events in organized crime) has moved. Anyone who subscribed to the news feed or linked to the page should update the URL. The...
The Winter 2006-7 issue is especially impressive. Terrific photos and plenty of them. Excellent articles (including one by my favorite writer). If you haven't...
Thanks, Tom! Here's the lineup for the next issue, coming out in March. Rick Mattix "Handsome Jack" Klutas Comes to Iowa by Lori Hyde The Good Killers: 1921's...
A few items relating to mob books: - First, I am very happy to announce that the biography I coauthored with Martha Sheldon is now available for purchase....
Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2007). Two decades after wowing us with Donnie Brasco-related revelations, former undercover...
