FIFA executives Blatter and Platini banned from soccer for eight years

Check out The Mob Museum’s interview with journalist Andrew Jennings from our Video Vault When lame-duck FIFA President Sepp Blatter…


Slaying of singer Barbara McNair’s Mob-connected husband in Las Vegas remains a mystery since 1976

Who killed Rick Manzie, husband of popular singer and actress Barbara McNair, in the couple’s Las Vegas home 39 years…


Nevada gas chamber chair goes on display

Jesse Bishop was ready to face death. The man convicted in the 1977 killing of a tourist during an armed…


Ten legacies of Prohibition

The end of Prohibition was perhaps the biggest political reversal in American history. The passage of the 21st Amendment to…


Best Bars in Downtown Las Vegas

Home to lavish resorts and grandiose casinos, Las Vegas has earned quite the reputation for its extravagant lodging and gambling…


Interview with journalist Andrew Jennings, who exposed FIFA scandal, is first entry in online video archive

When The Mob Museum considered who to interview for a planned video production on the bribery scandal embroiling top executives…


Informant’s testimony about 1978 Lufthansa heist sheds new light on key element of “Goodfellas” movie

Henry Hill, the late Mob associate turned government witness, claimed in his book The Lufthansa Heist, co-authored by Daniel Simone…


I vote ‘Aye’

There may never have been a better time to live in Las Vegas than in the early to mid-1990s. The…


“Legend” is latest film portrayal of the Kray twins

The Kray twins, the volatile ex-boxers who went from extortion racketeers in 1950s London to nightclub-owning celebrity gangsters in the…


Mob classic “Goodfellas” debuted in theaters twenty-five years ago

Monday marks a quarter-century since Goodfellas was released in American theaters. It was the highest-grossing movie of the September 21-23,…