Big Mob trouble in the Big Easy
Organized crime’s influence in New Orleans is at the center of a legal drama airing on Showtime through January. Titled…
Year: 2020
Re-edited ‘Godfather: Part III’ wins applause
Francis Ford Coppola’s re-edit of The Godfather: Part III is receiving praise from critics who say the changes have streamlined…
Blowing the whistle on Mob-connected sports betting
In the fourth quarter of a 2002 NBA conference playoff game, Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant elbowed the Sacramento…
The Kefauver hearing in Las Vegas
The U.S. Senate’s Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, chaired by Tennessee Democrat Estes Kefauver, focused attention…
‘The Godfather: Part III’ is getting a makeover
With a thunderstorm raging outside the kitchen window, Michael Corleone in The Godfather: Part III expresses anger at the Mafia…
Did the Chicago Outfit elect John F. Kennedy president?
A number of authors assert, based on claims by individuals who were linked in one way or another to organized…
Federal law enforcement agencies announce series of major busts
While most of us are focused on the pandemic and the final weeks of the presidential campaign, federal law enforcement…
Decades of temperance activism led to passage of Prohibition 100 years ago
All the tumult of 2020 makes it easy to forget that it is a huge anniversary in the history of…
‘Goodfellas’ still going strong after 30 years
In the painting, a man with white hair and beard, his left hand steering an outboard motor, is piloting a…
Capone, Torrio and the Sunshine City, St. Petersburg, Florida
Ninety-five years ago, during the summer of 1925, Florida was in the midst of a massive land boom. Real estate…