Organized Crime

Hells Angels Cronies, Gambinos Join Forces In Thuggery

Here's some free advice: if you need some quick cash, a loan from a Gambino crime family associate is one of the worst ways to go about getting it. And if being indebted to the mafia isn't enough to scare you off, this might: in at least two cases, a Gambino gangster has teamed up with a Hells Angel ... More >>

Country Club Sopranos

American banks are on a massive crime spree. Obama and Romney hope you won't notice.

Outrage

James "Whitey" Bulger: 25 Things You Should Know About the Captured Boston Irish Mob Legend

Free Whitey! (Just kidding.)After Osama bin Laden's death, James "Whitey" Bulger was the Most Wanted Man in America. Then after 16 years on the run, the mythological South Boston ex-con was caught yesterday in California. Jack Nicholson's character in The Departed was loosely based on Whitey, in the ... More >>

What Mobster's Expressions Really Mean: An Investigation

​Mobsters have a special way of speaking that is all their own, which you probably already know, having watched any number of the excellent mafia-themed films available on Netflix and your various cable channels. The New York Times has an intriguing look into some of the more "esoteric" of tho ... More >>

To Get in the Mob, You Have to Get Nude

​The Mafia is always one step ahead of the rest of us. This is how they operate. We've all seen it in Goodfellas, right? Thus, when FBI agents started sneaking in and infiltrating mob ranks wearing wires and hoping to get the needed dirt to bust them, the Mafia thought of a solution: To get in ... More >>

The Bank Robbery That Would Become 'Dog Day Afternoon'

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 31, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 35 Littlejohn & the mob: Saga of a heist By Arthur Bell Tuesday, August 22. Home about 10 p.m. A message from a friend on my cassette phone unit. "Just heard a couple of homosexuals are holding up a bank ... More >>

Busted Mobsters' Real Crime: Fashion (Gallery)

​The winningly-nicknamed mobsters arrested in this week's FBI bust are accused of the usual stuff, like murder and racketeering. But the New York Post finds them guilty of sartorial crimes as well. "Dapperless dons," cries the Post. (Dapperless is not a word.) These modern-day Capones were in "sor ... More >>

Nailing the Mob's Builders

A contractor tells a billion-dollar industry's dirty secrets

Actor/Bar Owner Bruce Peter DuPré Gets a Mafia Life Lesson

The Avenue B Mob

The Franzeses' Mob Clan Rat Themselves Out

The Soprano family's got nothing on them

Teddy Persico's Wiseguy Gems: "They can't fuck with me. I got nothing to lose."

​For those who enjoy wiseguy swagger, the conversational nuggets revealed in this month's federal racketeering indictment in Brooklyn of a ring of Colombo crime family operatives are not to be missed. The best come from the mouth of a tough-talking leg-breaker named Teddy Persico Jr. Despite ... More >>

MobFellas: Simels, Gleeson, and Shargel

The only-in-NY trial that brings together a lawyer to drug kingpins, his mob attorney, and the Gotti prosecutor

Fox News Gets Mafia Guy to Call Democrats Mobsters, Traitors

In the immortal words of The Simpsons, "The Fox network has sunk to a new low." Here are two Fox News bobbleheads getting mobster/author Michael Franzese to tell them that the Obama Administration is like a crime family. "What do you mean?" asks the female bobblehead. "Extortion?" "I mean just thi ... More >>

Showdown for the BusFellas' Union

A mobster's old cronies vie to keep control

No Witness Protection for Mobster Turned Snitch Joe Campy. PS: He's Hiding in Plain Sight.

PPS: He has a web site.

The Slobby Mob: The Colombo Family Crime Bust

A Slice of Mafia With Your Sparkling Water?

The city's king distributor of bottled beverages likes the wiseguys

More Alleged Mob-Tied School Bus Union Officials Booted

The Hoods on the Bus Go 'Round and 'Round

Corruption at the top of the school-bus union reached middle management as well

Boys on da Bus

Crime-fighter Giuliani somehow skipped the mobsters infesting your kids' school buses

Secrets of the Mob

A geezer gangster sings like a canary

Sins of the Father

Rev. Louis Gigante, kin to the Genovese crime family, slips from hero to slumlord

Bait and Switch

Martin Scorsese, hero of the Hong Kong New Wave, returns the compliment

Still On the Waterfront

Long plagued by Johnny Friendlys, dockworkers fight to take back a mob-infested union

Malice's Restaurant

What Rao's and a gangster-run school bus drivers' union have in common

Spaghetti Western

Rudy's pasta pal

Pier Pressure

Longshoremen's union insists the mob's shadow is receding

Arson for Hire

The Men Who Are Burning New York

The Odd Couple

Mike Bloomberg's tainted outer-borough ally

Looking for Whitey

Gun pockets and presidential ambition in a colorful history of Shamrock gangdom

The Labor Fixer

An aging but innovative racketeer who ran three powerful unions

Bernie Kerik's Bad Company

Another Giuliani aide went to bat for troubled construction firm

The Mob's Engineers

The underworld's reach into the men who build New York's skyscrapers

Atlas shrugged

Judge Hands Labor Racketeering Kingpin a Soft Sentence, Over Prosecutors' Complaints

Analyze This

A Deadly Mobster's Pleading Letter for His Son

Infernal Racket

The Mafia Doesn’t Just Break Legs. It Can Also Break the Spirit.

The Mob Was the City's Watchdog

During Giuliani Cleanup, a Mafia Associate Watched the Money

Mob Rules

••• A Sociologist Unravels the Ties Binding Organized Crime

They Cover the Waterfront

The Mob's Latest Maritime Maneuvers

The Clean-Up Man

Chic Ex-Prosecutor Makes a Bundle Overseeing Teamsters Local

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Dungeons and Dragons

The Con and the Mayor

Why Rudy Giuliani Owes Prison Inmate Mike Lloyd

Sins of the Father

Rudy's Double Standard

Fighting Back

One Woman’s Campaign Against Her Former Union Employer

Why Organized Crime Isn’t What It Used To Be

Union Jacked

How DC 37 became America's most indicted municipal union

The Wiseguy and the Wetlands

A Brooklyn Waterfront Dream House Becomes the Target of an Environmental Probe

The Most Dangerous Mobster in the World

According to the FBI and Israeli Intelligence, Semion Mogilevich Rules Over an Arms-Trafficking, Money-Laundering, Drug-Running, and Art-Smuggling 'Red Mafia'