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The Mobster Charged with the ‘Goodfellas’ Heist Was Found Not Guilty
"Even John Gotti didn't get this much attention," 80-year-old Vincent Asaro joked after being acquitted of all charges.
An Old Mobster Is Now on Trial for the Massive Airport Heist from ‘Goodfellas’
Vincent Asaro, an 80-year-old said to be a longtime member of the Bonanno crime family, is in court for his alleged role in the 1978 Lufthansa heist, which at the time was the largest cash theft in US history.
With the Sicilian Mafia in Decline, Who Is Running the Mob in Montreal?
Longtime kingpin Vito Rizzuto died in 2013, but no single group has stepped in to fill that power vacuum – yet.
What Happened to the American Mafia?
The FBI says that the mob is still an existential criminal threat in America. We asked some former-Gambino family soldiers and two La Cosa Nostra experts if that's really the case in 2015.
How Some Criminals Evade the Cops for Decades
Most crooks eventually get caught, but some members of Italian organised crime syndicates remain on the lam for decades. How do they do it?
How the Mob Turned Southern Italy into a Toxic Wasteland
Campania Felix has become the "Land of Fires," as it is popularly known. When people travel here, they see continual columns of smoke and flames, signs of the garbage that is torched in the countryside.
Crimine-Infinito: The Complex Structure of the Calabrian Mob
Long considered a "horizontal Mafia," or a simple confederation of clans, the 'Ndrangheta was shown to have a secret hierarchical structure with a central leader, exactly like the better-known Cosa Nostra.
I Almost Got My Head Chopped Off By Illegal Lumberjacks
I was attacked by an angry mob in a Romanian forest.
I Went to a D-List Celebrity Botox Party
Hanging out with a Kim Kardashian lookalike, the “Butt King of New York”, a tequila-selling Mafia wife and the girl who got kicked off Jersey Shore for being too unstable.
Montreal Mob Boss Vito Rizzuto Is Dead
As the (sometimes) undisputed ruler of Montreal’s criminal class, Vito Rizzuto was as close Vito Corleone as we were going to get.
How Will the World Remember Gang Kingpin and FBI Rat Whitey Bulger?
I spoke to a relative of one of Bulger’s victims about the verdict.
My Cousin Joe Was a Hitman for the Boston Mob
I never met him, but I asked some of his old friends what he was like.