However, facts show how famous mobsters and their associations have continued to sway the modern world and its economy. Who ...

Costello, known as the "Prime Minister of the Underworld," was a symbol of organized crime in New York City during the 20th century. Considered to be one of the most powerful and influential mob ...

Mobsters earned their money by providing illegal goods and services. They were most famous for bootlegging, but also managed gambling, prostitution, and abortion. While outlaws operated ...

January 17 marks 125 years since the birth of Al Capone — one of the most notorious gangsters of all time. He embodied organized crime and has been immortalized in films such as "Scarface" and ...

A former top mobster who turned his back on New York’s murky underworld – and lived to tell the tale – has given his verdict on the most powerful bosses during the Mafia’s ‘golden era’.

At trial, he testified against a group of top mobsters that included ... Nicholas Calabrese also drew back the curtain on the most infamous modern-day Chicago mob hit — the slayings of the ...

Steve Bielenda of Miller Place grew up hearing stories about how the tugboat Lizzie D — which disappeared off the coast of Long Island in 1922 — most ... s legacy of organized crime.

Actually, it went further: It asked us to feel for the Mafiosi. And we did. When mobsters died in The Godfather, audiences wept. Of course, given the artificiality of gangster flicks in the 1930s ...