American loves its bad guys. Pop culture has been fascinated by the Mafia for decades. Hollywood has immortalized mobsters in films like the Godfather, Goodfellas and shows like the Sopranos. Check out these stories on real life Mafia dons in federal prison.
He climbed his way up to the top floor of the Mexican Mafia: La Eme — a bloodthirsty California prison gang which originated in the mid-1950s. His body is covered in Mafia tattoos, including a …
In the new season of Narcos, the Cali Cartel’s partner in Mexico, Amado Carrillo Fuentes aka “el señor de los cielos,” is introduced as a playboy smuggler going over the logistics of the cocaine trade …
In the years since Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance a lot of criminals have been popping up out of the woodwork and claiming they know what happened to him. But it’s proved to be more hype than …
There was a lot of speculation about the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. Who did it, why did it happen, and what did it mean were the main questions everyone was asking. After Hoffa’s disappearance …
Once Hoffa got out of prison he was on a mission to regain his rightful place as Teamsters president, but a lot of people didn’t want that to happen. Jimmy Hoffa has become a touchstone …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XCC0fEYGK4 Almost 16 years after his 2002 death due to complications caused by throat cancer, John Gotti remains a Mafia icon. From Growing Up Gotti in the mid 2000s to the upcoming John Travolta …
JOHNNY BOONE GREW MARIJUANA ON AN INDUSTRIAL SCALE UP IN THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS IN KENTUCKY. AFTER GETTING BUSTED ONE TO MANY TIMES, HE WENT ON THE RUN TO AVOID A LIFE SENTENCE. When I touched …
Gangland Wire Gangland Wire documents the investigation and fall of the four Midwest Mob families. Those families have never fully recovered from that fall. They lost control of the billion- dollar Central States Teamster Pension …
*This is an excerpt from Crazy Charlie:Revolutionary or Neo-Nazi? A book about Carlos Lehder from the Medellin Cartel By Ron Chepesiuk In September 1981, a little more than a year after acquiring Norman’s Cay, Carlos …
Its the twentieth anniversary of Casino, the seminal mob movie that starred Joe Pesci and Robert DeNiro as high profile mob players who ruled the roost in Las Vegas at the height of the casino …
