While most no longer receive the headlines they once did, several mafias still exist in the U.S. today. These are some of the ...

The mob era in Las Vegas was marked by violence, theft, and corruption, with millions of dollars stolen from resorts and ...

Lord Byron was the first to romanticize their cruelty, and through his testimony, a power of centuries can be verified. It ...

Brenda Vanessa Campos Martinez was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for drug conspiracy and racketeering linked to ...

When it comes to career advice, no kid listens to their parents. That also goes for the offspring of mob bosses. Many send their kids to college attempting to get the new generation to “go straight,” ...

An 82-year-old former street boss in the Boston mafia will go back to prison after federal prosecutors uncovered what they described as a plan to kill several federal officials associated with his ...

Peter Robb’s superb book Midnight in Sicily is a sensuous tour of Sicilian food, art, and urban life. Organized crime, its ostensible subject, lurks in the background — the dark alleyway behind the ...

Growing up as the son of an Italian immigrant in the 1990s, the word “mafia” has been in my lexicon for as long as I remember. It was unavoidable in that era. Media at the time was filled with images ...

But more than that, by drawing attention to the artifice that exists within documentary filmmaking, Mascagni and Morris offer ...