Mob-Con 2013 - First Ever Mob Convention at the Palace Station @PalaceStationLV

Former gangsters and G-Men will come face-to-face in Las Vegas once again — on decidedly more amicable terms — at the first-ever Mob Convention at Palace Station from Sept. 7-8.

The event, presented by former mobster Frank Cullotta and Las Vegas-based businessman Robert George Allen and sponsored by the Mob Attraction at the Tropicana, brings together former crime family members, lawmen, true-crime writers, historians and entertainers for two days of panel discussions, Q+A sessions, meet-and-greets, memorabilia auctions, vendors and more.

Featured guests include Cullotta (of the Chicago Outfit and Hole in the Wall Gang), Tony Montana (Chicago Outfit), Andrew DiDonato (Gambino Family), Frank Calabrese Jr. (Chicago Outfit), Kenji Gallo (Columbo Family), Dennis Arnoldy (FBI), Vito Colucci (law enforcement), Denny Griffin (law enforcement and author), Warren Hull (author), Gary Magnesen (FBI), Gary Jenkins (law enforcement), Ronald Fino (FBI/CIA) and Cathy Scott (author). More guests are to be announced.

“Las Vegas is the ideal city to host Mob-Con,” Allen said in a statement. “People are fascinated about the Mob and, without the Mob, Las Vegas would not be what it is today. Mob-Con is giving the general public unprecedented access to the individuals who were a part of this history.”

Registration for the conference is $195 and includes a 4-hour historical Mob tour of Las Vegas. Tickets can be purchased through the Mob-Con website.

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Mob Month Panel & Book Signing: Son of a Gun: How to Diss Your Hitman Dad and Keep Friends

Mob Month: Son of a Gun: How to Diss Your Hitman Dad and Keep Friends

1/17/2012 • 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.


Clark County Library
1401 E. Flamingo Road
Las Vegas, NV 89119
Room: Main Theater

Childhood friends Billy Cutolo, Jr. and Andrew DiDonato will discuss growing up in opposing mob families and how Andrew survived the hit put out on him by Billy’s father, “Wild” Bill Cutolo. Moderated by Surviving The Mob and The Battle For Las Vegas author Dennis Griffin.

Book sales/signing will be available at each event. All seating will be on a first come, first served basis. Entry wristbands will be issued starting at 6 p.m. from the Theater box office on day of event only. For more information about any of our Mob Month events, please call 702-507-3458.

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Mobster Confessions

Discovery will premiere MOBSTER CONFESSIONS on Monday, January 9 at 10 PM ET/PT. Andrew DiDonato, John Veasey, Frank Cullotta and Frank Calabrese Jr. are featured in the initial wave of episodes:

MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2011:

10 PM ET/PT - MOBSTER CONFESSIONS - Andrew DiDonato

New York street thug is seduced by the power and protection of the Gambino crime family. Yet once the family turns on him, he must choose between being hunted by the mob or working with authorities to bring them down.

10:30 PM ET/PT - MOBSTER CONFESSIONS - John Veasey

A troubled teen turned hitman kills for the Philadelphia mob but is later targeted by his own mafia family. After surviving an attempted hit, he testifies against the men he once swore to protect.

MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2011:

10 PM ET/PT - MOBSTER CONFESSIONS - Frank Cullotta

The riches of a glittering life in Las Vegas tempt a man to do anything, even kill, for the Chicago Outfit. His world is turned upside down when an FBI sting brings him in to warn him that he's about to be whacked by his own mafia family.

10:30 PM ET/PT - MOBSTER CONFESSIONS - Frank Calabrese Jr.

A son, desperate to escape the grip of his brutal mafia father, faces a difficult decision: turn on his own dad or be forced to continue a life of crime.

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Crime Beat Radio Show Releases Upcoming Program Schedule

Crime Beat: Issues, Controversies and Personalities from the Darkside has been programming since January 28 of this year and is currently averaging 60,000 listeners plus each week, and the figure is growing.

Crime Beat is now pleased to announce its forthcoming schedule:

• May 26: Eric Forchion (AKA NJWeedman)
• Forchion,activist and Rastafarian, will discuss his historic legal brief in New Jersey's Burlington County Superior Court, his upcoming criminal trial and his long-running battle to make marijuana legal and to change the drug laws in the U.S. 
• June 2: Andrew DiDonato (Command Performance)
• DiDonato will reveal how he survived the Mob and led a street soldier’s life in the Gambino crime family
• June 9: Anthony DeStafano
• The crime author will discuss his just released book,Mob Killer: The Bloody Rampage of Charles Carneglia, Mafia Hit Man
• June 16: John Pappas,  Executive Director, Poker Player’s Alliance
• Pappas will discuss issues relating to Internet gambling
• June 23: Nathaniel Vinton and the co-authors from the New York Daily News will discuss their book, American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America's Pastime
• June 30: The Serial killer
• Dan Zupansky, author of Trophy Kill: the Shall We Dance Murder, and Scott Bonn, serial killer expert and professor at Rutgers University, will discuss Zupansky’s book and the mind of the serial killer.
• July 7: David Albright
• Albright will discuss his latest book Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemies

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