The Chicago Syndicate: Frank Costello
Showing posts with label Frank Costello. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frank Costello. Show all posts
Friday, December 01, 2017

Mob Fest '29: The True Story Behind the Birth of Organized Crime

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Bill Tonelli arrives on the scene with his brilliantly subversive Byliner Mob Fest ’29: The True Story Behind the Birth of Organized Crime ....
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Monday, August 07, 2017

Discover "The Mafia Curse"

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The Italian-American experience is a saga of tragedy and triumph - the struggle of proud, religious, life-loving people stained by an unfair...
Monday, May 01, 2017

30 Illegal Years to the Strip: The Untold Stories Of The Gangsters Who Built The Early Las Vegas Strip

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30 Illegal Years To The Strip: The Untold Stories Of The Gangsters Who Built The Early Las Vegas Strip . These are the untold inside stori...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Top 10: Gangsters

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If you browse around your local video store, you'll notice dozens of films about the Mafia. Witness the popularity of Goodfellas , The G...
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Monday, January 30, 2017

How the Mafia Dealt with J. Edgar Hoover?

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Excerpt from Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover , by Anthony Summers: To Costello, and to his associate Meyer L...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

The Democrat National Convention was almost Fixed by the Mafia

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After a dramatic Republican National Convention in Cleveland which saw Donald Trump finally become the party’s official nominee, Hillary Cli...
Monday, June 27, 2016

The grandson of Meyer Lansky is a temperature control guy in Tampa

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Gary Rapoport may be the grandson of deceased mobster Meyer Lansky, but in Tampa, he has another claim to fame. Rapoport, owner of 3-G's...
Friday, August 28, 2015

The Grandfather Clause

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Some people think Phil Genovese, Jr. resembles his grandfather. "Around the eyes, maybe," the world's newest novelist was sa...
Thursday, July 09, 2015

Bringing Down the Mob: The War Against the American Mafia

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Longtime business associates Allen Dorfman and Irwin Weiner frequently lunched together. On a day in January 1983, they emerged from Dorfman...
Thursday, July 02, 2015

The Crazy Story Of Frank Sinatra Playing A Club For A Week Straight Because Sam Giancana Was Mad At JFK

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The Mafia detested the administration of John F. Kennedy as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy raised the number of mob convictions from 35 ...
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Friday, June 26, 2015

Time to End Mob Stereotypes?

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FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO this fall, in the tiny town of Apalachin, near Binghamton, N.Y., Americans were unexpected guests at the coming-out pa...
Monday, January 03, 2011

Las Vegas Mob Moss, Davie Berman, Started in North Dakota

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The mob boss of the Las Vegas syndicate, who built the city into the gambling capital of the U.S., grew up in North Dakota. Davie Berman l...
Friday, September 12, 2008

Chicago Outfit and New York Families Stretch their Connections Beyond Las Vegas to San Diego

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On August 31, the Union-Tribune printed an obituary on the death of Allard Roen, one of the original developers of Carlsbad’s La Costa Resor...