The Chicago Syndicate: Lucky Luciano
Showing posts with label Lucky Luciano. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lucky Luciano. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Rumrunning in Suffolk County: Tales from Liquor Island #LongIsland #Books

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Nicknamed "Liquor Island," Long Island was rumrunner's paradise during Prohibition. Rumrunning in Suffolk County: Tales from...
Wednesday, December 04, 2019

FBI Files Show Links of Legendary Underworld Figure Meyer Lansky to Chicago

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Meyer Lansky was a powerful New York underworld figure involved in the mob’s efforts to create a nationwide network of gangsters and contro...
Monday, October 08, 2018

Frank Sinatra and the Mob

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"Sinatra and the Mob" Frank Sinatra always denied his ties to the Mafia , and neither government investigators nor the press c...
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, 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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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...
Saturday, April 02, 2016

"Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires"

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Face it--there seemingly will always be a market for certain books. Just choose to chronicle some facet of the Kennedys, the Nazis or, as Se...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Don't Call Me Bugsy Documentary

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A curious phenomenon occurs all too often with documentary films about organized crime. Even the most rational and high-minded documentarian...
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

Only Daughter of Meyer Lansky, Writes Tell-All-Memoir "Daughter of the King: Growing Up in Gangland"

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In this tell-all memoir , the only daughter of the man who was considered the "brains of the Mob" opens the door on her glamorous—...
Wednesday, July 01, 2015

MAFIA-PEDIA - The Government's Secret Files on Organized Crime

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The government has opened an old treasure trove of information on some 800 gangland goons who wielded power during the Mafia's Golden Ag...

The Mob Mentality that Tried to Shut Down the Filming of The Godfather

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Death threats, shootings, strikes and bomb-scares ... John Patterson explains how - and why - the mafia tried to shut down the filming of Th...