George Robert Blakey, who wrote the RICO Act that feds use to put mobsters behind bars, dies at 90

RICO provided the legal framework for mob prosecutions, including "Operation Family Secrets," which targeted Chicago Outfit ...

In mafias, marriages are strategic tools, analysis suggests

A new analysis of inter-family marriages in the mafia-type organized crime group 'Ndrangheta, suggests that matrimonial ties ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

All in the famiglia? Mafia marriages used to preserve this notorious mob

"Law enforcement agencies have described the ’Ndrangheta as one of the world’s most dangerous organized crime groups." ...
Observer-Reporter

Everybody dance: Flash mob boogies in unison at Tanger Outlets

At first, the crowd at Tanger Outlets could have been mistaken for the normal cluster that forms when some friends run into ...
The New Yorker

Mobsters We Have Seen on High

The theft of two tiaras and a crown, among other jewels, from the Louvre last month got some Brooklynites recalling the time, almost seventy-five years ago, when two gem-encrusted crowns were swiped ...