Operation Underworld is usually remembered as a secret pact between the Navy and the Mafia to secure America’s wartime docks, but its influence reached far beyond New York Harbor. At the center of ...

That was the fate of mob captain Dominick “Sonny Black” Napolitano, who had to answer for FBI Special Agent Joe Pistone’s infiltration into his Mafia crew in the famed “Donnie Brasco” case of the late ...

CORLEONE, Italy, April 14, 2006 — -- Deep in the hills outside Palermo, Italy, is a medieval farm town with a history written in blood. The town's name -- Corleone -- literally means "Lionheart." ...

The rivalry between mobsters John Stanfa and Joey Merlino might've started as an internal power struggle, but it didn't stay within the Mafia. Their conflict spilled into the streets of Philadelphia ...

December 16, 1931.Prominent Kansas City fashion entrepreneur Nell Donnelly was kidnapped and held for $75,000 ransom. Two ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – Louis Manocchio, the last Rhode Island boss of the New England crime family, has died. He was 97. Steven O’Donnell, law enforcement analyst for Nexstar’s WPRI and a former ...

Reading “The Don: 36 Rules of the Bosses” is a disconcerting experience, almost as if you are entering into the deepest, darkest thoughts of a Mafia boss’s mind. “I wanted the book to read as if ...