Business on the street keeps moving no matter how many people go down.  There are always others waiting in the wings to step up and replace...

Joey Merlino, the flashy former boss of the Philadelphia crime family, is one of the luckiest mobsters in the mafia.  Merlino has survived ...

The name Gotti brings to mind the image of John Gotti as boss of the Gambino crime family, dressed in a two thousand dollar suit.  The publ...

This week the NYPD dedicated a 45 foot boat (known as a launch) to Anthony J Venditti. January 21, 1986, Detective Anthony J. Venditti w...

The Genovese Family has taken a few hits as of late. Considering it is the largest and the most intact family of the five New York families...

The Feds and the NYPD are busy working terrorism cases and trying to slow down the flow of drugs from the cartels. This gives the battered ...

Today there are so many stories in the news about bad guys in law enforcement. Some are true and some are not.  The truth is that there are...

People romanticize the Mafia in movies, but the truth is very far from the picture on the big screen.   Betty Hydell, the sister-in-law ...

The owner of Dell’s Maraschino Cherries in Brooklyn, Arthur Mondella, was living a secret life. Much like the fictional character on TV’s...

Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa are referred to as the Mafia Cops.  Louis Eppolito wrote a book named “Mafia Cop: The Story of an Hone...

It is funny what stories the mainstream media will pick up and what  they won't.  I have written about Shrimp Boy the Dragonhead of Chee...

1987 was a good year for John Gotti.   He was boss of the Gambino Family and he had been acquitted in a high profile case.  He knew that he ...