Ruby Stein: The Millionaire Who Made the Mistake of Crossing Jimmy Coonan In Hell’s Kitchen, money could buy a lot of things. It could buy silence. It could buy loyalty.…
The Irish Mob War: Mickey Spillane, Jimmy Coonan and the Battle for Hell's Kitchen Before the Westies became synonymous with murder, dismemberment and the dark side of Hell’s Kitchen, there…
The Westies and the Javits Center: How a Manhattan Megaproject Became a Mob Battleground There was a time when Hell’s Kitchen smelled of coal smoke, whiskey, garbage and the Hudson…
The Attorney General, the Mob and New Orleans: Jack Gremillion’s Louisiana New Orleans had always understood the value of a good secret. Behind the French Quarter balconies, the jazz clubs,…
The Gambling Town: Kentucky's Attorney General and the Mob's Newport Empire Across the River From Cincinnati There was a time when you could cross the Ohio River from Cincinnati into…
The Man in the Statehouse: When Alabama's Attorney General Went to War for the Mob Alabama Had a Problem. Its Name Was Phenix City. There were places in America where…
The Manhattan Federal Courthouse Concrete Scandal and the Dangerous Cost of Corruption How Mafia-Controlled Construction Turned Safety into a Negotiable Expense In New York City, concrete is more than a…
The New Jersey School Construction Scandals and the Cost of Corruption Article 2 in series “How Mafia-Controlled Construction Turned Safety into a Negotiable Expense” The Mafia has always understood a…
Women in the Mafia Nightlife: Power Behind the Bar The Faces You Weren’t Supposed to Watch The men were loud. They leaned back in their chairs, talked with their hands,…
Why History Forgot Them History has a habit of remembering the man at the center of the room. The gangster sitting at the table gets a biography. The nightclub owner…
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