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Read more about the article The CIA-Mafia Plot to Kill Castro: Spies, Hitmen, and the Dark Marriage of Cold War America
Sam Giancana

The CIA-Mafia Plot to Kill Castro: Spies, Hitmen, and the Dark Marriage of Cold War America

  • Post author:C.F. Marciano
  • Post published:January 3, 2026
  • Post category:Crime Blogs

It sounds like a Hollywood thriller: the CIA hires the Mafia to kill a foreign leader. Except it happened. The mission was real. The plot was dirty. And the target…

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Read more about the article Rudy Giuliani: The Mob-Buster Who Could Never Escape the Mob
Rudy Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani: The Mob-Buster Who Could Never Escape the Mob

  • Post author:C.F. Marciano
  • Post published:December 29, 2025
  • Post category:Crime Blogs

Rudy Giuliani has spent decades polishing a legend — the fearless prosecutor who smashed New York’s Mafia in the 1980s, the righteous hammer of justice who dragged La Cosa Nostra’s…

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Read more about the article Blood, Family, and Borrowed Truths: How Real Mafia Life Bled Into The Godfather
Godfather

Blood, Family, and Borrowed Truths: How Real Mafia Life Bled Into The Godfather

  • Post author:C.F. Marciano
  • Post published:December 19, 2025
  • Post category:Crime Blogs

When The Godfather arrived in bookstores in 1969—and then detonated across movie screens in 1972—it didn’t feel like fiction. It felt like a confession. Audiences sensed it immediately: this wasn’t…

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Read more about the article The Melrose Diner Hit: When Coffee, Cannoli, and Gunfire Collided
Melrose Diner

The Melrose Diner Hit: When Coffee, Cannoli, and Gunfire Collided

  • Post author:C.F. Marciano
  • Post published:December 18, 2025
  • Post category:Crime Blogs

It was just past the quiet hum of late-night business at the Melrose Diner on Passyunk Avenue in South Philadelphia, the kind of greasy-spoon joint where the coffee runs strong…

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Read more about the article Kayfabe and the Mob: Wrestling’s Silent Partnership with Organized Crime

Kayfabe and the Mob: Wrestling’s Silent Partnership with Organized Crime

  • Post author:C.F. Marciano
  • Post published:December 17, 2025
  • Post category:Crime Blogs

Professional wrestling has always existed in the shadows, a business built on illusion, ritualized violence, and silence. It sold fantasy as truth and demanded loyalty in return. Long before it…

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Read more about the article RICO’s First Blood: How a Law Meant for the Mob Toppled a President
Richard Nixon

RICO’s First Blood: How a Law Meant for the Mob Toppled a President

  • Post author:C.F. Marciano
  • Post published:December 14, 2025
  • Post category:Crime Blogs

Richard Nixon did not go to prison. He was never indicted. He was never formally charged under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. And yet, in the darkest irony…

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Read more about the article When Silence Breaks — Mafia Spouses Who Turned on Their Own
Anna Genovese

When Silence Breaks — Mafia Spouses Who Turned on Their Own

  • Post author:C.F. Marciano
  • Post published:December 11, 2025
  • Post category:Crime Blogs

The world of organized crime has long been painted in masculine strokes — men running rackets, ordering hits, enforcing codes of silence. For decades, wives, girlfriends, mistresses were cast as…

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Read more about the article Blood, Betrayal, and Retribution: How the Mafia Had Every Reason and the Power to Kill JFK
John F. Kennedy

Blood, Betrayal, and Retribution: How the Mafia Had Every Reason and the Power to Kill JFK

  • Post author:C.F. Marciano
  • Post published:December 9, 2025
  • Post category:Crime Blogs

The motorcade rolled through Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963, beneath a sunlit sky and the cheers of thousands, but behind the polished chrome and smiling faces lay a far…

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Read more about the article The Loudest Lies: Joe Colombo, Denial-as-Confession, and the Cult of “Fake News”

The Loudest Lies: Joe Colombo, Denial-as-Confession, and the Cult of “Fake News”

  • Post author:C.F. Marciano
  • Post published:December 5, 2025
  • Post category:Crime Blogs

The Loudest Lies: Joe Colombo, Denial-as-Confession, and the Cult of “Fake News” Joe Colombo was the kind of man who understood that truth could be bullied. He believed that if…

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Read more about the article When the Mob Ran the Block: Crime-Control by the Family
Little Italy

When the Mob Ran the Block: Crime-Control by the Family

  • Post author:C.F. Marciano
  • Post published:December 3, 2025
  • Post category:Crime Blogs

Step off the subway in Bensonhurst or wander Mulberry Street in Manhattan, and you’d be forgiven for thinking these neighborhoods are like any other slice of Brooklyn or Lower Manhattan:…

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