Home - Crime and Cocktails Mafia History and Information https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Friends of Ours The Friendly Climate: Earl Long, Carlos Marcello, and Louisiana’s Open-Door Underworld The Sunshine Racket: Fuller Warren, Florida, and the State That Let the Slots Sing The Safest Bet: Vail Pittman, Las Vegas, and the State That Welcomed the Syndicate The Desert Laundromat: How Mob Money Became Legit in Las Vegas The Bee’s Knees: Sweet Enough to Hide a Crime Gangster Favorite Drinks Were About Control, Not Excess Women, Cocktails, and the Illusion of Innocence The Machine That Never Slept: New York, Downstate Politics, and the Art of Looking Tough The Man Who Wouldn’t Stay Dead: Jack “Legs” Diamond and the High Cost of Living Fast Lucky Luciano’s Open Table: How the Mafia Welcomed Outsiders, Immigrants, and Misfits Atomic Cocktails and Mob Cash: The Strange Marriage of Nuclear Tourism and Organized Crime The Boss Who Talked Too Much: John Gotti and the Cost of Public Disrespect How Speakeasies Were Funded, Protected, and Shut Down Champagne Was the Ultimate Flex Why Cocktails Survived After the Speakeasy Died Footer From the Boys Boss, Banner, Bullet: Joe Colombo and the Mirage of the Italian-American Civil Rights League The Big Lie: John Gotti Was Innocent — The Teflon Illusion The Castellammarese War — “This Will Be Over Soon” (It Wasn’t) Gin Rickeys: Stretching Supply Without Compromise Attorney–Client Privilege… and the Body Count: Frank Ragano: The Courier Between Worlds Attorney–Client Privilege… and the Body Count: Melvin Belli: The King of Torts… and Public Spectacle The Five Families: Blood, Power, and the Empire Beneath New York This Day Empire of Promises, Empire of Fear: Huey Long’s Corruption, Crime Ties, and Violent End The Big Lie: The Mafia Doesn’t Exist — The Code of Denial Header Post The Governor Who Looked Away: Len Small, Prohibition, and the Statehouse That Made Room for the Mob The Pardon Machine: Harold Hoffman, New Jersey and the Business of Mercy The Man Who Thought He was King:  How Joe Bonano Brought Down His Own Empire Speakeasy Mob Connections: How Hidden Bars Became Criminal Headquarters The House Drink Was a Signal Bootleg Bourbon: The Currency of the Underground Sanctified by Proximity: Billy Graham, Richard Nixon, and the Dangerous Seduction of the Oval Office The Ballot and the Barrel: Democracy in the Shadow of a Gun Honeyed Bee’s Knees: Masking Imperfection, Protecting Reputation The Big Lie: Omertà Is About Honor — The Silence That Protected Predators The Big Lie: Al Capone Was Just a Bootlegger — The Tax Evasion Smokescreen The Crimes at the White House The Big Lie: The Mob Only Hurt Its Own — The Civilian Casualty Myth GAVEL FOR HIRE: INSIDE THE MOST CORRUPT COURTOOM IN AMERICAN HISTORY The Last Word: The Coocktail: That Refused to Die Diplomats of Blood: The Mafia Family That Mastered Control Without War When Trust Becomes a Death Sentence: Vario’s Inner Circle and the Politics of Elimination Dr. Paul Castellano (No relation) – Providing Alibi-Friendly Medical Records Prison Doctors & “Medical Transfers” for Mafia Inmates Home