Home - Crime and Cocktails Mafia History and Information https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Mafia Cocktail History: Why Prohibition Changed How America Drinks Protection, Payoffs, and Profits: The Economics of Prohibition Nightclubs From Back Room to Ballroom: How the Mafia Built Nightlife Empires Mob Owned Nightclubs: When Organized Crime Went Legit Enough Geography of Prohibition Speakeasies: A City-by-City Noir How Speakeasies Were Funded, Protected, and Shut Down Speakeasy Mob Connections: How Hidden Bars Became Criminal Headquarters The Case Files Prohibition & the Mob: How America’s Dry Law Built a Criminal Empire in a Glass The Stork Club Club Durant The Parady Club The El Fey Club The 21 Club 300 Club The Cotton Club Club Alabam’ The Club Abbey Chumley’s Beaux Arts Restaurant Bill’s Speakeasy Barney Gallant Bal Tabarin The Back Stage Club The Back of Ratner’s Joe Sent Me Prohibition Cocktails Speakeasies Header Home The Syndicate Sour – Risk and Reward Tony Mirra: The Introduction That Became a Death Sentence The Ledger Martini – Accounting in Liquid Form The Bee’s Knees — Sweetness as Camouflage The Gin Rickey — Clean Taste, Dirty Origins The Whiskey Sour – Damage Control in a Glass The Officer’s Tip – Payoff in Disguise The Enforcer’s Old Fashioned – Muscle Meets Money The Payroll Punch – Cash Flow in a Glass Owney “The Killer” Madden: The Gentleman Killer of Broadway Meyer Lansky: The Accountant of the Underworld Bartender’s Choice — Power Without Words Vincent Gigante: The Madman Who Outsmarted the Mafia, the FBI, and America Sonny Black: One Mistake Erased Thirty Years of Loyalty Tommy DeSimone: The Killer Who Could Never Earn His Button Crazy Joey Gallo: The Man Who Finally Stopped Kissing the Ring Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel: The Empire He Built Became His Execution Order Santo Trafficante Jr.: The Shadow King of Havana and Tampa Sam “Momo” Giancana: The Smiling Devil of Chicago Thomas Eboli: The Debt Loyalty Couldn’t PayEboli,