Home - Crime and Cocktails Mafia History and Information https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html The Last Word: The Cocktail: That Refused to Die Champagne on the Books: The Ultimate Signal Atomic Cocktails and Mob Cash: The Strange Marriage of Nuclear Tourism and Organized Crime The Crimes at the White House Honeyed Bee’s Knees: Masking Imperfection, Protecting Reputation How Speakeasies Were Funded, Protected, and Shut Down The Five Families: Blood, Power, and the Empire Beneath New York The Doctor Who Bought Time “I Was Just Following Orders”: The Deadliest Lie in Organized Crime Prohibition & the Mob: How America’s Dry Law Built a Criminal Empire in a Glass “Carlo Gambino – The Invisible Boss” Vito Genovese: Power Through Denial Paul Castellano: The Sick Boss Nobody Wanted to Admit Joseph “Joe Bananas” Bonanno: The Disappearing Don Vincent “Chin” Gigante: The Oddfather Who Weaponized Weakness Stefano Magaddino: The Fading Patriarch Heavy is the Crown: The Bosses Who Couldn’t Run Sam Giancana, Phyllis McGuire, and the Cost of Craving the Spotlight The Trauma Doctors of New York Dr. Leonard Schecter — Treating Wounded Gangsters Off the Books (New York) Prison Doctors & “Medical Transfers” for Mafia Inmates Dr. Paul Castellano (No relation) – Providing Alibi-Friendly Medical Records Speakeasy Mob Connections: How Hidden Bars Became Criminal Headquarters The El Fey Club: Where Prohibition Met Glamour and Grit Sin City’s Hidden Hand: How the Mob Secretly Ran Las Vegas in the 1950s and 60s The Big Lie: John Gotti Was Innocent — The Teflon Illusion The Big Lie: The Mafia Doesn’t Exist — The Code of Denial 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 Big Lie: The Mob Only Hurt Its Own — The Civilian Casualty Myth GAVEL FOR HIRE: INSIDE THE MOST CORRUPT COURTOOM IN AMERICAN HISTORY When Trust Becomes a Death Sentence: Vario’s Inner Circle and the Politics of Elimination Diplomats of Blood: The Mafia Family That Mastered Control Without War Empire of Promises, Empire of Fear: Huey Long’s Corruption, Crime Ties, and Violent End The Ballot and the Barrel: Democracy in the Shadow of a Gun Sanctified by Proximity: Billy Graham, Richard Nixon, and the Dangerous Seduction of the Oval Office 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 House Drink Was a Signal The Castellammarese War — “This Will Be Over Soon” (It Wasn’t) 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 Home