Mr. Beat gives a brief history of the American Mafia, also known as La Cosa Nostra, or simply The Mob. One book used for the research of this video was Gotti's Rules, by George Anastasia. To purchase, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ray Liotta is teaming up with the History Channel to chronicle the rise and fall of the New York mafia’s most prominent families.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With each edition padded out with investigative archival images and footage, audio recordings, and dramatic recreations, as well ...

Goodfellas, among the greatest American mob films, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this fall—and continues to pop up in real news headlines. A recent New Jersey case demonstrated the mob’s ...

Reppetto's history of the American Mafia, from its humble turn-of-the-century beginnings in small Italian neighborhoods to the 1950–1951 Senate's Kefauver hearings on organized crime that made the mob ...

The story of organized crime in Las Vegas is an intriguing tale of murder greed and corruption. Learn how the mob built the most dazzling and decadent city in the West before being dismantled by ...

In June 1988, the Reagan administration launched the most important US labour case of the past half-century. The government alleged the Italian-American mafia – La Cosa Nostra – had effectively taken ...

LOUIS FERRANTE: I was a criminal from when I was 13. I led a hijack and heist crew of armed robbers within the Gambino crime family. The FBI hunted me. To their credit, they got me. I never informed, ...

A MARTÍNEZ, BYLINE: Last year, I got to speak with Louis Ferrante for the first time. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) LOUIS FERRANTE: I was a criminal from when I was 13. I led a hijack and ...