The Mysterious Lawyer X
Nicola Gobbo defended Melbourne’s most notorious criminals at the height of a gangland war. They didn’t know she had a secret.
Nicola Gobbo defended Melbourne’s most notorious criminals at the height of a gangland war. They didn’t know she had a secret.
Evan Ratliff California Sunday Jan 2020 50min Permalink
A single working mom begins a whirlwind romance with a man named Martin Lewis, then discovers that Martin Lewis doesn’t exist. A story that picks up where GoodFellas left off.
Matthew Pearl, Greg Nichols Truly*Adventurous Jan 2019 40min Permalink
“The caller reminded me I had written about her killing three decades earlier.”
Mary Jordan The Washington Post Dec 2018 20min Permalink
It didn't matter if these clubs were in Cleveland, Portland, Corpus Christi or Baton Rouge—if it was a nightclub, the owners were the Mob. For a good forty years the Mob controlled American show business.
Kliph Nesteroff WFMU Feb 2012 30min Permalink
His father was a notorious figure in Providence organized crime. Boxing offered a different path for Jarrod Tillinghast—but it didn’t stop him from slipping into his old ways and robbing drug dealers with his neighborhood friends.
Tim Struby Victory Journal Dec 2017 20min Permalink
A mobster, a family and the crime that won’t let them go.
Dan Barry New York Times May 2017 25min Permalink
The city that fell in love with the mob.
David Grann The New Republic Jul 2000 30min Permalink
The battle to make The Godfather pitted director Francis Ford Coppola against producers including Robert Evans, and the production itself against the real life mob.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Mar 2009 Permalink
The lonesome death of Arnold Rothstein, notorious gambler, inspiration for the character Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby, alleged fixer of the 1910 World Series, opiate importation pioneer, mobster.
Nick Tosches Vanity Fair May 2005 40min Permalink
They were florists working in Amsterdam’s largest flower market. They were also members of one of the most powerful arms of the Italian mafia. An investigation into how organized crime has gone global.
Steve Scherer Reuters Apr 2016 Permalink
Searching for a ghost of Meyer Lansky’s Cuba, a sex-show star who quietly disappeared from the island and was later immortalized in The Godfather Part II.
Mitch Moxley Roads & Kingdoms Dec 2015 Permalink
Nearly 70 years after Bugsy Siegel’s unsolved murder in Beverly Hills, a family finally comes forward: they know who did it.
Amy Wallace Los Angeles Sep 2014 15min Permalink
How the feds went after Thick Neck, Guilty, Stomper, Gunner, Lucky, Menace, and the rest of the Amernian mob in Los Angeles.
Hayley Fox LA Weekly Jul 2014 15min Permalink
How a high-stakes poker game that started at Tobey Maguire’s house became part of a $100 million gambling and money-laundering operation orchestrated by the Russian mob.
Robert Kolker New York Jun 2013 20min Permalink
How Singaporean mobster Tan Seet Eng, aka Dan Tan, and a global network of fixers influenced as many 680 soccer matches at the highest levels.
Brian Phillips Grantland Feb 2013 10min Permalink
When the East Coast mob showed up in L.A. in 1946, the LAPD formed a ruthess special unit to run them out of town: the Gangster Squad.
Paul Lieberman The Los Angeles Times Oct 2008 30min Permalink
How Tony Galeota went from mobbed-up teen on Long Island to legendary strip club manager in Miami to distraught prisoner in a Panamanian jail.
Michael E. Miller The Miami New Times Oct 2012 20min Permalink
On the Boston mobster’s exes.
T.J. English The Daily Beast Jun 2012 20min Permalink
The enduring system of organized crime in Naples.
William Langewiesche Vanity Fair Apr 2012 35min Permalink
Ten years ago, a man moved to Marsing, Idaho. He had a strange accent and didn't know much about cattle. The folks in Marsing were a little skeptical at first, but when he built a house and started a family, he earned his neighbors' acceptance. Last February, while buying hay, he was cornered by federal agents and arrested for violent crimes tied to the Boston Mob. And the town wondered: Who the hell is Jay Shaw?
Sean Flynn GQ Nov 2011 25min Permalink
On the lifestyle of a fugitive retiree, and how it came to an end.
Shelley Murphy The Boston Globe Oct 2011 25min Permalink