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Mickey Burke appears in Goodfellas for a single scene. She is the hostess wife in the living room, the woman who throws the party and delivers the gossip, present at the moment Karen Hill first understands she is not married to a regular man. That is everything the most important mob film ever made decided … Read more

On October 22, 1983, at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois, two correctional officers were killed in a single shift by members of one gang. The facility was the toughest in the federal system, the successor to Alcatraz. Inside the Control Unit, the most restrictive housing complex in America, a prisoner named Thomas Silverstein … Read more

On July 15, 1988, just after dawn, a convoy of Bolivian special forces moved along a dirt road toward a vast cattle ranch called El Sogal. Inside the main house, a 62-year-old man in a silk robe was drinking coffee and watching the sun rise over his 400,000 acres of forest and pasture. He heard … Read more

In July 1943, an American tank rolled through the streets of a small Sicilian village looking for a man the Americans would soon call the Godfather. Don Calò Vizzini was finally in a position to settle a score with the dictator Benito Mussolini. When Mussolini rose to power, he wanted to revive the glory days … Read more

Salvatore "Toto" Riina remains the most notorious boss in the history of the Sicilian Mafia. He was known above all others for his murderous appetite and for doing what had once been unthinkable: going head-to-head not only with his many rivals but with the Italian state itself. Cosa Nostra was built to remain in the … Read more

In a recent live broadcast, former mob hitman Sammy "The Bull" Gravano addressed a wide range of topics, from the fate of Jimmy Hoffa to his own life inside the Mafia. The conversation moved between viewer questions and Gravano's personal reflections on organized crime, loyalty, and betrayal. Gravano began by expressing frustration over what he … Read more

Frankie Pentangeli tried to warn Michael Corleone about Hyman Roth. He told him that Vito Corleone never trusted Roth, and that Roth had used their Sicilian messenger, Johnny Ola, to get close to the family. Michael did not listen. The consequences were devastating. Michael's own bedroom was shot up with machine guns while his wife … Read more