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By Milko for Gangsters Inc.

Prison plays a big role in the underworld. It’s where gangsters go when they are caught, the place where they learn new tricks and meet new associates, perhaps even join a gang. Some of these gangs now wield power and…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

An associate of the Genovese crime family’s…

By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.

According to French website, “France 24,” the ‘Ndrangheta, rooted in the southern Italian region of Calabria, has surpassed Sicily’s more famous Cosa Nostra to become Italy’s most powerful mafia group, which…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

A leader of the Aryan Knights prison gang was sentenced to life in federal prison on Thursday. 55-year-old Harlan Hale pleaded guilty to one count of participating in a RICO conspiracy and one count of committing a violent…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Women who climb to the top of the underworld remain a rare breed, but every now and then several manage to break through that glass ceiling. Among them Moroccan-Dutch drug boss Naima Jillal, dubbed “The Godmother of…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Thanks, but no thanks. Two religious paintings donated by an infamous Camorra Mafia boss were removed from a church last week on orders of the archbishop. The move occurs not long after Pope Francis loudly condemned Italy’s…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

They call him “Mouf” or “Poto” and they know he is one of France’s biggest narcotics traffickers. 41-year-old Moufide Bouchibi allegedly supplies France with 10 percent of its annual hashish intake. Police were on…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

All is fair in love and war… until the feds find out. 62-year-old Colombo crime family capo Joseph…

By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.

Carl Sifakis in The Mafia Encyclopedia writes this about Frank Bompensiero:

“In the treacherous world of Mafia hit men, few characters proved shiftier than Frank ‘Bomp’ Bompensiero.... For decades regarded as one of…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Drug traffickers and gangsters all over the globe were shocked to find their encrypted text messages in the hands of law enforcement agencies in Europe and the United States. Large service providers called EncroChat and…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

One of Italy’s most dangerous fugitives was arrested in Barcelona, Spain, on Friday. 35-year-old Giuseppe Romeo is a member of the ‘Ndrangheta, the…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

The daughter of notorious cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes pleaded guilty…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was a dead man walking. No secret there. He was fighting several powerful enemies, among them the Cali Cartel. This business-like criminal organization made money like water and…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

There is no retiring from the mob, they say. But what about going on the lam and finding a new career? A reputed Italian mob boss was arrested at a job center in Spain where he was trying to find a legit income. He…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

She led the life of a fabulously rich housewife, Narcos-style, but now she faces a much grimmer reality: locked up in an American prison. 31-year-old Emma Coronel Aispuro is the wife of notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin…

By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.

"Death will be the proof that we lived." - Rosario Castellanos

The Killer.

It seemed to some, Leoluca Bagarella organized his murders with the same care and deliberation you might…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

It ain’t easy being a gangster. And when things go bad, they go bad every way you can imagine. As happened to 31-year-old Jason “Hood” Figueroa, a Hartford member of the Almighty Latin Kings Nation.

Figueroa…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

On Valentine’s Day most people are thinking about their loved ones. Husbands browse the stores in search for that one gift to tell the wife how much they love her, while youngsters arrange to meet up at the park for a…

By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.

If you stroll through the gardens of Villa Bonanno, in Piazza Vittoria, Palermo, late in the afternoon as the sun is slowly sinking over Tunisia, the towering palms and beautiful walkways that seem to meander forever can quietly seduce you. Everywhere,…

By Milko for Gangsters Inc.

Drug boss Shurendy Quant (photo above) came from a small island in the Caribbean, but quickly saw his influence grow from the tropics into the rainy streets of Western Europe. His network enabled him to allegedly establish…