All Blog Posts Tagged 'Casino' (83)
The Truth Behind Movie Classic Casino
By David Amoruso
Hollywood loves gangsters. Not because film makers condone their crimes, but because their stories make them lots of money. It’s difficult to name any other genre that has so many titles based on a true story. Yet, despite this label, the true story often gets twisted to fit the silver screen. That is why Gangsters Inc. shares its knowledge of the…
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Organized Crime in Australia
As the sixth largest country in the world, Australia has a lot of room for people who are looking for new territory to commit crimes. Discovered by Dutch explorers, Australia eventually fell under British rule. The British used the far-away continent as an isolated prison in the sun after they lost control of the United States. Britain sent its most hated inmates to…
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Money launderer of powerful US-based Russian Mafia boss pleads guilty
By Gangsters Inc. Editors
A man who laundered money for the Russian Mafia pleaded guilty in Manhattan Federal Court on Wednesday. Daniel Daniel admitted conspiring with US-based…
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Gangsters Inc.'s Showbiz
Organized crime is big business. And not just of the illegal kind. Each year, millions are made by film studios, writers, and media giants by turning stories about stone cold gangsters and Mafiosi in cold hard dollars.
We at Gangsters Inc. thoroughly enjoy these products and decided to shine some light on them in this section. This is where we discuss the true story behind some…
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The Chicago Outfit: From "Scarface" Capone to Tony Accardo and Joey "The Clown" Lombardo
First Boss: James "Big Jim" Colosimo
Primary rackets: Gambling, extortion and loan sharking.
Boss: The Chicago Outfit has always been very…
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Former Mafia hitman Frank Cullotta dies at 81 – Story was immortalized in Martin Scorsese’s epic Casino
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
Frank Cullotta, once one of the most feared men in Las Vegas, passed away on Thursday. He was 81. As the right-hand of Anthony Spilotro, the mobster who oversaw the…
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WATCH | Chicago mobster Frank Calabrese Jr.’s dad “would strangle you, cut your throat from ear to ear”
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
The decision to testify against his father was a life-changing one, former Chicago Outfit mobster…
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Interpol arrests 6 ‘Ndrangheta fugitives in investigation spanning the globe, showcasing Mafia’s global reach
By Gangsters Inc. Editors
A global investigation involving Interpol and law enforcement agencies in multiple countries this week resulted in the arrests of six wanted fugitives with strong ties to the Calabrian Mafia in Albania, Argentina and Costa…
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The Rise of Mafia Boss Joe “Loose” Iacobacci: The California Swing
By Robert Sberna for Gangsters Inc.
The death of Joe “Loose” Iacobacci in April has spurred…
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The death of Cleveland Mafia boss Joe “Loose” Iacobacci – From crazy soldier to cunning mob leader
By Robert Sberna for Gangsters Inc.
By many accounts, Joe “Loose” Iacobacci forged a model career in the Mafia. The Cleveland-born Iacobacci rose…
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Philly underboss “Crazy Phil” Leonetti talks about hanging out with Meyer Lansky, calls Merlino a “lowlife”
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
Former Philadelphia Mafia family underboss Phil Leonetti doesn't like the limelight. But he made an…
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Asia’s Most Wanted Drug Lord - Profile of Triad boss Tse Chi Lop, nicknamed “Brother Number Three”
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
The world is a big place. While everyone was focusing on the narco kingpins in the Americas, a powerful Triad boss was operating in the shadows, organizing the Asian drug trade under his rule,…
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Better Call Saul? Here’s our Top 5 mob lawyers
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
Better Call Saul is back! AMC’s Breaking Bad spin-off is heating up more and more with every season. We at Gangsters Inc. are glad to see Saul Goodman, everyone’s favorite hustler-turned-lawyer, back again.
Played by actor Bob Odenkirk,…
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The demise of Chicago mobster Tony Spilotro’s Hole in the Wall gang
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The Irishman: Meet the real Mafia muscle behind Martin Scorsese’s gangster epic
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
Martin Scorsese’s latest Mafia epic The Irishman finally hit…
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The Clown: Profile of Chicago Mafia boss Joseph Lombardo
By David Amoruso
Joseph Lombardo was considered one of the longest leading members of the Chicago Outfit. He was nicknamed The Clown, and proved that he could play that role. When he was arrested in 1964 for…
Added by Gangsters Inc. on October 21, 2019 at 10:42am — 1 Comment
The lucrative and violent years of Las Vegas mobster Tony Spilotro’s infamous Hole in the Wall gang
By Gary Jenkins for Gangsters Inc.
“They were motion detectors, but we weren’t too concerned about that, I could have shut off the alarm, but there was too much traffic in front of the building, so I just figured we’d just go through the…
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The Boys from Bethnal Green: How the infamous Kray Twins ruled the London underworld
By Thom L. Jones
East is East
American author Robert Warshow declared in an essay: “For the gangster there is only the city, he must inhibit it in order to personify it….not the real city but that dangerous sad city of the imagination which is so much more important, which is the modern world. And…
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The Boys from Bethnal Green – Part 5: How the infamous Kray Twins ruled the London underworld
By Thom L. Jones
This is the final part of a 5-part series. To go back to part 4 click here. To start at the beginning…
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The Boys from Bethnal Green – Part 4: How the infamous Kray Twins ruled the London underworld
By Thom L. Jones
This is part 4 of a series. To go back to part 3 click here. To skip to part 5 scroll down.…
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