All Blog Posts Tagged 'Video' (59)

By David Amoruso

Marijuana can now be bought legally in many states in the U.S. but back in the 1980s it was a high-priced and highly illegal commodity. As such it was smuggled into the country by traffickers who knew…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Becoming a gang member isn’t easy. And most gangsters are forced into the gang life because of poverty and a troublesome situation at home. They take to the streets to find a new family and find it in the older guys wearing colors that identify them as part of something bigger.

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By David Amoruso

Chicago mob boss Al Capone’s story never gets boring. It has been told in many ways and through the eyes of various of his associates and enemies. In Gangster Land, we get to see Capone through the eyes of his infamous…

By David Amoruso

Follow the money, seasoned investigators will tell you. You’ll never know where it will take you. In the new BBC crime series McMafia the money takes us around the world – from money launderers in Dubai, cyber criminals in India, black marketeers in Zagreb, and …

By David Amoruso

It was one of the biggest art heists in the world, the largest one in the United States. $500 million worth of paintings were stolen from Boston’s Gardner Art Museum. Investigators soon found that the theft had the Mafia’s fingerprints on it.

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By David Amoruso

There are two ways to rob a bank: Like an amateur or as a trained professional. California’s most successful robbery crew is set to make the score of a lifetime as they target a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank in downtown…

By David Amoruso

It’s the scream that hits you. Then the gunshots. Followed by the realization that you’ve just watched and heard a mob hit. When Philadelphia crime family underboss Joseph “Joey Chang” Ciancaglini was shot in his diner in March of 1993 federal agents were watching and listening as well. It did little to help Joey Chang,…

By David Amoruso

Don’t make any bad lawyer jokes around this guy. In Acts of Vengeance, Antonio Banderas stars as Frank Valera, a fast-talking attorney who transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he finds out who killed his wife and daughter and has his revenge.

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By David Amoruso

Oh, there will be blood. Plenty of it. Hell, the title pretty much promises it! Vince Vaughn stars as Bradley Thomas, a man who brings the pain as he brawls fellow inmates in a desperate murder plot to save his wife who’s being held hostage by a drug boss.

After playing a Los Angeles crime boss in the second…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Mob author George Anastasia and crime reporter Dave Schratweiser discuss the government's racketeering case against Philly Mafia boss Joseph Merlino. The flamboyant Don was caught on tape talking about committing murder and…

By David Amoruso

A bunch of pipe slinging bank robbers face a tougher opponent than the one they targeted after cracking the wrong safe in The Vault, starring Hollywood heartthrob James Franco as a bank manager in charge of some sinister stuff.

Two estranged sisters, played by Taryn Manning and Francesca Eastwood (daughter of…

By David Amoruso

Gangsters better watch who they call a bitch, because there’s a new powerhouse in town and SHE doesn’t mess around. Meet Mary, a deadly hitwoman who dresses the part while doing contract murders for an organized crime family in Boston.  

Mary is played by Taraji P. Henson, known from the hit television series…

By David Amoruso

Call it Top Gun on cocaine! In American Made actor Tom Cruise plays pilot Barry Seal, a man who is offered a job smuggling drugs for the Medellin drug cartel led by Pablo Escobar and starts working as an…

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.

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By Gangsters Inc. Editors

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has undergone quite a few changes in its 109-year existence. Starting out investigating mostly white-collar crimes, it made its name hunting infamous bank robbers and cemented its legacy as a crime busting force with its crackdown on the Italian American Mafia. But in…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

As dark and gritty as the world of violent crime may get, it remains a brilliant source for jokes. Case in point: The Hitman’s Bodyguard, an action-packed comedy starring Samuel L. Jackson as a hitman who is assigned his former enemy - known as the world’s best bodyguard - played by Ryan Reynolds, to protect…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

He may have been diminutive, but mob boss “Little Nicky” Scarfo turned the city of Philadelphia into a war zone during his reign atop the…

Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano is arguably the most famous turncoat in the history of the American Mafia. When the Gambino crime family underboss flipped and…

By David Amoruso

Ah, the Roaring Twenties, how we can’t get enough of those glorious times when women were broads, men were fellas, and everyone dressed to the nines while sipping some illegal brew during Prohibition. Hollywood knows this all too…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

In a world where most gangster movies based on a true story tend to deviate and take a left turn into a fictional alley a film like 22 Bullets is a breath of fresh air. Known under its original French title as L’immortel, 22 Bullets tells the fictional-yet-true story of Marseille mob…