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By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

For a few years, the New York Mafia seemed to have quieted down. Increased scrutiny from law enforcement coupled with RICO made mobsters rethink their violent deeds, opting for less conspicuous ways of getting…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

The head of an international pharmaceutical firm has been jailed for heading up what is believed to be the world’s biggest ever illegal…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Will a banker finally be held responsible for his financial crimes that led to a global recession? Nope. But as part of the War on Drugs, Alvaro Estuardo Cobar Bustamante, the director of a national Guatemalan bank, was…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Two members of the Nuestra Familia prison gang pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a to racketeering conspiracy charge.…

By Gary Jenkins for Gangsters Inc. via Gangland Wire

Cleveland Mafia boss Angelo Lonardo (photo above) was the highest-ranking mob member to ever break the code of Omerta. Lonardo…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Jacky Imbert was a French gangster. A suspect in numerous underworld murders. In an interview with Le Nouvel Observateur magazine in 1993, Imbert said: "The cops always came to ask me about the jobs I didn't do. For the ones I did do, I never saw…

By Milko for Gangsters Inc.

Ljubomir Magas (photo above) was born in Zemun, a municipality in the district of Belgrade, Serbia, formerly known as…

Estimate members: Between 75 and 85 (according to Jerry Capeci)

First Boss: Joseph Profaci…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

The murder of Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa remains a mystery, even 44 years after his disappearance. With…

By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.

Being in the mob isn't all beer and skittles.

Created in 1970, the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act, by 1985, had been used almost one thousand times, to bring criminal and civil cases. RICO…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

The Dutch government and its intelligence service AIVD have “strong evidence” that Iran not only used Moroccan Dutch gangsters to eliminate two of its “enemies of the state” on foreign soil, but…

Estimate members: Between 50 and 90 made members

First Boss: James "Big Jim" Colosimo

Primary rackets: Gambling, extortion and loan sharking.…

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…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Spanish authorities, in close cooperation with the Albanian Police and Europol, have busted an alleged gang of burglars…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Gulf Cartel commandante Luis Ivan Nino-Duenez was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to conspiracy to import large amounts of…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

The leader of an MS-13 clique in Columbus,…

By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.              

“You never know what enough is unless you know what is more than enough.” - William Blake     

It’s a story with more twists and turns than a novel by Agatha Christie. A list of…

This is part 2 of Five Minutes to Midnight. Read part 1 here.

By Thom L. Jones for…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

The infamous Westies gang from Hell’s Kitchen, New York, continues to fascinate fans of the true crime genre. Upcoming television series The Flannagans will…