All Blog Posts Tagged 'Video' (59)

By David Amoruso

How could Hollywood not make a movie about the drug dealer known as White Boy Rick? Richard Wershe Jr. was barely a teenager when he began trafficking cocaine and only 14 when he became an FBI informant, the youngest in history.

His story now hits the big screen starring Richie Merritt as…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Who killed legendary rapper Notorious B.I.G.? His murder occurred in 1997, but no arrest has been made and though the investigation remains open it’s at a standstill. Just like the investigation into the killing of his hip hop rival…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Saturday Night Live finished off its season with a bang last night when it brought in a star-studded cast to parody the infamous final episode of HBO’s The Sopranos. As Journey’s Don’t…

By David Amoruso

What’s in a title? Loving Pablo is the latest in a long line of documentaries, television series and movies about Colombia’s most notorious drug lord and proof that Hollywood’s love for…

By David Amoruso

Once a criminal always a criminal? The answer to that question depends on who you ask, but in the new documentary Revolving Doors, filmmaker James Burns takes a look at what it means to have been convicted of a crime and having done time in prison. Can one get one’s life back on track?

Burns himself…

By David Amoruso

Denzel Washington is the man. His body of work includes eternal classics and unforgettable characters. In the crime genre he has done some outstanding work as well, as his Academy Award for his role in Training Day confirmed. Now, he’s back with fan favorite The Equalizer 2 doing what we…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Philadelphia Mafia boss Joseph Merlino’s…

By David Amoruso

It was an offer the Dartmouth Library just couldn’t refuse. Diana and Bruce Rauner donated their expansive collection of author Mario Puzo’s papers to Dartmouth. The collection includes draft manuscripts, correspondence, and other records from Puzo’s long career as a novelist and…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

A crime group that used corrupt baggage handlers to smuggle at least £16 million worth of drugs through London’s Heathrow Airport has been sentenced this week to a total of over 139 years in prison.

The drug pipeline was set up by four men: 30-year-old Damion Goodhall, 31-year-old Wilfred…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

President Donald Trump’s administration has declared war on MS-13, one of the world’s most…

By David Amoruso

London is currently experiencing a sharp rise in violent knife attacks by youngsters causing death and sorrow amongst the city’s inhabitants. Though many voices can be heard screaming blame and pointing fingers, those…

By David Amoruso

Doing time is a trip. So much so that sharing a cell with one of America’s most notorious Mafia bosses seems like just another day in a world filled with violence and crazy inmates.…

By David Amoruso

Jose Miguel Battle Sr. is a little-known name in the annals of American organized crime. It’s a testament to his leadership abilities as the Cuban crime boss ruled a multi-billion-dollar criminal empire whilst flying below the radar. In his new book The Corporation, author T.J. English paints a vivid…

By David Amoruso

Over a decade ago, when his epic The Sopranos ended with a black screen, David Chase left us sitting in the dark. Now, just like that, he pulls us back out into the light with a prequel movie to his hit television series titled The Many Saints of Newark.

Set in the 1960s, the film…

By David Amoruso

Always know who you’re doing business with and what they’re capable of. That way you won’t end up like Harold, played by David Oyelowo. In the crime comedy Gringo he is sent to Mexico for a business deal, but ends up getting kidnapped by a drug cartel.

His bosses, played by Charlize Theron…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Mexican drug cartels may have replaced the Colombian narcos on the covers of magazines and frontpages of newspapers, but that doesn’t mean…

By David Amoruso

In the war on drugs things only get dirtier and grittier. The billions of dollars made from narcotics cause massive corruption and lawlessness, thousands of deaths and even more bloodshed. In Sicario 2: Soldado, filmmakers explore how far authorities will go in their quest to eliminate a problem…

By David Amoruso

Ronald Fino’s life sounds like a mix of The Godfather and James Bond. As the son of a Mafia capo, Fino ultimately decided the mob was not for him. Instead, he became an undercover operative for the FBI and CIA, traveling the world and cleaning up crime and corruption wherever he went. His…

By David Amoruso

Why do human trafficking rings always kidnap the wrong girl? Haven’t they seen Taken? Taken 2? Taken 3? In Acts of Violence these pimps are at it again when they take the fiancée of Roman. The woman also happens to be the sister of Roman's best friend Deklan. Both men are ex-Special Forces trained…

By David Amoruso

If you place a bet with organized crime, you better pay up if you lose. Otherwise, you might get hurt. As is evidenced by the video below, which York Regional Police say shows a beating over an outstanding debt in an illegal Richmond Hill gaming den.

A big, muscular man with bald, shaved head can be…