By David Amoruso
Posted on December 24, 2010
Merry Christmas everybody! And may Santa bring you all the gifts you wished for.
It seems Santa is already hard at work. Yesterday, an Italian police officer dressed up as Santa arrested a member of th
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By Seth Ferranti (www.gorillaconvict.com)
Goodfellas, the Godfather, Donnie Brasco, The Sopranos- Hollywood's obsession with mobsters dates all the way back to the turn of the century. A litany of wise guys have gained fame and notoriety and eventua
By David Amoruso
Posted on December 14, 2010
Get ready for some gangster violence on the silver screen cause Hollywood has some killer movies on the way!
The Italian-American mobster has fascinated movie audiences for decades and Hollywood stayed
By David Amoruso
Posted on December 12, 2010
Yesterday, hundreds of Hells Angels and other bikers showed up in Haarlem, The Netherlands for the funeral of their brother Rob Schilders (52). Schilders had been shot to death in broad daylight on Decem
By David Amoruso
Posted on December 9, 2010
Standing by himself, Edgar Jimenez Lugo does not look very intimidating. Of course, he is only 14 years old and not many boys that age have mastered the skill or size needed to make that kind of impression.
By Seth Ferranti (www.gorillaconvict.com)
A lot of factors figured in the death of the Washington DC street legend, Fray, but the main reason was Alberto “Alpo” Martinez. When the soon to become infamous rat Alpo hit DC in the late 1980s, Fray was
By David Amoruso
The Hells Angels have had a rough week. Though the motorcycle club has grown substantially and there are various chapters in over thirty charters worldwide, its members consider themselves part of one and the same brotherhood. In tha
By David Amoruso
The recent WikiLeaks publication of secret diplomatic cables between U.S. officials and contacts in other nations around the globe has painted a grim picture of the Russian government. The cables feature reports about how the Krem
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
Salvatore Avellino recorded by electronic surveillance:
'Do you understand me, now when you got a guy that steps out of line and this and that, now you got the whip. You got the fuckin' whip. This is what he, To
By David Amoruso
The 1930s through to the 1940s are known as the Golden Age for Hollywood. During those days eight major studios controlled the entire movie industry from top to bottom. They would make the movie and distribute it via their own the
By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
November 1957
The question, to my mind, has to be why?
Why was this meeting held?
There are a number of other interesting questions as well of course, and none of them have ever been answered satisfactorily.
Puparo has compiled the following text through thorough research. However, if you see an error, or would like to add something, Puparo welcomes the contribution.
Catania
Catania has the quarters San Cristoforo (area of Catania’s Fish Market), Puntina
By Seth Ferranti
In the 1970s the heroin market in the United States was dominated by a black distributor named Frank Matthews who operated out of New York. He was the most notable black figure on the east coast at the time and one of the first maj
By Seth Ferranti (author of www.GorillaConvict.com )
Prison is a cauldron of hate. A mixing pot of volatile tempers and personalities that can incite violence in a nanosecond. The territorial, drug and monetary beefs from the streets bleed over in