By Gangsters Inc. Editors
Philadelphia mobsters have been on the move lately, journalists George Anastasia and Dave Schratwieser report in their latest Mob Talk, going from one social club to the next. The two also discuss the death of Colombo family
By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
Philadelphia mob boss Joseph Merlino has been released from prison and the Sicilian Mafia sets up shop in South Philadelphia. A lot to talk about in this week’s Mob Talk with George Anastasia and Dave Schratwieser.
By Gangsters Inc. Editors
Never a dull moment in the Philadelphia underworld. Retired Mafia boss Joseph “Uncle Joe” Ligambi received a big surprise party in honor of his 80th birthday attended by all the usual suspects. Looking back at the decades th
By David Amoruso
Twin, Suge, Pipe, and Pistol Pete. The names still haunt the Soundview projects in the Bronx, New York. Their drugs kept the hood from starving, but their violence caused nothing but pain and horror. Their gang Sex Money Murder ruled
Photo: Albert Anastasia, Abe Reles, and Louis "Lepke" Buchalter
By Christian Cipollini
Murder Incorporated. Catchy name for a bunch of hired killers, isn’t it? So where did such a clever, sinister and aptly-dubbed moniker originate? While there will
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 fingerprin
By Thom L. Jones
In the only borough of New York to begin with the indefinite article, it was not unusual at end of day to watch “fathers trundling home with a monumental sadness on their shoulders”. * It was a hard place to live for the working man
By David Amoruso
Joey Gallo’s toughness was unequaled in a period filled with tough, stone killers. But Gallo thought of himself as more than a thug. He thought of himself as an artist, a poet. He thought of himself as the boss of a multi-ethnic mafi
By David Amoruso
Loose lips sink ships… and mafia families. For over a decade Joseph Ligambi has been credited with returning the dysfunctional Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra family to old world values of secrecy and efficiency. After he replaced Joseph
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.
