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In July 2020, he appeared in the Netflix docuseries Fear City: New York vs The Mafia. [66] In June 2020, Franzese started a YouTube channel. [67] On his channel he tells stories about his past life, makes interviews, and reviews mafia-related films, television shows and video games, and analyzes their accuracy. [63]
The Tanglewood Boys was an Italian-American recruitment gang or "farm team" for the American Mafia, specifically the Lucchese crime family. [1] The gang frequently operated from the Tanglewood Shopping Center in Yonkers, New York. [2]
In February 1996, Capeci took the column online with his Gangland News website. [5] "Gangland" also ran in The New York Sun between 2002 and 2007 before Capeci quit the newspaper in a salary dispute. In 2008, Gangland News became a paid subscription site. [6] Capeci has authored several books detailing the inner workings of the New York crime ...
Former New York Mafia made member John Pennisi speaks to Insider about all the ways the mob make their money. John Pennisi was born and raised in an Italian New York neighborhood where the mob had ...
The Making of the Mob is an American television docu-series detailing the emergence of organized crime in 20th-century America. The series premiered on June 15, 2015, on AMC, and is narrated by actor Ray Liotta. The series also features intercuts within each episode of archival footage and interviews with historians, authors, actors, law ...
After an action-packed debut, Law & Order: Organized Crime is back for another season as it follows Elliot Stabler’s return to the NYPD, where he and his new unit, Organized Crime Control Bureau ...
His book, the New York Times Bestseller, Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires [3] was published in 2005. [24] He is a consultant on organized crime for TV documentaries, primarily on the History and Biography channels.
The East Harlem Purple Gang was a gang and organized crime group in New York City consisting of Italian-American hit-men and heroin dealers who were semi-independent from the Italian-American Mafia and, according to federal prosecutors, dominated heroin distribution in East Harlem, Italian Harlem, and the Bronx during the 1970s and early 1980s.