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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 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 taking out Dutch Schultz, the New York mafia has eliminated the greatest threat to their power and is back in business. By 1935, Lucky, now 38 years old and his gang are living the high life as bosses, pulling in the modern day equivalent of over $100 million. Lansky turns his low-rent gambling dens into high-end establishments.
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 ...
Sacred Games (TV series) Safe Harbor (upcoming TV series) The Sea Beyond (Italian TV series) El Señor de los Cielos; Sintonia; Sitiados: México; Smith (TV series) Snabba Cash (TV series) Snowfall (TV series) Sons of Anarchy; The Sopranos; Specials @ 10; Squadra antimafia – Palermo oggi; Stingers (TV series) Suburra: Blood on Rome; Suburræterna
The five Mafia families in New York City are still active, albeit less powerful. The peak of the Mafia in the United States was during the 1940s and 50s, until the year 1970 when the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act) was enacted, which aimed to stop the Mafia and organized crime as a whole. [23]
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.
In HBO's Emmy-winning 2015 docuseries, director Andrew Jarecki sat down with wealthy New York City real estate heir Robert Durst, interviewing him about the three murders he was accused of (to ...