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Despite the informal structure, the Dixie Mafia had one rule that members were expected to obey: "Thou shall not snitch to the cops". [6] Unlike members of the American Mafia, the members of the Dixie mafia were not connected by family or country of origin. They were loosely connected individuals of many nationalities with a common goal—to ...
Peter J. Halat Jr. (born July 27, 1942) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the twelfth mayor of Biloxi, Mississippi, [1] and was later convicted and served time for his involvement in a criminal conspiracy which led to the 1987 murders of Halat's former law partner, Mississippi judge Vincent Sherry, and Sherry's wife Margaret, a Biloxi city councilwoman. [2]
The Italian-American organized crime family began when two Sicilian mafiosi known as the DiGiovanni brothers fled Sicily to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1912.Joseph "Joe Church" DiGiovanni and Peter "Sugarhouse Pete" DiGiovanni began making money from a variety of criminal operations or rackets shortly after their arrival.
Two of New York’s most storied Mafia families formed a secret gambling alliance — then suffered a whack to their profit streams with a round of arrests Tuesday morning.
Judith Exner (January 11, 1934 – September 24, 1999) was an American woman who claimed to be the mistress of U.S. Senator, then U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Mafia leaders Sam Giancana and John Roselli. Several aspects of her claim of having known Kennedy have been verified by documents, phone records, and testimony.
Overlooking women is a mistake, and these women’s stories prove that. This is a lightly edited excerpt from the book "Narcas: The Secret Rise of Women in Latin America's Cartels" by Deborah Bonello.
In the 1950s, Frank Colacurcio began operating cigarette and jukebox vending machines in the Seattle area. [3] The vending machine businesses became important to organized crime figures who easily skimmed money. [3]
Once upon a time, Burt Reynolds posed nude for Cosmopolitan magazine. In fact, it was in the April 1972 issue, during Helen Gurley Brown's era at the magazine. As editor-in-chief of Cosmo for 32 ...