A former New York detective who moonlighted by working for a mafia family and helped fuel a mini-mob war on Long Island while trying to protect its gambling operations was convicted Wednesday of ...

Sal's Shoe Repair in Merrick, New York, was doing more than fixing heels ... a grand jury investigation and lying to the FBI. "Current members of the five families demonstrate every day they ...

Federal authorities say they have busted an organized crime racket reminiscent of the Mafia's heyday, involving illegal gambling parlors in New York City and Long Island and a police detective ...

Former New York Mafia prince Michael Franzese witnessed it all - but believes a new silent breed of gangsters could be even more dangerous. The infamous 'Five Families' who once ruled the state by ...

The Lucchese Family is one of the notorious “five families” of the Italian-American Mafia, each with its own territory, set up to control criminal activities in New York City. Gioia became a ...

Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a statement Tuesday that the arrests “demonstrate that the Mafia continues to pollute our communities with illegal ...

Soldiers, captains, ranking members of the notorious Lucchese crime syndicate, one of the five ruling families of the New York Mafia. Gioia was told to take a seat and put out his hand ...

This naturally attracts society’s underbelly, and as a youngster growing up there in the 60s, for Frank Dimatteo that meant ...

rise and fall of New York City’s five mafia families. “American Godfather: The Five Families” will debut Sunday, Aug. 11, at 8 p.m. on the History Channel and is executive produced by Emmy ...

Businesses that remained open were frequently raided by the police. Already a strong presence in New York, members of the Mafia saw a business opportunity in catering to the otherwise shunned gay ...

The Wolf Entertainment and iHeartPodcasts show, hosted by Nicolazzi, recently premiered its inaugural season is focusing on the "downfall" of the mafia in New York throughout its inaugural season.

(The Mafia) truly formed in the 1930s but became unraveled in the 1990s for a range of reasons, including the decision by Rudy Giuliani (then U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York ...