The understanding between mob families was that they could not operate competing gambling parlors within a 5-mile radius, Zummo said. But tensions boiled over when a down-on-his-luck gambler opted ...

At The Times and elsewhere, he wrote about wrongful convictions, fake methadone clinics and the five powerful Mafia families in New York. By Clyde Haberman Selwyn Raab, an investigative reporter ...