90-year-old judge Frederic Block still on the bench — and hearing case of druglord who inspired ‘Narcos’
A 90-year-old Brooklyn federal judge who's been on the bench for some of NYC's most high-profile cases is now presiding over ...
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The Genovese Family’s Reputation Among the New York’s Five Families
In 1931, following decades of turf warfare, Brooklyn bootlegger Salvatore Maranzano established the leaders of New York ...
Robert De Niro’s 10 Best Performances: ‘Taxi Driver,’ ‘Raging Bull,’ and More
Who De Niro plays: Al Capone, the most notorious American gangster of the 20th century and the boss of the legendary Chicago ...
Crime families clash in Guy Ritchie's starry new series 'MobLand'
British filmmaker Guy Ritchie takes viewers back into the dark world of organised crime in "MobLand", his latest television ...
How Trump’s Embrace of Crypto Makes Life Easier for Fentanyl Traffickers
Trump wasn’t always a fan of crypto. As recently as 2021, he was referring to Bitcoin, the most well-known type of ...
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Gardaí consider recommending organised crime charges against arrested members of 'The Family' crime group
‘The Family’, based in the Ballyfermot and Clondalkin areas of west Dublin, has operated for almost three decades and replaced the Kinahan crime cartel a couple of years ago as Ireland’s ...
The Irish Times4d
Spanish police say Ireland’s Family drugs gang ‘enjoyed high economic status and influence’
four trucksOpens in new window ] [ Rise of ‘The Family’: the group that became Ireland’s biggest crime gang without firing a shotOpens in new window ] The Family has become the biggest drugs ...
The true story that inspired ‘The Alto Knights,’ which sees Robert De Niro playing 2 mafia dons
In “The Alto Knights,” DeNiro plays not one, but two infamous mobsters: Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, a pair of mafia ...
The Irish Times3d
Lack of up-to-date knife crime statistics criticised as ‘quite incredible’
This is because there is no single category for knife crime, as distinct from crimes carried out with all kinds of weapons, in the Garda Pulse computer system. The Garda analysis service is ...
How cellphone location sharing helped Los Angeles police solve double homicide, take serial rapist off the street
The mother of murdered model Christy Giles pleads for others to share their locations. She says the technology helped police catch David Pearce, who murdered Giles and her friend, architect Hilda ...