While most no longer receive the headlines they once did, several mafias still exist in the U.S. today. These are some of the ...

Brenda Vanessa Campos Martinez was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for drug conspiracy and racketeering linked to ...

Peter Robb’s superb book Midnight in Sicily is a sensuous tour of Sicilian food, art, and urban life. Organized crime, its ostensible subject, lurks in the background — the dark alleyway behind the ...

NPR's A Martinez talks to Louis Ferrante about the first volume of his Borgata trilogy on the history of the American Mafia. Ferrante is a former high-ranking member of the Gambino crime family.

Crooked contracts, bribery, shady characters. In 1951, millions tuned in to watch the Kefauver organized crime hearings, ...

Victor Chin outlined the inner workings of a so-called corporate mafia and said those involved work in conjunction with the ...

Giuseppe Di Matteo, 12, was kidnapped by Cosa Nostra mobsters in Sicily and held for 779 days before being murdered as ...

Kooky cartoons, omertà tactics, and Boyd Holbrook make for a gangster story like no other.