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Crazy Joe Gallo publicly hobnobbed with counterculture musicians, poets and artists in Greenwich Village and yearned to be a poet – while running a particularly vicious crew of Brooklyn extortionists and murderers.  More.
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The Minerals Management Service, an agency within the Department of the Interior, mismanaged $14 billion in royalties owed to you and me in 2008. Turns out you can buy a lot of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll with that much money.  More.
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Forget what you've seen on The Sopranos: Being the wife, girlfriend, or mistress of a mobster is no way to live.  More.
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In the second part of the Philly Mob Files series, we find out that this crime family was "cracked and inoperable."  More.
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George Anastasia's book, Mob Files: Mobsters, Molls and Murder, tells of a mob different than the one you know from The Godfather.  More.
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The crime spree of John Dillinger ended in gunfire outside the Biograph Theater. Was he a "modern-day Robin Hood" or just a murderous armed robber?  More.
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Today Michael Mann's Public Enemies, a film about John Dillinger, hits the theaters. A look at the man behind the bank robberies is in order.  More.
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Director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro return to the scene of organized crime in I Heard You Paint Houses, about the mob hit man who claimed to have killed Jimmy Hoffa.  More.
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The Navy isn't the answer to dealing with foreign pirates – but the Coast Guard might be.  More.
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Somali pirates have the world over a barrel.George Washington knew how we should deal with them.  More.
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Maureen Faulker wrote, “A cop is murdered by a man he never knew . . . this ostensibly uncomplicated scenario has been subjected to more manipulation than any other murder in the United States."  More.
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Bryan Burrough's latest book profiles gangsters, guns, and G-men.  More.
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In his first American Crime blog for GreatHistory.com, Paul Davis looks at the movie myths and the realities of Depression-era criminals and the FBI.  More.
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