NEW YORK, NY – Megha Majumdar, the acclaimed author of ‘A Burning’, returns this fall with her second novel, ‘A Guardian and a Thief’. Scheduled for release on October 14 by Knopf, the book marks a ...

Kouri Richins, 34, was charged on Friday in connection with a series of financial crimes, including mortgage fraud, forgery ...

The former reputed street boss in the Colombo crime family has been at the Wyatt Detention Center in Central Falls since his arrest in May ...

In an unexpected twist that links science, conservation, and global fraud, Sri Lanka’s leading herpetologist Dr. Anslem de ...

Student-athletes appeared to win a significant victory in court, but the author of Hot Dog Money: Inside the Biggest Scandal in the History of College Sports warns that the business of college sports ...

Formed in 1931 after the Castellammarese War, the Five Families of New York became known as the backbone of the American ...

This story contains spoilers for the Season 4 finale of “Godfather of Harlem,” now streaming on MGM+. In the Season 4 finale of “Godfather of Harlem,” gangster Elsworth “Bumpy” Johnson (Forest ...

The Lucchese family is perhaps best known for carrying out the Lufthansa heist, the theft of about $5 million in cash and $800,000 jewels from John F. Kennedy Airport in 1978.

John Franzese Jr. helped send his father, notorious Colombo family mobster Sonny Franzese, to prison. Then he turned up in Indianapolis.

Frank Gioia Jr. joined the powerful Lucchese Crime Family in 1991. During a ceremony in a Queens, New York, basement, Gioia took the blood oath of omertà, or silence, about criminal activity.

Carmine Persico, boss of the Colombo Crime Family, poses for a portrait September 15, 1986 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City during the Commission trial.

I rode around Bensonhurst with a former Colombo family hitman, and I asked him that question and expected him to say "No." But to my surprise he said yes, the Mob is still there, involved in loan ...