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David Stone (Sam Worthington), a renowned but down-on-his-luck writer, has the opportunity of a lifetime when he receives a surprise call from Meyer Lansky (Harvey Keitel). For decades, authorities have been trying to locate Lansky's alleged nine-figure fortune, and this is their last chance to capture the aging gangster before he dies. With the FBI close behind, the Godfather of organised crime reveals the untold truth about his life as the notorious boss of Murder Inc. and the National...

Perhaps counterintuitively, ‘Ol’ Blue Eyes’ had friendships with some of the most well known mobsters of his time, but he also rubbed elbows with several Presidents of the United States

Filmmaker Bruce David Klein says he wanted to retain full control of the project and thought a nonprofit was the best way to go

Good Friday morning! In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we look at a filmmaker who formed a 501(c)(3) charity to tell the story of Jewish gangsters beating up Nazis in 1930s America, and feature op-eds from Erica Brown, Shuli...

To create inroads into other industries without drawing much attention to themselves, crime families found creative ways to launder money and rule where one might least expect.

Fact Check: Investigator Eunice Hunton Carter Played Key Role in Taking Down Mob Pioneer Lucky Luciano

There was a famous meeting of mob bosses in Apalachin, New York on November 14, 1957. Held at the home of Mafia chieftain Joseph “Joe the Barber” Barbara, the meeting was called by Vito Genovese after he had ordered his lieutenant Joey Gallo to murder a rival mob boss, Umberto “Albert” Anastasia as ...

This is the story of New York City's Ageloff Towers at 141 East 3rd Street, its people, and the immediate neighborhood.

Nearly blind Maximiliano, 62, has been given an important task. He has been asked to fix Che Guevara's old car in Havana. Maximiliano's passion are old American cars, and the car he owns has the engine of the car of Fulgencio Batista, the former dictator of Cuba. Maximiliano's friend, Mario Borges, owns an old American car that used to belong to mobster Meyer Lansky whose fate interlaced closely with Batista and Che Guevara. This is a film about three historical cars and their cur...

Exclusive Interview by Karen Beishuizen The introduction on its website says it best: The Back Room is one of only two speakeasies in New York City that operated during Prohibition and is still in existence today. It is a timeless example of the underbelly of New York past. The original 1920’s speak