The Lufansza heist, where almost $6 million in cash and jewels were stolen, has been immortalized and filmed thanks to Martin Scorsese’s Good Fellas, along with a few other smaller and lesserknown movies. But none of these works tell the full story about what happened on the early morning of December 11th, 1978. In…
Donnie Brasco is one of my favorite mafia films, but one part of the movie is almost completely divorced from reality, and that’s the scene of the infamous three capo’s murder. In the film, they locate the stash house of where Sunny Red is keeping an arsenal of…
He never laced up a glove, never took a punch, never bled on a canvas under the hot white lights of a Vegas arena. But Don King walked out of more championship fights richer than any fighter who ever threw a combination in the history of professional boxing. And the most stunning part, he did…
December 16th, 1985. At 5:16 in the evening, Midtown Manhattan, East 46th Street, outside Spark Steakhouse, Paul Castellano stepped out of his black Lincoln Town car. He took three steps toward the restaurant entrance. Four men in trench coats and fur hats were waiting on the sidewalk. They opened fire. Six bullets hit Castillano….
On May 3rd, 1988, inside a federal prison cell in Fort Worth, Texas, a 73-year-old man takes his last breath. His lungs are full of cancer. His body is 1,500 miles from the Brooklyn streets he once ruled. His name is Paul Vario. For more than two decades,…
You know this man. You’ve seen the sharp cheekbones, the ice blue eyes, the three-piece suit cut like a weapon. [music] Tommy Shelby, head of the Peaky Blinders. A man who rose from the mud of Birmingham to control a criminal empire stretching from the racetracks of England to the corridors of Parliament. Six seasons,…
Hi, my name is Lucas and this is Chicago Mob Stories. I’ve been sitting on this particular story for 6 months, six full months because I wanted to make sure I got every single detail right before sharing it with you. What I’m about to tell you is the story of a man so…
The single most damning fact about Tony Icardo is this. The FBI spent 30 years, thousands of man-hour, and millions of dollars trying to put him in a cell. They wiretapped his phones, raided his home, hauled him before grand juries, and paraded informants against him. They got nothing. While every boss above him, beside…
Late December 1978, a street in Queens, New York. A car pulls up. Peter Vario behind the wheel. Bruno Fatiolo in the passenger seat. Tommy Desimone steps out of his mother’s house wearing his best suit. He’s smiling. He climbs into the back seat and the car pulls away. He thinks he’s driving to the…
On April 21st, 1926, a baby girl was born in a London townhouse, not a palace, and absolutely no one expected her to become queen. She was third in line to the throne. Her uncle was young and would surely have children. Her father was a shy, stammering duke who loved gardening more than…
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