On August 31st, 1993, eight men inside a maximum security prison annex in Talbetate, 130 km from S. Paulo, decided to build something. They had no money, no territory, no weapons, and no freedom. What they had was a name, a statute written on a single sheet of paper, and a grievance….
Was feared Gambino mobster Neil dero really as close with John Goty as we are led to believe? Let’s check it out. I’m James Gladwish and welcome to OC Shorts, bringing you detailed historical snapshots of the American Mafia and other organized crime. Feel free to subscribe if you like that sort…
Who were the rising stars of the American mafia that would go on to greater things after John Goti was imprisoned? Let’s check it out. I’m James Gladwish and welcome to OC Shorts, bringing you detailed historical snapshots of the American Mafia and other organized crime. Feel free to subscribe if you…
Walk into Mandalay Bay on a Wednesday afternoon and pay close attention to what you do not hear. You do not hear the roar of a craps table on a hot streak. You do not hear the laughter echoing off the ceilings of a packed casino floor. What you hear instead is…
January 7th, 1986. West 9th Street, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Night. A car was moving through the neighborhood. Inside it, three men, Thomas Carbonaro driving, Nicholas Mormando in the passenger seat, and in the backseat, a 63-year-old man named Joseph Peruta, known to everyone in Bensonhurst simply as Old Man. Mormando had been told…
December 16th, 1985. 5:47 p.m. Sparks Steakhouse, 210 East 46th Street, Manhattan. Paul Castellano, stepped out of his black Lincoln, and never made it to the curb. Six bullets, two shooters in white trench coats and black Russian fur hats. His under boss, Tommy Balotti, dropped beside him on the wet asphalt,…
December the 5th, 2019, just after 400 a.m. in Springfield, Massachusetts. The streets are dark and freezing. At 126 Ferglade Avenue in the Forest Park neighborhood, FBI SWAT operators stack outside a colonial house, weapons drawn. Inside, a man sleeps in the dining room. His name is Michael Czechelli, known as King…
It’s the summer of 1988 in Flatbush, Brooklyn. The intersection of Foster Avenue and Nostrand Avenue is so soaked in blood that local reporters have given it a nickname. They call it the front page because every week there is something new to write about. Jamaican men in Clark’s shoes and Kangol…
10 most rare and iconic jewelry ever worn by royal. She only wore it three times and never explained why. A gift from a desert king, the emerald tassels vanished without a word. Then there’s the one found at a market nearly tossed aside until someone realized it was worth $30 million….
The 29th of October, 2004. Kensington Palace, London. Sometime in the night, a woman dies in her sleep. Heart failure. She is 102 years old, 57 days short of her 103rd birthday. The Union Jack at Buckingham Palace will fly at half mast in the morning. Beyond that, the world will barely…
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