How James ‘Whitey’ Bulger went from the Air Force to Alcatraz
Growing up in the streets of South Boston made a hard life for a young James Bulger. His father lost an arm in an industrial accident and the family became…
This mobster went to Italy to sell weapons to Fascists and left wanting to kill Nazis
Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel pulled himself out of poverty by joining a gang headed by immigrant Meyer Lansky. During the Prohibition Era, Lansky and Siegel ran a large bootlegging operation and were influential in Jewish and Italian immigrant crime sy…
This famous son of a mobster was also a West Point grad
Meyer Lansky was the mind behind the mob. Active in the criminal underworld since the days before Prohibition, Lansky – the “Mob’s Accountant” – was able to figure out how to make mafia earnings and turn them into legitimate businesses. It wa…
The real reason top mobsters didn’t fight World War II
The United States began registering men for the draft well before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor (it’s like they knew something was coming on the horizon). After all, you don’t want to go to the mattresses without the men and material necessary …