Detroit and East Coast and Featured and Mafia and Mafia Insider and Midwest and Mob Hits and Movies and New York and VideoApril 28, 2016 Jewish Gangsters | Dutch Schultz, Herbie Sperling, The Purple Gang Through hard work, intelligence, and talent, Jewish Americans pulled themselves out of the worst slums in America and up to the top of the American economy in professions ranging from the Law to Entertainment to Medicine and Science. Jews have also been some of America’s most powerful, deadly, and interesting Gangsters. Dutch Schultz Born ArthurCONTINUE READING
African-American and Detroit and Exclusive and Featured and Movies and People and VideoOctober 26, 2015 Donald Goines Documentary Donald Goines the Real Story Donald Goines is your favorite rappers favorite writer. A pimp and a stickup man, addicted to heroin most of his short life, Goines’s books, with titles like “Whoreson” “Dopefiend” and “Black Gangster”, have sold over 6 million copies. Written in a frenzy between 1970 and ‘74, Goines’ novels are aCONTINUE READING
Detroit and Documentary and Drug Gangs and Exclusive and Featured and VideoSeptember 3, 2015 Generation Xtacy: Teenage MDMA kingpins in Detroit’s Richest Suburb In the early 2000’s the biggest extacy dealers in the Detroit, Michigan metro area were a group of kids from the suburbs of Grosse Pointe -one America’s most affluent cities…richer than Beverly Hills, Waspier than the Hamptons. This is their story.CONTINUE READING
African-American and Featured and SouthJuly 16, 2015 Rappers soon to be indicted for attempted murder of Lil Wayne Lil Wayne has had a hit put out on his life. Birdman and Young Thug are accused of conspiring to kill the Free Weezy Album creator, according to an indictment filed in Cobb County, Ga. last month. Apparently when Weezy’s tour bus was shot up in April, the man behind the shooting plotted with BirdmanCONTINUE READING
Chicago and Drug Gangs and Featured and InternationalJuly 3, 2015 The Flores Brothers: How the Feds helped Flood Chicago with Drugs n late January, two of the biggest drug dealers ever convicted in U.S. court were sentenced in downtown Chicago; but despite moving an estimated 70 thousand! kilos of cocaine and heroin and sending $2 billion in cash back down to Mexico, the twin brothers Pedro and Margarito Flores will be walking the streets in anotherCONTINUE READING
cartel and Drug Gangs and Featured and International and PeopleJune 16, 2015 Chino Antrax Gamboa – Sinaloa Cartel chief loves Instagram “Chino Antrax” , leader of the Sinaloa cartel whose boasting on social media may have led to his arrest pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import tons of cocaine and marijuana on Wednesday in federal court in San Diego. Jose Rodrigo Arechiga-Gamboa, 34, known as “Chino Antrax,” was arrested in Amsterdam in December 2013 and extraditedCONTINUE READING
Bikers and FeaturedJune 13, 2015 Hells Angels Innocence Lost The Hell’s Angels formed in San Francisco/Oakland, California a few years after the end of WW2. Not long after, photographers begin documenting this new and exciting force on the American social landscape. Life magazine did a spread on the group in the 50’s, and celebrity journalist Hunter S. Thompson made his name by “embedding” himself withCONTINUE READING
Ron Paul on George Bush’s involvement in the cocaine trade of the 1980s. Then Texas Congressmen Ron Paul talks about George Bush Sr.’s involvement in allowing Cocaine shipments by Manuel Norieaga and Sandinistas. CONTINUE READING
Featured and Podcasts and VideoApril 10, 2015 Silk Road -the Dark Internet, bitcoin, and murder -video podcast Al Profit and Scott Burnstein talk about the Silk Road case- the website that facilitated drug deals and other crimes using Bitcoin. Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road and known as “Dread Pirate Roberts” was called an “evil Mark Zuckerberg” by the Feds– but now, in a new development, his attempted murder charges have beenCONTINUE READING
African-American and Midwest and Movies and Sports and VideoMarch 3, 2015 Youngstown Boys | ESPN 30 for 30 Espn’s 30 for 30 Documentary about Maurice Clarett, who, after helping lead Ohio State University to its first national championship in decades, spiraled out of control, finally landing in state prison on weapons charges. See more about Youngtstown, “America’s most corrupt city”.CONTINUE READING
Detroit and Drug Gangs and Featured and PodcastsFebruary 28, 2015 Podcast – Skinny Joey, Philly LCN, Hoffa In this podcast episode, the Gangster Report’s Scott Burnstein and Al Profit discuss Philadelphia mob activity and their new film “Killing Jimmy Hoffa”CONTINUE READING
Mob Hits and New York and PeopleFebruary 22, 2015 Joey Gallo Photo Gallery Joseph Gallo (April 7, 1929 – April 7, 1972), also known as “Crazy Joe” and “Joe the Blond“, was a celebrated New York City gangster for the Profaci crime family, later known as the Colombo crime family. Gallo initiated one of the bloodiest mob conflicts since the 1931 Castellammarese War and was murdered as aCONTINUE READING
New York and People and VideoFebruary 22, 2015 Crazy Joey Gallo Documentary Joe Gallo was born and raised in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, New York. His parents were Umberto and Mary Gallo. A bootlegger during Prohibition, Umberto did nothing to discourage his three sons from becoming criminals. In 1949, after viewing the film Kiss of Death, Joe Gallo began mimickingRichard Widmark’s gangster character “Tommy Udo”CONTINUE READING
East Coast and Movies and New York and Sports and VideoFebruary 22, 2015 30 for 30 Goodfellas and fixing Games at Boston College CONTINUE READING
East Coast and Mafia and VideoFebruary 22, 2015 DeCalvacante Family | The Real Sopranos Documentary CONTINUE READING
Bikers and Video and West CoastFebruary 22, 2015 Hell’s Angels Gangland Documentary The Hell’s Angels are the most powerful biker gang in the world. This Gangland episode details their recent war with the Mongols.CONTINUE READING
Mob Hits and People and VideoFebruary 22, 2015 Richard “the Iceman” Kuklinski interviewed on HBO Richard Leonard “The Iceman” Kuklinski (April 11, 1935 – March 5, 2006) was an American contract killer who was convicted for five murders. Kuklinski was given the nickname “Iceman” for his method of freezing a victim to mask the time of death. The 6’5″ (196 cm), 300 pound (135 kg) Kuklinski lived with his wife andCONTINUE READING
Bikers and International and VideoFebruary 22, 2015 Montreal Mafia | The Rizzutto clan documentary The Rizzuto family is a crime syndicate based in Montreal, Quebec. The family territory covers most of southern Quebec and Ontario. The FBI considers the family to be connected to the Bonanno crime family,but Canadian law enforcement considers it to be a separate crime family. The Rizzuto family was part of the powerful Montreal CotroniCONTINUE READING
Documentary and Midwest and Movies and VideoFebruary 22, 2015 Youngstown – The “Most Corrupt City in America” Doc Once called “the most corrupt city in America”, Youngstown, Ohio has also once held the the title of highest murder rate in the country. A hotbed of Mafia activity, Youngstown has been the site of numerous infamous Mob murders. It also was home to such infamous characters like Jeff Riddle – The self-declared “Black JohnCONTINUE READING
Detroit and Documentary and East Coast and Exclusive and Featured and Mafia and Midwest and Mob Hits and Movies and People and Philadelphia and South and VideoJanuary 24, 2015 Killing Jimmy Hoffa “Killing Jimmy Hoffa” -presented by www.GangsterReport.com Al Profit & Scott Burnstein, from Gangster Report, have just released the “Killing Jimmy Hoffa” documentary, in honor of the 40th anniversary of his infamous kidnapping and presumed murder. Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance and probable murder is one of the great crimes of the century. Despite a massive Federal investigation spanningCONTINUE READING
Bikers and InternationalJanuary 8, 2015 Bruce “Hal Heffner” Porteous METRO VANCOUVER – The tinted window of the classic white car rolls down to reveal the stony face of Hells Angel Hal Bruce Porteous. He beckons to an awestruck teen who leaves his bike behind and gets into the car. This is the opening scene of a rap music video starring Porteous, a Vancouver memberCONTINUE READING
ArchivesJanuary 8, 2015 How We Caught Al Capone “The Big Fellow Was Collecting Millions, Turning Out 50 Corpses a Year. Chicagoans Had Only One Hope” By Frank J. Wilson As told to Howard Whitman I WAS STUCK. bogged down. Two ftruitless, frustrating years had dragged by since I’d come to Chi.cago. All I had to show for it was an aching bead. When myCONTINUE READING
“So They Killed My Brother” Salvatore Anastasio (1967) The lifeless body of Albert Anastasia is removed from the Sheraton Hotel.At ten and a quarter of the October 25, 1957 my brother Albert was killed. He had long hair and was gone in the “barber” at the Sheraton Hotel, on Fifty-fifth Street in New York. > Pierino was the man atCONTINUE READING
Albert Anastasia Murdered at the Park Sheraton Death called the executioner yesterday. Umberto (called Albert) Anastasia, master lolly for –Murder, Inc., a homicidal gangster troop that plagued the city frbm 1931 to 1940, was murdered by two g-urlmen. They approached him from behind at 10:20 A. M. as he sat for a hair. cut in the Park Sheraton Hotel barber shop atCONTINUE READING
PeopleJanuary 8, 2015 Albert Anastasia | Murder Inc Albert Anastasia (pronounced ah-nah-STAH-zee-ah) (born Umberto Anastasio, September 26, 1902 – October 25, 1957) was one of the most ruthless and feared Cosa Nostra mobsters in United States history. A founder of the American Mafia, Anastasia ran Murder, Inc. during the prewar era and was boss of the modern Gambino crime family during most ofCONTINUE READING
Anastasia and Frankie Carbo Police Narrow 150 Leads in Slaying to One–Name of Frankie Carbo Comes Up Police officials Investigating the slaying of Albert Anastasia yesterday appeared to he look-ing up one street rather than 150 blind alleys. Detectives said the case had taken “a definite turn in one di-‘ rection.” They would not say what. the direction was.CONTINUE READING
Anastasia Funeral Albert Anastasia • was I buried in the morning cold yesterday at Green-Wood Cemetery in South Brooklyn, with members of his family and a few friends at the graveside. Simple pray-ers were said by a funeral chap-el director. He fared better than many o the sixty-three men he • had reportedly •killed. or, whose deathsCONTINUE READING
Anastasia Deportation Proceedings Coppola Held Uncooperative in Questioning—Police Pay Call on Costello Anthony Coppola, confidante and occasional chauffeur for Al-bert Anastasia, New York gang-ster who was killed by two gun-men on Friday, was jailed for vagrancy early this ..mcrning. Coppola, cleacribed.–by. soul. ,as Ana,stasia’s bodykuvd ,and by Chief of Detectives Jam6 B. Leggett as • his “messezikeib, boy,”CONTINUE READING
Albert Anastasia Life Story Albert Anastasia, who was slain in a barber’s chair yester-day, barely escaped death in the electric chair in 1921. In the thirty-six years be-tween, he blasted his way to wealth, power and pre-eminence among hoodlums in the United States. Albert was the oldest of four Anastasia brothers identified with extortion, usury, pilfering, wildcat strikes, assaultCONTINUE READING
Detroit and Documentary and Exclusive and Featured and Mafia and VideoJanuary 4, 2015 Detroit Mob Confidential Detroit Mob Confidential explores the history of Detroit’s La Cosa Nostra Family, which, in many ways, is the most successful crime family in the United States. Detroit’s family has had only 2 Dons, the current boss has served for 30 years and is the longest serving mob Don in America. The documentary consists of interviewsCONTINUE READING
Podcasts and SouthJanuary 4, 2015 Podcast | Gangster Report Holiday Edition 1 Annual Philly LCN Xmas party – a South Philly mob holiday tradition dating back decades, media used to be invited to some parts of it, by Skinny Joey Merlino, current acting boss Handsome Stevie Mazzone was violated for attending in 2009-2010, other mob families have them too, less formal, organized 2 Detroit XMass party in ’78,CONTINUE READING
African-American and Chicago and Documentary and Drug Gangs and Featured and VideoJanuary 1, 2015 Flukey Stokes mini-Documentary CONTINUE READING
Drug Gangs and International and Mafia and SouthDecember 31, 2014 The Mafia Comes to Asia, Santo Trafficante Visited Saigon in ’68 From the Book “The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia” by Alfred W. McCoy, published in 1972. The flourishing heroin traffic among Vietnam-based GIs was undoubtedly the most important new market for Indochina’s drug traffickers, but it was not the only one. As we have already seen, increasingly insurmountable problems in the Mediterranean Basin hadCONTINUE READING
Interview and PodcastsDecember 5, 2014 Seth Ferranti on spending over 20 years in prison and becoming an author Seth Ferranti is the Gorilla Convict Writer. In 1993, after spending two years as a top-15 fugitive on the US Marshal’s most wanted list, he was captured and sentenced to 304 months under the federal sentencing guidelines for an LSD kingpin conviction and committed to the custody of the Attorney General. A first-time, non-violent offender,CONTINUE READING
African-American and Case Files and Detroit and Drug GangsNovember 28, 2014 Sylvester Seal Murray and Young Boys Inc | Detroit Drug Organization Federal Report on Sylvester “Seal” Murray, largest Black heroin supplier in Michigan, and likely one of the largest in the Midwest. Chairman and members of the sub-committee: I am pleased to appear before the sub-committee to discuss the recent investigation and prosecution of e large-scale narcotics distribution organization in connection with the case ofCONTINUE READING
African-American and Chicago and Documentary and Drug Gangs and Exclusive and Featured and PeopleNovember 26, 2014 Flukey Stokes | King of South Side Chicago The Life and Times of Flukey Stokes 1986, a cold and rainy November night on the South side of Chicago. After taking in “Something Wild” at the movies, drug kingpin Willie Stokes and his girlfriend stop at 79th Street and Calumet to grab some popcorn from an all night convenience store. “He shops here quiteCONTINUE READING
African-American and Drug Gangs and PodcastsNovember 25, 2014 Black Gangsters and the Italian Mafia | Gangster Report Podcast In this episode of the Gangster Report Podcast, Scott Burnstein and Al Profit discuss the confluence of Black Gangsters and the Italian Mafia and how they differ.CONTINUE READING
African-American and Drug Gangs and Mafia and New YorkNovember 25, 2014 New York Heroin War | The Mob Moves back in This article appeared originally as “Anatomy of the Drug War” By Nicholas Pileggi in the New York Magazine in 1973 “. . .The mob’s decision to re-enter the narcotics business after a ten-year ban is expected to escalate further what is already open warfare among New York City’s independent junk dealers …” After a series of secret meetingsCONTINUE READING
Detroit and Documentary and Featured and Mafia and Movies and VideoNovember 23, 2014 Detroit Mob Confidential Detroit Mob Confidential explores the history of Detroit’s La Cosa Nostra Family, which, in many ways, is the most successful crime family in the United States. Detroit’s family has had only 2 Dons, the current boss has served for 30 years and is the longest serving mob Don in America. The documentary consists of interviewsCONTINUE READING
Mafia and PeopleNovember 21, 2014 Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno was the epitome of a perfect Mobster. He spent his entire life hustling and controlling the streets of East Harlem. His name arose in numerous investigations, but he avoided any major convictions until he was 75 years old, sticking to the code of avoiding drug sales he dodged the heroin bulletCONTINUE READING
Movies and PeopleNovember 21, 2014 The Real Donnie Brasco -Joe Pistone “I had no idea that Joe was working for the FBI. We used to play basketball two or three times a week and then one day he just disappeared without a trace. About six or seven years later, all the New York papers had a front page story about this FBI agent who went undercoverCONTINUE READING
Drug Gangs and International and Podcasts and South and VideoNovember 19, 2014 Ike Atkinson | R.I.P. to the REAL American Gangster Podcast with Ron Chepesiuk Leslie “Ike” Atkinson died last week. Under the cover of the Vietnam War and through the use of the U.S. military infrastructure, Atkinson masterminded an enterprising group of family members and former African American GIs that the DEA identified as one of history’s ten top drug trafficking rings. Ike’s organization moved heroin from Thailand toCONTINUE READING
New York and People and VideoNovember 16, 2014 John Gotti, Junior interviewed by 60 minutes John Jr grew up in the upper-middle class section of Howard Beach, Queens with his 2 brothers an sister Victoria (of “Growing up Gotti”) fame. After attending Military Boarding school, he apparently decided against a life in the straight world. Junior was officially Made into the Gambinos in 1988 and became a Capo in 1990, likelyCONTINUE READING
Featured and PodcastsNovember 15, 2014 Hollywood and the Mob -Gangster Report episode #3 Topics for “Hollywood and the Mob” Robert Evans and the “Cotton Club Murders” read more Joe Kennedy, MCA, and Pantages theater rape scandal Teamsters & Mafia corruption in Hollywood. Frank Nitti Real Mobsters in “The Godfather” Real Mobsters in “The Sopranos” James Caan and the Chicago Mob Outfit during the making of “Thief”CONTINUE READING
Featured and PodcastsNovember 14, 2014 Detroit Mafia Past and Present -Gangster Report episode #2 Talking points for this episode Detroit Mafia Family History Bill Tocco & Joe Zerilli founding fathers. Grosse Pointe Appalachia Mafia Conference The Giacalone Brothers Black Gangsters – Frank Nitti Usher triple beheading Syrian Gangster Freddie “the Saint” Salem and Jewish Gambling czar Allen “Hesh” Hilf GameTax Bust Tony Zerilli & Jimmy Hoffa Detroit Boss JackCONTINUE READING
African-American and Detroit and Documentary and Drug Gangs and VideoJuly 22, 2014 Eminem, Proof of D-12, and T. Stuckey Thelmon “Tee” Stuckey is a shadowy legend of the Detroit underworld. In the early 2000′s he was sentenced to life in Federal prison for drug trafficking and homicide; he narrowly avoided a death sentence-one of his initial charges was for the murder of a disgraced former Detroit Police officer who’d been kicked off the forceCONTINUE READING
Mafia and Mob Hits and New York and VideoJuly 22, 2014 Joe Colombo killed by Joey Gallo The Godfather Who Talked too Much Joseph Colombo’s father Anthony was an early member of the Profaci crime family, forerunner of the family that would eventually bear his name. In 1938, Anthony Colombo was found strangled to death in a car with his mistress. Young Colombo, dropped out to of high school to join the U.S. CoastCONTINUE READING
Case Files and Detroit and Drug GangsJuly 21, 2014 Sylvester Seal Murray YBI | Detroit’s Young Boys Heroin Case Sylvester “Seal” Murray UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE, v. SYLVESTER SEAL MURRAY ANDRE DIGGS, MICHAEL JENKINS, AND DELOS FULWYLIE, DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS. NO. 83-1441, 83-1537, 83-1594, 83-1617, 83-1618 United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. 4/19/85 Unpublished Disposition NOTICE: Sixth Circuit Rule 24(c) states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel,CONTINUE READING