Jake LaMotta Often Rubbed Shoulders With Detroit Mob In Fight Career, Gutz Recollected Specifics
The Raging Bull himself, Jake LaMotta, was wined and dined by the Motown mafia whenever he was town to fight...
Movies
Gangster Report Movie Review (Podcast Edition): The Infiltrator Explores Dangerous Undercover Work In 1980s War On Drugs
The Gangster Report's Scott M.Burnstein & Al Profit discuss the new Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) film The Infiltrator about a...
Infamous Pittsburgh Mobster Nick The Blade Dies In Florida, Steel Town Gangster Supplied ‘Goodfellas’ Crew With Drugs
Legendary Pittsburgh mafia enforcer and Goodfellas drug-connect Eugene (Nick the Blade) Gesuale died this week. The 73-year old Gesuale is...
Real-To-Reel: New Jack City Inspired By Detroit’s Chambers Brothers, ‘The Carter’ Was Really ‘The Broadmoor’
Based on a Village Voice article on Detroit’s notorious Chambers Brothers Gang, the 1991 gangster-film classic New Jack City moved...
BURNSTEIN COLUMN: White Boy Rick Loses Another Round In What’s Turned Into Shakespearian Struggle For Freedom
The plight of White Boy Rick continues. It's a seemingly never-ending saga of sorrow, bad luck, misfortune, tragic fate and unadulterated...
