Growing up as the son of an Italian immigrant in the 1990s, the word “mafia” has been in my lexicon for as long as I remember. It was unavoidable in that era. Media at the time was filled with images ...

The federal indictment of a big-money poker ring involving NBA figures on Thursday, in which unsuspecting rich players were allegedly enticed to join then cheated of their money, echoed decades of ...

Netflix's Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia chronicles the crime war between him and Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino in the 1990s In 1996, Stanfa was sentenced to life in prison Netflix is revisiting ...

The Mafia’s presence in Las Vegas, New York and other large American cities has been long documented and romanticized, and seeing the mob back in the headlines in 2025 shouldn’t be surprising, ...

Card-reading contact lenses, X-ray poker tables, trays of poker chips that read cards, hacked shuffling machines that predict hands. The technology alleged to have been used to execute a multistate, ...

The FBI announced arrests in a major sports-betting and illegal gambling scandal involving the Mafia. Four of New York's major Mafia families were allegedly involved in the long-running criminal ...

Four of the city’s five Mafia families were part of a high-tech scheme that netted $7 million, prosecutors said, by fleecing high rollers at illegal poker games. By William K. Rashbaum In New York ...

The rivalry between mobsters John Stanfa and Joey Merlino might've started as an internal power struggle, but it didn't stay within the Mafia. Their conflict spilled into the streets of Philadelphia ...

Mob wife is having a fashion moment. In real estate, it seems like many potential buyers don’t see the aesthetic as their own. In and around New York — from Staten Island to Long Island to Fort Lee — ...

For decades, audiences around the world have been drawn to the seductive, ultraviolent world of organized crime. Mob stories have become a genre filmmakers return to over and over again, despite the ...

What is it about mob movies that has captivated audiences for decades. Since the early days of cinema, organized crime has been a favorite topic, with some of Hollywood’s greatest films and complex ...