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NCTraveler

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12. You can often find news stories about them.

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Wed Jan 17, 2018, 11:13 AM

Jan 2018

Some really big names have gone down over the last couple of years.

Here are some names for you to look into.

Michael "the Nose" Mancuso

Liborio Bellomo

Victor Amuso

Thomas DiFiore

Steven Crea

A couple more cooling it in jail.

John Franzese

Anthony Palumbo

Whitey Bulger

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Binge watching utube videos on mafia bosses. Where are today's bosses? [View all] bobbieinok Jan 2018 OP

It means that some construction companies and unions were backed by organized crime tymorial Jan 2018 #1

Thanks for your insight. A helpful addition to Trump story. bobbieinok Jan 2018 #3

I don't know about being counterparts, but the FBI just rolled up about 11 of them. shraby Jan 2018 #2

Do you have sources for this? After watching videos want to learn more bobbieinok Jan 2018 #5

Here's a link mythology Jan 2018 #6

Thanks. Names, pics just like videos about gangs in 30s 40s, 50s. Same 5 crime families bobbieinok Jan 2018 #11

Graft and organized crime ran Kansas City in the first half of the 20th century misanthrope Jan 2018 #21

Truman, right bobbieinok Jan 2018 #23

Thanks! shraby Jan 2018 #16

Who is asking and why? jberryhill Jan 2018 #4

Hey!! After Kefauver? investigations, word was that mafia no longer exists bobbieinok Jan 2018 #7

Nothing tymorial Jan 2018 #8

There Are No Such People Today ProfessorGAC Jan 2018 #9

I seen a lot of crime. jberryhill Jan 2018 #10

Ok, Mr Hoover ProfessorGAC Jan 2018 #15

I was trying to track down the source... jberryhill Jan 2018 #17

Whew! ProfessorGAC Jan 2018 #19

You can often find news stories about them. NCTraveler Jan 2018 #12

Thanks for names. The videos brought back lots of memories of news stories of yrs ago bobbieinok Jan 2018 #14

Also interesting there are no longer movies about gangsters like those with James Cagney, EGRobinson bobbieinok Jan 2018 #13

Those movies died out in the late 50s LeftInTX Jan 2018 #22

This is quite interesting. Movies about boxing and horse racing? Weren't both mob infested? bobbieinok Jan 2018 #26

And there were multitudes of prison movies bobbieinok Jan 2018 #27

We just had "The Sopranos" on TV. That was fiction based on fact. They're still around. brush Jan 2018 #29

There are still some elements of the Philly mob jberryhill Jan 2018 #18

One is in the Whitehouse Le Gaucher Jan 2018 #20

Thanks for all replies. I've learned a lot. Topic interested more DUers than I ever expected bobbieinok Jan 2018 #24

CEOs are the mafia bosses. Drahthaardogs Jan 2018 #25

In the Trump Administration. nt doc03 Jan 2018 #28