Oct 5, 2009
June 15, 2003 This is the prologue to the book The Bullet or the Bribe: Taking Down Colombia's Cali Drug Cartel by Ron Chepesiuk, the story of the rise of the powerful Cali Cartel and the long and often frustrating campaign that U.S. and international law enforcement...
Sep 12, 2009
Updated Feb. 23, 2010
Frank Sinatra
Both Nixon and Sinatra had deep ties to the Mafia. It was only natural that after President John Kennedy dumped Sinatra that Ole Blue Eyes hooked up with the biggest politician in the Mob’s pocket. Sinatra hung around with Nixon and...
Sep 11, 2009
Charles Gregory “Bebe” Rebozo and Richard Nixon
Bebe Rebozo came in and out of the Nixon White House as he pleased, without being logged in by the Secret Service. At 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, he had his own private office with a telephone and a designated bedroom always at...
Sep 11, 2009
Aug 21, 2009
J. Edgar Hoover
J. Edgar’s Hoover’s homosexuality compromised him and made him vulnerable to blackmail by the Mafia. Attorney General Robert Kennedy’s crackdown on the Mob put Hoover between a rock and a hard place.
by Don Fulsom
J. Edgar Hoover...
Apr 30, 2009
March 8, 2009 The Return of the Irish-American Gangster to the Silver Screen by Steven Gerald Farrell When The Godfather was released in the early 1970s, it effectively created a myth of the virtually unbeatable Italian crime family for the American public that endured for...
Apr 30, 2009
October 14, 2007
The Raid in Teaneck is the prologue from Ron Chepesiuk and Anthony Gonzalez's book, Superfly: The True Untold Story of Frank Lucas, American Gangster. (A major movie about Lucas entitled American Gangster and starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe will...
