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Mobsters is a 1991 American crime drama film directed by Michael Karbelnikoff. It details the creation of The Commission . Set in New York City , taking place from 1917 to 1931, it is a semi-fictitious account of the rise of Charles "Lucky" Luciano , Meyer Lansky , Frank Costello , and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel .
Some episodes of Mobsters are rehashes of the similar TV series American Justice as well as Notorious, both series that were originally broadcast on Biography Channel's sister channel, A&E Network; some episodes also rehashed segments from another A&E series American Gangster, which began airing on the Black Entertainment Television (BET ...
Thomas Francis Gambino (Italian: [ɡamˈbiːno]; August 23, 1929 – October 3, 2023) was an Italian-American New York City mobster and a longtime caporegime of the Gambino crime family who successfully controlled lucrative trucking rackets in the New York City Garment District.
The American movie The Black Hand (1906) is thought to be the earliest surviving gangster film. [1] In 1912, D. W. Griffith directed The Musketeers of Pig Alley, a short drama film about crime on the streets of New York City (filmed, however, at Fort Lee, New Jersey) rumored to have included real gangsters as extras.
Michael "Mikey Scars" DiLeonardo (born June 18, 1955) is a former Italian-American mobster who rose to position of caporegime in the Gambino crime family.In the early 2000s DiLeonardo turned government witness and decided to cooperate with the FBI and managed to convict over 80 mobsters.
The Making of the Mob is an American television docu-series detailing the emergence of organized crime in 20th-century America.The series premiered on June 15, 2015, on AMC, and is narrated by actor Ray Liotta.
[1] Strollo had two brothers, Emilio and Dominick. He married a woman named Edna Goldenberg, [2] who bore him several children. Strollo was a cousin of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania mobster Lenny Strollo and Dante Strollo, a member of the Youngstown, Ohio, Cosa Nostra family. Strollo was of medium height and weight with sandy brown hair.
In January 2001, Cassarino participated in an extortion attempt against actor Steven Seagal, who had recently terminated a business partnership with Julius R. Nasso, a Staten Island movie producer who was friends with Ciccone. Allegedly at Nasso's request, Cassarino and other crew members picked up Seagal by car to bring him to a meeting with ...