Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ray Liotta is teaming up with the History Channel to chronicle the rise and fall of the New York mafia’s most prominent families.

Federal authorities announce sweeping takedown of alleged Mexican Mafia network in Southern California, charging over 40 in Orange County crime ring.

Reppetto's history of the American Mafia, from its humble turn-of-the-century beginnings in small Italian neighborhoods to the 1950–1951 Senate's Kefauver hearings on organized crime that made the mob ...

LOUIS FERRANTE: I was a criminal from when I was 13. I led a hijack and heist crew of armed robbers within the Gambino crime family. The FBI hunted me. To their credit, they got me. I never informed, ...

By the 1960s, the American Mafia wasn’t just operating in the shadows — it was woven into the fabric of daily life, from neighborhood unions to casinos. While the FBI scrambled to catch up, mob bosses ...

The History Channel’s new 4-part docuseries “American Godfathers: The Five Families” explores New York City’s five Mafia families, who ran organized crime in America and is set to premiere Sunday, ...

Crammed with the kind of characters and detail that make pages turn and moviemakers salivate, self-described ""mobster, drug lord, and porn kingpin"" Gallo's story of life as a criminal and mafia ...

Ray Liotta is teaming up with the History Channel to chronicle the rise and fall of the New York mafia’s most prominent families. On Wednesday, the network greenlit the documentary series, titled ...

A MARTÍNEZ, BYLINE: Last year, I got to speak with Louis Ferrante for the first time. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) LOUIS FERRANTE: I was a criminal from when I was 13. I led a hijack and ...