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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With each edition padded out with investigative archival images and footage, audio recordings, and dramatic recreations, as well ...

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, ...

Mob stories have a unique way of pulling you in. And fast. One minute you’re watching a sit-down in a corner restaurant, and the next, you’re knee-deep in double-crosses and courtroom drama. The Mafia ...

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 ...

"Borgata, Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia" by Louis Ferrante, Pegasus Books, 400 pages A Louisianan might be attracted initially to Louis Ferrante’s ambitious underworld chronicle ...

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 ...

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 ...