The Chicago Syndicate: LBJ
Showing posts with label LBJ. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LBJ. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Will Alexi Giannoulias's Potential U.S. Senate Run Be Influenced by His Family's Bank Loans to Reputed Mobsters?

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Broadway Bank is trying to recoup $12.9 million from two Chicago crime figures, rekindling a controversy as the bank's former chief loan...
Tuesday, June 02, 2009

International Organized Crime Intelligence and Operations Center Created

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Attorney General Eric Holder announced a new International Organized Crime Intelligence and Operations Center (IOC-2) that will marshal the ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

The Dark Side of Camelot

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There are many Jack Kennedys in America's collective consciousness, even 46 years after his Friday lunchtime slaying under clearing Dall...
Sunday, April 12, 2009

Prosecutorial Misconduct in the Hoffa Conviction?

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The government's hard-won conviction of Jimmy Hoffa on jury-tampering charges is under assault 45 years later. A retired law professor h...
Monday, February 02, 2009

Memo to Mobsters: Don't "Adopt" Anyone - He May Turn Out to be a Rat

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Memo to mobsters: Don't "adopt" anyone - he may turn out to be a rat. John A. (Junior) Gotti learned that the hard way with &q...
Saturday, January 10, 2009

Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination

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A new book has been released , Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination , was written by Lamar Waldron. In the book it pr...
Saturday, November 22, 2008

On the Anniversary of JFK's Assassination, Questions Remain for Some Regarding the Mob's Role, If Any

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Will we ever know for sure? Saturday, marks the 45th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Gunshots rang out at Dea...
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Saturday, October 25, 2008

Rumors of the Kennedy Family's Ties to the Mafia

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Rumors of ties between the Kennedys and the Mafia go back to John F. Kennedy’s father, Joe Kennedy, who reportedly earned much of the famil...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Junior Gotti Awakens Mob Ghosts in Tampa

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The ghosts of Tampa's old-time wiseguys awakened this summer when Mafia scion John "Junior" Gotti came to town in handcuffs, a...
Thursday, August 07, 2008

Pop Culture Portrayals of the Mob in Tampa

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•" GoodFellas " (1990) Tampa is featured in one of the best gangster movies. The mobsters played by Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro ...

Junior Gotti is not the Only Tampa Connection to Mafia Activity

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Tampa again finds itself in the center of the latest chapter of mob intrigue. Reported organized crime boss John Gotti Jr. was arrested in...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Carlos Marcello, New Orleans Mafia Don, Played Roll in JFK Assassination According to Lawsuit by Forensic Intelligence Analyst

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A New Jersey paralegal with a longstanding interest in government corruption filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department and the F.B.I. o...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Organized Crime to Face New Crime Fighting Strategy from the Department of Justice

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Today, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey announced a new strategy in the fight against international organized crime that will address thi...
Monday, March 31, 2008

Henry Hill Tours His Goodfellas' Turf

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GoodFellas was the definitive mafia film - and it is the story of one man, Henry Hill, one of the only survivors of a ruthless gang of robbe...
Friday, February 08, 2008

62 Mobsters Part of 80 Count Indictment Against the Gambinso, Genoveses, Bonanno's and Others

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SIXTY-TWO DEFENDANTS INDICTED, INCLUDING GAMBINO ORGANIZED CRIME FAMILY ACTING BOSS, ACTING UNDERBOSS, CONSIGLIERE, AND MEMBERS AND ASSOCIAT...
Wednesday, October 31, 2007

La Cosa No More?

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In early 2004, mob veteran Vincent Basciano took over as head of the Bonanno crime family. The reign of the preening, pompadoured Mafioso kn...