The Chicago Syndicate: Sam Giancana
Showing posts with label Sam Giancana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sam Giancana. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

The Week that Frank Sinatra Performed at the Villa Venice for the Chicago Mob

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In 1962, at the height of his fame, Frank Sinatra gave a benefit performance at the behest of a British princess. He gave another for the he...
Thursday, November 05, 2015

Revisiting the Mob Career of Tony Spilotro

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Tony Spilotro, who would eventually be portrayed by Joe Pesci in the Martin Scorcese film "Casino," was born and raised in “The Pa...
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Thursday, August 06, 2015

Bringing Down the Mob: The War Against the American Mafia

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Thomas Reppetto is a former Chicago commander of detectives and has been president of New York City's Citizens Crime Commission for more...
Friday, July 10, 2015

Sam Giancana Ordered JFK Whacked!!

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"Mafia Princess" Antoinette Giancana, daughter of the late Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana, claims in her book that her father order...
Thursday, July 09, 2015

Bringing Down the Mob: The War Against the American Mafia

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Longtime business associates Allen Dorfman and Irwin Weiner frequently lunched together. On a day in January 1983, they emerged from Dorfman...
Wednesday, July 08, 2015

The JFK-Marilyn Monroe Blackmail Hoax

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IT WAS AN INVESTIGATIVE reporter's dream come true: a trove of documents apparently marked up with John F. Kennedy's distinctive scr...
Thursday, July 02, 2015

US Attorney General and the Director of the FBI Battle over the Mob

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In Washington, turf warfare can be blood sport. Colin Powell versus Dick Cheney in the W years. Nancy Reagan versus Don Regan in the 1980s. ...

"The Go-Between: A Novel of the Kennedy Years" by Frederick Turner

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It is important that the reader recognize this is presented as a work of fiction, although there will always be a tremendous and probably na...

The Crazy Story Of Frank Sinatra Playing A Club For A Week Straight Because Sam Giancana Was Mad At JFK

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The Mafia detested the administration of John F. Kennedy as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy raised the number of mob convictions from 35 ...
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Wednesday, July 01, 2015

MAFIA-PEDIA - The Government's Secret Files on Organized Crime

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The government has opened an old treasure trove of information on some 800 gangland goons who wielded power during the Mafia's Golden Ag...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Sam Giancana Memorabilia Subject of Courtroom Fight in Las Vegas

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A defunct Mafia museum claims an auction house sold dozens of articles once owned by Sam Giancana, though the museum owns them - having boug...
Monday, May 05, 2014

Review of "A History of Violence: An Encyclopedia of 1,400 Chicago Mob Murders"

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From his boyhood memories of the raid on a bookie joint under the Chicago apartment where he grew up to the murder cases he worked on as an ...
Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Book Launch Reception for A History of Violence: An Encyclopedia of 1,400 Chicago Mob Murders

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From Chicago's original gangsters to the Outfit's decline in recent years, Dr. Wayne Johnson is well-versed in the organized crime t...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Mistress of JFK & Sam Giancana to be Portrayed by @ChristinaBLind in the "Ride the Tiger" Play

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Christina Lind will change dresses often as she brings Judith Exner to life on a New Haven stage. She also aims to change how history views ...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

New Kings of Organized Crime Said to Support Al-Qaeda

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Although they are organized, the new mob in town doesn't look like the old one. The new faces of organized crime in Chicago, according...
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Monday, September 24, 2012

October "There Goes the Neighbor Hood" Gangster Tour

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John Binder , Mob historian and author of The Chicago Outfit (IL) (Images of America) , conducts the popular "There Goes the Neighbor H...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

Renee Fecarotta Russo and Nora Schweihs of Mob Wives Chicago Sued by Manager

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Call it a “Mob” contract gone bad. Two cast members of “Mob Wives Chicago” are being sued by film producer and talent manager Nick Celozzi...
Monday, April 02, 2012

"Momo: The Sam Giancana Story"

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"Momo: The Sam Giancana Story" is the story of the legendary Chicago mob boss whose 1975 murder in his Oak Park kitchen remains un...
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Friday, March 30, 2012

5 West Coast Mob Travel Spots

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With a roster of names like Jimmy the Weasel, Tony the Ant, and Flipper Milano, you might think of characters from a kids cartoon. Well, fuh...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI's Reputation Soared with High-Profile Arrests of Gangsters

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It is fitting to begin in the heart of Washington D.C., where J. Edgar Hoover lies at rest. He was a local kid who grew up on Capitol Hill...