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 ...

Federal authorities on Thursday announced a sweeping takedown of suspected Mexican Mafia members and associates in Southern California. They charged 43 defendants in a wide-ranging case involving ...

After six seasons on The Sopranos and a role in the iconic mob drama Goodfellas, Michael Imperioli knows a thing or two about the Mafia — and who better to narrate the History Channel’s riveting new ...

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 ...

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 ...

When it was released 50 years ago, The Godfather won a swag of Oscars and hailed director Francis Ford Coppola as the voice of a new auteur. But timing is, as they say, everything. The story of an ...

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 ...