Mickey Cohen died in his sleep. ibid.
The Mobsters pocketed the rest. The desert city had become a cash cow for the outfit. With so much money flowing from Las Vegas casinos the Mob needed muscle to protect its investment. Naturally, the bosses turned to a man who had killed and tortured on behalf of the Mob for years – Tony Spilotro. And the young mobster saw it as a chance to prove himself. Mobsters s1e26: Tony Spilotro
In the wake of the indictments the Nevada Gaming Commission raided the Stardust casino. The move put a serious hole in the Chicago Outfit’s Vegas revenue. ibid.
Mob ladies like Virginia Hill, Arlyne Brickman and Karen Hill have no qualms in talking a man down. No-one crosses a mob lady. Mobsters s1e27: Mob Ladies aka Gangstas: Lady Gangstas
Virginia Hill was born into a turbulent home in a small rural town of Lipscomb Alabama in 1916. Her father was a drinker. ibid.
Virginia Hill was shuffling money all over town. ibid.
With Epstein’s guidance, Hill was bringing in thousands of dollars. ibid.
Virginia was running with the New York mob. ibid.
It didn’t take long with Bugsy and Virginia to rekindle their affair. ibid.
Within two weeks Bugsy Siegel was dead. ibid.
Her body was found near a stream. ibid.
She [Arlyne] rang the cops and made them an offer ... Arlyne would have to infiltrate the Gambinos while wearing a wire. ibid.
The Feds used information from the sting to bring down Scarpati, Manzo and nine other top members of the Colombo family. ibid.
Karen Friedman was living a quiet life ... The 18-year-old met and fell in love with Henry Hill, bricklayer by day, mobster by night. ibid.
He would testify against members of the Lucchese crime family. ibid.
Philadelphia 1964: over the course of ten years Nicky Scarfo had become an up and coming member of the Mob. But Scarfo was reckless ... The 35-year-old had the reputation of becoming a hot-head. Mobsters s1e28: Nicodemo Scarfo
He had a high voice and a complex about his height. ibid.
Over the course of the next decade developers expected to spend more than one billion dollars constructing casinos [Atlantic City]. That meant big money for Nicky Scarfo’s construction company Scarf Inc. ibid.
The outcast wanted to be boss. ibid.
A federal indictment had revealed the ties between the Mayor of Atlantic City – Michael Matthews – and the Philadelphia Mob. ibid.
Roy kept lending money to friends, and started to hang around with some questionable characters. Mobsters s2e1: Roy DeMeo
DeMeo went on to assemble one of the deadliest teams of professional killers in the history of organised crime. ibid.
Castellano didn’t trust DeMeo, so he issued an order: DeMeo had to go. ibid.
New York City. The 28th June 1971 ... A celebration of ethnic pride ... It was led by Mafia don Joe Colombo ... As Colombo approached the podium to speak shots rang out. Colombo collapsed to the ground. Mobsters s2e2: Joey Gallo
It was in his teens that Joey took his first steps towards a life of crime. He and his brother Larry became numbers runners and enforcers for the Profaci family. ibid.
When he first met the Kennedys, Joey put on a show. At the hearings broadcast live the public got its first glimpse into the dark underworld of the Gallo brothers. ibid.
In 1932 the notorious gangsta Al Capone was finally put away for tax evasion. Capone had run the Chicago outfit with an iron fist. He handed over control to his right hand man Frank Nitti. Mobsters s2e5: Frank Nitti
Nitti figured safety was in numbers so he befriended three Italian brothers who lived around the corner ... And their little brother Alphonse. ibid.
Nitti excelled at fencing stolen goods. ibid.
Nitti started out at the bottom as a debt collector. ibid.
On 10th November 1924 Nitti and Capone settled the score: three men walked into O’Banion’s flower shop on the city’s north side. ibid.
At just twenty-six Al Capone became the biggest mob boss in Chicago. Frank Nitti was his right-hand man. ibid.
In 1927 due in part to Nitti’s iron first and business acumen the Chicago outfit raked in over $100,000,000 (over a billion in today’s money). ibid.
The Capone gang’s chief rival for business was the north-side gang run by Bugs Moran. ibid.
Nitti had taken over the outfit at the worst possible time. ibid.
Labour unions ... Nitti had found a new source of income for the outfit. ibid.
The Feds indicted Nitti for racketeering, mail fraud and conspiracy. ibid.
January 1943: top mobsters in the Chicago outfit were knee-deep in a high-stakes shakedown. Mobsters s2e6: Tony Accardo
The Circus Gang had a special role in Capone’s outfit ... Capone needed protection more than ever: he was engaged in a fierce struggle for power with north-side mobster Bugs Moran. ibid.
His name has been linked to numerous assassinations. ibid.
By the end of the decade there were more than 7,500 gambling dens in the city. ibid.
The outfit-controlled unions demanded studio bosses make payments of hundreds of thousands. ibid.
With Nitty dead, Paul Ricca was now boss and Accardo his number two man. ibid.
Gambling was still the outfit’s most profitable racket. ibid.
In 1950 Chicago took centre stage in the Senate investigation of the Mob. ibid.
The Outfit’s Las Vegas casino The Stardust was full of gamblers spending money. ibid.
Accardo was indicted on filing false tax returns. ibid.
Sam Giancana, his number two man, was anything but discreet. ibid.
It was believed a hit on Giancana could come only from the top. ibid.
His death marked the end of the Capone-era gangsters. ibid.
Tony Accardo had achieved something very rare amongst mobsters – he died of old age. ibid.
November 6th 1990: the two detectives Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, men sworn to protect and serve, were in fact hired guns for the Mafia. And possibly the most corrupt cops in NYPD history. Mobsters s3e1: Mafia Cops
Gambling was a key racket for the Eppolitos. ibid.
Stephen Caracappa – a tight-lipped cop with a killer instinct. ibid.
As partners in Brooklyn’s robbery squad Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa were a winning combination. Together they were also dangerous. ibid.
Using their badges to lure a man into a Mafia hit – performing this service for mobster Bert Kaplan. ibid.
Eppolito and Caracappa funnelled secret police intelligence to their bosses back in the Mob. ibid.
Guilty on all counts. ibid.
Anastasia got away with the murder [Arnold Schuster] just as he had for decades. Mobsters s3e3: Albert Anastasia
[Joe] Masseria was alone: enter Albert Anastasia and three others. ibid.
Anastasia’s muscle would also be valuable to a group of Mafia leaders called the Commission … Murder Incorporated. ibid.
Anastasia had risen through the Mob ranks. ibid.
The tax trial of Albert Anastasia … Anastasia walked out of prison and right into a power grab. ibid.
June 1990 Staten Island, New York ... The woods were home to a mobster’s dumping ground. After three days of digging they found what they were looking for. Buried in shallow graves, dismembered and stuffed inside suitcases were the remains of those unfortunate to have crossed mobster Tommy Pitera. Mobsters s3e4: Tommy Karate Pitera
All the victims were neatly cut up into six pieces. ibid.