Category Archives: Organized Crime

Crime Time Stories: ‘Casino: The REAL Sam ‘Ace’ Rothstein/Frank ‘Lefty’ Rosenthal’

Source:Crime Time Stories talking about the Frank Lefty Rosenthal Story. Actor Robert De Niro played him in Martin Scorsese’s Casino, from 1995. Source:The New Democrat “Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal was a professional sports bettor who was the mob’s man in Vegas … Continue reading

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AHC: Mafia’s Greatest Hits- Sam Giancana

Source:The New Democrat “Mafia´s Greatest Hits Sam Giancana” From AHC Sam Giancana to me at least was a real life Hollywood gangster. He is the gangster that we see in a lot of the Hollywood Italian Mafia movies the gangster in … Continue reading

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Bloodletters & Badmen: Virginia Hill- Mistress To The Mob

Source:The New Democrat If you watch the movie Bugsy from 1991 with Warren Beatty playing Ben Siegel with Annette Being playing Siegel’s mistress Virginia Hill, the movie portrays Virginia as much more than a mobster’s mistress. Mistresses are common with … Continue reading

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Mob Video Vault: Mobsters- Benjamin Bugsy Siegel

Source:The New Democrat  One of my favorite quotes about Ben Siegel was about his friendship with actor George Raft. The quote being that Ben Siegel was a mobster who wanted to be an actor. And George Raft was an actor … Continue reading

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The Lip TV: ‘Whitey: The United States of America V. James J. Bulger’

Source:The Lip TV– talking about the life of Boston-Irish mobster James Whitey Bulger. Source:The New Democrat “WHITEY: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V. JAMES J. BULGER is the documentary about infamous Boston gangster “Whitey” Bulger, and we get the first look … Continue reading

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All Things Film: Goodfellas- The Making Of A Classic

Source: The Daily Review If you ask the people who were actually part of these Italian crime families in New York in the 1960s and 1970s when Goodfellas takes place, they’ll tell you watching this movie is like watching their … Continue reading

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Mysteries & Scandals: Bugsy Siegel

Source:IMDB– Mysteries and Scandals. You can also see this post at The FreeState, on Blogger. “Susan Berman (author), Ralph Saierno (NYC mob investigator), Frank Ragano (lawyer), Frank Wright (curator Vegas), W.R. Wilkerson III (author), Rose Marie (entertainer) and Michael Druxman (author) … Continue reading

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Bloodletters & Badmen: Mobsters- Anthony Spliotro

“The Life & Death of Anthony Spilotro.” From Bloodletters & Badmen Tony Spilotro was one of the worst pieces of garbage (and I’m being nice here) that was ever produced by the Italian Mafia. I’m not even sure he cared about … Continue reading

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The LIP TV: Byod With Ondi Timoner- Dimitri Logothetis on Sam Giancana

Source:The Lip TV– Frank Sinatra and JFK. “Assassination of John F. Kennedy, mortal shooting of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, as he rode in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. His accused … Continue reading

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Bloodletters & Badmen: Casino Boss- Frank Lefty Rosenthal

Source:Bloodletters & Badmen– Casino boss Frank Lefty Rosenthal. You can also see this post at The FreeState, on Blogger. “Frank Lawrence “Lefty” Rosenthal was a professional sports bettor, former Las Vegas casino executive, and organized crime associate. The 1995 Martin Scorsese … Continue reading

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