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Roy DeMeo and his crew were responsible for some of the most brazen and brutal crimes in New York City’s history. Their audacity culminated in the 1978 Lufthansa heist, a robbery of over $5 million in cash from Kennedy Airport, which remains one of the largest cash robberies in American history. The heist, however, also … Read more

In September 2012, a user on the dark web marketplace Silk Road discovered a critical flaw in the platform’s withdrawal system. By double-clicking the withdrawal button, the individual found they could withdraw double the amount of cryptocurrency they had deposited, essentially draining funds that did not belong to them. This exploit would eventually lead to … Read more

A former inmate who served time with notorious Lucchese crime family underboss Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso has described what life was like inside the cellblock with one of the most feared mobsters in New York history. The account comes from an interview in which the individual, who was locked up with Casso, recalled that the two … Read more

In the early hours of October 13, 1957, Vito Genovese sent 14 armed men to burn down Bumpy Johnson’s Cotton Club Annex in Harlem and crush the independent operator’s growing influence. By dawn, 12 of those men were in hospital beds with broken bones and shattered faces. The other two were sent back to Little … Read more

In the late 1970s, Bonanno crime family captain Alphonse “Sonny Red” Indelicato led a crew of made men whose identities have been pieced together through research and court records. Indelicato, famously depicted in the film *Donnie Brasco*, was one of three Bonanno captains murdered in May 1981 in what became known as the three captains … Read more

On Valentine’s Day 1933, twelve of Dutch Schultz’s most trusted killers entered a Harlem basement expecting to execute one unarmed man. Only one of them walked out, and the message he carried back to the Bronx changed the balance of power in New York’s underworld. At the time, Harlem was struggling under the Great Depression. … Read more

Wayne Newton, known for decades as Mr. Las Vegas, built a career that made him one of the most successful entertainers in American history. He performed more than 30,000 shows, earned over $500 million during his lifetime, and owned a 40-acre ranch, a private jet, and a collection of vintage aircraft. Then, in 1992, the … Read more

My name is Chad Mallalerie. I’m fifty-two years old, and for twenty-nine years I drove a fire truck for the Teroot Fire Department. I retired last spring with a bad knee, a good pension, and a habit I’ve never been able to shake. I write everything down. Incident reports, timestamps, who said what and when. … Read more

Giuseppe Morello, known to rivals and police as “Peter Morello” and to the underworld as “The Old Fox,” was a founding figure in New York organized crime. He established the 107th Street mob in the 1890s, which later became the Morello crime family, and in time the Genovese crime family, the oldest of New York’s … Read more

The 1997 film Donnie Brasco ends with Al Pacino’s character, Lefty, receiving a phone call in his modest apartment, removing his jewelry, kissing his wife goodbye, and walking toward a waiting car before the screen cuts to black. The scene implies that Lefty, a loyal mob soldier who mentored an undercover FBI agent, was executed … Read more