The federal gambling indictments indicate the New York mafia may be more powerful than experts previously believed.

Today it’s La Dope-a Nostra! The New York City mob is a pathetic shell of what it once was — full of small-time crooks, rats ...

The New York mafia is alive and an "historic" FBI bust has shown that underworld crime is still kicking across the United ...

Bruce Cutler, who has died aged 77, was for a time one of the most famous defence lawyers in America. He became a household name in the 1980s when he won acquittals three times in quick succession for ...

IN 1990s Philadelphia two mafia factions went into battle – and the city’s streets became a bloody warzone. Brutal killings, mob hits and gangland violence ensued that was so sickening it ...

When convicted mobster Sammy (The Bull) Gravano emerged from federal prison five years ago, he was a new man. Placed in the federal witness-protection program, the mob stool pigeon--whose courtroom ...

Recent federal indictments show that despite years of prosecutions and deaths of key leaders, Italian organized crime has made a comeback, experts say.

Associates of four of New York's infamous "five families" crime syndicates allegedly backed a multimillion-dollar poker con that used elaborate technology to cheat unsuspecting players — and brought ...

Decades after a crackdown by prosecutors decimated the ranks of the New York Mafia, the indictment of an NBA coach, a player ...