From "The Godfather" to "The Sopranos," mobsters and their families have been the subject of American fiction for generations. Now, two new programs promise to take a deep dive into the true stories ...

When I saw The Godfather, I had no suspicion that I’d become a journalist; even so, I imagined the review I’d like to see. A spread of head shots: The top two rows are faces of the mobsters portrayed, ...

The rivalry between mobsters John Stanfa and Joey Merlino might've started as an internal power struggle, but it didn't stay within the Mafia. Their conflict spilled into the streets of Philadelphia ...

Last week, two notorious Boston mobsters came face to face for the first time in nearly two decades. Francis Cadillac Frank Salemme is on trial for the 1993 murder of a nightclub manager. His former ...

John Stanfa found himself in a crime war with Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino throughout the 1990s By 1990, mob veteran John Stanfa took over from Nicky Scarfo as the leader of the Philadelphia family ...

Growing up as the son of an Italian immigrant in the 1990s, the word “mafia” has been in my lexicon for as long as I remember. It was unavoidable in that era. Media at the time was filled with images ...