Johnny Torrio

with a famous gang leader named John Torrio. Torrio believed in using diplomacy with crime which was a factor that Capone looked up to. A little while later, Capone became involved in the scandal that would be known as the Flower Shop Murder. This was the killing of a rival gang leader under the name of O’Bannion in his own flower shop. As Laurie Dimaurio shows, after this attack, there would be several retaliation attacks against Torrio. This led Torrio to flee the country for his life and…

A child from an italian immigrant family Al capone, nickname “scarface”.He rose up as a leader of a chicago mafia during the prohibition era.He grew up with a very poor family but he had a taste for bigger and better things. Many New York gangsters in the early 20th Century came from impoverished backgrounds, but this was not the case for the legendary Al Capone. Far from being a poor immigrant from Italy who turned to crime to make a living, Capone was from a respectable, professional…

Thousands of imposters have come and gone in this little world of ours. However, only a few were given a title and known for their artistic work of manipulating others. Most imposters impersonated others, tricking their clients into truly believing something completely false. Victor Lustig, born as Robert to the Miller family on January 4, 1890, in present day Czech Republic, is one of the world’s most famous and smoothest con men ever. He was a “gifted student with a seemingly bright future…

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, born on December 1,1949 to a lower middle-class family was a powerful Colombian drug lord and leader of one of the powerful criminal organization. At his zenith in the 80s', he ran and controlled a vast empire of drugs that covered the globe. He is responsible for hundred's of murder and presided over an empire of luxury mansions, planes, his own private zoo and a personal army comprising of soldiers and hardened criminals. Here are 15 facts about Pablo Escobar, a…

Organized crime is defined as any group having a formalized structure whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activity. In 1931, Charles Luciano formally created “La Cosa Nostra,” and began the most powerful organized crime group in the United States for the next 50 years. La Cosa Nostra, or the Italian Mob, achieved rapid success and sustained that success, despite the often brutal measures taken by the mob to extend their power. During Al Capone’s peak in Chicago, he said,…

John Gotti Net Worth Introduction Powerful Italian-American gangster John Gotti is also famous as the head of Gambino Crime Family of New York. Also famous as Teflon Don, John Gotti had a net worth of around $10 million at the time of his death. Biography & Wiki John Gotti was born on 27th October 1940 in South Bronx, New York. His father’s name was J. Joseph Gotti and his mother was Fannie who were Italian immigrants. His father works as a day labor and finds it pretty hard to run a family of…

James “Whitey” Bulger could just be considered another troubled soul caught up in the wrong things, but he is one of America's most notorious and ruthless mob bosses. Hailing from South Boston, Whitey entered a lifetime of crime a young age and had become a prominent figure in Boston's organized crime scene by the late 1970s. From 1975 to 1990, he served as an informant, tipping off the police and giving information about the Patriarca Crime Family while building his own crime network. After…

Avenue, the Biograph Theater is where the FBI once laid a trap for John Dillinger. When he left a move, they gunned him down when he pulled a weapon on the agents. While it is currently the site of the Victory Gardens Theater, this location was where Johnny Depp filmed Public Enemies. Mount Carmel…

Frank Lucas quickly became one of the most powerful and innovative organized crime bosses in the United States. Although he learned a lot from working beside Bumpy Johnson, he also changed the way organized crime operated, specifically the part that dealt with drug trafficking. Lucas knew that in order to take over for Johnson he had to break the monopoly the Italian mafia had established in New York. In order to do so, he flew straight to the Golden Triangle in South East Asia, where he had a…

John Gotti On December 16, 1985, as John Gotti looked on, Paul Castillano and Thomas Bilotti boss and underboss of the Gambino crime family in New York, were ambushed and shot dead by assassins under John Gotti’s command. Nearly all of the family’s capos (chiefs) knew Gotti had been the one behind the hit, and at a meeting of twenty capos on January 15, 1986, Gotti was formally acclaimed the new boss of the Gambino family. At the time of Gotti’s takeover, the Gambino family, with an annual…