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The History Channel’s new 4-part docuseries “American Godfathers: The Five Families” explores New York City’s five Mafia families, who ran organized crime in America and is set to premiere Sunday, ...

Reppetto's history of the American Mafia, from its humble turn-of-the-century beginnings in small Italian neighborhoods to the 1950–1951 Senate's Kefauver hearings on organized crime that made the mob ...

LOUIS FERRANTE: I was a criminal from when I was 13. I led a hijack and heist crew of armed robbers within the Gambino crime family. The FBI hunted me. To their credit, they got me. I never informed, ...

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In the early morning of April 14, 1903, a nearly decapitated body was found stuffed into a wooden barrel on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Six men were arrested in connection with the crime. One, ...

Ray Liotta is teaming up with the History Channel to chronicle the rise and fall of the New York mafia’s most prominent families. On Wednesday, the network greenlit the documentary series, titled ...

A MARTÍNEZ, BYLINE: Last year, I got to speak with Louis Ferrante for the first time. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) LOUIS FERRANTE: I was a criminal from when I was 13. I led a hijack and ...