Some of the most legendary mobster movies were either based on actual mobsters or inspired by their legacies. Here are several prominent mobster movies based on real people.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former mob boss John Stanfa, pictured here in 1980, waged a bloody war for control of the Philadelphia mafia in the late 1990s.

Given his current state, it’s easy to forget that Rudy Giuliani made a name for himself bringing down mobsters as a ferocious New York City prosecutor. He regularly wielded Racketeer Influenced and ...

APART. LOS WORCESTER. IN THE HEART OF HISTORIC BOSTON, THE NORTH END IS BOSTON’S OLDEST NEIGHBORHOOD, WHERE NARROW STREETS WHISPER TALES OF A BYGONE ERA. THERE EXISTS A NEWER TRADITION THAT MELDS THE ...

An 18th-century British painting stolen by mobsters in 1969 has been returned more than a half-century later to the family that bought the painting for $7,500 during the Great Depression, the FBI’s ...

You don’t have to be a wise guy to come to these conclusions. A new research paper found that Italian mobsters who previously committed violent crimes in groups were more likely to re-offend.

An Italian court has sentenced more than 200 crime gang members to a total of 2,200 years in prison, following the country’s largest mafia trial in three decades. During the trial, which began in ...

A painting older than the US Constitution was returned to its rightful owner this month – more than 50 years after being stolen by mobsters, the FBI said in a news release. “The Schoolmistress,” by ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) George Anastasia, Rowan University (THE CONVERSATION) The bloody mob war that is the ...

An 18th century British painting that was stolen by mobsters in 1969 has been returned to the family that bought it for $7,500 during the Great Depression, the FBI’s Salt Lake City field office ...