LOUIS Ferrante hijacked terrified truck drivers at gun point, was accused of shooting a fellow fraudster and was eventually ...

While most no longer receive the headlines they once did, several mafias still exist in the U.S. today. These are some of the ...

NPR's A Martinez talks to Louis Ferrante about the first volume of his Borgata trilogy on the history of the American Mafia. Ferrante is a former high-ranking member of the Gambino crime family.

Giuseppe Di Matteo, 12, was kidnapped by Cosa Nostra mobsters in Sicily and held for 779 days before being murdered as ...