Chronicles of Events and Biographies Related to the American Mafia
When Giacomo “Black Jack” Tocco died in 2014, it was an end of an era for the Mob. At the time of his death, he’d been the longest serving Mafia leader in the history of American organized crime. He presided over an outfit that had prospered in the greater Detroit area for decades. While he’d…
Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran definitely was involved in union corruption and organized crime, with alleged ties to the Bufalino Crime Family out of Pennsylvania. However, it is not what Sheeran did as a criminal that makes him noteworthy but what he might have done. In a book published after his death, an author with close…
Jimmy Hoffa disappeared under dubious circumstances in 1975, and we have been searching for him ever since. It seems like every few years some dying mobster gives a tip or a deathbed confession, and the cops begin digging up fields or tearing out basement floors to look for Hoffa’s remains. While his disappearance has been…