Organized crime in America is fairly fixed in its geographical associations, not counting the Corleones of Long Island. Chicago has The Outfit. New England the Patriarcas. New York the fabled Five ...

Real-life mob narratives are always fascinating to us because they show a version of the mob that is just as ruled by protocol and respect as the fictional depictions are, but show that, whenever ...

Netflix is revisiting one of the most notorious showdowns in mob history: veteran mobster John Stanfa vs. young newbie Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino. When longtime boss Nicky Scarfo's reign fell in the ...

When the boss of the Philadelphia Mafia was arrested in the early 1990s, it ignited a violent battle for power in the City of Brotherly Love. A new Netflix docuseries, Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The ...

Philadelphia is the City of Brotherly Love, but in the '90s, it was a bloodbath. Two warring mob factions battle for control in this true-crime series.

Fifteen alleged members and associates of a Philadelphia mob crime family were indicted on charges ranging from racketeering and extortion to gambling and drug trafficking, the Justice Department ...

John Stanfa found himself in a crime war with Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino throughout the 1990s By 1990, mob veteran John Stanfa took over from Nicky Scarfo as the leader of the Philadelphia family ...