When the 18th Amendment outlawed alcohol in 1920, it set the stage for an underground empire unlike anything America had seen before. Prohibition-era gangsters stepped into the void, building fortunes ...

Behind jazz basements and whispered passwords, speakeasy crime ran on muscle, money, and men who made the rules with a nod (or a gun). From boardwalk bosses to barrel-smashing feds, these are the ...

From machete fights in California fields to hijacked railcars in the Bronx, organized crime transformed the humble artichoke into a lucrative—and violent—black-market prize. Artichoke fields run to ...

For years, Pasqualina Albano led what would become the Springfield crew of the Genovese crime family. She did that despite being “categorically excluded for her gender,” says her biographer. Albano’s ...