Long-awaited trial reveals Mafia informants On this date in 1980... Shocking revelations from turncoat witnesses were widely expected a...

On this date in 1949... Los Angeles Times Los Angeles area gambling czar Mickey Cohen, a frequent target of Mafia assassination attem...

On this date in 1937 - Francesco Lanza, Mafia boss of the San Francisco area, died of natural causes. His son Mariano Vincenzo (James) was d...

Bompensiero On this date in 1977: Frank "Bomp" Bompensiero, a longtime leader of the southern California underworld, is shot t...