Billups pleads not guilty in Mafia-tied poker scheme

Trail Blazers coach and basketball Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups pleaded not guilty, Monday, to charges tied to his alleged ...
KSTP-TV

RICO broke up the Mafia in New York. Will it bring down violent crime in Minneapolis?

Another suspected gang member is changing his plea as part of an unprecedented investigation into violent crime in the Twin Cities. Doug Mobley pled guilty on Wednesday in federal court to one count ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

New York's underbelly is thriving — this FBI case pulled back the curtain

The New York mafia is alive and an "historic" FBI bust has shown that underworld crime is still kicking across the United States. Mob bosses from four different crime families — the Gambinos, the ...
KOIN on MSN

Chauncey Billups to be arraigned in NY for poker scheme

Chauncey Billups, the suspended head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, will appear in federal court in Brooklyn, New York ...
The Advocate

Author traces Mafia from Sicily to U.S., New Orleans and New York in first of triology

"Borgata, Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia" by Louis Ferrante, Pegasus Books, 400 pages A Louisianan might be attracted initially to Louis Ferrante’s ambitious underworld chronicle ...