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Las Vegas Mob Exhibit Gets Whacked (by Critics)

A new Las Vegas Mafia exhibition that displays mob memorabilia and takes visitors on an interactive journey in which they may "get whacked" is attracting intense criticism from historians and Italian-American groups. The Las Vegas Mob Experience, which opened in early April at the Tropicana Hotel, has on display 1,500...

Mob Wars Return to Vegas in Competing Attractions

LAS VEGAS -- It took decades to wrest control of this city's casinos from the mob, a bloody and drawn-out battle between law enforcement and its prey that left countless gangsters in jail, in witness protection or buried in unmarked desert graves. So imagine how surprised Bugsy, Lefty and their brethren would be to...

Enrico Ponzo: 5 Facts on the Accused Mobster Nabbed on an Idaho Ranch

Once a city slicker, always a city slicker. Enrico Ponzo, an alleged mobster on the run from the FBI, was arrested Monday at a ranch in rural Marsing, Idaho, where he'd been living under the alias "Jay Shaw." Marsing residents said they'd always had a few suspicions about "Jay," who was remarkably skilled with firearms...

Modern Mobsters Still Follow Dad Into the Mafia

The historic mobster roundup that collared more than 120 people in the New York region last month provided a snapshot of the Mafia of today: murder, gambling and extortion; big bosses and small fries; "made guys" and associates. But what it didn't show was the pervasive nepotism that still exists in organized crime -- only...

POLL: Best Mafia Nickname of Suspects Arrested by the FBI Today

If you're writing a screenplay for a movie about the mob, and you're having a tough time coming up with nicknames your mafiosi, today's sweeping arrests by the FBI should help provide you with some inspiration. Surge Desk has a look at the most colorful aliases of the usual suspects taken into custody by the feds in what...