So, from the world of Hollywood comes word that the competing lives of Mafia rivals Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, who happen to be the subjects of my two books “Top Hoodlum” and “The Deadly Don,” will be a major motion picture featuring Robert DeNiro playing both men with screenplay by author Nick Pileggi. ShouldContinue reading “Frank and Vito, the Movie”
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Gotti’s Boys
“Gotti’s Boys” gets a plug Sunday night, July 17 at 9 PM on HLN network’s latest edition of the series “Very Scary People: John Gotti,” a show about Gotti, his rise to power and demise. Myself and a few other Mafia experts and historians are interviewed as we were in the earlier show on SammyContinue reading “Gotti’s Boys”
Prohibition On Long Island
This feature for Newsday was a long time in the making.
The Frank Morano Show
Did a Podcast with WABC radio personality Frank Morano for his new concept, the Racket Report, which dealt with the struggle between Bonanno crime captain Vincent Basciano and former boss Joseph Massino. Their intrigue is laid out in my book “Vinny Gorgeous.”
BUGGING JOHN GOTTI
How the FBI used technical savvy to take down the Teflon Don. Here’s a link to an essay I wrote for Crime Reads.
Anthony M. DeStefano 