A pair of Russian mob associates were each sentenced to 25 years in prison on Wednesday for their roles in organizing a failed hit on Iranian dissident journalist Masih Alinejad at her New York City home. Analysts warn that Iran crisis carries potential ...

Our 2017 study, which used a unique sample from the Italian American mafia, shows that mobsters who began their working lives in the 1930s made significant financial gains from extra years of schooling. We found that a mobster who completed just one extra year of education could increase earnings by around 8% on average.

Or here was Salvatore Profaci, a New York mobster brought in to quietly settle a dispute that had gone public after mob lawyer Salvatore Avena filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against his mobbed-up business partner in a trash-hauling business.

Together, Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa are accused of some of the most stunning violations in the history of New York law enforcement. Prosecutors charge that they moonlighted for more than a decade as Mafia hit men who kidnapped, killed and ...