Northeastern Victoria, April 1878. The rain doesn't wash the dirt, it turns it to soup.Greta. A three-legged stool, turpentine brandy, and a 14-year-old girl named Kate Kelly trying …
London, 1968. Fog off the Thames like a debt collector.Two boys from Vallance Road, born 1933 to a scrap dealer, learn to box at Repton and learn that …
Frank Nitti died on March 19, 1943 with $1.14 in his pocket.On March 18, he was in a room with Paul Ricca and Tony Accardo.Ricca was born Felice …
He wasn't a brawler. He was the mechanic.While Al Capone was the celebrity, Frank Nitti was the man who managed the Canadian whiskey, signed the death warrants for …
Beneath Guelph, Ontario are sealed tunnels.In the 1920s they moved beer from the Sleeman Brewery straight to the mob.When Canada went "dry" in 1916, a loophole created billionaires.The …
Everyone knows Scarface.Almost no one knows he was connected to Ontario.Born in Brooklyn. Made in Chicago.Al Capone built the most powerful criminal empire in America.But his liquor network …
Al Capone was just the face.The brain was Johnny Torrio.He taught Capone everything.How to dress. How to bribe. How to kill.He turned Chicago's gangs into a corporation.Territories. Profits. …
Before Al Capone.Before the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.There was Big Jim.James Colosimo ruled Chicago's Levee District.Gambling. Prostitution. Politics.He built an empire on vice...but refused to go to war …
He was running the mob's biggest casinos.Stardust. Fremont. Hacienda.Skimming $50 million a year.He was also FBI informant "Achilles."Top Echelon.For 25 years Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal played both sides.He fed …
Before Tony "The Ant" Spilotro ran Vegas...He had a teacher.Sam "Mad Sam" DeStefano.King of the juice racket.Master of the basement on Sayre Avenue.Ice picks. Radiators. A block of …
He wasn't a gangster. He was a genius.Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal ran the skim for the Chicago Outfit.Stardust. Fremont. Hacienda. Marina. Millions in untaxed cash.He put women on blackjack …
He was 5'2" and ran Las Vegas.This is the real Tony "The Ant" Spilotro.The man who protected the skim at the Stardust.Who formed the Hole in the Wall …
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