Informants

In 1958, Chicago Outfit mobster Marshall Caifano spoke to special agents of the FBI and gave them some surprising information....

A rat is a rat is a rat. Button Guys takes a look at the informant racket throughout the world.

Michael "Big Nose Mike" Fiore was a Lucchese Family associate who quickly became an informant, gathering intel on all Five...

Tony Caruso was a New York-based soldier in the DeCavalcante Family primarily engaged in the bootlegging rackets. But Tony had...

Paolo Fraccacreta was a Genovese Family associate who operated a “factoring” or “lending” firm that was a front for “shylock”...

A devout lifelong criminal and hoodlum, Seymour Siskind was already committing crimes by the time he was a young teenager....

Ralph (Ronnie) Esposito was a Colombo Family associate who reveled in his mob status, but quickly turned government informant when...

From time to time, the identities of former Mafia informants finally come to light through a variety of sources such...

What makes a guy a rat? Specifically, what makes a guy a mob rat? I mean a tried and true goodfella....

The following 86 formally inducted mafia members represent the six borgatas of Cosa Nostra known to operate in the NYC...

For true mafiosi, it was a revered and hallowed right of passage for hundreds of years. But by the early...

Nicholas ( Nicky Ironshoes) Bottawas a Colombo Family associate whose activities included horse and sports bookmaking and shylocking.

Vincent and Angelo Garofalo were brothers affiliated with the Colombo Family who both had a few skeletons in their closet.

Vincent Rocco Prisco was a Colombo Family associate involved in policy rackets and limited sports/bookmaking. He was well known as...