Business fraud rackets are one of the many ways the mob makes its money. From stock fraud to internet porn,...

A nuts and bolts layout on both the history and the mechanics of various illegal gambling rackets.

A deep-dive into the mob's loanshark racket.

Narcotics is the most profitable business in the underworld. Although many have dabbled in it, few have done it as...

Heisting cargo became a multimillion-dollar business for the mob. A racket so lucrative that all mob families dabbled in for...

Nearly every single Mafia family in the entire country has profited from stock market scams at one time or another...

While it lasted, cigarette smuggling was one of the greatest rackets the Mafia ever invented! A cash cow that was...

While it lasted, the jukebox and vending-machine racket was one of the biggest money-makers the Mafia ever had.

Airport rackets at JFK International are considered “open territory” and “open season” to all the NYC organized crime families.

Since the early 1900s, and maybe before, Irish and Italian hoodlums gravitated to the various waterfronts and its related industries.

Russ Bufalino headed a small Pennsylvania borgata who dabbled in garment factories and a few rackets that were more than...

One of the more durable underworld rackets created over the years has been the Mafia’s infiltration of the garbage carting...

Starting in the mid-1960s, the mafia quickly realized the tremendous money-making potential of credit cards and took full advantage!

Bookmaking, numbers, card and dice games, shylocking, and more were once considered illicit racket years back, but today is mainstay...