Rackets

After Prohibition ended, the mafia skirted the law in order to satisfy a thirsty public and made fortunes with After-Hours...

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

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

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

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...

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

One of the easiest and most profitable “semi-legitimate” businesses the mob ever developed was the coin-machine industry. Starting right after the...

One of the most important industries to New York’s economy, and to the whole nation, was the garment industry which...

Sure, the narcotics business as well as loansharking, truck hijacking, labor racketeering, and many other rackets were also extremely lucrative....

It is said that the gambling business, in all its various forms, is the very lifeblood of organized crime. Bookmaking...

Although truck hijackers and thieves were in no short supply and came in all shapes and sizes and ethnicities, generally...

When people conjure up images of organized crime and the Mafia in their head, they most often think of bloody...

The 1954 film classic "On the Waterfront" starring Marlon Brando was an iconic and very realistic depiction of what life...

The food industry and the mob go hand in hand. They're part of your everyday life from fine restaurants to...