The full protocol is attached as an additional file, accessible from the Trials website (Additional file 1). In the interest of expediting dissemination of this material, the familiar formatting has been eliminated; this Letter serves as a summary of...
PHILADELPHIA–Frankie "The Gorilla" Pistone leans wistfully on his bat. Then, without warning, he picks it up, swinging it furiously toward his deadbeat client’s leg. Just before the Louisville Slugger makes contact with the man’s kneecap, he...
The Way of the Wise Guy, is a hilarious, yet chilling portrait of the world of the mafia — showing a typical day in the life of a gangster; the “dos and don’ts” of the mafia code; their interactions with their families and other thugs, and their unique...
CBSMidseason debutTuesday 9:00–10:00 p.m.; canceledCast:Jason Gedrick, Titus Welliver, and Amy Carlson This CBS original drama, a nine-episode series, chronicles the experiences of real-life federal agent Joseph D. Pistone, who infiltrated a prominent...
Two TV dramas this week show good men fighting ugly wars. The soldiers who resist violence, whether on the streets of New York or in the hills of B
Mob life receives one of its least glamorous screen portraits in "Donnie Brasco," which concentrates on the human toll of an enormously successful real-life FBI infiltration of the New York Mafia. The psychological dimensions of the story...
The reputed boss of the Bonanno crime family was charged Thursday with the 1981 murder of the mobster who let an undercover FBI agent–the legendary “Donnie Brasco”–infiltrat…
‘What’s Fuhgeddaboudit in Yiddish?” The Wall Street Journal’s Brett Stephens asks in a column in which he concludes that, following President Obama’s Syrian chemical weapons shuffle, the president’s promise to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon...
Like a sleuth, the Italian artist Rossella Biscotti stalks her subjects for years, enfolding them into the fabric of her own existence. Her show “Three Works and a Script,” curated…
Reports that a reputed gangster as well as a famous undercover FBI agent could be upcoming witnesses at Quebec's construction inquiry have boosted the profile…