Who were Vito Genovese and Frank Costello? Here is the true story that inspired Robert De Niro's new movie The Alto Knights.
Franke Costello and Vito Genovese were a partnership born amidst the flurry of Prohibition that devolved into a vicious rivalry when a power vacuum opened up within the New York crime scene. Their ...
In 1931, following decades of turf warfare, Brooklyn bootlegger Salvatore Maranzano established the leaders of New York ...