Organized crime in America is fairly fixed in its geographical associations, not counting the Corleones of Long Island. Chicago has The Outfit. New England the Patriarcas. New York the fabled Five ...

Or here was Salvatore Profaci, a New York mobster brought in to quietly settle a dispute that had gone public after mob lawyer Salvatore Avena filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against his mobbed-up ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Key Takeaways: Philip “The Chicken Man” Testa rose to power in the Philadelphia mafia after Angelo ...

John Stanfa found himself in a crime war with Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino throughout the 1990s By 1990, mob veteran John Stanfa took over from Nicky Scarfo as the leader of the Philadelphia family ...

Mafia documentaries have clogged the airwaves for decades, but a new one coming to Netflix on Wednesday sets a new standard. Multiple docuseries, generally seen on basic cable, have traditionally ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former mob boss John Stanfa, pictured here in 1980, waged a bloody war for control of the Philadelphia mafia in the late 1990s.

Netflix's Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia chronicles the crime war between him and Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino in the 1990s In 1996, Stanfa was sentenced to life in prison Netflix is revisiting ...