Nearly half of California counties pay private lawyers and firms to represent poor people in criminal cases, and most of them use a “flat-fee” contract. That means they pay a fixed ...

Italian lawmakers are seeking to expand a program that helps mothers and children break away from organized crime families and start new lives away from their mafia relatives. From her modest office ...

When it comes to career advice, no kid listens to their parents. That also goes for the offspring of mob bosses. Many send their kids to college attempting to get the new generation to “go straight,” ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. While the biggest news out of Take-Two's latest earnings call was a disappointing 6 month delay for GTA 6, CEO Strauss Zelnick also took some time to ...

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick is teasing a bright future for the Mafia franchise after this year’s prequel, Mafia: The Old Country, “performed well ahead of expectations.” Zelnick spoke about the ...

Viewers of the new Netflix documentary, Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia, will be more than familiar with how the series depicts the extreme violence and gang rivalry that took place in ...

Today it’s La Dope-a Nostra! The New York City mob is a pathetic shell of what it once was — full of small-time crooks, rats and dimwits, law enforcement sources and experts said Friday. John Gotti ...

Associates of four of New York's infamous "five families" crime syndicates allegedly backed a multimillion-dollar poker con that used elaborate technology to cheat unsuspecting players — and brought ...

Chauncey Billups earned nearly $107 million across his 17-year NBA career. The Portland Trail Blazers paid him an estimated $4.7 million as their head coach for the 2024-25 season. So how, and why, ...

Card-reading contact lenses, X-ray poker tables, trays of poker chips that read cards, hacked shuffling machines that predict hands. The technology alleged to have been used to execute a multistate, ...

In a sweeping federal indictment that connects the glitz of professional basketball to the shadowy world of organized crime, Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry ...

Four of the city’s five Mafia families were part of a high-tech scheme that netted $7 million, prosecutors said, by fleecing high rollers at illegal poker games. By William K. Rashbaum In New York ...