Who were Vito Genovese and Frank Costello? Here is the true story that inspired Robert De Niro's new movie The Alto Knights.

In 1931, following decades of turf warfare, Brooklyn bootlegger Salvatore Maranzano established the leaders of New York ...

The Alto Knights tells the story of two mob bosses who are at loggerheads. Nicholas Pileggi (who also wrote Goodfellas) wrote the biographical crime drama, which Barry Levinson directed.

This is for you, Frank,” the young hitman snarled before firing at mob boss Frank Costello outside New York’s Waldorf-Astoria ...

Salvatore Delligatti tried to skirt a mandatory minimum sentence by arguing that he was incorrectly charged with a violent ...

Barry Levinson’s “The Alto Knights” (2025) has everything you want in a gangster film, but it fails to be its own film.

There’s no subtext about Costello and Genovese being two sides of the same coin. Costello, anointed to run the Luciano crime family after Charles “Lucky” Luciano was imprisoned, is described ...

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that crimes committed through inaction can still be violent, rejecting a New York crime ...

The Supreme Court on Friday sided with federal prosecutors who moved to tack extra prison time onto the sentence of a Genovese crime family associate known in New York as “Fat Sal” who was ...

According to DeStefano's book, the purpose of the meeting was for Genovese to anoint himself "as boss of the family." Other business included the murder of mafia boss Albert Anastasia, which ...