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WATCH: The Bain Bust Out: How Tony Soprano Explains Private Equity

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Goodfellas, Tony Soprano, Bust Out, Video, Squeeze and Burn, Bain Capital, Mob, Organized Crime, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Bain Capital and Ampad, Politics News

The national debate over private equity so far has hinged on the question of whether experience in the field qualifies Mitt Romney, the former Bain Ca...

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Reputed Mob Boss Cleared Of Killing Officer

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Mafia, Mob Boss Tommy Guns, New York Crime, Thomas Gioeli, Mob Boss Thomas Gioeli, Mob, Nyc Mafia, Organized Crime, New York News

NEW YORK -- A reputed Mafia boss and a co-defendant were convicted Wednesday on racketeering charges. But in a blow to the government, they were acqui...

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A List You Can't Refuse: The 15 "Boss" Gangster Directors Of Film History

Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Starz, Directors, Magic City, Martin Scorsese, Mob, Gangster Film Directors, Slidepollajax, Best Directors, Mafia, Film, Mafia Movie Directors, Classic Movies, Gangsters, Bslide-Starz, Entertainment News

Martin Scorsese may very well be a product of his environment: growing up in Little Italy while struggling with his Roman Catholic faith, only later t...

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New Mob Museum Opens: Should You Pay Admission or Break In?

Malcolm Kushner | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Mafia, Museum, Gangster, Las Vegas, Mob, Organized Crime, Mobsters, Mob Museum, Mob Museum Las Vegas, Las Vegas Mob Museum, Weird News News

What child won't cherish the memory of a photo of him or herself strapped into an electric chair?

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Feds Crack Down On Mob-Run Strip Clubs

AP | Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Mob Ties, Mafia, New York Crime, Strippers, Mob, Strip Clubs, New York Crime Family, New York News

NEW YORK -- A mob-run ring that lured women from Russia and other Eastern European countries with the promise of waitressing jobs – only to send...

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"Mob" Rule? It All Depends

Rick Horowitz | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Tea Party, Wall Street, House GOP, Mob, Herman Cain, Protests, Congress, Occupy Wall Street, Tea Party Protests, Class Warfare, GOP Freshmen, House Republicans, Eric Cantor, Politics News

It isn't the size of the crowd, or how it's dressed, or how it wears its hair, or how loud it is, or how disruptive it is. A "mob" is a crowd of people saying something you don't like.

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UFC's Dana White on Alcoholic Dad, Donald Trump, the Mob, John McCain & New York

Graham Bensinger | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: India, Georges St. Pierre, Ferrari, John McCain, Mma, Ultimate Fighter, Nike, Divorce, Frank Fertitta, Fox Sports, Spike TV, Fedor Emelyanenko, Las Vegas, New York, Station Casino, Cheerleading, Mike Tyson, Lorenzo Fertitta, Nfl, Floyd Mayweather Jr, Mob, Donald Trump, Brock Lesnar, Manny Pacquiao, Mixed Martial Arts, Boxing, Ultimate Fighting Championship, Ufc, Whitey Bulger, Dana White, China, Sports News

White discusses why the new deal with Fox Sports means so much to him, his worldwide expansion plans for The Ultimate Fighting Championship and how his aggressive personality has helped the company grow to what it is today.

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Priest Accused Of Helping Mobster Suspended By Diocese

AP | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: Eugene Klein, Catholic Church, Priest Helped Mobster, Mob, Eugene Klein Suspended, Frank Calabrese Sr., Chicago Mob, Chicago Mafia, Priest Suspended, Chicago News

WINONA, Minn. — A Roman Catholic priest from the Diocese of Winona, Minn., has been placed on administrative leave after he was indicted in Chic...

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PHOTOS: 10 Best Mafia Lessons For Success In Business

Louis Ferrante | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Mafia, Office Politics, How to Succeed in Business, Don, La Cosa Nostra, Mob, Mobsters, Mob Rules, Al Capone, Books News

If you're climbing the corporate ladder and eager to succeed, you can glean some valuable lessons from mobsters who are employees of the longest running organization in history: the Mafia.

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10 Legitimate Business Tips From An Ex-Mafia Man (PHOTOS)

Louis Ferrante | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Small Business America, Small Business, Business Advice, Mob, Slidepollajax, Mafia, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur, Business News

Few people realize that every large crime family is comprised of many individual Mafia crews that are run just like small businesses.

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Kosovo's Mafia: Prime Minister Hashim Thaci's Role

GlobalPost | Matt McAllester | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Kosovo Mafia, Kosovo, Mafia Allegations, Hashim Thaci, Nato, Mob, Balkans, Yugoslavia, World News

PRISTINA, Kosovo -- It was the fall of 2000, just over a year after the end of the war in Kosovo, when two NATO military intelligence officers produce...

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Italian Museum Director Seeks Asylum In Germany, Fearing The Mob

ARTINFO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, Artwork, Camorra, Germany, Mob, Museums, Naples, Angela Merkel, Amnesty, Italy, Europe, Arts News

When Antonio Manfredi, director of the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum outside Naples, got a phone call recently, he knew he was being threatened. "A ...

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93-Year-Old 'Geriatric Gangster' To Be Sentenced

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mafia, Geriatric Gangster, John (Sonny) Franzese, Mob, New York News

NEW YORK — Convicted mob boss John "Sonny" Franzese is so old, he knew Frank Sinatra in his heyday. He's so old, his recent extortion trial beca...

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In Italy Stressed Mob Bosses Seek Out Psychotherapy

AP | FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Italy Mob, Mafia Bosses, Mob Bosses, Italy Mafia, Italian Mob, Mob, Mafia, Italian Mafia, Home News

REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy — The mafia boss was having a dreadful time dealing with loss. But he wasn't struggling with the loss of lives, or even the l...

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A Politically-Polarized Sesquicentennial

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tea Party, Newspapers, Contrarian, Andrew Butler, Secession, Secede, Media, Democracy in America, Civil Rights, Republican, Partisan Press, History, Alexis De Tocqueville, World War I, American History, Yellow Journalism, Mob, Espionage Act, Mccarthyism, Slavery, Bleeding Kansas, Abraham Lincoln, Julian Assange, House Divided, Preston Brooks, Caning, Civil War, Tea Party Republicans, Southern Strategy, Heritage, Missouri Compromise, Democrat, Tocqueville, Red-Baiting, Yellow Dog, Anti-War, Vincennes Gazette, Cane, South, Chris Weigant, Individualism, Sesquicentennial, Fox News, Being Mobbed, Lyndon Johnson, 150th Anniversary, News, Senate, Politics News

While we are indeed currently politically divided and somewhat polarized, this is actually our normal state as a nation -- and on the polarization scale, we're nowhere near the "most divided" we've ever been. Far from it.

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My Goodfellas

Rich Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mafia, Syracuse University, Los Angeles, Queens, New York, Mob, Jackson Heights, Los Angeles News

One of the things I miss living in Southern California is the mob. I'm sure the Mafia is out here, it's just that I don't see it and I don't have any connection to it. The same was not true when I lived in NY.

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Antonio Iovine, Top Mob Boss, Nabbed In Italy

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Italy, Antonio Iovine, Antonio Iovine Mafia, Mob, Antonio Iovine Arrested, Mob Boss Arrested, Casalesi Crime Family, Slidepollajax, Mob Boss, Naples Organized Crime, Mafia, Italy Organized Crime, Mob Family, World News

Antonio Iovine, a top mafia boss in the Casalesi crime family, was arrested today after 14 years on the run, reports the AP. The dashing mob man, ni...

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Italy Arrests 300 In Major Mob Crackdown

AP | COLLEEN BARRY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Italy, Mob, Mafia Domenico Oppedisano, Italian Mob, Italian Mafia, Rome, Sicily, 'Ndrangheta, Mob Crackdown, Anti-Crime Raid, World News

MILAN — Anti-mafia prosecutors claimed a major victory over the powerful and growing 'ndrangheta crime syndicate, infiltrating intimate weddings...

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Vegas Mob

Lloyd Garver | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Criminals, Las Vegas, Mob, Healthy Living News

The mob is back in Las Vegas. (This assumes that the mob ever left). Soon there will be two museums dedicated to gangsters of the past. You'd thin...

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Memoirs Require More Than Just Facts

Carol Hoenig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Memoir, New York Times, Mafia, Jennifer Mascia, Mob, Villard, Books News

As children, we often look up to our parents; one reason is because it's out of necessity due to height constraints, but secondly because we are simpl...

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Gambling in Greater Cincinnati and Lotteries (VIDEO)

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Northern Kentucky Syndicate, McNay Settlement Group, The Syndicate, Lottery, Kentucky Guardianship Administrators, Florida Lottery, Ollie McNay, Crestview Hills Ky, Mafia, Don McNay, Wlw, Joe McNay, Nick McNay, Winners Losers and What to Do When You WIn the Lottery, Greater Cincinnati, Cleveland Mafia, Edgewood Ky, Vanderbilt University, Mob, Covington Ky, Lookout House, Cincinnati, Beverly Hills Nightclub, Eastern Kentucky University, Million Dollar Round Table, Son of a Son of a Gambler, Glen Schmidt, American College, Abraham Shakespeare, Newport Ky, How the Lottery Changed My Life, Business News

The video talks about the history of gambling in Greater Cincinnati and the author's connection to the subject. It also talks about the death of a Lakeland, Florida lottery winner, Abraham Shakespeare.

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NJ Allows Merlino Family With Mob Ties To Work For Casinos

AP | WAYNE PARRY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Casinos, Skinny Joey Merlino, New Jersey, Mob, Joseph N. Merlino, Yogi Merlino, New York, Atlantic City, New York News

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — For 22 years, Joseph N. Merlino and his mother, Phyllis, have sought permission for their concrete-reinforcing company to ...

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Gotti MISTRIAL: Junior Gotti Trial Jury Fails To Reach Verdict

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Gotti, Mafia, Junior Gotti Mistrial, Mob, Junior Gotti, Organized Crime, Gambino Crime Family, Gotti Mistrial, Gotti Trial, Gotti Verdict, Junior Gotti Trial, New York News

NEW YORK — A judge declared a mistrial Tuesday at the racketeering trial of John "Junior" Gotti after a jury failed to reach a verdict against t...

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Chris Christie Rips Off Monty Python, Troupe Threatens Suit

Martin Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Christie, the Republican candidate for Governor of New Jersey, has created an election commercial that steals copyright-protected material from Monty Python without permission or credit.

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NRA Targets Bloomberg, New Yorkers In Commercial For Bob McDonnell (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gun Show Loophole, National Rifle Association, Mob, Gun Shows, Michael Bloomberg, Bob Mcdonnell, Campaign Commercials, Mafia, Nra, Video, New York News

The NRA is taking aim at Mayor Bloomberg, New Yorkers, and apparently the mafia (who one would think would be some of the gun rights group's biggest s...

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