# Mob Files

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/

A public-domain archive of American organized crime: one record per page, each with its citation, source, and rights.

The first records are a scaffold: a Bureau file, a Senate report, a Court of Appeals opinion, a National Archives inmate list, and one identification photograph. Family charts, city hubs, and the Capone section are labeled stubs until a record is filed under them.

The [Faces](/faces/) gallery collects mug shots, prison identification photographs and hearing pictures, each from a federal record or a Library of Congress item marked no known restrictions.

The [Valachi, 1963](/valachi/) section files the Senate hearings at which Joseph Valachi testified: the printed volumes, the testimony with page references, the charts shown as exhibits, and the court, prison and FBI records on Valachi. The [Informants](/informants/) page collects such testimony as the record contains it.
The [Prohibition](/prohibition/) section files the statutes, Bureau of Prohibition papers, photographs, Supreme Court opinions and repeal documents of 1920–1933. The [Front pages](/front-pages/) gallery shows same-day and next-day newspaper front pages from Chronicling America, as a record of coverage rather than a source of facts.
The [Federal prisons](/prisons/) section files the Alcatraz warden's notebook pages, Leavenworth and Atlanta records and photographs, and the Bureau of Prisons and Park Service histories, with a map of the six institutions the records name.
The [Valachi, 1963](/valachi/) section files the Senate hearings at which Joseph Valachi testified: the printed volumes, the testimony with page references, the charts shown as exhibits, and the court, prison and FBI records on Valachi. The [Informants](/informants/) page collects such testimony as the record contains it.

The [Timeline](/timeline/) dates 164 events from 1890 to 2011, each cited to a federal record, a court opinion, a statute, or a newspaper page, with a link to the filed page where this archive has one.

The [Laws](/laws/) section files the statutes from the Mann Act and the Harrison Act to RICO and the money-laundering statute, with the Statutes at Large page scans, and the Supreme Court opinions that construed them.

The [New York, 1930s](/new-york-1930s/) section files the Dewey prosecutions, the Lepke and Schultz Vault pages, the 1934 Flegenheimer notices, and the 1928–30 newspaper pages on Rothstein and Diamond.
The [New England](/regions/new-england/) and [Philadelphia](/regions/philadelphia/) hubs file the Angiulo, Salemme, Bulger and Connolly opinions and the House report on the Boston FBI, and the Scarfo, Pungitore and Merlino opinions with the 1928 Hoff grand-jury pages and Capone's 1929 Philadelphia arrest.
The [Public Enemies](/public-enemies/) side section files the Depression-era fugitives' Identification Orders, court and prison records and FBI photographs. It is not organized crime; the records sit beside the organized-crime files in the same archives, and the page says so.
The [Narcotics](/narcotics/) section files the Bureau of Narcotics records, the 1959 Genovese conviction and the Agueci and Bentvena opinions, the 1964 Senate narcotics hearings, and the Pizza Connection history, with the Bureau's own photographs.

The [Detroit](/regions/detroit/) and [Cleveland](/regions/cleveland/) hubs file the Purple Gang and Giacalone Vault pages, the Tocco and Corrado opinions, the Kefauver Part 6 and Part 9 testimony with its exhibits, the Lonardo testimony of 1988, the Gallo case file, and sixty-odd 1927–30 newspaper pages with scans.

The [Black Hand, 1890-1920](/black-hand/) section files the Secret Service daily reports and newspaper pages on the 1903 barrel killing, the 1909-10 counterfeiting case, Joseph Petrosino's death in Palermo, and the federal prosecutions of threatening letters as a mail crime.
The [Women in the record](/women/) page files what the records say about Virginia Hill, Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Kathryn Kelly, Theresa Capone, Stephanie St. Clair and the Kefauver Committee's women witnesses, and the [Informants](/informants/) page now holds Lonardo, Pistone, Cafaro, Fratianno, Gravano, Reles and Hill as the hearings and opinions record them.

The [Irish gangs](/irish-gangs/) section files the Second Circuit's Westies opinions, the Moran Vault pages and the Weiss indictment with 1925–30 newspaper pages on Chicago's North Side gang, the Winter trial transcripts from Boston, the 1915–21 pages and the Kefauver passages that name Owney Madden, the Colbeck mail-robbery case file and Leavenworth photographs of the St. Louis defendants the National Archives calls Egan's Rats, and the Sixth Circuit's 1986 Licavoli order, with 22 person pages that carry no family and a role only where a quoted record states one.
The [Donnie Brasco](/donnie-brasco/) section files the federal records of Joseph Pistone's undercover years and the Bonanno cases that followed: the 1982 trial opinions and their appeals, the FBI Vault's Operation Donnie Brasco and Trinchera pages, Pistone's and Director Webster's statements, the 1985 Commission briefing, and the Massino and Basciano cases, with a map of the places the records name.

The [Gambling and the wire](/gambling/) section files the race wire from Mont Tennes to Continental Press in Kefauver Committee testimony and exhibits, the Annenberg and Ragen opinions, the wire-company cases, Costello's Louisiana slot machines with Farm Security Administration photographs, the federal gambling statutes in six Supreme Court and circuit opinions, and eleven person pages.
The [Castellammarese War, 1930–31](/castellammarese-war/) section files the 1963 hearing pages on the New York gang war one passage at a time: Valachi's testimony, the New York police records of each killing read into the record, the Chicago police entry on Joseph Aiello, New Jersey's records of the bodies found in Newark Bay, and the Vault pages that touch the war, with a map of the killings as the records place them.
The [Labor racketeering](/labor/) section files the 1953 Detroit report and the McClellan Committee hearings and reports, the Hoffa opinions and the 1971 clemency grant, the Teamsters civil RICO case of 1988 to 2015, the Waterfront Commission compact and the Scotto opinion, the Fulton Fish Market and Javits Center opinions, and the Senate and Commission reports of 1978 to 1986, with seven person pages.
The [Havana](/havana/) section files the FBI's 1946-47 reporting on Luciano in Cuba from the Vault, Meyer Lansky's own Kefauver testimony with the Moretti and Catena answers, the Lansky and Trafficante Vault pages on the casinos of 1955-59, the McClellan subcommittee's Havana passages, the Church Committee and House assassinations committee pages, a Warren Commission exhibit and two court opinions, with a map of the hotels and casinos the records name.
The [Harlem numbers](/harlem/) section files the 1928-30 newspaper pages on the Casper Holstein kidnapping, People v. Hines on the Schultz policy combination, the Kefauver Committee's Chicago policy-wheel testimony and exhibits, and pinpoints from the 1964 narcotics hearings.
The [Hollywood extortion case](/hollywood/) files the Bioff and Browne prosecution of 1941, the 1943 convictions of the Chicago defendants affirmed in 146 F.2d 524, the 1947 paroles with the Atlanta and Leavenworth prison cards, the congressional inquiry that followed, and the habeas corpus litigation that ran until 1952, with eight person pages.