Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine a mafia kingpin settling down in a quiet waterfront town, schmoozing at the barber shop, hanging out at the firehouse and ...

In his acting career, Robert DeNiro has portrayed a godfather, an Irishman, and a good fella. Now, he plays a pair of wise guys. In “The Alto Knights,” DeNiro plays not one, but two infamous mobsters: ...

A mobster whose links to disgraced Bronx County Clerk Luis Diaz led to the pol’s conviction last year was ordered Thursday to serve just 22 months in prison for an unrelated racketeering scheme.

Robert De Niro's new film The Alto Knights is based on a real-life rivalry between two of America's most notorious gangsters, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese. The Alto Knights is directed by Barry ...

A hearing in Brooklyn was packed as Mr. Billups and 30 other defendants answered charges in a sweeping federal indictment involving rigged poker games. By Santul Nerkar The Greenwich Village building ...

Set mostly in the 1950s and taking its name from a defunct social club once frequented by the Mafia in New York’s Little Italy, “The Alto Knights” follows the rivalry between Frank Costello and Vito ...

Inside you there are two mobsters, and Robert De Niro plays both. There’s a scene near the limp climax of Barry Levinson’s utterly somnambulant The Alto Knights in which Vito Genovese (De Niro) argues ...

The acting capo of the Genovese organized crime family pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in New York to taking part in a conspiracy to commit murder of a hitman for the Russian mob, the U.S.

Robert De Niro as Frank Costello (L) and Vito Genovese (R) in "The Alto Knights." (Warner Bros.) In his acting career, Robert DeNiro has portrayed a godfather, an Irishman, and a good fella. Now, he ...