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Mobsters - Season 2

Series: Mobsters

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Episodes

Rating

TV14

Year

2008

Language

English

Publisher

FYI

About

"Mobsters" features the true stories behind the mob legends who ruthlessly clawed their way to their own precarious versions of the American Dream.

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Episodes

1. Frank Lucas

45m

Frank "Superfly" Lucas was the notorious heroin kingpin who dominated the Harlem drug market from 1968 to 1975 with his high-potency smack called Blue Magic.

2. Santo Trafficante

45m

In Tampa, Florida, Santo Trafficante Sr. and his son lived as two of America's most powerful and feared mob bosses.

3. Mickey Cohen

45m

Mickey Cohen, a boxer turned mobster, ran with Sinatra and Turner, ruled West Coast mob rackets, and persisted in crime despite prison time and paralysis.

4. Roy DeMeo

45m

Roy Albert DeMeo was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1942. He first got a job as a delivery boy for a neighborhood grocery store and started loaning money to friends to make a profit. After high school, DeMeo was making loans to anyone who needed it.

5. Tony Spilotro

45m

He grew up in an Italian neighborhood on the west side of Chicago, but rather than follow his father into the restaurant business, Tony Spilotro looked for a criminal education on the streets.

6. Mob Ladies

45m

Virginia Hill, Arlyne Brickman, and Karen Hill were mob ladies with looks that could kill and the connections to take out anyone in their way.