He says a third party told him one of the groups he owes money to may have ties to the Russian mafia ... of thousands of dollars from people in New York and then filed for bankruptcy last summer.

Businesses that remained open were frequently raided by the police. Already a strong presence in New York, members of the Mafia saw a business opportunity in catering to the otherwise shunned gay ...

Joe Serio, former CIA agent and Russian mafia investigator, rates Russian mob scenes in movies and TV, such as "John Wick," for realism. Serio breaks down common tropes about the Russian mafia ...

(The Mafia) truly formed in the 1930s but became unraveled in the 1990s for a range of reasons, including the decision by Rudy Giuliani (then U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York ...