Vegas issue set for Nov. 20 release

Informer's 2026 issue, focused on organized crime in Las Vegas, is scheduled for release by November 20, 2026.

 

The articles deadline is September 25.

The advertising deadline is October 16.

 

Considering Vegas issue in 2026

A new issue of Informer for 2026 is currently under consideration. The issue most likely would focus on the organized crime history of Las Vegas, Nevada.

If you are interested in contributing an article to a Las Vegas-focused Informer issue, please let me know through an email to informerjournal@gmail.com. Please be specific about the article subject, the sources you intend to use and your own background, if any, in research and writing.

Thanks!

- T.

Warner: Reviews of "Bugsy Siegel,' 'Two Mafias'

October 2015 Issue Contents
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The Warner Files

New books: ‘Bugsy Siegel’ and ‘The Two Mafias’

By Richard N. Warner 

 "...Gragg starts out by dismantling the Hollywoodization of Siegel through movies such as the 1991 film Bugsy, starring Warren Beatty and Annette Bening. (Bening, Beatty’s soon-to-be real-life wife, played Siegel’s volatile paramour, Virginia Hill.) While most viewers found the film entertaining, organized crime buffs, historians and researchers found it frustrating and vexing with its erroneous depictions of Siegel as a 'kill-crazy' psychopath and the founder of the Las Vegas casino industry, among many other historical falsifications..."

Seven pages.

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July 2013 Issue of Informer

July 2013 Contents
Editorial

“Diamond Joe" Esposito entered the United States at a time when there was no easily discernible difference between organized crime and organized politics. Each had the same objectives and made use of the same tactics. Frequently, they had the same membership rolls.

After settling for a time in Brooklyn, Esposito migrated to Chicago, effec-tively blazing a trail that later would be followed by such gangland figures as Johnny Torrio and Al Capone. In the Windy City, Esposito performed apparently conflicting functions while inhabiting the twilight area between underworld and overworld, between the unprincipled street toughs and the respectable citizens.
That he used his influence to assist the poor immigrant families in his district is well established. However, it cannot be denied that he also aided those who preyed upon and terrorized the same families.

The story of Esposito’s life, provided by Lennert van`t Riet and David Critchley, is a window into a tumultuous period from the close of the Gilded Age through the early years of the Prohibition Era. (Preview)

Also in this issue of Informer:

- Bill Feather provides an early Buffalo Crime Family membership chart (Preview).

- Thomas Hunt and Michael A. Tona relate how a successful raid by Prohibition agents led to the distribution of poisonous alcohol in the United States and Canada (Preview).

- Longtime Bonanno Crime Family member Frank Bonomo is the subject of a gangland profile by J. Dugard (Preview).

- Oscar Goodman, former mob defense lawyer and mayor of Las Vegas, sits down for an interview with Richard N. Warner (Preview).

- Thomas Hunt ponders the re-release of The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano (Preview).

Eighty-eight pages including cover.

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In the News

Vol. 3, No. 3, July 2010 Contents

In the News:

• Rivals move against Rizzutos of Montreal.
• Man framed for murder gets $9.9 million.
• Sammartino pleads guilty to loansharking.
• Brooklyn Massullo brothers sentenced to prison.
• Palumbo indicted for 1992 mob murder.
• Buffalo's Cohen charged with gambling.
• Rossetti faces drug-related charges.
• Las Vegas Mob Experience to open in December.
• Gatto of New Jersey dies at 65.
• Seattle's Colacurcio dies at 93.
• Aleman of Chicago, 71, dies in prison hospital.
• Montreal's Cuntrera and bodyguard murdered.
• Riccobene grandson is murdered near home.
• Anastasio, 81, an apparent suicide.

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A Look Back

Vol. 1, Issue 1, Sept. 2008 Contents
A Look Back

100 years ago:
NYPD Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino keeps a watchful eye on vacationing Sicilian Mafioso Raffaele Palizzolo.

75 years ago:
Philadelphia mob leaders Salvatore Sabella, John Avena and A. Domenico Pollina are acquitted of the Cocozza and Zanghi murders.

25 years ago:
New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello heads to prison. Chicago and Kansas City mobsters are accused of skimming from Vegas casinos. Joseph Bonanno begins serving a prison term.

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