SPOILER ADVISORY: Boardwalk Empire makes it a habit of going by the history books. This is a good way to keep the cast of characters moving. If you don’t want to know who’s not going to making it, ...

On this day, Sept. 10, in 1931, Charles “Lucky” Luciano took over the New York crime world with an orchestrated series of hits, culminating with the murder of the “Boss of Bosses” Salvatore Maranzano.

Eli gets things started on this Boardwalk Empire episode, waking up in a drunker haze in the middle of their warehouse being raided by the feds who we later learn are now under the control of Eliot ...

CENTURIES before La Cosa Nostra was heard of in the U.S., the Mafia operated—even as it does today—as a brigand government in much of Sicily. Though many Italian immigrants had come to the U.S. to ...

In 1931, after a two-year Mafia war in the New York area, national mob leader Salvatore Maranzano divided the city's Mafia into five crime "families." At the time, the families were known by the names ...

Thirty-two years later, when mob rat Joe Valachi grandly spilled his guts to Senate racketbusters and provided the first semi-clean insights into the history of organized crime in America, there was ...

Today in history: On this date in 1931, Salvatore Maranzano, a New York City crime boss, is shot and stabbed by four men for Charles "Lucky" Luciano. Luciano for a time lived at the Waldorf Astoria ...