Fresh off his success revealing the pernicious Syndicate operations in Newport, Kentucky, detailed in his book Syndicate Wife and later Razzle Dazzle, Hank Messick came to the Miami Herald in 1963 to write about organized crime in south Florida. Synd...
In another installment in his series on the organized crime Syndicate run by Meyer Lansky, investigative reporter Hank Messick details how the group moved its operations into the Bahamas following the Cuban Revolution. Relying more on moxie than musc...
From Prohibition rum-running on the Great Lakes to casino-style gambling in Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Northern Kentucky, and finally to shimmering Las Vegas, the Cleveland Syndicate evolved from an outright criminal organization into a respectable e...