- Publisher:
- Informer Journal
- Since:
- 2008
Informer focuses on historical events, personalities and trends related to crime and law enforcement within the United States. The journal has specialized in organized crime history, in particular the history of the American Mafia. Along with carefully researched and meticulously documented historical articles, Informer regularly presents columns, book reviews and important current events.
Visit Informer's website: informer-journal.blogspot.com
Thomas Hunt, editor/publisher of Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement, is also coauthor of Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia, and publisher of The American Mafia history website (mafiahistory.us).
Publications in INFORMER
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INFORMER: Informer - Nov 2024
A rare primary source into Castellammarese War-era Mafia history, Joseph Valachi described early gangland of East Harlem and the Bronx, and provided…
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INFORMER: Informer - Oct 2023
Journalists Craig Thompson and Allen Raymond wrote “the lower East Side ... in the first 20 years of the 20th century was the greatest breeding…
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INFORMER: Informer - Nov 2022
"Murdertown," "Bombtown," "Crimetown." Through decades, Youngstown, Ohio, endured painful nicknames, due to the rackets, violence and corruption of…
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INFORMER: Informer - Oct 2021
Issue focuses on the mafiosi of California, particularly those who relocated to the Golden State after launching criminal careers in other regions.…
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INFORMER: Informer - Oct 2020
Issue focuses on Nicola "Nick" Gentile, Mafia leader in U.S. and Sicily, author of 1963 tell-all autobiography. Informer provides Gentile's entire…
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INFORMER: Informer - Aug 2019
[Note (Sept. 16, 2019): Informer has just learned that a recently discovered photo, passed off as Salvatore Maranzano in a 1931 Italian periodical,…
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INFORMER: Informer - Nov 2018
Adhesive tape was a recent invention when robbers began finding it handy in their field of endeavor. We learn in this issue’s feature by Jeffery S.…
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INFORMER: Informer - Aug 2017
- Excerpt from Dock Boss by Neil G. Clark, scheduled for release this summer by Barricade Books. It is the story of Eddie McGrath and the mobsters…
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INFORMER: Informer - Oct 2016
October 2016 Issue of Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement. Contents: Leftist radicals clash in Barre, Vermont, by Thomas Hunt…
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INFORMER: Informer - Oct 2015
October 2015 Issue of Informer Rebel Buffalo Mobsters Eyed Rackets Colony in Florida by Thomas Hunt and Michael A. Tona / A Glimpse Behind the…
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