FAMILY BUSINESS: THE FALL OF VINNIE OCEAN
As the DeCavalcante family transitioned into the late 90’s, the new leadership structure was causing a power struggle between Vinnie Ocean a...
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FBI Agent Phil Carson has held onto a secret for fifteen years, which will prove for the final time that there was a cover-up of the murder of Hip-Hop Superstar The Notorious B.I.G. by offic...
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FAMILY BUSINESS: FORMER FBI AGENT GIOVANNI ROCCO
We interview the former FBI undercover task force officer and author of Giovanni’s Ring: My Life Inside the Real Sopranos, who spent 26 year...
FAMILY BUSINESS: JOHNNY SACK
While The Sopranos mainly focused on a fictional New Jersey mob, their fellow mafiosos in New York couldn’t be ignored. The fictional New Yo...
FAMILY BUSINESS: JOHNNY BOY
As John Riggi is sent to prison, John “Johnny Boy” D’Amato, is made the acting head of the DeCavalcante family. Despite being unpopular in h...
FAMILY BUSINESS: FURIO
Playing a New Jersey gangster was nuanced, one part menacing, but equally comedic. Federico Castellucio played the role of Furio Giunta , a...
FAMILY BUSINESS: THE RISE OF VINNIE OCEAN
In 1997, after the death of acting boss Jake Amari, Vinnie “Ocean” Palermo is named part of a three man panel that will now run the DeCavalc...
FAMILY BUSINESS: GREG SMITH
Organized crime has always been catnip to savvy crime reporters, and as the years have progressed with the proliferation of rats, the storyt...
FAMILY BUSINESS: SAM THE PLUMBER
The Sopranos considered by many the greatest show in television history, made the New Jersey mafia water cooler talk across the country from...
USA VS HIP HOP EP. 7
In hip hop, the end of the 80s ushered in a thriving music industry, with hip hop, diversifying itself immensely. In 1990 alone, A Tribe Cal...
USA VS HIP HOP EP. 6
There were many defining events as it relates to the intersection of crime, the War on Drugs, and hip hop throughout the 80s. That being sai...
USA VS HIP HOP EP. 5
The years of 1987 and ’88 ushered in the golden age of hip-hop, when a few groundbreaking artists, acting as cultural critics, show the powe...
USA VS HIP HOP EP. 4
As hip hop and the war on drugs hit the mid 1980s, it can be argued that both commercial endeavors hit their strides in inner cities across...
USA VS HIP HOP EP. 3
If any story defines what New York was like at that time, it's the story of New York City subway vigilante Bernard Goetz's shooting of unarm...
USA VS HIP HOP EP. 2
In the dynamic early years of hip hop, you could still see the influences of the disco era in the fashion the samples, and the party music p...
USA VS HIP HOP EP. 1
In America in 2024, we have all watched major American cities burn the result of a powder keg that exploded around incidents of police killi...
USA VS HIP HOP TRAILER
From its start, the art of Hip-Hop music has not only defined our countries generations, it has done so by reporting on social and criminal...
THE REAL SOPRANOS TRAILER
The Sopranos considered by many the greatest show in television history, made the New Jersey mafia water cooler talk across the country from...
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: EP. 12 - RAMPART REVISITED WITH KENNETH BOAGNI
Join hosts Nicole Luciano and Johnny ‘The Greek’ Anagnopoulos, two of the producers of The Dossier, as they break down all things crime and...
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: EP. 11 - THE TIMELINE PART 2: GOIN' BACK TO CALI
Join hosts Nicole Luciano and Johnny ‘The Greek’ Anagnopoulos, two of the producers of The Dossier, as they break down all things crime and...
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: EP. 10 - THE TIMELINE WITH BIG GENE DEAL
Join hosts Nicole Luciano and Johnny ‘The Greek’ Anagnopoulos, two of the producers of The Dossier, as they break down all things crime and...