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Today, June 12, 2024, marks the first anniversary of Mobology—”an omerta-free zone”— that I created 52 weeks ago with the assistance and inspiration of my long-time trusted friend, investigative reporter and author Jeff Stein, the publisher of SpyTalk, one of the most respected and successful sites on the Substack platform.
For the archive of my columns posted during the past 52 consecutive weeks with no breaks in service, see: https://mobology.substack.com/archive.
Notably, during the past year, I never placed a paywall on my site.
If you are a paid annual or monthly subscriber, please accept my deepest appreciation for your support. I sincerely hope that you choose to renew when notified.
If you are not a paid subscriber, I respectfully ask that you consider it—although my free subscribers will continue to be embraced and loved . . . almost as much as my $500 “sustaining members.”
Please join the fray and keep me in the game. Give me the resources I need to make a difference—just as I have during so many public controversies, major crimes, and national upheavals amid my 50-year career.
In short—consistent with this site’s maxim, “Where the past is prologue”—I write what I know best. And what I know best are those matters 1) that I have personally experienced since I became a fiercely independent investigative journalist in 1974 and/or 2) that appeared in one or more of my ten published books.
Meantime, I am furious that much of my original independent reporting over the past fifty years has been repeatedly stolen without attribution by those in the mainstream media. And I am particularly angry over the ongoing theft of the works of nearly all writers, past and present, by the emerging artificial-intelligence networks.
By writing about important events in context with my related first-person experiences, I am hoping to protect my original work.
To be clear, I am widely regarded as among the top experts on the Jimmy Hoffa and Robert Kennedy murder cases, as well as the suicides of Vincent Foster and the D.C. Madam, along with the federal conspiracy case against Anthony Pellicano. I have also published major books about the Mafia's influence in Hollywood and on professional football, as well as works about the O.J. Simpson murder case (with the LAPD's two lead detectives, Tom Lange and Philip Vannatter), the contract killing of a wealthy businessman in Ohio, and corruption in higher education, focusing on the student-loan program and for-profit colleges.
During the past year, I have also written about:
* how the New York Times gave birth to me as an American author,
* how I discovered the identities of those behind the violence in Hoffa’s Local 299 in Detroit prior to his disappearance,
* how I concluded in my 1978 book about the rise and fall of Jimmy Hoffa that Hoffa, Carlos Marcello, and Santos Trafficante engineered the murder of President John Kennedy—and, a year later, the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that Hoffa, Marcello, and Trafficante had the “motive, means, and opportunity” to kill the President, as the committee counsel, G. Robert Blakey declared, “The mob did it. It’s a historical fact,”
* how my work provoked the City of Los Angeles to release the LAPD’s files on the RFK murder case to the California State Archives in Sacramento,
* RFK Jr’s flawed conspiracy theories about the death of his father,
* my three interviews and fourteen hours with Sirhan Sirhan, noting that I am the only person in the world, living or dead, who has interviewed both Sirhan and Thane Eugene Cesar, the security guard whom RFK Jr. has falsely accused of killing his father,
* Charles Manson’s request via Sirhan that I help him raise $25,000,
* the Kent State shootings,
* how I nearly wound up in prison for contempt after secretly recording a murder confession with a key co-conspirator,
* the unscrupulous pursuit of President Bill Clinton by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and his prosecutorial goon squad,
* how Brett Kavanaugh, a future Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was Starr’s designated leaker to the press,
* how the right-wing media recklessly and maliciously attempted to portray the tragic suicide of Vincent Foster as a Clinton-engineered murder plot,
* the Clinton impeachment drama during which I played a key, perhaps even decisive role that led to the President’s acquittal—without the cooperation or knowledge of the White House—including how my investigation led to the resignation of the U.S. Speaker of the House, who led the forces against the President, on the same day as the impeachment vote,
* Keith Olbermann’s conversation with Dick Butkus about my book, Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football,
* the dangers of the legal and illegal sports-gambling communities,
* the LAPD’s uncut version of its interview with O.J. Simpson, as well of the transcript of Detective Tom Lange’s conversation with Simpson during the Bronco chase,
* how I uncovered the name and number of a U.S. Senator in the phone records of the D.C. Madam,
* how whistleblower Jon Oberg, whose courageous work was reported on the front page of the New York Times, blew the lid off major acts of corruption in the student-loan program,
* a roadmap to understanding the association between Donald Trump and the Mafia, and
* how Trump’s corrupt media mouthpiece, Fox News, has allegedly become a criminal enterprise.
Also, I have reported on:
* my encounters with a variety of law-enforcement heroes, like Carl Shoffler and Walter Sheridan, and assorted Mafia guys including, among others, Sonny Franzese, William Jahoda, and Phillip Moscato,
* my exclusive face-to-face interview with the four alleged co-conspirators in the Hoffa murder case,
* my wild interview with the late Congressman James Trafficante,
* my testimony before a U.S. Senate committee, opposing corporate concentrations in the publishing industry,
* my testimony before a New Jersey State Assembly committee, opposing the legalization of sports gambling in Atlantic City,
* my seminal work on the Ronald Reagan-Lew Wasserman-Sidney Korshak nexus in Hollywood,
* my lessons learned from the 1960 Screen Actors Guild strike during the 2023 SAG strike,
* my Christmas dinner with Jerry Garcia who, along with Graham Nash and Frank Zappa, was a supporter of my 1986 book, Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob,
* my interviews with Donald Dawson, a major midwestern bookmaker, who confessed to me on tape that he had personally “fixed no fewer than 32 NFL games,”
* my four-year libel litigation against the New York Times, a case I was winning until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit snatched away my victory in an unprecedented moment in American jurisprudence,
* my 1989 world-class prediction on ABC’s Nightline that the NFL owners would embrace and profit from the legalization of sports gambling,
* my role as an expert witness for the defense in a 1990-1991 defamation case involving game fixing in the NFL,
* my prediction that the 2018 Supreme Court decision supercharging the legalization of sports gambling will destroy college and professional sports,
* my breach of contract and fraud litigation against the former head of the U.S. Federal Witness Protection Program,
* my attempt to spring an ex-KGB officer from a Russian prison after he tipped off the FBI about a spy in its leadership, the confessed and convicted Robert Hanssen,
* my contentious private meeting with Robert De Niro about the false facts and frenzied fabrications in his motion picture, The Irishman, based on my early reading of the script,
* my revelations about Trump apologist and propagandist Sean Hannity of Fox News and his so-called “Freedom Concerts,”
* my disclosure that the D.C. Madam tried and failed to commit suicide two weeks before she successfully killed herself at her mother’s home in Florida, and
* my unwitting three-hour interview with a notorious serial killer who is also the suspected Zodiac Killer.
Meantime, let’s not forget that the LAPD might have solved the 1968 murder of Senator Robert Kennedy, . . . but I solved the overall case—because, for the first time, I explained in my 1995 book why materials collected by the LAPD and the FBI unintentionally provided the best evidence of a conspiracy that never existed. (To be sure, the top expert on the RFK case is British historian Mel Ayton, the author of the upcoming book, The Making of an Assassin.)
And, of course, there is my ongoing Ahab-white whale search for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa who was murdered on July 30, 1975—a case in which I have played an important role for the past 49 years since the day after his disappearance. . . . My team and I are still in the game, hoping for a breakthrough soon.
Finally, truth be told, I will put my record of opposition-research successes up against those of anyone in the business. . . . Anyone.
Bottomline, I have worked hard to earn the respect and support of my subscribers to Mobology.
Thank you for your consideration.
(*) Larry Henry is “The Mob in Pop Culture" columnist for The Mob Museum in Las Vegas and senior reporter for Gambling.com. He is a former political editor at the Las Vegas Sun and managing editor at KFSM-TV, the CBS affiliate in Northwest Arkansas.
Congratulations, Dan
I'll keep supporting your writing and Investigative reporting sir. You've got good stuff ! I'm sure you'll put out some great stories.