Crime & Justice

How the Enquirer Betrayed a Mafia Don and the Donald

TALES OF TREACHERY

Frank Costello ran the Genovese crime family, controlled Tammany Hall, and bankrolled the Enquirer. Then things started unraveling.

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A photo illustration of Frank Costello and Donald Trump.
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty
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