Mafia Files

Dutch Schultz was born Arthur Flegenheimer on August 6, 1902, in the Bronx borough of New York City. After his father left the family, Schultz turned to burglary, then bootlegging. Soon he expanded into illegal gambling, clashing with rival gangsters Legs Diamond and Vincent Coll. In the 1930s he was targeted by both the IRS and special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey. Schultz was killed by members of the notorious hit squad "Murder, Inc." in 1935.
As he lay dying from bullet wounds on a hospital bed, Schultz uttered strange thoughts that were incomprehensible to the police who were hoping to get information from him. Some of Schultz's last words were:
- “A boy has never wept…nor dashed a thousand kin.”
- “You can play jacks, and girls do that with a soft ball and do tricks with it.”
- “Oh, Oh, dog Biscuit, and when he is happy he doesn’t get snappy.”
Afraid of being sent to jail by Prosecutor Dewey, Schultz had a special safe constructed and used it to hide cash and bonds worth $7 million. He and his bodyguard hid the safe in a secret location in upstate New York, but when the two were murdered, they took to the grave the knowledge of where the treasure was. To this day, it's never been recovered.

Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski: The Chilliest Killer in Criminal History...
Born 1935 in Jersey City, New Jersey, Richard Leonard Kuklinski was an American contract killer and serial killer who was convicted of murdering 200 or more people. He was associated with members of the American Mafia, namely the DeCavalcante crime family of Newark, New Jersey, and the Five Families of New York City.
Kuklinski was given the nickname “The Iceman” for his method of freezing a victim to mask the time of death. During his criminal career, fellow mobsters called him “the one-man army” or “the devil himself” due to his fearsome reputation and imposing physique of 6’5″ (196 cm) and 270 pounds (122 kg). Kuklinski lived with his wife and children in the New Jersey suburb of Dumont. His family was apparently unaware of Kuklinski’s double life and crimes.
By the early to mid-1980s, Kuklinski was involved in narcotics, po*******hy, arms dealing, money laundering, hijacking and contract killing. While his range of criminal activities expanded, he began to make mistakes. Although Kuklinski is claimed to have killed anyone who could testify against him, he got sloppy about disposing of his victims. Law enforcement began to suspect Kuklinski and started an investigation, gathering evidence about the various crimes he had committed. The eighteen month long undercover investigation led to his arrest in 1986. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988.
After his murder convictions, Kuklinski took part in a number of interviews during which he claimed to have murdered from over 100 to 250 men between 1948 and 1986, though his recollection of events sometimes varied. Though some have expressed skepticism about the extent of Kuklinski’s alleged murders, police are confident in their belief that he was a serial killer who killed at least several dozen people both at the behest of organized crime bosses and on his own initiative. Many of Kuklinski’s claims were substantiated by author Philip Carlo in over 240 hours of interviews and via the dozens of cases Kuklinski helped New Jersey police clear after his incarceration.
On December 17, 1986, the task force set up a road block and arrested Kuklinski. It took five people to restrain the huge man and put him in a Vehicle Virgins
In 2005, after 17 years in prison, Kuklinski was diagnosed with an incurable form of Kawasaki disease, an inflammation of the blood vessels and was transferred to a secure wing at St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton, New Jersey. Although he had asked doctors to make sure they revived him if he developed cardiopulmonary arrest (or risk of heart attack), his then-former wife Barbara had signed a “do not resuscitate” order. A week before his death, the hospital called Barbara to ask if she wished to rescind the instruction, but she declined. Kuklinski died at age 70 in 2006. His body was cremated.

Silvio Berlusconi is a three-time prime minister of Italy whose career has been marked by s*xual indiscretion, political scandals and multiple trials.
Born in Milan, Italy, on September 29, 1936, Silvio Berlusconi rose from a middle class background to become one of the wealthiest men in the country. In 1993, Berlusconi founded his own right-wing political party; he went on to become a three-time prime minister. Despite being dogged by scandals and being convicted of several crimes, Berlusconi remains a powerful figure in Italy.
Accusations of criminal misbehavior followed Berlusconi into office, leading to charges of embezzlement, tax fraud and bribery. Being in power helped him avoid some charges—he passed one law that granted the prime minister immunity while in office (the law was later struck down). Berlusconi was also able to fight other accusations until the statute of limitations ran out.
However, Berlusconi has been convicted multiple times. In October 2012, Berlusconi was sentenced to four years for tax fraud. And in June 2013, Berlusconi was sentenced to seven years for paying an underage woman, Karima "Ruby" el Mahroug, for s*x. El Mahroug was 17 when she attended several of Berlusconi's "bunga bunga" parties in 2010. Berlusconi was also convicted of abusing the power of his office, for attempting to get el Mahroug out of jail by telling police that she was related to Egypt's Hosni Mubarak.
Berlusconi never admitted to any wrongdoing and ultimately never had to spend a day in jail, instead serving his sentences by performing community service.