Jerry Capeci

Gerald Capeci is an American journalist and author who specializes in coverage of the Five Mafia crime families of New York City.

Career Capeci was raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. He worked as a truck driver and dock worker before becoming a copy boy with the New York Post in 1966. Capeci later became a police reporter for the newspaper. In 1976, he covered the funeral of Carlo Gambino for the Post. "Gangland" also ran in The New York Sun between 2002 and 2007 before Capeci quit the newspaper in a salary dispute. In 2008, Gangland News became a paid subscription site.

Capeci has authored several books detailing the inner workings of the New York crime families. In 1988, he and fellow Daily News reporter Gene Mustain published a biography of John Gotti, Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti.

Personal life Capeci and his wife Barbara have three children.

Works Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti (with Gene Mustain, 1988) Murder Machine: A True Story of Murder, Madness and the Mafia (with Gene Mustain, 1992) Gotti: Rise and Fall (with Gene Mustain, 1996) The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia (2002) Wiseguys Say the Darndest Things: The Quotable Mafia (2003) Mob Boss: The Life of Little Al D'Arco, the Man Who Brought Down the Mafia (with Tom Robbins, 2013)