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Frank Cali
Francesco "Franky Boy" Cali (1965–2019), Sicilian-linked Gambino crime family underboss and reputed boss from 2015, shot dead outside his Staten Island home on March 13, 2019 by QAnon follower Anthony Comello, the first New York mob boss murdered since Castellano in 1985.
Frank Capone
Frank Capone (Salvatore Capone, 1895–April 1, 1924), brother of Al and Ralph Capone, was a Chicago Outfit gangster who fronted the gang's takeover of Cicero, Illinois, and was killed by police during the 1924 Cicero election violence.
Frank Caprio
Frank Caprio (1936-2025), chief judge of the Providence, Rhode Island Municipal Court from 1985 to 2023, hosted the nationally syndicated real-court show Caught in Providence and was known as 'the nicest judge in the world.'
Frank Cullotta
Frank Cullotta (1938–2020), Chicago Outfit associate and Tony Spilotro's street lieutenant in Las Vegas, led the Hole in the Wall Gang burglary ring until its July 4, 1981 capture at Bertha's; later a federal witness and Casino consultant.
Frank D. Whitney
Frank D. Whitney, also known as Frank DeArmon Whitney, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina since 2024.
Frank DeCicco
Frank DeCicco, known as "Cheech", was an American mobster and underboss of the Gambino crime family under John Gotti, killed by a car bomb in Brooklyn in 1986.
Frank Gioia Jr.
Frank Gioia Jr., aka Frank Capri, is a former Lucchese crime family made man who cooperated with the FBI in the 1990s, helped win 70+ convictions, entered witness protection in 1999, and was later convicted in a $65 million Arizona restaurant fraud.
Frank H. Easterbrook
Frank H. Easterbrook, born Frank Hoover Easterbrook in 1948, is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 1985.
Frank H. Seay
Frank Howell Seay, born in 1938, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma since 1979.
Frank Lucas
Frank Lucas (1930–2019) was an American drug trafficker who ran a major heroin operation in Harlem in the 1960s and 1970s, inspiring the film American Gangster.
Frank M. Hull
Frank M. Hull (born 1948) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit since 2017.
Frank Matthews (drug trafficker)
Frank Matthews, aka Black Caesar (born 1944), American heroin and cocaine kingpin of the late 1960s and early 1970s who ran a 21-state network, jumped $325,000 bail in 1973 with an estimated $20 million and girlfriend Cheryl Brown, and has never been found.
Frank Montalvo
Frank Montalvo (born 1956) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Texas, appointed by George W. Bush in 2003.
Frank Mulholland, Lord Mulholland
Frank Mulholland, Lord Mulholland, is a Scottish judge, a Senator of the College of Justice since 2016, who earlier served as Solicitor General and then Lord Advocate for Scotland.
Frank Nitti
Frank Nitti (Francesco Raffaele Nitto), "The Enforcer," led the Chicago Outfit after Al Capone's 1931 imprisonment, diversifying into gambling and labor racketeering, and died by suicide in March 1943 under Hollywood extortion indictment.
Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
Frank P. Geraci, Jr., also known as Frank Paul Geraci, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in western New York.
Frank Pentangeli
Frank Pentangeli, aka Frankie Five-Angels, is the fictional Corleone caporegime played by Michael V. Gazzo in The Godfather Part II (1974); created to replace Clemenza, he testifies before a Senate committee, retracts, and dies by suicide.
Frank R. Zapata
Frank R. Zapata, born in Safford, Arizona in 1944, is a senior judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, appointed by President Clinton in 1996.
Frank Sheeran
Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran (1920–2003) was an Irish-American Teamsters union official and Bufalino crime family associate who claimed in I Heard You Paint Houses that he killed Jimmy Hoffa, a claim never corroborated.
Frank W. Volk
Frank William Volk (born 1965) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in the Southern District of West Virginia since 2019, appointed by President Trump.
Frankie Fraser
Frankie Fraser (Francis Davidson Fraser, "Mad" Frankie Fraser, 1923-2014), English gangland enforcer for the Richardson gang, nicknamed The Dentist; served 42 years in prison, later a celebrity author and gangland tour guide.
Frankie Yale
Frankie Yale (Francesco Ioele, also Uale), Calabrian-born Brooklyn mob boss, ran the Harvard Inn, employed Al Capone, was linked to Big Jim Colosimo's 1920 murder, and was shot dead in Brooklyn on July 1, 1928.
Franklin child prostitution ring allegations
Franklin child prostitution ring allegations: claims from 1988 Omaha, Nebraska that credit union manager Lawrence King Jr. ran a child sex trafficking ring; two 1990 grand juries called them a hoax, King was convicted of $39 million fraud.
Franklin Delano Floyd
Franklin Delano Floyd, also known as Clarence Hughes and Brandon C. Williams, is an American death-row inmate convicted of murdering Cheryl Commesso; he kidnapped his stepdaughter Suzanne Sevakis as a child, married her, and killed 6-year-old Michael Hughes in 1994.
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce (1804–1869), 14th U.S. president (1853–1857), New Hampshire Democrat and Mexican War volunteer; his Kansas-Nebraska Act support and loss of his party's nomination place him near the bottom of historian rankings.
Franklin U. Valderrama
Franklin U. Valderrama, born Franklin Ulyses Valderrama in 1962 in Panama City, is a United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois since 2020 and the first Panamanian American Article III judge.
Frankpledge
Frankpledge (francplege): medieval English collective-surety system grouping men into tithings of ten or twelve under a chief pledge, enforced by the sheriff's view of frankpledge; regulated by the Assize of Clarendon and Magna Carta, decayed under the Tudors.
Franks Report (1957)
Franks Report (1957), Cmnd 218, Report of the Committee on Administrative Tribunals and Enquiries chaired by Sir Oliver Franks; set out openness, fairness, impartiality and 95 recommendations leading to the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1958 and Council on Tribunals.
Franz Schmidt (executioner)
Franz Schmidt, or Meister Frantz (1554/1555–1634), executioner of Nuremberg 1578–1617, kept a unique diary recording 361 executions and 345 minor punishments, later edited by Keller and translated by Harrington.
Fratricide
Fratricide (Latin fratricida, killer of a brother) is the killing of one's brother or sister, also called siblicide or sororicide; it spans myth (Cain and Abel), Ottoman dynastic law, and modern forensic criminology.