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2 unusual facts about loan shark


Joseph Weil

He left school and started work as a collector in his home town's bustling loan-sharking industry at age 17.

Loan shark

In Japan, the Moneylending Control Law requires only registration in each prefecture.


Joseph Miranda

Joseph Miranda served as a made man and loan shark under both founder Simone "Sam the Plumber" DeCavalcante and Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi during the 1960s and mid-1970s.

Joshua Clay

As Carmichael, using funds borrowed from a local loan shark, he purchases a small Park Avenue medical practice and lives a quiet, respectable life treating rich hypochondriacs.

Ralph Mosca

Mosca's crew was involved in labor racketeering, specifically through the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, loan sharking and gambling, and was responsible for receiving tribute payments from Greek-American gangsters operating in Astoria.

San Francisco crime family

He was the co-owner of San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf and a bootlegger, pimp, loan shark and drug dealer.


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Alex De Rakoff

A loan shark (Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson) gives ex-con Nick (Tamer Hassan) a period of 24 hours in order to pay back the money he owes.

Century of the Dragon

When Sing's girlfriend Judy (Joey Meng) learns that Chun sent his top henchmen Ma Wong (Frankie Ng) and Fa Fot (Lung Fong) to kidnap Fei Lung's wife Daisy (Suki Kwan), Judy immediately informs Daisy; while on the other hand, Loan Shark Ko has captured Lung's mother to threaten Lung to surrender and Chun unexpectedly arrives and kills Ko while trapping Lung, his mother and son in a farm.

Sankat City

One night, they steal a Mercedes Rs. 10 million inside, unaware that the car belongs to a vicious gangster/loan shark called Faujdaar (Anupam Kher).