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unusual facts about organized crime



August 2006 in video gaming

In a discussion at Microsoft Gamefest, security development engineer David Weinstein warns of active organized crime on MMORPG servers.

Bank secrecy

It has also been accused by NGOs and governments of being one of the main instruments of underground economy and organized crime, in particular following the class action suit against the Vatican Bank in the 1990s, the Clearstream scandal and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Buddy Buddy

Hitman Trabucco has been hired to eliminate Rudy "Disco" Gambola before he testifies against fellow members of the Mob, but completing the contract becomes problematic once he encounters suicidal Victor Clooney, an emotionally disturbed television censor staying in the room adjacent to his in the Ramona Hotel in Riverside, California.

Danny Walsh

Daniel L. "Danny" Walsh (c. 1893-February 2, 1933?) was an organized crime figure in Providence, Rhode Island involved in bootlegging during Prohibition.

Interpol notice

In the Brøderbund computer game, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, the first part of the player's objective in each mission is to obtain an Interpol red notice (imprecisely described as a "warrant to arrest") against a member of a fictitious crime syndicate.

John G. Raucci

In July 2000, he was assigned to the Chicago Filed Office as a Field Supervisor over an Organized Crime Squad, followed by his promotion to Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC), where he managed Chicago's five Counterterrorism Squads, O'Hare and Midway Airports and a Resident Agency.

Knights of the City

It was produced by a now ex-mob boss Michael Franzese, who was dubbed by Tom Brokaw as "The Prince of the Mafia" and made more money for organized crime than anyone since Al Capone.

Mithya

Actor-director Rajat Kapoor was to direct this venture that was to have criminal underworld as its basic premise.

Norman Charles Roettger, Jr.

Roettger was noted for presiding over many cases involving drug trafficking and organized crime, including Mafia cases (for which he received death threats) and the trial of Yahweh Ben Yahweh.

Organized crime in Minneapolis

Organized crime in Minneapolis first attracted national attention in 1903, when thug and mayor Doc Ames (1842-1911) was exposed by Lincoln Steffens in the book The Shame of the Cities.

Our Family Honor

Launched as a two-hour TV-movie, Our Family Honor is about two New York City families who had known each other since their childhoods and who were involved in competing "family businesses" – the McKay family mostly worked for the New York City Police Department, where Patrick (Kenneth McMillan) was Commissioner, while the Danzigs were deeply involved in organized crime, with patriarch Vincent (Eli Wallach) filling the role of "godfather".

Ramush Haradinaj

The head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) during this time, Søren Jessen-Petersen, welcomed the decision Haradinaj to face the tribunal voluntarily, praised his work and described Haradinaj as a "close partner and friend", regardless Western intelligence reports that Haradinaj was a key figure in the range between organized crime and politics.

River Forest, Illinois

River Forest has been home to many notorious Italian organized crime families since the early-20th century, including Tony Accardo (boss from about 1945 to 1992) and Joseph Andriacchi.

Rotwelsch

A variant of Rotwelsch was spoken by some American criminal groups in the 1930s and '40s, and harpist Zeena Parkins' 1996 album Mouth=Maul=Betrayer made use of spoken Rotwelsch texts.

San Francisco crime family

The San Francisco crime family also known as the Lanza crime family was an American Mafia crime syndicate in San Francisco.

Social problems in Chinatown

In modern times, competing Asian street gangs and organized crime, such as the tongs and the Hong Kong-based triads, continue to plague the metropolitan Chinatowns worldwide where Triads have their operations, including London, United Kingdom; San Francisco, California; New York City, Sydney, Australia, and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The Hidan of Maukbeiangjow

he locates the hideout of a kidnapping and drug ring that Trowel has been unable to find because he is too focused on procedures.

United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce

The United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce was a special committee of the United States Senate which existed from 1950 to 1951 and which investigated organized crime which crossed state borders in the United States.


see also

5001 Nights at the Movies

On The Godfather (1972): “A wide, startlingly vivid view of a Mafia dynasty, in which organized crime becomes an obscene nightmare image of American free enterprise.”

Aftab Khan

Aftab Ahmed Khan (born 1945), Indian Police Service officer whose 1992 shootout with seven gangsters, from Mumbai organized crime syndicates, gained him celebrity status and enabled 1998 run for seat in Mumbai North-west constituency

Ahti Vilppula

Vilppula has had close and cordial contacts with a group of billionaires known as the "Kazakhstan Trio", who are suspected by the Belgian authorities of money laundering, counterfeited documents, and links to organized crime.

Albert Facchiano

While still in prison, Facchiano became involved in an investigation of Reagan Administration U.S. Secretary of Labor Raymond J. Donovan and his alleged ties to organized crime.

Angelo Ruggiero

Ruggiero's father was a first-generation immigrant from Torre de Ruggiero in Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy who was not involved in organized crime.

Anti-organized crime institutions in Russia

In 1995 then President Yeltsin met with the Security Council of Russia to hear reports administered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) on the status of organized crime in the state.

Antonio Cárdenas Guillén

On 6 November 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama contacted former Mexican President Felipe Calderón by phone and expressed his full support to put an end to the impunity of Mexico's organized crime syndicates.

C. Richard Fiore

Fiore, the Chairman of the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee, got in some trouble during his first term in the Assembly when he reportedly asked to cancel a hearing on organized crime under pressure from one of the state's most powerful mob bosses, Gerardo Catena.

Carlo Peter Caputo

Former FBI Director William Sessions cited Caputo as the Mob boss of Madison during a 1988 congressional hearing on organized crime.

Disappearance of Carlos Ornelas Puga

After conducting an evening mass at Los Cinco Señores parish on 3 November 2013 in Jiménez, Tamaulipas, Ornelas Puga was reportedly kidnapped by gunmen presumably involved in organized crime.

Ed FitzGerald

In 1995, FitzGerald was commissioned as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and was assigned to the Organized Crime Task Force in Chicago.

Eddie McGrath

He became a close ally of powerful organized crime figures such as Joe Adonis, Albert Anastasia, and Meyer Lansky.

Frank Celebrezze

In 1986, Celebrezze brought a successful libel suit against The Plain Dealer of Cleveland, based on an article that alleged that Celebrezze's campaign had accepted contributions from groups with organized crime connections.

Gerard Pappa

Gerard Gravano followed his father Sammy into organized crime and at the age of twenty-nine was arrested for helping his father run an ecstasy drug trafficking operation in Phoenix, Arizona while under protection from the Witness Protection Program in 2000.

I, Alex Cross

Cross and his girlfriend Briana Stone rush to Richmond, Virginia, and are shocked to discover that Caroline's body was found dismembered (most likely by a wood chipper) in the trunk of a car driven by someone with connections to organized crime.

Khadija Ismayilova

Another investigative report came in October 2012 as part of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, for which Khadija Ismayilova cooperated with two Czech journalists and in which claimed that high-ranking officials of Azerbaijan and their family members have companies registered in their names in the Czech Republic and through those companies own luxury real estate in Karlovy Vary.

Levinsky

Benjamin Levinsky (1893–1922), American gang leader, labor racketeer and organized crime figure

Lo Fu-chu

Because of Lo's reputation as an organized crime boss, Taiwan's Justice Minster, Liao Cheng-hao, refused to attend the justice committee's meetings while he was a member.

Mario Villanueva

He was convicted of money-laundering offences (but cleared of drug-trafficking and organized crime charges) and spent six years in the Altiplano High-Security Prison in Almoloya de Juárez, Estado de México.

Menachem Stark murder case

Among Stark and Perlmutter's creditors was the Broadway Bank of Chicago, notable for its association with President Barack Obama and as well as it loans to organized crime figures such as convicted bookmaker Michael "Jaws" Giorango.

Michele Pantaleone

Michele Pantaleone (Villalba 1911 – Palermo, February 12, 2002) was a respected journalist and expert on the Sicilian Mafia and one of the first to shed light on the links between organized crime and political power.

Pacific Islands Political Studies Association

Over three days many dimensions of security currently concerning the Pacific were explored including terrorism, coups, ‘failed states,’ asylum seekers and the ‘Pacific Solution’, the protection of the environment, drugs and organized crime.

Parliamentary immunity

In the run-up to the 2006 election in Canada, Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper denounced the ruling Liberal Party on the floor of the House of Commons, contending that the government ran "a massive corruption ring using organized crime to defraud taxpayers."

Pay or Die

It is a dramatization of the career of crusading New York City police officer Joseph Petrosino, a pioneer in the fight against organized crime in America.

Raymond H. A. Carter

He joins then the United-Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2000 as Head of the International Police Task Force High Commissioner’s cabinet of the high-commissioner; he will take, in particular, the lead of the anti-terrorism cell of Nations United in Sarajevo there and will also work against the Transnational Organized Crime prevention and war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Ríodoce

Ríodoce is a Mexican weekly dedicated to coverage of organized crime and the Mexican drug war in Sinaloa, Mexico.

Rock-Ola

During the 1920s, Rockola was linked with Chicago organized crime and escaped a jail sentence by turning State's Evidence.

Roy Lee Williams

However, Williams came under immediate suspicion for involvement with organized crime, particularly Kansas City Crime Boss Nicholas Civella.

Shadow Fists

Kien's major organized crime operation is called the Immaculate Egrets, a mostly Chinatown based group specializing in drugs and extortion.

Sheeran

Frank Sheeran (1920-2003) is a former labour union official who was accused of having links to organized crime and of being a hitman.

Sicilian Vespers

Having previously arranged the murder of mafia boss Joseph Masseria on 15 April 1931 in order to consolidate organized crime in New York City under Salvatore Maranzano, mafia boss Lucky Luciano then ordered the murders of Maranzano and those capos of Maranzano and Masseria whom Luciano saw as threats.

Silvermane

Silvio Manfredi, nicknamed "Silvermane" for his near-white hair, is a professional criminal originally from Corleone, Sicily that started his criminal career as a racketeer in an organized crime group called the Maggia, eventually becoming a criminal organizer and mastermind.

Slavko Ćuruvija

First deputy prime minister in charge of fight against corruption and organized crime Aleksandar Vučić, who was Minister for Information in Serbian government at the time of the Ćuruvija's murder, announced on a TV talk show for B92 TV that there has been a recent progress in the investigation of the murder of Ćuruvija and that he expects it to be resolved soon.

Terramelar

Terramelar became known on the news because was placed of the focus of the Rumanian organized crime with its headquarters in the "Bar Plaza" (currently known as "The Paquito") when, after an investigation carried out by the Europol, the Spanish national police force arrested the bigwig of the mafia and his wife after her popular quote "No entender, no entender" ("I don't understand").

The Phenix City Story

The film depicts the real-life 1954 assassination of Albert Patterson, who had just been elected Alabama Attorney General on a platform of cleaning up Phenix City, Alabama, a city controlled by organized crime.

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

The film is a chronicle of forty years in the life of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, starting first in the time of Prohibition, as he enforced the law on bootlegging and organized crime.

Velupillai Prabhakaran

Velupillai Prabhakaran has been wanted by Interpol and many other organizations since 1991 for terrorism, murder, organized crime and terrorism conspiracy.

Vito Bonventre

During the early months of the war, Bonventre became a target as the Brooklyn-based Castellammarese began to threaten Joe "the Boss" Masseria's domination over Italian organized crime.

Walter Liggett

Founder of the newspaper Midwest American, he specialized in articles about Minneapolis and Saint Paul organized crime and their political connections.

Willi Cicci

He recovers, and later joins Pentangeli in testifying against Michael at the Senate hearings on organized crime.

Withdrawn Canadian banknotes

The denomination was withdrawn on the advice of the Solicitor General and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), as it was often used for money laundering and organized crime.