Racketeering

Mexican Cartel Kingpin Pleads Guilty In US Court

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Mexican Drug Cartels, Video, Benjamin Arrellano Felix, Money Laundering, Arellano-Felix-Cartel, Narco-Trafficking, Narcos, Racketeering, Drug Smuggling, Latino Voices News

SAN DIEGO — Mexican drug kingpin Benjamin Arellano Felix pleaded guilty Wednesday to racketeering and conspiracy to launder money, avoiding the ...

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Joe Paterno, the Penn State Tragedy and Child Molestation

Linda Kenney Baden | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Child Molestation, Penn State, Ncaa, Jerry Sandusky, Pedophilia, Joe Paterno, Racketeering, Joe Paterno Fired, Penn State Scandal, Sports News

Not one story goes by without calling Paterno 'Coach'. This tragedy is not about a 'Coach'. What some sportscasters, fans, and a small but violent flash mob of students fail to realize is that this story is not about sports.

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Billionaire Bishop Charged With Bilking Brazil's Pentacostals, Sending Money to US

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Catholics, Racketeering, Major League Baseball, Rico, Flight Capital, Billy Sunday, Rede Record, Rick Perry, Televangelists, Evangelical, Pentacostal, Brazil, Edir Macedo, Barack Obama, Anti-Semitism, Fundamentalism, Extremism, World News

After a long investigation by the federal police Brazil's attorney general is finally litigating the big fraud and racketeering case against the self-anointed Pentecostal Bishop Edir Macedo.

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Betty Loren-Maltese's Cicero Home Up For Auction

Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Corruption, Cicero Corruption, Government-Seized Auctions, Chicago Real Estate, Rod Blagojevich, Cicero Town President, Betty Loren-Maltese, Cicero Illinois, Cicero, Racketeering, Chicago News

The single-story, brick home once owned by Cicero's former town president Betty Loren-Maltese is set to go on the auction block at noon on Thursday an...

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Motorcycle Gang Members Face Murder, Drug Charges

AP | JIM SALTER | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Murder, The Nation, Wheels of Soul, St. Louis, Kidnapping, Mother Chapter, St. Louis Crime, Gang, Missouri Crime, Motorcycle Gang, Clubhouses, Biker Gang, Racketeering, Crime News

ST. LOUIS — A nationwide motorcycle gang was responsible for killings, robberies, drug distribution and other crimes, according to a federal ind...

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Cigarettes and Sinners

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Confessional, Roman Catholic Church, Cigarettes, Judge Gladys Kessler, Big Tobacco, Tobacco, Smoking, Racketeering, Politics News

Some of the Justice Department proposals as to what the cigarette companies must say in their ads are in the nature of a confession that might be heard by a priest in a confessional.

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Swiss Banker's Reaction to U.S. Treasury Hiding A.I.G. Loss

Iris Mack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shares, Fired, Payments, White Collar Crime, Losses, U.S. Treasury, Commissions, Federal Reserve, Collusion, Institutional Clients, Accounting Entry, Asset, Krisken Management, Citizens, Ubs, Goldman Sachs, Aig, Inspector General Barofsky: U.S. Treasury Hid a.I.G. Loss., Go Bust, Defraud, Bailed Out, Accountants, Subsidized, Pay to Play, Foreclosed Homes, Accounting, Revalue, Negligence, Disclaimer, Depreciate, Repurchase, American Tax Payer, Tax Evasion, Racketeering, Swiss Baker, Write Off, Auditors, JP Morgan, Proceeds of the Sale, Intermediaries, Christopher Hill, Tax Returns, Job, Banks, Business News

Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan are being subsidized by the Federal Reserve. Why can't the Fed instead subsidize Americans who want a job? How stupid do they think the American taxpayer is?

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NY Man Hires Thieves To Run Stolen Comic Book Ring

bostonherald.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ebay, Comic Books, Stolen Comic Books, Ebay Theft, Rico Vendetti, Stealing, Comic Book, Racketeering, Books News

A western New York businessman enlisted thieves and sold on eBay a huge assortment of their stolen merchandise, including vintage comic books believed...

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Ohio Chamber Lies and Hides Election Buys

Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brad Smith, Karl Rove, 2010 Election, Partnership for Ohio's Future, Karl Rove Subpoena, Racketeering, Ohio Chamber of Commerce, King-Lincoln-Bronzeville Case, Fitrakis, Arnebeck, Politics News

The Ohio Chamber of Commerce will not reveal the list of individuals and corporations that have funded its election campaign in the Buckeye State, des...

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Charging Rove With Racketeering

Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ohio Elections, Politics, 2010 Elections, Karl Rove Subpoena, King Lincoln Bronzeville Case, Partnership for Ohio's Future. Ohio Chamber of Commerce, Racketeering, Politics News

The injection of huge sums of cash into partisan election operations has re-defined the process of American democracy in this and several previous election cycles. We're not testing the legalities of these coordinated efforts.

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Rahm Emanuel Subpoenaed In Blagojevich Trial

AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rahm Emanuel, Blagojevich Trial, Blagojevich, Blagojevich Emanuel, Blagojevich Corruption, Rod Blagojevich, Valerie Jarrett, Blagojevich Subpoena, Emanuel Subpoena, Racketeering, Chicago News

CHICAGO — Lawyers for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich have subpoenaed White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel as a witness at his corruption trial, ...

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Blagojevich Trial Will Start In June: Defense Request To Push Back To November Denied

AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Blagojevich Corruption, Blagojevich Trial Date, Rod Blagojevich Trial, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, Rod Blagojevich, Blagojevich Trial, Chicago, Illinois, Racketeering, Chicago News

CHICAGO — A federal judge refused Wednesday to postpone the June start of ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial, brushing aside defense...

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Witness: Gotti Shot, Stabbed People Who Made Fun Of Him

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gotti Trial, John Alite, Crime, Mob, Junior Gotti, John Gotti, Gambino Crime Family, New York Mafia, Mafia, Racketeering, New York News

NEW YORK — As his sister Victoria Gotti began a book tour like a celebrity author, John "Junior" Gotti sat in court, portrayed as a merciless ki...

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Junior Gotti Trial: Closing Arguments Begin In Racketeering Trial

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gotti Trial, Murder, John Junior Gotti, Mob, Junior Gotti, Hung Juries, James Trezevant, Gotti, Mafia, Racketeering, New York News

NEW YORK — Don't believe a defense lawyer's argument that John "Junior" Gotti quit organized crime with a sudden epiphany more than a decade ago...

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Vito Pipitone: Alleged Mafia Associate Arrested While On Honeymoon In Honolulu

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hawaii, Mob Arrest, Mafia Arrested on Honeymoon, Racketeering, New York Mob, New York Mafia, Honeymoon Arrest, Honolulu, Mafia Arrests, Mafia, Vito Pipitone, The Mob, Crime, New York, Vito Piptone Arrested on Honeymoon, New York News

HONOLULU — An alleged Mafia associate was arrested on racketeering charges while on his honeymoon in Honolulu. Twenty-seven-year-old Vito Pipit...

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6 Bonnano New York Crime Family Members Plead Guilty To Racketeering In Florida

AP | CURT ANDERSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organized Crime, Racketeering, Florida, Mob, RICO Law, Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Law, Mafia, Mafia Probe, South Florida, New York, Bonnano Crime Family, Bonnano, New York News

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — One by one, members of a South Florida crew of the New York-based Bonanno crime family stood before a federal judge Wedn...

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Labor Union Officials Charged In Bribery Probe

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Labor Costs, Michael Forde, Labor Union Bribery, Mayor Bloomberg, New York City District Council of Carpenters and Joiners, Michael Bloomberg, Conspiracy, Bribes, Labor Union, Racketeering, New York News

NEW YORK — The leader of a powerful labor union that recently endorsed Mayor Michael Bloomberg in his re-election campaign was charged Wednesday...

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"Corruption Shtick" in the Garden State

Eric Dezenhall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mafia, Bernard Madoff, Rabbis, New Jersey Corruption, Satire, Racketeering, Politics News

Philip Roth called it right when he said, "We now live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist lies helpless before what he knows he will read in tomorrow morning's newspaper."

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Fight Crime, Ban Symbols

Suzette Standring | Posted 05.25.2011

A patch, label or logo does not a murderer make. Let's not start down a road where in time the government gets into the business of controlling tee-shirt slogans.

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