Fake products are huge business for European organized crime

For organized crime groups, the business of counterfeiting and pirating legitimate products is booming. Europol, Europe’s top law enforcement agency,…


FBI director outlines threats from transnational organized crime

Editor’s note: On February, 5, 2020, Christopher Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, delivered a report to the…


‘El Chapo’ extradited to United States

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, one of the most powerful and violent Mexican drug cartel bosses in history, has been extradited…


The wild ones

Riding a motorcycle is not a crime. Neither is joining a club to share the thrill and freedom of rolling…


Virginia Hill: ‘Queen of the Mob’ was no one’s pushover

Third in a series of profiles for Women’s History Month. On March 24, 1966, passersby walking on a footpath beside…