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European Union: Organized crime deemed ‘highest’ security risk, greater than terrorism

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European Union: Organized crime deemed ‘highest’ security risk, greater than terrorism

Posted on April 25, 2019April 25, 2019 by Jackie Apoyan

Many of Europe’s top police officers were in the Netherlands last week attending a high-level conference focused on doing a…


White Boy Rick: From Teenage FBI Informant to Poster Boy for Criminal Justice Reform

Posted on April 18, 2019April 25, 2019 by Jackie Apoyan

Richard “White Boy Rick” Wershe is a living, breathing casualty of America’s war on drugs, locked away for the past…


Leave no trace

Posted on September 21, 2018 by Jackie Apoyan

In 1934, John Dillinger was one of America’s most wanted. He was in hiding in Chicago and looking for a…


The Don of Silicon Valley

Posted on September 18, 2018 by Jackie Apoyan

Joe Cerrito died on September 7, 1978, from a heart attack at age 67. He was a successful businessman in…


A Midwestern Mob Murder Mystery

Posted on February 15, 2018March 21, 2018 by Brenda Hengel

Amid heavy snowfall during the winter of 1963, FBI agents and sheriff’s deputies in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, worked together to…


Forty years ago, Jimmy “The Weasel” Fratianno turned on his Mob family

Posted on December 8, 2017June 29, 2018 by Brenda Hengel

Some mobsters left their legacy by the gun, some by the knife, but Jimmy “the Weasel” Fratianno is best known…


Too early for obituaries

Posted on August 15, 2016September 29, 2016 by Brenda Hengel

The recent indictments of 46 bosses, capos and members of several marquee New York organized crime families suggests that the…


Blinded by acid

Posted on April 28, 2016April 12, 2019 by Misha Ray

On April 2, 1956, Charles Tuso, former armed robber and associate of New York labor racketeer Johnny Dio, entered a…


San Francisco crime boss ‘Shrimp Boy’ Chow convicted of racketeering and murder

Posted on January 15, 2016October 6, 2016 by Brenda Hengel

The two-month federal racketeering trial of Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, alleged boss of a San Francisco organized crime group, ended…


Author disputes Mafia witness testimony in Lufthansa robbery case

Posted on January 6, 2016December 29, 2017 by Brenda Hengel

Written: January 6, 2016 —  Scroll to the bottom for a story update On November 12, in a stunning upset for the…


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