Organized crime, especially Italian organized crime, might be the only universally cherished evil in American culture.
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Organized crime, and organized crime in Mexico especially, is often portrayed as a top-down enterprise.
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Why it matters: According to his biography, Goldman served as the district's deputy chief of the organized crime unit and oversaw prosecutions into traditional organized crime, international organized crime and white collar crime.
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The other would ratify the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC convention), which criminalizes transnational organized crime.
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ORGANIZED CRIME But there is evidence too of criminal intent to smuggle weapons out for sale to organized crime groups.
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A former journalist, Peters now investigates organized crime networks as executive director of the Center on Illicit Networks and Transnational Organized Crime.
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The larger forces shaping organized crime in Mexico will continue to overshadow the role of even the most powerful organized crime bosses, like Guzman.
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Goldman was previously deputy chief of the organized crime unit for the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted cases against Russian organized crime.
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I cultivated organized crime sources, which includes everything from mistresses, to ex-members of biker gangs, mafias, and various organized crime groups, Asian crime groups.
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"You mentioned that you'd done a lot of work as a journalist in terms of Russian organized crime, financial crimes, organized crime more generally," Schiff said.
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At the FBI, Levinson was an expert on organized crime, tracking both the Five Families of the Italian mafia and, later, Russian organized crime in Miami.
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The FBI's Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force previously identified Balian as a person of interest during an investigation into the Mexican mafia and Armenian organized crime, the Times reported.
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Sworn testimony indicates the case was investigated by the F.B.I.'s Balkan and Middle Eastern organized crime squad, bolstering theories that the Zottolas may have somehow crossed an Albanian organized crime group.
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The office of the special prosecutor for organized crime was created under a 2015 EU-brokered agreement which ended a political crisis partly fueled by anger over high-level organized crime and corruption.
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CINTOC (the Center on Illicit Networks and Transnational Organized Crime) is a charitable group that uses WHOIS to fight organized crime in vulnerable populations, including human trafficking and natural resource and wildlife crimes.
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Of those nine, four were members of organized crime organizations.
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Morelos Governor Graco Ramírez attributed the attack to organized crime.
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Many of Brazil's prisons are effectively run by organized crime.
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Hopefully, this is Archie's exit from the organized crime world.
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Organized crime gangs are in the business of making money.
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He is accused of embezzlement and engaging in organized crime.
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A symbolic "you're dead meat" message from Floridian organized crime?
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Prohibition was the birthplace of organized crime in that country.
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Or if an organized crime outfit stole all of it?
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The state's governor said organized crime was behind the attack.
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He was fatally shot while investigating organized crime in Sicily.
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The Triad is the organized crime network of Hong Kong.
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But organized crime groups have another, more lucrative revenue stream.
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"It's a classic strategy used in organized crime," Cotter said.
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"Neither terrorism nor organized crime respects national borders," he said.
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The suspects were charged with organized crime and ivory trafficking.
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He predicted that organized crime would continue to hold sway.
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He was allegedly the head of an organized crime gang.
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Organized crime groups are taking advantage of this every day.
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Those procedures were developed and tested during organized crime trials.
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It's more of a kleptocracy than an organized crime state.
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Phantom's clients included serious organized crime groups around the world.
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Fighting corruption and organized crime remain the nation's top priorities.
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Mr. Saviano is a journalist who writes about organized crime.
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Purón had also been an advocate for organized crime reform.
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Bigger organized crime outfits made it into the borough eventually.
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Examples of federal crimes include mail fraud or organized crime.
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"With organized crime, you're just dealing with lowlifes," he said.
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"He acknowledged ties to Russian organized crime""He acknowledged ties to Russian organized crime figure Seymon Mogilevich, stating he needed Mogilevich&aposs approval to get into business in the first place," the leaked cable said.
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But we can also find similar patterns with Pakistani youth in the UK and organized crime in Afghanistan or Turkish youth in north London and their links with organized crime groups in and from Turkey.
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Like finally getting your besties together for some light organized crime.
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Norris, Hector, and the FBI agents all had organized crime backgrounds.
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The haul followed an Australian investigation into an organized crime group.
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Since 2013, she had been working in an organized crime unit.
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His partner was a member of [organized crime group] Murder, Inc.
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Never far from the surface is the presence of organized crime.
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But Riggin's account demonstrates that Burns's sins went beyond organized crime.
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Another major problem undermining development across the region is organized crime.
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"No," said Thomas Reppetto, an author of books about organized crime.
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First came Roberto Saviano's 2007 nonfiction book about Neapolitan organized crime.
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Venezuela is a failed state and a gateway for organized crime.
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The former governor is facing money laundering and organized crime charges.
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Is organized crime as organized as we perceive it to be?
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The scammers worked for a total of 10 organized crime rings.
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RICO is the same law used to prosecute organized crime networks.
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Organized crime advances, narco-politics advances, but society is going back.
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It's this man police believe is linked to Albanian organized crime.
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The government eventually launched a war against organized crime in 2006.
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Threats came with the territory, and not just from organized crime.
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Without that, organized crime is still the best option for many.
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Mr. Piñera blamed immigrants for delinquency, drug trafficking and organized crime.
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Organized crime is one of the driving factors behind the rise.
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The law is typically used to crack down on organized crime.
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"They might just be hackers, or organized crime" operations, he said.
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Later, he defended organized crime bosses and cooked his own books.
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Secret juries are primarily used in terrorism and organized crime cases.
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It would empower organized crime, spark protests and provoke government repression.
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In some regions, organized-crime groups openly battle police and soldiers.
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He had never associated with organized crime, on the sicario's orders.
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However, the disruptive menace of "organized crime" was mentioned nine times.
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"Now, you have the gig economy in organized crime," he said.
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"It's organized crime within the confines of the prison," she said.
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Organized crime also corrodes stability and democracy—it's a catch 22.
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But racketeering is "not only associated with organized crime," Blakey says.
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Mexican organized crime groups are believed to be behind the killings.
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Organized crime, like any successful business, adapts to changing market conditions.
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He covers organized crime, immigration, farm policy, and anything in between.
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The yakuza, Japan's notorious organized crime syndicates, are on the decline.
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His stint as an allegedly corrupt detective came to an end after the FBI's Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force identified him as a person of interest after investigating links between the Mexican Mafia and Armenian organized crime.
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His stint as an allegedly corrupt detective came to an end once the FBI's Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force identified him as a person of interest after investigating links between the Mexican mob and Armenian organized crime.
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Mark MacDonnell of the Police Department's organized crime investigation division told reporters.
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Mexican security forces said the kidnapping involved organized crime but didn't elaborate.
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The case was investigated as organized crime, but she was never convicted.
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Both were known to cops for organized crime - not acts of terrorism.
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He and Arifov have been alleged to have associations with organized crime.
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Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has vowed to crack down on organized crime.
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The RICO law is used to target illegal conspiracies including organized crime.
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A Senate subcommittee investigated King for his alleged ties to organized crime.
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Other areas of potential collaboration include counterterrorism, counterproliferation, and combating organized crime.
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Ohr will remain director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces.
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"This is clearly a case of organized crime," Salvini said on Facebook.
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"You don't start at the top with organized crime," Mr. Arena said.
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Do you think most people don't understand how organized crime really works?
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I think most people have a very simplified view of organized crime.
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They know they're not going to get terrorists, organized crime or pedophiles.
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Mr. Kocner, long thought to have ties to organized crime, was furious.
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The corruption and collusion between state actors and organized crime are stunning.
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Public squares will no longer be the reception halls for organized crime.
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The army, itself immersed in organized crime, has likewise hedged its bets.
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Organized crime is a problem that has existed in Europe for centuries.
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Instead, in his silence, Mr. Trump is embracing corruption and organized crime.
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That could complicate President Volodymyr Zelensky's battles with oligarchs and organized crime.
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Its work has focused on geopolitical issues like organized crime and extremism.
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Third, we need a systemic way to disseminate transnational organized crime information.
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He acknowledged the presence of one organized crime group in the city.
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U.S. officials have linked Firtash to the Kremlin and Russian organized crime.
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Organized crime was always an occupational hazard of politics in Hell's Kitchen.
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Prosecutors going after organized crime today use the Capone gambit relatively frequently.
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Since they're more accessible, they've become targets of local organized crime groups.
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"This kind of activity is typically linked to organized crime," he said.
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That statute has historically targeted organized-crime groups, such as the mafia.
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It's designed to root out high level organized crime from the government.
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In 2015, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a monitoring group, labeled him "man of the year in organized crime," alleging that he was involved in tobacco smuggling during the 1990s wars in Yugoslavia, among other misdeeds.
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A backdoor for organized crime The rapidly growing and unregulated casino industry in Southeast Asia has, in essence, emerged as a backdoor for organized crime to launder their growing supply of dirty money into the global financial system.
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Abarca was arrested shortly after on murder, kidnapping, and organized crime–related charges.
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"We cannot see a line between organized crime and legal politics," said Figueroa.
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Now it was abundantly clear: Global soccer was a kind of organized crime.
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Background: The Wire Act was originally created as a weapon against organized crime.
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Dead men tell tales in Charles Brandt's riveting insider account about organized crime.
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Their aim was to identify and disrupt the organized crime networks behind it.
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On Wednesday he blamed organized crime for what he called a hacking attack.
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They now have the biggest cash cow that organized crime has ever had.
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He has the police, the film industry, and even the organized crime syndicates.
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Transnational organized crime groups now control multibillion-dollar "industries" and wield unprecedented influence.
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The authorities attribute around half of the killings this year to organized crime.
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"McMafia" teaches us that organized crime and corruption are now global in scope.
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Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak also investigated government connections to organized crime and corruption.
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It helps minimize returns fraud tied to bigger organized crime in the community.
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Operating in cash is an invitation to robbery, money laundering, and organized crime.
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"Take organized crime away, or any kind of crimes like that," Tillinghast says.
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"You can't understand Rio unless you understand the organized crime here," he said.
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They also ultimately lead to one of the FBI's investigative priorities —organized crime.
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And organized crime groups have all but decided many of those outcomes already.
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The assistance is meant to help forces overcome corruption and fight organized crime.
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Arcades were seen as seedy places, often associated with gambling and organized crime.
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But Pistol Pete and the others had a fascination for Italian organized crime.
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From the point of view of organized crime, this was a massive opportunity.
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Organized crime syndicates make fortunes bringing ivory to market, mostly in East Asia.
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But it also reflected society's fascination with, if not glorification of, organized crime.
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Worries over organized crime and Bulgaria's relative poverty have stood in its way.
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But his work on behalf of organized crime figures went beyond the courtroom.
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There is no doubt that tough penalties are necessary to deter organized crime.
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He has denied the charges against him, which include graft and organized crime.
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Here's "Crimetown," Gimlet Media's podcast about organized crime in Providence, R.I. You're welcome.
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The subject is organized crime, but it's the author's blunt eloquence that matters.
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Eight children survived the attacks that Mexican authorities attributed to organized crime groups.
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Notwithstanding the "war on organized crime" seem to be looming into the horizon.
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They also provide openings for organized crime syndicates to exploit America's open arms.
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Organized crime is often described as a business like any other, just illegal.
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As in any organized crime entity, the underbosses keep Mr. Kim's regime afloat.
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Spain has led Europe in cracking down on Russian-based organized crime groups.
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For more on 'Career Opportunities in Organized Crime' visit the project website here.
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"This is more consistent with how you'd go after an organized crime syndicate."
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"MS-13 has become a symbol of this plague that has spread across our country and into our communities," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in April at a meeting of his Organized Crime Council and Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.
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Its EU accession was held up partly by concerns over organized crime and graft.
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As Slavik turned increasingly to organized crime, he dramatically narrowed his retail malware business.
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The remains appear to be victims of organized crime violence killed in recent years.
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"The strategy of using the military against organized crime has exhausted itself," she said.
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Graffiti has been treated like serious organized crime by the BTP and justice system.
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Many of them die in the attempt or are kidnapped by organized crime groups.
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Now Pence is hearing Trump's critics compare the president to an organized crime boss.
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He was always seen as somebody who had organized crime lurking in his corner.
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But in the UK, another pressing consideration has emerged: Are you funding organized crime?
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The former chief is being charged with organized crime and kidnapping, officials said Friday.
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Child pornography, yes; violent threats, yes; but also organized-crime rings engaged in cybercrime.
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During his career at the FBI, Levinson specialized in investigating organized crime in Russia.
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He worked undercover against Islamist militants and before becoming deputy director for organized crime.
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They work like organized crime rings, with "specialists" for each part of the attack.
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In both Hong Kong and California, the arcade management had ties to organized crime.
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They deal mainly with sensitive cases such as organized crime, corruption and war crimes.
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The force was created to tackle the threat of terrorism and transnational organized crime.
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The fact is that the only thing worse than organized crime is disorganized crime.
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It would be aimed at potential terrorists, organized crime syndicates and identity theft rings.
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Left unchallenged for much longer, organized crime could effectively rule parts of Southeast Asia.
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" She said Muslims are "prominent in organized crime, with associated violence and drug dealing.
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For example, are there economic, political or social, or some combination thereof (organized crime)?
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He refused, even though he suspected that the spammer had ties to organized crime.
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"The responsibility of terrorist organizations or organized crime has been ruled out," he said.
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Poverty, violence, organized crime and institutional corruption are among the deepest in the hemisphere.
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The bill would "guarantee the fight against organized crime, corruption and impunity," he said.
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Others lost millions of euros to organized crime in a scam called "CEO Fraud".
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The students spent the night at the headquarters of the Organized Crime Investigations Department.
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Prosecutors were now allowed to wiretap anyone suspected of having connections to organized crime.
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Facebook removes "content that expresses support" for groups involved in terrorism or organized crime.
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That means collaborating with ESIC to guard esports against their greatest threat: Organized crime.
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"The connections between organized crime and migrant smugglers are becoming tighter," Correa-Cabrera said.
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Since 2000, more than 250,000 people have died as a result of organized crime.
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For a sophisticated hacker or an organized crime syndicate, this presents limitless criminal opportunities.
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And the city's government has long claimed that organized crime does not operate here.
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In Italy, for example, participation in organized crime often spans generations of a family.
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Signs that Paraguay faces a worsening organized crime problem have been mounting for years.
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The position is newly reconfigured to oversee efforts to fight organized crime and corruption.
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Rakhimov has denied links to organized crime in Uzbekistan and accusations of heroin trafficking.
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Mr. Comello has no known ties to organized crime, law enforcement officials have said.
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But punishing them economically is not going to help the fight against organized crime.
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Even as the Justice Department's organized crime resources were shifted to terrorism after Sept.
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His work, venturing deep into organized crime, had left him estranged from his family.
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Organized crime is behind many of the complaints protestors across the region have had.
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The family has previously been targeted by organized-crime groups for their relative wealth.
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Erdogan had said on Monday that "organized crime" had marred the election in Istanbul.
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Journalists covering corruption and organized crime are being murdered but their killers remain free.
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Locking up nonviolent offenders and drug users almost always backfires, instead strengthening organized crime.
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Internal demand there has been very carefully cultivated and developed by organized crime groups.
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Call it the Mafia, call it Cosa Nostra, call it Organized Crime, it exists.
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Some have been effective in reducing the power of organized crime in some areas.
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America's changing demographics are bringing new organized crime groups into major cities, Schumacher said.
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It's purposefully broad Congress passed the RICO Act in 1970 to combat organized crime.
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But the elder Mr. Zottola's ties to organized crime extended beyond the Bonanno family.
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"A lot of what you're dealing with is threats from organized crime," she added.
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Southwick said it was essential that governments push back against organized crime and impunity.
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The killings also shed light on the collusion between local police and organized crime.
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His investigations into organized crime and corruption reflected poorly on Democratic governors and mayors.
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Clubs were filled with dealers sanctioned by doormen, and controlled by organized crime gangs.
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The same incentives drove organized crime groups during Prohibition in the 1920s and 30s.
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The head of the organized crime unit, Zeljko Dolacki, could face disciplinary proceedings, he said.
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Lopez is expected to get slapped with organized crime charges and a US extradition request.
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An organized crime syndicate hoping to capitalize on general enhanced levels of anxiety and confusion?
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Erick Kabendera was charged on Monday with money laundering, tax evasion and leading organized crime.
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Not to mention the traditional issues of counterterrorism, counter proliferation and fighting organized crime together.
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We're seeing their presence more so in organized crime, and in politics, especially municipal politics.
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Obvious but important disclaimer: this article does not intend to promote organized crime within crypto.
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That implies an estimation of the formal investment of organized crime in the banking system.
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Organized crime syndicates in New Zealand are stealing and trading lucrative beehives, according to reports.
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After all, if Mai was involved in organized crime, a physical confrontation could be dangerous.
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Europol has ranked the 'Ndrangheta among the world's wealthiest and most powerful organized crime groups.
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"The region is being used and abused by organized crime to do business," Douglas said.
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"We cut our teeth in the organized crime section," said Stamboulidis, now in private practice.
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Police said that some of those arrested have connections with organized crime groups, or triads.
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Hong Kong Are organized crime gangs becoming involved in the political crisis in Hong Kong?
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The US has spent about $230 billion to help Mexico fight organized crime since 20113.
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Hezbollah and organized crime networks have different ideologies, but they share a similar desire: profit.
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Beyond that, antiquities trafficking in the Middle East has been shown to fund organized crime.
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Some of the migrants have reportedly been fleeing violence from organized crime and drug trafficking.
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Graco Ramirez attributed Mota's killing to organized crime, without citing a particular cartel or gang.
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Earlier this month, a judge dismissed charges of money laundering and organized crime against Gordillo.
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The '70s and '80s organized crime scene is certainly something that's missing from TV today.
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And the world of Russian oligarchs and organized crime, by design, is shadowy and labyrinthine.
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There is a middle ground between a capable State and chaotic natural anarchy: organized crime.
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"I run a company that specializes in exposing organized crime and political corruption," he said.
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"In an organized-crime case, you can investigate completely secretly for years," Ferrara told me.
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Giuliani alleged that Shusterman may have ties to "something called organized crime" in the Ukraine.
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"When I was here before, there wasn't any of this organized crime stuff," he said.
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Khodotov used to work as a police officer in St. Petersburg's organized crime investigation unit.
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The six-month long operation focused on a organized crime group operating in the country.
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Organized crime, Cosa Nostra, is a constant threat even if the tourists can't see it.
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In both situations, government (especially law enforcement) corruption and incompetence allowed organized crime to flourish.
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Despite this, Shaw says that it was her decision to get involved in organized crime.
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This is what separates a democracy from an organized crime syndicate, or better yet, cults.
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What was the climate of organized crime like in Canada in the 70s and 80s?
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The rise of the movie industry and organized crime in America had their own parallels.
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When the 18th Amendment outlawed alcohol, America saw the rise of moonshine and organized crime.
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But I don't think the corrupt mandate that created organized crime has diminished at all.
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Many of them would go on to become central figures in the organized crime world.
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Coleman was recommended instead because of a lack of inmates with ties to organized crime.
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Allegations of match fixing and of ties to organized crime have also plagued the sport.
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As a federal prosecutor, she served as chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force Unit.
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Around that time, reports of organized crime involvement in Macau's casino industry became increasingly public.
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Organized crime exploited it during Prohibition, according to "Gowanus: Brooklyn's Curious Canal," by Joseph Alexiou.
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A court found them guilty of lese-majeste, arson damaging public property and organized crime.
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More negatively, some claim it created organized crime as violence soared and mobsters enriched themselves.
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"Here, organized crime is actually organized," said the person with knowledge of the cartel's operations.
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This is a recipe for violent robberies, ad hoc money laundering or even organized crime.
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The reason, he said, was that organized crime groups were hoarding the 100-bolívar bills.
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The initiative would also focus on much-needed demining efforts and combating transnational organized crime.
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The woman, Praphan Pipithnamporn, is awaiting trial on sedition and organized crime charges in Thailand.
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In the United States, wildlife trafficking is now often prosecuted under muscular organized-crime statutes.
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They also dismiss arguments that decriminalization will eat into the power of the organized crime.
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"Organized crime is particularly dependent on insider witnesses, because everything is kind of hidden and done in the shadows," said Alex Whiting, a former Justice Department lawyer who prosecuted organized crime and corruption cases when he worked at the US attorney's office in Boston.
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"The sale of cannabis is the easiest money that organized crime makes," said Bill Blair, the Liberals' Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction Minister, at a town hall hosted by CBC's The Current Monday night in Ottawa, which I participated in as a panelist.
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For years, the three disparate wings of the organized crime world had been largely at peace.
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There have been several cases of organized crime infiltrating the provision of services at migrant centers.
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Turkish co-operation in the fight against Islamic State and organized crime may also be restricted.
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Authorities say all kinds of crooks do it, from small time gangbangers to organized crime figures.
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Army helicopters and police patrol remote jungle areas targeting illegal mines run by organized crime networks.
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Puron had served as mayor of Piedras Negras, which has been hard-hit by organized crime.
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Francis has condemned organized crime groups, saying their members indulge in the "the adoration of evil".
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There could be hundreds of thousands of youth working as lookouts for organized crime, he said.
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A specialist organized crime unit arrested the man in the northern Chilean city of Antofagasta overnight.
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Graco Ramirez attributed Mota's killing to organized crime, without citing a particular drug cartel or gang.
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The change of government doesn't resolve or stop the activities of criminals, much less organized crime.
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In organized crime, there is certainly a boss, much like you would hire a home contractor.
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You've got nation states, organized crime operating on a massive scale," said Leighton on "Squawk Alley.
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It's a much more tight-knit business model and more profitable for organized crime than heroin.
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What you saw were career agents and investigators migrated out of organized crime to fight terrorism.
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The reputational damage of hosting organized crime networks on Facebook, Kohn argues, constitutes such a risk.
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"Bangladesh has characteristics that make it an attractive market for organized crime to develop," he said.
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But the FBI's mission includes counterterrorism and counterintelligence, organized crime, and a range of other responsibilities.
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Currently, its programs cannot help train countries to locate and dismantle terror and organized crime cells.
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However, a judge had found insufficient evidence to prosecute her for organized crime, the paper added.
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Worldwide, about 80 percent of black hat hackers work as part of an organized crime group.
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Police raided the Stonewall, a Mafia-owned gay bar, ostensibly to crack down on organized crime.
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The revenue streams of organized crime now exceed the GDP of several countries in the region.
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The professionalism and ability of Asia's organized crime groups to innovate has made this trend possible.
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The extending reach and power of organized crime from Asia should be cause for serious reflection.
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We have organized crime, pilfering, money laundering and we have extremists shouting things on a network.
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In 2013, Salgado was arrested, and authorities accused her of murder, kidnapping, organized crime, and robbery.
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For the people who were defenseless against organized crime, she did what she had to do.
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"Match-fixing is a potential threat and it is often related to organized crime," she said.
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But WikiLeaks seized on the contribution of just one: the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
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As a prosecutor, Giuliani was the sheriff of Wall Street and the bane of organized crime.
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Organized crime networks like the Mexican cartels and the European mafia are now the growing threat.
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Our coast guards and border guards do not have capacity to face organized crime and terrorism.
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Twenty-one percent believed hobby hackers were responsible while 7 percent attributed attacks to organized crime.
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Giuliani told CNN the same month without evidence that Shusterman may be tied to organized crime.
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Organized crime is expanding in the market, said Kristian Halldin, analyst at Stockholm's police intelligence unit.
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David Shanks was the guy who had worked organized crime, particularly street gambling and money laundering.
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Rogers worked for five years in the FBI's Chicago office, focused on corruption and organized crime.
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This program is briefly described in public documents as paying for activities to investigate organized crime.
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They didn't even get into organized crime and the danger they represent to the United States.
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The government has had a longstanding strategy of attacking organized crime groups by taking down kingpins.
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It's called prison and although it's meant to reform offenders, it's a gift to organized crime.
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McCabe began his career at the agency in 1996 as a special agent investigating organized crime.
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He emerged a decade later — years dominated by organized crime and violence — as Russia's youngest billionaire.
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To sort of create a structure, in a political sense, that was favorable to organized crime.
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While Mr. Byrne was investigating organized crime, a phone conversation about him between mobsters was recorded.
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F.B.I. agents viewed the commitment as a sign of his seriousness about combating Russian organized crime.
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The draft law made no specific reference about an amnesty for members of organized crime groups.
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The D.E.A. has a vital role in thwarting transnational organized crime and assisting local law enforcement.
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Gioeli, an organized-crime case in which he was convicted of conspiring to kill three men.
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You do have a decent percentage of organized-crime guys there from the Tri-state area.
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It conveyed the complexities of organized crime, but not in a way that overshadowed the victims.
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All three organized crime groups have featured in vote-buying cases over the years, ANSA noted.
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Franzese was an organized crime wheeler and dealer for decades, but he also dabbled in film.
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More recently, others have fought deadly shootouts with soldiers in military operations to stop organized crime.
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Some say it was a rushed smash-and-grab or part of an organized crime ring.
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Soon, Takashi 6ix9ine may find himself in the program after his testimony against organized crime figures.
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The document reportedly details years of alleged deals between Trump companies and figures in organized crime.
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On Monday, López Obrador said Mexico doesn't "accept" foreign involvement for organized crime in his country.
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The danger and insecurity most Colombians experience come from urban organized crime, not uniformed, armed combatants.
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They've also been vocal critics of the Mexican government for its failures in fighting organized crime.
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Such attacks do not differ much from the takeover of legitimate businesses by organized crime syndicates.
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It was stolen in November 2014 in what the German authorities believed was an organized crime.
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These steps would help bring the government's efforts to counter organized crime into the 21st century.
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In reality, a national syndicate linked organized crime groups in almost every major city, Schumacher said.
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Both are former Justice Department attorneys with backgrounds fighting organized crime and racketeering, among other issues.
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The bi-state Waterfront Commission was formed in 1953 to fight organized crime on the docks.
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Police officers in San Salvador find themselves under fire — literally — or in cahoots with organized crime.
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Researchers from the ITAM university estimate there are 222,180 people displaced by organized crime in Mexico.
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Researchers from the ITAM university estimate there are 280,000 people displaced by organized crime in Mexico.
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Special agents work on cases involving terrorism, organized crime, cybercrime, civil rights violations, and much more.
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Spanish officials said the raids were the biggest police operation ever against organized crime in the country.
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Edgardo Buscaglia, an organized crime expert at Columbia University, agrees that Zambada probably still controls the cartel.
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That comes after a French intelligence officer was charged with selling confidential information to organized crime groups.
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All of that likely led to more violence, including organized crime, than there would have been otherwise.
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"This is about organized crime groups who are motivated by money," Stanfield told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Bargent, the Colombia-based organized crime expert, said Mexicans have stepped up to meet the American demand.
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It is time to treat the illegal wildlife trade as the serious organized crime that it is.
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Any organized crime figure, Guzman not excepted, survives only as long as he's making other people money.
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Members of the Russian organized crime ring stole Hermitage's corporate identity, according to the U.S. federal complaint.
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In 2011, an FBI-led investigation resulted in the arrests of more than 100 organized crime figures.
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It has already led to the resignation of the head of the organized crime unit in protest.
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In the movie, mafia figure Frank Pentangeli lies to a Senate committee that was investigating organized crime.
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Their safety is often compromised, and they are vulnerable to trafficking and other forms of organized crime.
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"In certain states of Mexico; politics, the private sector, and organized crime are intertwined," said Jesús Cantú.
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He also won national attention with a crackdown on organized crime, lead by his police chief Wang.
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And, in 1993, you had basically all of organized crime merging with all of the established government.
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That's where he began working with Kinoti, he said, supplying him intelligence for investigations into organized crime.
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Two undercover agents posing as organized crime figures approached him about buying the business, the documents allege.
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Prosecutors have said he acted alone and have no reason to believe that organized crime was involved.
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The operation also underscores the threat of organized crime to Brazil's fast-growing oil and gas sector.
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Anonymous offshore firms, possibly with links to organized crime, have already invested heavily into Canada's marijuana industry.
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This led to stinging criticism that the release had encouraged organized crime to hold the government ransom.
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Among the other challenges Jigsaw is trying to solve: Organized crime, police brutality, human trafficking and terrorism.
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These victories, however, are only the opening battle in a war against a formidable adversary: organized crime.
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Guatemalan organized crime is a major driver in the illicit flow of drugs, weapons and people northward.
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Augustin Lazar oversees around 2,500 prosecutors, including anti-organized crime unit DIICOT and anti-corruption unit DNA.
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The memo laid out Bernardone and DeAngelis' involvement in Local 124 and their respective organized crime histories.
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Not long after, he moved to the Justice Department's headquarters in Washington to prosecute organized crime cases.
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This has long been known as a lawless area, rife with organized crime and illegal trafficking activities.
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The two largest organized-crime groups in Brazil are known as Red Command and First Capital Command.
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Since 2001, using the threat of terrorism or organized crime has played well for furthering autocratic rule.
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At least one of the inmates involved has ties to organized crime in Massachusetts, the official said.
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The other crucial difference is that organized crime cases cases involve activities that clearly cross legal boundaries.
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In prostitution, for example, often with organized crime–run operations, there wasn't independence offered to sex workers.
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Is there anything brewing right now in organized crime that we have to keep an eye on?
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In prostitution, for example, often with organized crime–run operations, there wasn't independence offered to sex workers.
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He was quoted several times over the years in VICE News articles about organized crime in Mexico.
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"This is apparently an entirely new dimension of organized crime," German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said Tuesday.
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And then in 2017, Dutch authorities also busted PGP Sure, which also allegedly catered to organized crime.
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The motive for the killings is unclear, but the family has attributed the attack to organized crime.
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But the documents do not allege any connection to the Mafia or any other organized crime entity.
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Mr. McDermott is the co-founder of InSight Crime, a foundation investigating organized crime in Latin America.
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And with another Nicolás Maduro term, the roots of organized crime in that country will spread further.
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At present, its most serious enemy has been the connection between organized crime and corrupt local governments.
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Former clients include Armando Valencia, a notorious figure from Michoacán's organized crime scene in the 1990's.
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He's been connected to Russian organized crime, and Manafort appeared to owe him a lot of money.
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Corporate competitors, activists seeking to advance a political agenda and organized crime are also responsible, it said.
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"Organized crime is just waiting it out," said Gonzalo Monroy, an energy consultant based in Mexico City.
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The bill, SB1142, adds rioting to Arizona's existing racketeering laws, which are meant to target organized crime.
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That includes deaths in which the journalist was not targeted and in killings unrelated to organized crime.
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"Organized crime gangs are targeting and profiteering from these vulnerable and often desperate people," Mr. Javid wrote.
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Lin had turned his sights on developing 218th Street into something that more closely resembled organized crime.
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But then, regardless of Washington, Mexico does face the herculean problem of organized crime ravaging its society.
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"This was organized crime, and Keith Raniere was the crime boss in the community," Ms. Hajjar said.
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In many cities and towns, municipal and state police officers combat both petty offenses and organized crime.
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Trump, she explained, seems to be trying to rid the government of experts in Russian organized crime.
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She had been working in a unit in northwest England that fights organized crime like drug trafficking.
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While governments seem unable to collaborate, organized crime is forging new alliances and agreements across the world.
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For Volodymyr Zelensky, taking on the oligarchs and organized crime is a domestic test with geopolitical consequences.
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The scope and sophistication of transnational organized crime in the region has increased dramatically over recent years.
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Nearly all were from the states of Michoacán, Zacatecas or Guerrero — regions where organized crime groups flourish.
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"Then again, Bill's brother was a drug dealer, and they have ties to organized crime," Cernovich said.
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The indictment described a police department that operated like an organized-crime syndicate, with Ackal as kingpin.
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More recently, law enforcement agencies throughout the region have stepped up cooperation to root out organized crime.
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Later in the show, Barrett asserted that a "Zionist organized crime outfit" were manipulating the Republican Party.
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"This business environment is an invitation to tax fraud, robberies, money laundering, and organized crime," they added.
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That made Cali's killing—if, in fact, it was related to organized crime—all the more remarkable.
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I have been reporting on organized crime in Italy and around the world, including Mexico, for decades.
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Mr. Comello has no known connection to organized crime, according to law enforcement officials and his friends.
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I don't think that's a good representation of organized crime and I don't think it ever was.
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And in the meantime, organized crime observers are anticipating a shakeup in the existing balance of power.
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According to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, known as OCCRP, a consortium of international investigative journalists that specializes in reporting on organized crime and corruption and that received the transactional records, $20.8 billion in suspicious funds were transferred out of 19 Russian banks from 2010 to 20173.
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"We have several investigations ongoing right now, varying from individual homicides, organized crime homicides and organized crime and drug investigations occurring in various locations in Canada today [where] our capabilities in this environment are a significant factor," Flynn said, according to a 2015 transcript filed with the court.
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And that's why, in one form or another, organized crime will always hold a place in our society.
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"Organized crime rules Brazil right now," said Kenyson Santos, a 24-year-old retail worker in the capital.
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Martinez had extensively reported on the links between local government and organized crime for Proceso, a Mexican magazine.
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"This is a challenge by organized crime against the constitutional and democratic order," Ramírez said on Sunday morning.
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But experts say baby trafficking is becoming an organized crime in India, reaping big rewards for anyone involved.
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China ordered 10 regions to take action against organized crime following a three-month inspection campaign last year.
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However, red tape, corruption and organized crime have given Italy a terrible track record for post-quake reconstruction.
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Lopez Obrador took office in 2018 with the promise of fighting corruption and violence fueled by organized crime.
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Drones can also serve as a lookout, since mass graves are often on land controlled by organized crime.
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Velducea was murdered in March 2017 in connection to her reporting on links between politicians and organized crime.
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In a two-decade career, he held various roles on organized crime, counterterrorism, and national security investigative teams.
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A criminal investigation led by the anti–organized crime branch of Italy's military police began that same year.
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Nick is fixated on "making his bones" — an organized crime phrase meaning to earn respect by killing someone.
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In recent weeks, Mexico has been shaken especially hard by several outbursts of violence linked to organized crime.
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"We have secured a large amount of evidence found in the location," said organized crime investigator Javier Caraballo.
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Martin Raskin served as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey and Florida, and also worked on organized crime.
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Mr. McCabe spent 21 years in the F.B.I., beginning his career in New York investigating Russian organized crime.
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This is not the first time that Mr. Santora has stood trial on charges related to organized crime.
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Ms. Lopatina's previous husband had ties to a notorious organized crime group in southern Russia, the Tsapok gang.
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Puzo knew some Mafia tales, and he decided to write a book about Italian-Americans in organized crime.
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The incidents illustrate how organized crime groups are increasingly using small consumer drones in support of their activities.
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Dzoran is accused of ignoring a judicial order in a secret investigation involving organized crime and drug trafficking.
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They all have ties to organized crime, Jalisco Attorney General Eduardo Almaguer said at a news conference Tuesday.
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It's also home to the Yamaguchi-gumi Kodo-kai, a powerful faction of Japan's largest organized crime group.
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Moro said he had nothing to hide and blamed organized crime for what he called a hacking attack.
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Three years ago a milestone was marked in the attempts to shed any specter of possible organized crime.
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Shusterman has not been charged by authorities with any organized crime activity or for any crime involving Cohen.
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And just this February, the New York Police Department announced it was disbanding its Organized Crime Control Bureau.
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Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, has publicly defended the military, saying it is the only institution effectively confronting organized crime.
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Hernandez says the allegations are the fabrications of criminals bent on revenge for his efforts against organized crime.
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Reuters later reported the bomb was a homemade device believed to be unrelated to terrorists or organized crime.
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" The filing adds: "If there was a polar-opposite of an organized crime family, Nxivm would be it.
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The result is a weakening of law and order and the strengthening of organized crime and terror financing.
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The head of the Italian parliament's anti-mafia committee urged Malta to toughen laws to combat organized crime.
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We spoke again in January about his last book, "Narcoperiodismo," which detailed the risks of covering organized crime.
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You learn a lot tending bar in a region where organized crime has infiltrated every aspect of life.
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UNODC said migrants from conflict zones and countries ravaged by organized crime were particularly vulnerable to international trafficking.
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There, investigators found copies of dozens of confidential intelligence reports on organized crime figures, according to court records.
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But the presidency includes daunting issues such as organized crime, emigration, corruption, trade and a reactionary U.S. leadership.
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Too often, the record label has been treated like a colorful backdrop for one more organized-crime story.
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Moreover, Guatemala's efforts to prosecute organized crime are watched closely in other Central American countries and even Mexico.
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She represented the Maré, [a series of favelas in northern Rio marked by military disputes and organized crime].
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The cop killings in Michoacán suggest that all parts of the police are now allied with organized crime.
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The rebuilding effort was stalled following allegations that organized crime groups had muscled in to obtain lucrative contracts.
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But there is evidence too of criminal intent to smuggle weapons out for sale to organized crime groups.
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Guatemala still faces formidable resistance to change from organized crime, powerful business executives, and corrupt judges and politicians.
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Before it joins the EU, Montenegro must first root out organized crime, corruption, nepotism, bureaucracy and red tape.
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Organized crime has been on a long-standing issue on which U.S. and Mexican authorities have worked together.
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The Times re-posted its initial story, and detailed the detective's prior cooperation with foreign organized crime syndicates.
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The serious consequences of covert alcohol distribution included permanent damage from poorly distilled alcohol and flourishing organized crime.
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The trademark gunplay, driving, and organized-crime missions that define the series returned with new upgrades as well.
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The State Department also proposed cuts to some of those programs, including demand reduction and fighting organized crime.
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Arizona Republicans have introduced a measure to expand racketeering laws, which target organized crime groups, to include rioting.
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The Kefauver Hearings in the early 1950s was the first in-depth government investigation of nationwide organized crime.
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That strategy has changed little since his predecessor, Felipe Calderón, declared a crackdown on organized crime in 43.
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That strategy has changed little since his predecessor, Felipe Calderón, declared a crackdown on organized crime in 2006.
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On Wednesday, the FBI arrested members of a Russian organized crime syndicate on a range of serious charges.
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These rulings also applied to the Chinatown venue, which police alleged had the same links to organized crime.
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If you don't understand the history and the workings or organized crime in America, you can't understand America.
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Chinese organized crime networks also rely on financial secrecy to launder profits from the deadly trade of fentanyl.
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They enjoyed the night life, though the clubs and bars were often populated with members of organized crime.
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Like many places taken over by organized crime in rural Mexico, the property was scarcely discussed in town.
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"His father had the O.C. ties, not him," Chief Boyce said Tuesday, using an abbreviation for organized crime.
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They were charged under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, typically invoked to prosecute organized-crime figures.
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He had written about potential ties between organized crime and a cousin of President Xi Jinping of China.
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Organized crime groups have all but determined the outcome of certain local elections, threatening and even killing candidates.
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The Spanish authorities have acknowledged enlisting Mr. Litvinenko in a campaign against Russian organized crime figures in Spain.
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But former officials said that Mr. Skripal would have been especially useful in crackdowns on Russian organized crime.
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They have done a similar tour in Mexico, in states controlled by organized crime, working with their victims.
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Until Wednesday, it had been decades since an organized crime leader had been killed in New York City.
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She started as a prosecutor as part of the agency's Organized Crime and Racketeering Section's Boston Strike Force.
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That's even though the FBI's mission includes counterterrorism and counterintelligence, organized crime, and a range of other responsibilities.
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The group said it was investigating four more killings to determine whether they were linked to organized crime.
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Those visas will remain suspended until the Home Office introduces tighter restrictions to tackle corruption and organized crime.
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At the time, homosexuality was criminalized and most gay bars, including the Stonewall, were operated by organized crime.
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The idea that organized crime might proliferate in what, at that time, remained a police state fascinated Galeotti.
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Now police are investigating whether the father and son's association with organized crime was responsible for the incidences.
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It had made headlines and laid the groundwork for Justice Department efforts to combat Russian organized crime overseas.
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Journalists covering political corruption and organized crime are often the targets of violence in Mexico, RSF has said.
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Back in Chicago, in a very different case, Mr. Leighton famously represented the organized crime leader Sam Giancana.
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And the growing sophistication of Latin American organized crime continues to be fed by the recent cocaine bonanza.
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Duran is being investigated for belonging to an organized crime network, bribery and money laundering, the court added.
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Journalists covering political corruption and organized crime are often the targets of violence in Mexico, according to RSF.
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While at the FBI, Bob consecutively focused on La Cosa Nostra, the Colombian cartels, and Russian organized crime.
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The gang is linked to organized crime, gang-related crime and hate-related crime, according to the ADL.
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He began his career in the New York Field Office, where he investigated and supervised organized crime matters.
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He also called on Bosnia to tackle organized crime and corruption, and to resolve its all territorial conflicts.
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So even before UNGASS 2016 the issue of organized crime was gaining momentum in the fight against drugs.
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Authorities allege a 59 year old Dutchman with ties to organized crime was in charge of the operation.
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Of all the America organized crime groups, New York's five families have been the most resilient, Schumacher said.
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But it should be the criminals who are going, it should be those who collaborated with organized crime.
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Firtash is an "upper-echelon" associate of Russian organized crime, according to a 2017 Justice Department court filing.
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At least one inmate involved in the beating has ties to organized crime in Massachusetts, the official said.
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The modern version of organized crime on this show isn't just about gambling, labor unions, prostitution and hijacking.
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Officials said repeatedly that their chief objective was to take the trade in marijuana away from organized crime.
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In February 2015, Roberti's organized crime unit was given the new responsibility of leading investigations into terrorist groups.
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Ukraine was home to the USSR's primary Black Sea ports (and thriving organized crime centers), Odessa and Sevastopol.
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Amnesty "isn&apost going to bring peace or reconciliation, because as long as you are not attacking the causes of organized crime — unemployment, low wages, the lack of education or job opportunities for youth or help for farmers — then you are not really doing anything to combat organized crime," Olivares said.
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Alex Whiting, a onetime federal prosecutor in Boston who became Moreno-Ocampo's prosecutions coordinator, told me the Kenyatta case "was like trying to prosecute an organized-crime case without the tools the Department of Justice uses to prosecute organized crime" — though, for this reason, Moreno-Ocampo's temperament was an asset.
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The number of killings may be falling, but street gangs and major organized crime remain a huge security problem.
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The suspects face multiple charges, including engaging in organized crime by kidnapping, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said Friday.
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It's not good to have a man in the White House who is in the pocket of organized crime.
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A couple weeks ago, Brazil's government deployed 8,500 troops in the city to fight increasingly violent organized crime gangs.
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"People sought out a replacement and organized crime stepped in when they saw the opportunity with fentanyl," Young said.
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Numerous media reports have linked Mr. Skoch to organized crime — specifically to the syndicate known as the Solntsevo gang.
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They all have ties to organized crime, Jalisco Attorney General Eduardo Almaguer said at a news conference August 16.
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The region now faces the added pressure of policing the violence and organized crime that have accompanied the crisis.
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Australian lawmakers nonetheless lauded the bill, saying it will enable crucial capabilities in organized crime and anti-terrorism investigations.
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In the end, the recordings helped put 35 Mafia defendants away for various charges related to organized crime schemes.
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Pride Fighting Championship was the dominant promotion for a decade but was undermined by its links to organized crime.
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Some would even call Mexico a narco-state, since organized crime has so deeply penetrated various levels of government.
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Before his work relating to Enron, Weissmann served as a federal prosecutor in the organized crime bureau in Brooklyn.
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As Venezuela's crippled economy continues to break apart, critics allege the colectivos have become deeply involved in organized crime.
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"Transnational organized crime poses a serious threat to our national and economic security," said FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe.
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Local news outlet Noticaribe has linked the shooting to a local organized crime group known as the Gulf Cartel.
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Cohen, and it's fair to say Trump, has a history of doing business with people tied to organized crime.
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Graco Ramirez, of Morelos state, where Temixco is located, tweeted that Mota's killing was the result of organized crime.
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"We were looking around, looking around, looking around," James Moody, chief of the bureau's organized crime section, told Friedman.
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A life in organized crime seemed preordained, but Louis's interest faded after several relatives were killed by rival gangsters.
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If Brown's anti-abortion crusade was a crusade against organized crime, then he managed to fail on both counts.
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There, he became an expert in the F.B.I.'s Miami office on Colombian drug cartels and Russian organized crime.
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Its work is considered a model in Latin America for how to investigate and prosecute organized crime and corruption.
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When I was a federal prosecutor, especially in organized crime cases, I saw this operate in practice several times.
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Another investor is former Soviet official Tevik Arif, who has been investigated off-and-on for organized-crime links.
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Through this legislation, we can provide law enforcement with an effective plan to disrupt and eliminate organized crime organizations.
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Without such data, experts say, it is hard to know how violent the war against organized crime has become.
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In many cases, these are the same organized crime elements responsible for narcotics trafficking and other illicit criminal activity.
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But the killings and the bombings of Italian monuments the next summer backfired, prompting a crackdown on organized crime.
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What distinguishes Trumpworld from an organized-crime syndicate or a money-laundering bank, of course, is the presidency itself.
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Accordingly, organized crime will become a more attractive option, and in some places, such as Central America, virtually unavoidable.
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"We called him the rainmaker," said Michael Rosen, a partner who handled many of the firm's organized-crime cases.
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More than 28503 people were put to work in the West Midlands by Polish organized crime gangs, police said.
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Giuliani suggested Cohen "may be" tied to Russian organized crime and raised Cohen's father-in-law's past criminal conviction.
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Because Tindall decided to testify against the Boston-based organized-crime group, he had a contract on his head.
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He took on some of the biggest challenges of the day, including organized crime, the Teamsters, civil rights violations.
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Access to banking in Canada has allowed offshore firms to invest in marijuana, some with ties to organized crime.
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The hallmark of any prosecutor's approach to an organized crime case, experts say, is the use of cooperating witnesses.
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That's why you see these killings, two in Toronto that are organized-crime connected—Rocco Zito and Alfredo Patriarca.
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It's a show about organized crime in Providence, Rhode Island, where I lived for while I was in college.
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VICE: Was there one moment that you suspect kind of set Johnny Rosselli on a course to organized crime?
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It seemed that, for now, the neighborhood was safe from larger organized crime, though still riddled with small incidents.
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"By way of advanced equipment interference techniques, the NCA was able to infiltrate the organized crime group," it revealed.
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You make a case in the book that it was tough to untangle the Axeman's killings from organized crime.
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The cost and danger of crossing without papers would rise, making smuggling even more lucrative for organized crime syndicates.
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Calabria, which shares a border with Basilicata, and the 'ndrangheta, arguably the most violent organized crime group in Italy.
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It built up links to organized crime, for revenue, and to a hypernationalist terrorist group called the Grey Wolves.
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"You have to think of the Trump phenomenon as a religious cult surrounding an organized crime family," said Raskin.
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But these locals say things changed abruptly two years ago when some community leaders were recruited by organized crime.
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"If you tried to connect me to organized crime, you probably could get close — but no cigar," he said.
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The mob boss was Ruggiero (Richie the Boot) Boiardo, the long-lived patriarch of organized crime in North Jersey.
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In his highly respected three-decade career in law enforcement, he has specialized in going after Russian organized crime.
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Several men with iron bars, believed to be linked to organized crime, previously attacked demonstrators in a subway station.
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The United States government has placed the criminal group at the top of its list of organized crime priorities.
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Op-Ed Contributor MEXICO CITY — Can organized crime and government, at least sometimes, be considered one and the same?
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Several of the men who harassed Ms. Su were later arrested on suspicion of having ties to organized crime.
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As the market for cocaine increases, so does the reach of Latin American organized crime, along with its sophistication.
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" "This is, you know, the President's kind of organized-crime speak," Schiff told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on "New Day.
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The global rush to fill that demand has triggered a host of consequences, including environmental disasters and organized crime.
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Professor Bagley has studied organized crime in Latin America for decades and has been published frequently on the subject.
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More recently, Ohr was removed as head of the Justice Department's Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces as well.
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Organized crime and drug dealing overrun the areas, and officers frequently face direct attacks when trying to enter them.
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Many Italian politicians whether local, regional and national have often been exposed as having links to organized crime groups.
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Some posit he was an intelligence operative, or a gangster on the run from a shadowy organized crime group.
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Chicago is famous for many things: tall buildings, great universities, a history of organized crime, and deep-dish pizza.
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Investors in the new bonds were primarily tax-dodging Westerners, but they also included kleptocrats and organized-crime groups.
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Mr. Fiore appeared ambitious, court documents showed, eager to reveal his connections to other gangs and organized crime families.
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Cruz mentioned Trump's ties to organized crime as a reason Trump should release his tax returns during the campaign.
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In Mexico, we know that the most dangerous beat for journalists is the link between organized crime and politics.
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Economic stagnation and widespread organized crime in the south has contributed to a steady erosion of faith in politics.
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There are clear international links between black youth in the UK and Jamaican organized crime groups who source cocaine.
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But she was contending with a South Brooklyn of the 1940s that had become a bastion for organized crime.
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Easily Italy's best-kept secret, Basilicata is revered for beautiful beaches, ancient towns and a dearth of organized crime.
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The largest organized crime groups, he said, have tremendous firepower that has at times overwhelmed the Mexican armed forces.
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The Ohrs are experts on Russian organized crime, which is how they came in contact with Fusion and Steele.
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Rank the most profitable organized crime rackets in Asia and e-waste smuggling comes out in the top five.
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But either way, this is a form of organized crime, albeit a flavor yet to be dramatized by Hollywood.
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The town had been terrorized for years by an organized crime syndicate devoted to illegally logging the surrounding forests.
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Corruption and organized crime have long been a part of daily life along the Mexican side of the border.
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I wanted to go in to the organized crime section, but they would not put me in that section.
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It is believed to have links to the Los Zetas cartel in Mexico and to the Gambino family in the U.S. Europol described the 'Ndrangheta as "among the richest and most powerful organized crime groups at a global level" in a 2013 report assessing the threat posed by organized crime in Italy.
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Her connection to organized crime was through an uncle, Salvatore Lombardi, who had a nickname of his own, Sally Dogs.
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Because the group&aposs activities were illegal and meant to defraud, the documents say they formed an organized crime "enterprise."
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In 2012 alone, organized crime were responsible for 18 of the city's 35 homicides, according to the city's police department.
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Convicted in absentia for drug trafficking and organized-crime activities in Italy, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
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EU voters are wary of expanding into a region with a series of problems including organized crime and border disputes.
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"The last part of the golden age of American organized crime went down with people like Cadillac Frank," Burnstein said.
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"We are not talking with members of organized crime groups," Lopez Obrador told reporters at his regular morning news conference.
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Kuciak was deep into reporting on a project that linked key political figures with Europe's most notorious organized crime groups.
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The majority of the women interviewed were accused of being involved with organized crime or having committed drug-related offenses.
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Glenn told a congressional hearing in Washington on Wednesday that Mexico should develop a comprehensive strategy for fighting organized crime.
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Only about two percent of that goes to armed fighters — the rest ends up in the pockets of organized crime.
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The Mexican attorney general's office said organized crime cells are using government records to identify and eventually extort avocado producers.
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The remains were later identified as those of a Long Island man who delivered heroin for an organized crime figure.
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A report by the U.S. Congressional Research Service last year estimated 150,000 of those deaths were tied to organized crime.
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The following month, Ohr was stripped of his second post as head of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.
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Bob Levinson, I crossed trails with him a couple of times when we were both involved in Russian organized crime.
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Miwa Kato, director of operations at the UNODC, praised him for making the connection with trafficking and other organized crime.
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I spent half of that time investigating Russian Organized Crime as a street agent and Supervisor in New York City.
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"We deliberately put these tools together to go after really bad people—organized crime, terrorists, dictators, Chinese Triads," Sharma says.
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"It falls into fact patterns that we've seen in other areas of Russian and Eastern European organized crime," he says.
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The rise of the feudal governors also coincided with the intensification of efforts by organized crime to control local territories.
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One person tweets about a Trump deal in Baku, and someone else replies with information about organized crime in Kazakhstan.
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When you get to a certain level of organized crime, undercover cops are the only way you can get caught.
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He reported on politics, labor, and organized crime for the Daily News and the Village Voice from 1985 to 2011.
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Authorities issued an arrest warrant last week for Javier Duarte over his alleged involvement in organized crime and money laundering.
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A judge sentenced Medardo Mairena after he was convicted last December of terrorism, murder and organized crime, charges he denied.
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He said more appropriate uses for delayed-notice search warrants might be very serious crimes — like murder or organized crime.
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What used to be a couple different people bringing in hundreds or thousands of pills, now organized crime was involved.
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Giuliani cut a brash, dynamic figure across the city scene then, his office helping to systematically dismantle organized crime families.
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Take Prohibition, it didn't stop drinking, but it did cause a massive drop in tax revenues while boosting organized crime.
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In 1982, the union lost control of how the fund was invested because of the union's ties to organized crime.
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Immediately, the attorney general of Guerrero issued three new warrants, with further counts of murder, kidnapping, robbery, and organized crime.
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Cerreti began studying law in 220 and qualified as a magistrate in 28, quickly becoming a specialist in organized crime.
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Perfect storm Underdeveloped and isolated conflict zones like northern Shan State are attractive places for organized crime to do business.
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Guatemala's U.N.-supported International Commission Against Impunity (CICIG) has made impressive strides in rooting out organized crime in that country.
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The continuing Mafia Capitale case revealed how organized crime has infiltrated everything from city garbage contracts to shelters for migrants.
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At the same time, the proceeds from the illegal drug trade support organized crime and greater threats to public safety.
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Organized crime has moved away from sort of organized, large-scale drug trafficking and toward much more predatory local activity.
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Steele and Simpson had previously worked together, and they shared a mutual fascination with Russian oligarchs and international organized crime.
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It's a ubiquitous tool for prosecutors across the country and an essential feature of any large-scale organized-crime case.
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Most were suspected of having links to organized crime, and of those, most for ties to the CJNG, Caro said.
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European Community, which involved a claim that the company illegally invested income derived from organized crime groups operating in Europe.
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This puts them at continued risk of becoming the victims of crime and/or recruitment targets of organized crime groups.
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The looting was carried out by an organized crime group led by two Calabrians living in the province of Crotone.
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Ahmad took a leave from E.D.N.Y. and moved to Washington, where her brief included transnational organized crime and international affairs.
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I spoke to Mike Fisher*, a senior drugs investigator for Britain's organized crime busting bureau, the National Crime Agency (NCA).
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So I think they're now going to, in future seasons, go to other cities and talk about organized crime there.
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By the 1980s, organized crime groups controlled nearly all of the ready-mix concrete supplies in the New York area.
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Though bearer shares are legal, they have been criticized for facilitating money laundering by organized crime groups and tax evaders.
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Now, cosmetic companies have joined forces with authorities to lead a worldwide assault on the multi-million pound organized crime.
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Subsidized cheap fuels also encourage smuggling, create fuel shortages, depress fuel prices on the black market and enrich organized crime.
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In the past, they have directly confronted the organized crime groups that exert de facto control in this lawless frontier.
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But Oswald's murder and Ruby's motives further fueled conspiracy theories surrounding JFK's death because of Ruby's connection with organized crime.
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"Following the money trail is an essential element in tackling serious and organized crime," Keenan said in an emailed statement.
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This time, the disappearances were carried out by organized crime as it battled for territory in the lucrative drug trade.
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This documentary series should satisfy your organized-crime craving with its look at infamous drug lords from around the world.
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Appleby board minutes contain lists of "declined business," including government officials suspected of corruption and millionaires linked to organized crime.
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Organized crime controls much of the migrant flow along sections of the border, and violence is a fact of life.
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The parallels between the Mafia and the Trump Organization are striking, and Giuliani perfected the template for prosecuting organized crime.
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With its institutional cover-up of pedophile clerics, the church showed the Mafia a thing or two about organized crime.
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He added that when people hear about Russian organized crime, they often have an image of a stereotypical Russian thug.
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Mr. Dowd had previously worked as a federal prosecutor at the Justice Department's tax division and on organized-crime cases.
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It spends around 763 percent of its budget on security, and battling drugs and organized crime has remained a priority.
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The year was one of political tumult, fed in no small part by organized crime and its favored weapon: corruption.
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Organized crime has distribution networks in place and has been smuggling smokes in the city since at least the 1950s.
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Mr. Priestap entered on duty with the FBI in 1998, working organized crime and drug matters in the Chicago Division.
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It is clear a "displacement" has taken place with organized crime moving operations to countries with minimal regulation and oversight.
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The Justice Department said that investigators needed lawful access to encrypted communications to fight terrorism, organized crime and child pornography.
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Arms-trafficking, illegal jade mining and unlawful logging are also big money-spinners for organized crime, the 2018 report added.
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Plenty of recording artists use gang and organized crime motifs in their music, the judge acknowledged, but few actually participate.
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In principle, it creates a legal framework for the military's role in law enforcement, emphasizing drug trafficking and organized crime.
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So many journalists have been threatened into silence by gangs there that the stranglehold of organized crime goes largely unreported.
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In the November testimony, Simpson touched on an array of topics, including Trump's possible dealings with Russian organized crime figures.
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Robert De Niro plays Frank Sheeran, a former hit man who tells the story of his life in organized crime.
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Noble, a senior counsel for the committee, also worked in the Southern District, specializing in cybercrime and organized crime prosecutions.
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Watchlists work, and there needs to be a robust watchlist of members of transnational organized crime organizations and their supporters.
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Cali was believed to be the acting boss of the Gambino organized crime family, a law enforcement source told CNN.
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They detail multiple alleged crimes including conspiracy to distribute cocaine, organized crime, money laundering, murder, and the possession of firearms.
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The governor has been linked to a series of corruption scandals and been accused of having connections to organized crime.
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You think about West Africa, or the Middle East, or the Balkans, or the Caucuses—there, you quite literally have a kind of revolving door between organized crime, where the major narco traffickers, the major racketeers, the major extortionists take on public office, and then, once they leave public office, go back to organized crime.
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Duarte faces prosecution for embezzlement and organized crime in Mexico, where he was the governor of Veracruz state until last year.
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"As a developer I hate the subscription model, because Apple's cut is so stiff, it's worse than organized crime," he said.
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Next, the Manitoba Liquor, Gaming, and Cannabis authority will conduct security checks to root out any possible connections to organized crime.
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He prosecuted several members of the Bonanno organized crime family, one of whom was accused of plotting to have Andres killed.
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For prosecutors, Salemme is perhaps the last man standing from an era when organized crime flourished in Boston and its environs.
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He has said members of organized crime excommunicate themselves from the Church by their actions but could return if they repented.
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"Female genital mutilation is organized crime against gender," Nimko told me when I met her in a cafe in east London.
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In the 1980s, he was a federal prosecutor in Baltimore, where he led a regional drug and organized crime task force.
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López Obrador created a new military unit, the National Guard, to combat organized crime, but so far it has failed spectacularly.
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The caricature of the narco — a furtive actor engaged exclusively in crime — describes but a fraction of the country's organized crime.
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Serbia must also improve its economy, business climate, the rule of law, media freedoms and root out corruption and organized crime.
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He provided information about the American business interests of Russian oligarchs and the ties these individuals had to organized crime figures.
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He cited money laundering and organized crime cases as examples of what road Brazil might take but ruled out military action.
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The story is gripping in of itself, and it's already part of Cocaine Cowboys, a documentary about organized crime in Miami.
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Prohibition did lead to more violence in some places, particularly big cities where a black market and organized crime took off.
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Trained to combat violence and organized crime, these troops have been diverted to deter migrants by means that remain entirely unclear.
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The S-1 filing does not claim that an attack from organized crime, nation-state, or nation-state affiliate actually happened.
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However, none of these companies explicitly referred to "organized crime" or "nation-states," as Slack did in its S-1 filing.
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But virtually everything Trump is doing on immigration is counterproductive to the goal of addressing the problem of transnational organized crime.
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Mexico posted a record of nearly 29,000 homicides last year, attributed mainly to organized crime and fallout from the drug war.
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The two countries agreed to exchange information regarding drug trafficking and international organized crime, cooperation that Correa halted while in office.
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Pakistani authorities say a crackdown over the past two weeks has exposed an organized crime network involved in trafficking such women.
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Hasse also had a history of working on organized crime task forces, though he was not involved in the Houston probe.
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Now you're prohibiting sport betting, and the same thing is happening: you're giving a new lease on life to organized crime.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller has experience with organized crime cases, and several of his deputies have worked complicated white-collar prosecutions.
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The drug bust was part of an organized crime investigation apprehending 18 tons of cocaine and marijuana worth over $569 million.
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The software is largely operated by criminal gangs, many with ties to organized crime, often located in Eastern Europe and Russia.
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An organized crime gang is believed to be behind the abductions, Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi told reporters in Baghdad.
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Rogers spent five years as a special agent at the FBI's Chicago office where the Army veteran primarily investigated organized crime.
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McCabe joined the FBI as a special agent in 1996 working out of New York, where he focused on organized crime.
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This could include people associated with hate groups, terrorist activity, mass or serial murder, human trafficking or organized crime or violence.
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"Only a few dared not to" buy bread from the mob, said Giuseppe Furciniti, the commander of Naples' organized crime unit.
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His visa was revoked for a while because of suspicions that he was involved in Russian organized crime, Deripaska, that is.
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Illegal mining has plagued South Africa's mining sector for decades, and extends from small time pilfering to global organized crime networks.
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What we're talking about is professional and organized crime—those people have more sense than to wander around with a gun.
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"How can you solve the problem of violence and organized crime if you don't solve the problem of corruption?" he added.
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For more than a decade, the Mexican government has been waging war against organized crime, deploying tens of thousands of troops.
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In 22017, prosecutors had begun putting more pressure on organized crime, especially on the smugglers who moved cocaine through Gioia Tauro.
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This is the first time in 50 years that the Anti-Mafia Commission addresses the link between organized crime and information.
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A recent investigate story in The Wall Street Journal suggested that you have had relationships with individuals associated with organized crime.
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Her biggest run-in was with Joseph Colombo, the organized crime leader who had formed the Italian-American Civil Rights League.
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"All of these places are riddled with organized crime and criminality, it'll get worse if you go into Venezuela," he said.
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Those of us that help governments tackle organized crime see warning signs -- and, as of now, the situation is rapidly deteriorating.
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Any stumble could lead to disaster, giving the momentum back to organized crime and crushing the public's faith in peaceful change.
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The Spanish High Court specializing in organized crime said 10 intruders broke into the North Korean embassy and then left Spain.
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And, as recent research from United Nations University shows, wherever there is armed conflict, there are usually links to organized crime.
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Johnson and Anthony Riccio, chief of the organized crime unit, did not make clear how much Facebook knew of the investigation.
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"Odessa can only develop once Kiev will be freed from these bribetakers, who directly patronize organized crime and lawlessness," he said.
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"Veselnitskaya is not close to the Kremlin," said Mark Galeotti, a Prague-based specialist on Russia's security services and organized crime.
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Ohr also worked as the head of Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces before being removed from that position as well.
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But the case may invite fresh scrutiny of any lingering ties between (former) cops and organized crime in America's largest city.
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"I'm very encouraged by his efforts to combat drug trafficking, reduce organized crime, and to make Argentina's streets safer," he said.
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The mess of a CIA operation had long-term consequences for the organized crime scene back in the United States, too.
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The problem of US-sourced firearms finding their way into the hands of Mexico's organized crime groups is a market issue.
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The allegations of hidden deals with organized crime also tend to be associated with accusations of lavish spending and dirty tricks.
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"Companies are funding organized crime, an industry of criminals is being created," said Kevin Beaumont, a cybersecurity expert based in Britain.
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A former organized-crime enforcer in Bangkok, Chalermpol Sawadsuk embraced Muay Thai in prison and now fights legally for a living.
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But suspicions that the oligarch has had links to organized crime have denied him a visa to enter the United States.
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In 2014, he became the director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, distributing grant money to bolster prosecutorial work.
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In a statement, Portuguese criminal investigation police said the five people taken into custody were suspected of counterfeiting and organized crime.
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The rules aim to staunch gold supplies that fund conflict, terrorism or organized crime, damage the environment or undermine national governments.
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But since the 1997 handover of the territory to China, the law has been mostly used in crackdowns on organized crime.
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Goldman has previously worked as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, where he helped lead organized crime cases.
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The allegations were made in a report by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, an international network of investigative journalists.
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She has reported on organized crime and its impact on society, as well as human rights abuses and corruption in Mexico.
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She has reported on organized crime and its impact on society, as well as human rights abuses and corruption in Mexico.
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His characterization of President Trump's call with Mr. Zelensky as a "classic organized crime shakedown" is easy for people to understand.
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Both Lebaron and Sicilia were critical of López Obrador's predecessors after losing family members to organized crime violence under previous administrations.
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Political turmoil shook Latin America in 2019, much of it stoked by corruption and the organized-crime groups that feed it.
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And led by "megabandas" (gangs with over 100 members) like the "Tren de Aragua," Venezuelan organized crime is now becoming transnational.
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Many are from Honduras, where organized crime fuels widespread violence and protesters recently took to the streets after a contested election.
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" He added, with barely tempered outrage, "I don't know of another organized-crime group that's as sophisticated in their corporate structure.
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Why it matters: The brutal attack highlights "the escalating danger posed by organized-crime groups" in Mexico, writes the Washington Post.
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In one of Europe's poorest countries, where corruption and organized crime remain endemic, the earthquake comes at a politically volatile moment.
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Federal prosecutors in Illinois said in court papers in 2017 that Firtash was an "upper-echelon" associate of Russian organized crime.
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Federal prosecutors in Illinois said in court papers in 2017 that Firtash was an upper-echelon associate of Russian organized crime.
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The lessons the judicial system has learned in the battle against organized crime should serve as a blueprint throughout the impeachment.
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Near a decade later and in the final political declaration of UNGASS 1998 the issue of organized crime became more prominent.
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For example, some have suggested that the returns would show that Trump is deeply involved with Russian oligarchs, or organized crime.
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As a guy who spent part of his life listening to organized crime wiretaps, you don't get much better than that.
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It was a pursuit law enforcement officials suspected stemmed from the pair's well-documented connections to New York's organized crime families.
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Trump has also publicly hounded several of the government's top experts on Russian organized crime, including Andrew McCabe and Bruce Ohr.
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Since 2007, Cicig has been collaborating with Guatemala's Public Ministry in investigating and prosecuting cases of official corruption and organized crime.
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Local, state and federal law enforcement agencies all have divisions that target threats like drugs, gangs, human trafficking, and organized crime.
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Weissman is an expert in international fraud and organized crime, famed for his role in combating mob activity on Wall Street.
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Now it was a place where park guards entered only with fear, its wildlands colonized by illegal cattle and organized crime.
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In my experience reporting on organized crime, I've learned that changes to basic rules are never made by a single boss.
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Once plagued by entrenched organized crime, the community has become a relative safe haven in one of Mexico's most violent states.
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One aspect of this strategy must be for the authorities to regain control over immigrant neighborhoods, where organized crime is rampant.
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This opens space for organized crime — mafias that often now have global reach — and inhibits countries from coalescing into unified states.
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Turning to a life of organized crime, Suloev became a contract killer (his fall is detailed in this Bloody Elbow feature).
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Today it has turned into a symbol of the decay brought about by an inept government, organized crime and economic crisis.
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It also illustrates the growing threat of militias and other organized crime groups to parts of Brazil's oil and gas sector.
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At the time, well, and I hate to admit, I mean, I think I was plenty tough to handle organized crime.
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