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Wells Fargo branch manager sent to prison for laundering money of drug traffickers

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on March 10, 2023 at 1:02
A former Wells Fargo branch manager has been ordered to federal prison for helping a drug trafficking ring launder their money through his bank. 36-year-old Stephen Roland Reyna pleaded guilty September 1, 2021, and was sentenced to 20 months in pris
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Magnitsky case money launderer arrested in Spain as Russia’s dirty money was put into Spanish real estate

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on December 21, 2022 at 6:17
Spanish authorities together with Europol and Eurojust took down a criminal gang laundering dirty money linked to the Magnitsky case, a €219 million corruption case in Russia, Europol reported last week. 
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Former FIFA official gets 16 months in prison for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on October 2, 2022 at 4:22
Reynaldo Vasquez, the former president of the El Salvadorean soccer federation, was sentenced on Thursday, in federal court in Brooklyn, to 16 months’ imprisonment in connection with over $350,000 in bribes that he and other soccer officials from El
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The Corner on Pleasant Avenue: The Mafia, crooked cops and drugs

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on October 1, 2022 at 8:27

By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.

David Durk, who was born in 1935, joined the New York Police in 1963, and by the closing of the 1960s, was a detective attached to the city’s Department of Investigation, which served as an independent and non-part

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Blue Murder: Profile of Australian crime boss “Neddy” Smith

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on September 12, 2022 at 13:46
In the underworld there’s rarely a happy ending. Gangsters can make millions, only to end up in prison without being able to enjoy their wealth. If they don’t end up dead. The best one can hope for in that way of life is being immortalized in a telev
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California drug boss who bribed DEA Special Agent sentenced to over 11 years in federal prison

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on August 22, 2022 at 9:03
A California drug boss who bribed a DEA agent was sentenced to over 11 years in prison last week. 37-year-old Francisco Gonzalez Benitez had pleaded guilty on April 15, 2021, to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substance
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“More and more cases of match-fixing” – Europol and UEFA hold first international conference on match-fixing in football

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on April 29, 2022 at 4:07
Football, known in the United States as soccer, is the world’s biggest and most lucrative sport. With an audience of billions the sky is the limit. Though many assumed its prime position would protect it from bad influences, such as shady gamblers, t
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‘Ndrangheta clans infiltrated Italy’s railway construction for “no show” jobs that benefited imprisoned mobsters

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on February 11, 2022 at 12:16
Italian police busted 15 individuals today as a result of an investigation into the infiltration of railway construction work across Italy by the Calabrian Mafia, known as the ‘Ndrangheta. The country’s biggest railway companies are alleged to be inv
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Former Corrections Officer gets 3 years for smuggling drugs and cell phones into state prison

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on January 16, 2022 at 3:21
Convicts get a bad rap, but when it comes to them having drugs or phones behind bars there is only one responsible party: the prison personnel. 43-year-old Anibal Navarro worked as a corrections officer at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, bu
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Homicide at Rough Point: The billionairess and the mobbed up police chief

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on January 14, 2022 at 4:58
On the last full day of his life -- October 6th, 1966 -- Eduardo Tirella flew into Newport, RI, the storied summer colony of America’s wealthiest families. Doris Duke, the third richest woman in the world picked him up at the airport and they drove t
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How the Molè Clan of the Calabrian Mafia established a cocaine empire with Navy divers and corrupt politicians

Posted by Gangsters Inc. on November 21, 2021 at 5:20
Another win for the Italian government against the powerful ‘Ndrangheta this week as police in Italy arrested over 100 people connected to the Calabrian Mafia. The investigation titled “Nuova Narcos Europa” targeted the Molè Clan and brought to light
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