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“I’m in waste management!” - Genovese Mafia family soldier Frank Giovinco guilty of racketeering
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2019-12-06T10:30:00.000Z
2019-12-06T10:30:00.000Z
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<p>A <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-genovese-crime-family" target="_blank">Genovese Mafia family</a> mobster was convicted of racketeering on Tuesday. The jury found 52-year-old Frank Giovinco responsible for acts involving <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Extortion" target="_blank">extortion</a>, honest services fraud, and unlawful kickback payments related to the Genovese family’s control of two local chapters of a <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Union" target="_blank">labor union</a>.</p>
<p>“For years, Frank Giovinco, as a member of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-genovese-crime-family" target="_blank">Genovese crime family</a>, instilled fear in victims and propagated kickback schemes to tighten the Family’s stranglehold over two labor unions,” U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said. “Now, a jury has held Giovinco accountable for his crimes.”</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Getting “made”</strong></span></p>
<p>As the nephew of Joe “Joey Carpets” Giovinco, an associate in the crew of Genovese family capo <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-mean-street-in-queens-to-kill-a-cop" target="_blank">Frederico “Fritzie” Giovanelli</a>, Frank had all the right connections. He grew up on Long Island and played football in High School, before putting his physique to work for the mob. As a twenty-some-year-old He was busted for possession of stolen property, but mostly flew under the radar of law enforcement.</p>
<p>In the early 1990s, the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-genovese-crime-family" target="_blank">Genovese family</a> placed Giovinco in a position to control the waste carting industry in New York City. Within a few years, by the late 1990s, the family made him an official member.</p>
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<p>His work, according to prosecutors, consisted of a wide range of crimes to enrich not only himself, but other members and leaders of the Genovese crime family. These included multiple acts of extortion, honest services fraud, and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Bribe" target="_blank">bribery</a>.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Labor racketeering: Threats & extortion</strong></span></p>
<p>Giovinco’s focus was on two local chapters of a labor union. He participated in a host of schemes designed to manipulate and siphon money from the unions for the benefit of the Genovese family. Among other things, he extorted a financial adviser and a labor union official for a cut of commissions made from union investments.</p>
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<p>Audio recordings captured Giovinco planning to “rattle the cage” of a victim, and to have another victim’s “feet held to the fire.” When the union official failed to pay the commissions demanded by the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Mafia" target="_blank">Mafia</a>, his life was threatened by Giovinco and other gangsters.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Kickbacks</strong></span></p>
<p>Giovinco further plotted to profit from union investments by paying kickbacks to the union official and others, in exchange for a cut of future commissions. He also participated in the long-running extortion of a union president for annual tribute payments of more than $10,000, and sought a job at the union for the purpose of exerting control over the union official on the Genovese family’s behalf, and threatening to replace him if he didn’t comply.</p>
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<p>The charges of which Giovinco was found guilty carry a maximum potential sentence of 20 years in prison, but things didn't turn out to be severe. On June 22, 2020, Giovinco was <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/genovese-mafia-family-s-union-muscle-sentenced-to-4-years-in-pris" target="_blank">sentenced</a> to 4 years behind bars.</p>
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WATCH: Philadelphia Mafia boss Joe Ligambi celebrates his 80th birthday
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2019-08-09T10:30:00.000Z
2019-08-09T10:30:00.000Z
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<p>Never a dull moment in the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-bruno-crime-family" target="_blank">Philadelphia underworld</a>. Retired Mafia boss <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Ligambi" target="_blank">Joseph “Uncle Joe” Ligambi</a> received a big surprise party in honor of his 80<sup>th</sup> birthday attended by all the usual suspects. Looking back at the decades that past, it’s quite an achievement that Ligambi lived long enough to celebrate this special birthday.</p>
<p>Mob reporters George Anastasia and Dave Schratwieser discuss Ligambi’s party and will also talk about <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-bruno-crime-family" target="_blank">Philly Mafia</a> boss <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Merlino" target="_blank">Joseph Merlino</a>’s big break on his prison sentence, a government informant who got outed in a South Jersey <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drug case</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Fraud" target="_blank">housing scam</a>, and Philadelphia mob capo <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Angelina" target="_blank">Marty Angelina</a> who got a grand jury subpoena. What do state investigators want to know from him?</p>
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Yakuza bosses held liable for crime committed by underling as Japan gets tough on organized crime
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2019-05-24T15:19:14.000Z
2019-05-24T15:19:14.000Z
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<p>For the first time in history, two <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/yakuza-overview" target="_blank">Yakuza</a> mob bosses were held liable for a crime committed by one of the members of his organization. Isao Seki, the current leader of the Sumiyoshi-kai, Japan’s second largest crime syndicate, and Hareaki Fukuda, his predecessor, were ordered on Thursday to pay over ¥6 million yen ($55,000) to two victims of a <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Fraud" target="_blank">fraud</a>.</p>
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<p>The victims – all elderly women – were called at their homes by people pretending to be their relatives. They were told to wire them money to help them with some issues, reminiscent of various online scams in which rich Nigerian princes or young men and ladies need some funds to help them with their problems.</p>
<p>Two of the women fell for the scam and paid a total of ¥5 million yen. The racket was set up and run by a member of an organization affiliated with the Sumiyoshi-kai clan. Two other men assisted him. According to the Japanese judge, the scheme benefitted from the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/yakuza-overview" target="_blank">Yakuza</a> link and thus the two mob leaders are held accountable for the crimes of their underlings.</p>
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<p>It’s the first time this has happened and a result of Japan’s tougher anti-Yakuza laws aimed at weakening the formidable Mafia group.</p>
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Spanish court rules that investments of Tambovskaya-Malyshevskaya Russian Mafia clan did not stem from crime
https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/spanish-court-rules-that-investments-of-tambovskaya-malyshevskaya
2018-10-21T08:00:00.000Z
2018-10-21T08:00:00.000Z
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<p>A court in Spain acquitted seventeen Russian nationals last week of money laundering and fraud charges tied to the Tambovskaya-Malyshevskaya organization, a well-known Russian Mafia group operating out of St. Petersburg. Nine other defendants, including mob bosses Gennady Petrov (photo above, left), Viktor Gabrilenkoz, and Serguei Kouzmine, remain at large.</p>
<p>It was a high-profile case involving wealthy and politically connected individuals. Chief among them State Duma deputy Vladislav Reznik, who is part of the United Russia party, which is loyal to <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Putin" target="_blank">President Vladimir Putin</a>. It is well-documented that Putin himself has had dealings with the Tambovskaya-Malyshevskaya clan in his early days as an up-and-coming politician in St. Petersburg.</p>
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<p>This case stems from the 2008 <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-russian-mafia-in-spain" target="_blank">Operation Troika</a>, which centered around the Tambovskaya-Malyshevskaya organization’s investments in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Spain" target="_blank">Spain</a> starting in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Marbella" target="_blank">Marbella</a> in 1996. The group, like so many <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/russian-mafia-overview" target="_blank">Russian Mafia</a> clans at that time, began buying up mansions, businesses, and property worth over $57 million dollars using funds from offshore bank accounts.</p>
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<p>Crime boss <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Petrov" target="_blank">Gennady Petrov</a> owned a €20 million mansion and was known to hand out €500-dollar tips. His next-door neighbor was the sister of King Juan Carlos of Spain. During Operation Troika investigators seized $307,000 in cash and 23 luxury cars - Ferraris and Bentleys. An amount of €12 million euros in bank accounts was frozen.</p>
<p>All of this was not denied in court. According to the judges, the group indeed used “legal, accounting and tax advisory services of professionals and the assistance of Russian-language translators and secretaries” when they set up these transactions with money that “sometimes came from tax havens”.</p>
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<p>But, the judges ruled, prosecutors did not prove that these financial streams originated from criminal activities. According to the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45907655" target="_blank">BBC</a>, “The court ruling said the data concerning offshore accounts ‘is insufficient to determine any illicit origin for the money’, even though the defendants’ business activities in Spain looked ‘strange, uneconomic or unconventional’.”</p>
<p>The ruling must’ve felt like a slap in the face of José Grinda, the brave lead prosecutor in this case. He was reportedly threatened during the investigation. Mark Galeotti, author of the book <em>The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia</em>, called Grinda “legendary” when <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/spain-police-bust-russian-mafia-gang-taganskaya" target="_blank">talking to Gangsters Inc.</a> a few years back.</p>
<p>“As Spanish authorities, especially under the legendary Prosecutor José Grinda Gonzalez, began cracking down, with a focus on financially-based crimes, each bust and successful prosecution throws up evidence for the next, hence the steady stream of cases,” <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/spain-police-bust-russian-mafia-gang-taganskaya" target="_blank">Galeotti said</a>.</p>
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<p>Despite this setback, the fight continues. Spanish authorities have come to realize the impact criminal money has on its society. The line has been drawn. Now they must continue the crackdown and finish their foe.</p>
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British career criminal shot in head and left for dead in Amsterdam
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2018-05-21T16:00:00.000Z
2018-05-21T16:00:00.000Z
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<p>A British career criminal was shot in the head and left for dead on the streets of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Amsterdam" target="_blank">Amsterdam</a>, the Netherlands, on Saturday night. 55-year-old Allan P. (his last name has not been released by Dutch authorities) was seriously injured and is currently in the hospital.</p>
<p>The attempted hit occurred around 23:30 p.m. While P. was walking on the Stromarkt, an unknown assassin wearing a dark sweater with a hoody <a href="https://www.parool.nl/amsterdam/slachtoffer-schietpartij-stromarkt-is-brits-amsterdamse-crimineel~a4598609/" target="_blank">aimed a gun</a> at his head and fired one bullet. P. then crumpled to the ground where he was found in a pool of his own blood by passersby.</p>
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<p>Though a British citizen, P. has resided in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Netherlands" target="_blank">the Netherlands</a> since 1979 and has had frequent run ins with law enforcement. He was convicted of several drug and gun offenses and spent two months in prison after showing a fake South African passport to a Dutch police officer.</p>
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<p>In 2015, he was charged in the notorious case targeting One2Spy, a shop in Amsterdam where one could buy hidden cameras, bugs, GPS-tracers, encrypted mobile phones and the like. In this case “the like” also meant guns. P. was charged with showing a firearm to two British undercover agents who were investigating the spy shop. He was acquitted in court after prosecutors were unable to prove the gun functioned properly.</p>
<p>It is unknown why he was the target of a hit and police are still searching for the gunman.</p>
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British secret agents have a license to commit crime
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2018-03-03T14:56:07.000Z
2018-03-03T14:56:07.000Z
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<p>After all these decades, James Bond’s license to kill still sounds pretty cool. Though 007 is far removed from the real-life spies working at MI5, they do have a similar license that gives them a pass to commit crime in the United Kingdom, Theresa May, the country’s prime minister revealed in a text on Thursday.</p>
<p>The document was <a href="https://www.ipco.org.uk/docs/20180301%20PM%20direction%202.pdf" target="_blank">published</a> after a months-long legal battle by human rights groups Reprieve and Privacy International. It details a direction to the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office, the secret service watchdog, on governing “security service participation in criminality.”</p>
<p>As newspaper <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/02/mi5-agents-are-allowed-to-commit-in-uk-government-reveals" target="_blank">The Guardian</a> observed: “It instructs the IPCO to oversee the participation of MI5 agents in criminal activity, which was previously conducted by the now-defunct office of the Intelligence Services Commissioner, under a secret order referred to as the ‘third direction’.”</p>
<p>What type of crime MI5 agents can get away with and when remains confidential and falls under the direction of the British government.</p>
<p>The world is an ever-changing place, but one thing remains the same: It revolves around money. And where there’s money, there is crime. White collar or blue collar, greed does not care. If MI5 seeks to keep the country safe its secret agents might need to win the trust of certain individuals in order to infiltrate criminal organizations and activities.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Russia" target="_blank">Russia</a>, for instance, politics and organized crime have long been intertwined. With many <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/russian-mafia-overview" target="_blank">Russian oligarchs</a> operating on Britain’s soil, it makes sense to be able to get one’s hands dirty to get close enough to keep an eye on certain individuals.</p>
<p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Terrorism" target="_blank">Terrorists</a> also remain a very difficult threat as they are seeking cooperation with criminal organizations in order to launder or make money and buy weapons and influence.</p>
<p>Thus, a license to commit crime can be useful to these secret agents. Of course, as always with these types of undercover operations taking place in the shadowy alley between our world and the underworld, we can only hope that the agents involved remember what side they are on.</p>
<p>Otherwise, we might be in for one hell of a mess.</p>
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Japan’s banks can reject loans to Yakuza gangsters
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2018-01-05T10:32:47.000Z
2018-01-05T10:32:47.000Z
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<p>Yakuza mobsters looking for money need to find a loan shark with good rates, because Japanese banks will reject many of them when they apply for loans. As of yesterday, the Japanese Bankers Association stated that its branches will be able to screen individual loan seekers using the National Police Agency’s database of members of organized crime.</p>
<p>Organized crime in Japan is dominated by the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/yakuza-overview" target="_blank">Yakuza</a>, the country’s homegrown <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Mafia" target="_blank">Mafia</a>, which is involved in all the mob-staples such as extortion, gambling, drug trafficking, prostitution, and, of course, loansharking.</p>
<p>In recent years, authorities have cracked down on Yakuza activities by introducing tougher laws and placing gangsters under increased police scrutiny. This has caused a major blow to the group’s influence and resulted in a <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/japan-s-yakuza-membership-continues-to-rapidly-decline" target="_blank">declining membership</a> and a split within its largest and most powerful clan, the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/yakuza-boss-yoshinori-watanabe" target="_blank">Yamaguchi-gumi</a>, which is now divided and involved in an internecine gang war.</p>
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<p>The added screening measures follow a huge 2013 banking scandal involving the Mizuho Bank, one of Japan’s biggest financial institutions, which was found to have made 230 transactions with individuals with connections to the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Yakuza" target="_blank">Yakuza</a>. The total amount of loans came down to 200 million yen.</p>
<p>With this new screening banks can connect to the police database through the government-affiliated Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan. If the person comes up in the database, the local police department will be asked to conduct further identification. If they confirm the person is an associate or member of the Yakuza, the bank can reject the loan.</p>
<p>That will leave these gangsters with no other option than to take to the streets and find a friend to offer them a loan. Such a loan, however, will be difficult to use to pay for a house. Of course, in money laundering 101 there are plenty of ways around such financial blockades. Just ask any CEO of a Fortune 500 company. </p>
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Genovese family capo Eugene Onofrio doesn’t want to stand trial alongside Philadelphia Mafia boss Joseph Merlino
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2017-07-21T10:30:00.000Z
2017-07-21T10:30:00.000Z
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<p>They may both be standup guys, but if it’s up to Genovese family capo Eugene “Rooster” Onofrio, he won’t stand trial alongside codefendant and Philadelphia mob boss Joseph Merlino. Apparently, Onofrio's legal team is making moves this week, claiming the 75-year-old capo wants to be tried separately from Merlino in the “<a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/philly-mafia-boss-joseph-merlino-and-mobsters-of-5-different-crim" target="_blank">East Coast La Cosa Nostra Enterprise</a>” case.</p>
<p>This request has everything to do with <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Merlino" target="_blank">Merlino</a>’s reputation as a stone-cold mob killer – despite never having been convicted of murder. Onofrio is worried jurors might see him sitting next to 55-year-old Merlino (above, left corner) in the courtroom and lean toward judging the entire group of defendants based on one man’s violent street rep.</p>
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<p>Onofrio (above, right corner) is no stranger to the practice of violence, of course, as a <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-genovese-crime-family" target="_blank">Genovese family</a> captain he runs crews that operate in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Manhattan" target="_blank">Manhattan</a>’s Little Italy and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-bruno-hit-how-the-genovese" target="_blank">Springfield, Massachusetts</a>. Crews filled with men willing and able to hand out brutal mayhem whenever the order comes down from up the chain of command.</p>
<p>Prosecutors, however, are having none of it. They read out recorded conversations between Merlino, Onofrio, and a government witness in which the capo and mob boss casually discussed murder. “It’s easy to kill somebody,” Merlino is alleged to have said at one point, prosecutors said. Onofrio allegedly agreed, replying, “It’s simple.”</p>
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<p>Not yet satisfied that they agree on the practice of murder, Merlino figured he’d paint the scene. “You’re my friend, you trust me, I tell you, ‘Listen drive me home right now,’ get you in the car, I shoot you in the fuckin’ head, and it’s over with,” prosecutors said Merlino said.</p>
<p>A true case of he said he said. But prosecutors will not make these statements if they can’t back them up. And with tapes like these, Merlino and Onofrio face an uphill battle.</p>
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Albanian organized crime pair jailed after they were caught with 1 kilogram brick of cocaine
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2017-06-28T13:30:00.000Z
2017-06-28T13:30:00.000Z
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<p>Albanian drug traffickers Artan Markaj (23) and Marsela Kreka (30) were sentenced to 6 years 9 months and 8 years respectively on Monday. They were jailed as the result of a National Crime Agency investigation in which 5.5 kilogram of high-purity cocaine was taken off the streets.</p>
<p>Officers caught the duo after a drugs handover in Barnet, north <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=London" target="_blank">London</a>, last June. Markaj left his home in Clarence Close, Barnet, to get into a Mini Cooper driven by Kreka. Police believed he was carrying <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Drugs" target="_blank">drugs</a> under his coat and stopped him and Kreka when he got out of the car a few streets away.</p>
<p>A 1 kilogram block of high purity <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Cocaine" target="_blank">cocaine</a> wrapped in a sock was hidden under the passenger seat.</p>
<p>When officers searched Markaj’s home they found a further 4.5 kilogram of high-purity cocaine, £11,700 in cash within a concealment under a bedroom window sill, and drugs supply paraphernalia. The drugs would have been worth an estimated £660,000 when cut and sold on the streets.</p>
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<p>Markaj admitted at the scene that the Greek ID in his possession was a forgery and that he was an <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Albania" target="_blank">Albanian</a> national. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to drugs trafficking, possessing a false identification document and money laundering.</p>
<p>Kreka was found in possession of a Romanian driving license in the name of Maria Danciu which she claimed was her true identity. Enquiries confirmed it was a forgery. She denied drugs trafficking and possessing a false identification document but was convicted by a jury.</p>
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Philly Mafia boss Joey Merlino stands up and goes to trial
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2017-05-23T16:51:27.000Z
2017-05-23T16:51:27.000Z
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<p>Try as they might, the feds can’t keep Philadelphia mob boss <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Merlino" target="_blank">Joseph Merlino</a> down. The man nicknamed “Skinny Joey” was one of over forty wiseguys from five different Mafia families <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/philly-mafia-boss-joseph-merlino-and-mobsters-of-5-different-crim" target="_blank">hit with racketeering conspiracy charges</a> last year. Confronted with serious jail time, prosecutors hoped to break Merlino and get him to plead guilty for a lesser sentence, but he’s having none of it.</p>
<p>According to a <a href="http://www.bigtrial.net/2017/05/merlino-turns-down-plea-offer.html" target="_blank"><em>Gang Land News</em> column</a> by longtime <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-bruno-crime-family" target="_blank">Philadelphia mob</a> reporter George Anastasia, Merlino will plead not guilty in Manhattan Federal Court and take his case to trial instead. It’s an attitude we’ve come to expect from Merlino, but one that still speaks volumes about the Philly Mafia boss’ mindset.</p>
<p>That mindset? Call it old school Cosa Nostra.</p>
<p>Released from prison in 2011 after serving over a decade behind bars on racketeering charges, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Merlino" target="_blank">Merlino</a> looked to retire from “the life” and settle in Florida. He went into the restaurant business and enjoyed the sunshine.</p>
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<p>But according to prosecutors Merlino did no such thing. Instead, they claim, he ran several illegal gambling operations, including one that utilized a company named Costa Rican International Sportsbook. They also claim he was involved in a $157 million-dollar health care fraud in which he, together with various other mobsters, got corrupt doctors to issue unnecessary and excessive prescriptions for expensive compound cream that were then billed to insurers.</p>
<p>Much of the evidence against Merlino comes from Mafia turncoat John “JR” Rubeo, who wore a wire on his friends and colleagues. However, since the indictment came down, several others have joined the prosecution in return for leniency.</p>
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<p>Apparently, that doesn’t faze Merlino. He will see them all in court. Though he may seem overconfident, he does actually have reason to. Because “… the handling of recordings made by the cooperator and the lack of supervision while Rubeo was on the streets in Florida have raised serious questions about whether the feds would be able to use much of that evidence in court,” <a href="http://www.bigtrial.net/2017/05/merlino-turns-down-plea-offer.html" target="_blank">George Anastasia writes</a>. Two FBI agents even face disciplinary action because of how they handled Rubeo, <em>Gang Land News</em> reported.</p>
<p>With that in mind, going to trial doesn’t seem like such a long shot. But even if it was indeed a long shot, the odds are that “Skinny Joey” would’ve met them head on all the same.</p>
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Relative of Sicilian Mafia boss Messina Denaro busted for medical fraud
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2016-10-19T13:44:15.000Z
2016-10-19T13:44:15.000Z
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<p>A relative of fugitive <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/sicilian-cosa-nostra-overview">Cosa Nostra</a> boss of bosses <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/cosa-nostra-boss-matteo">Matteo Messina Denaro</a> was arrested yesterday along with five others in police operation “Bloody Money” targeting a medical fraud in which dialysis patients are rerouted from public to private facilities.</p>
<p>The relative in question is 55-year-old Francesco Messina Denaro, the Sicily-based purchaser for Diaverum Italia Srl, a company that manages dialysis centers. He is related to the Mafia boss via his grandfather Francesco, who was brother to Messina Denaro’s grandfather Salvatore.</p>
<p>Diaverum, the parent company of Diaverum Italia Srl, operates in twenty countries, employs 9,000 people, handles 29,000 patients, and has a turnover of over €580 million euros. Each patient is worth €40,000 a year.</p>
<p>The arrest comes little over a week after <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/sicilian-mafia-boss-messina-denaro-s-sister-sentenced-to-over-14">Messina Denaro’s sister</a> was sentenced to over 14 years in prison for <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Mafia">Mafia</a> crimes. Authorities are trying to isolate the mob boss who has been on the run from justice since 1993 and is one of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/website-shows-europe-s-most-wanted-fugitives">Europe’s most wanted fugitives</a>. By going after his relatives and those closest to him, police hope to bring Messina Denaro out into the open and within reach.</p>
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Hong Kong Triad boss arrested in US$129 million fraud case
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2016-07-23T10:11:46.000Z
2016-07-23T10:11:46.000Z
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<p>Triad leader Kwok Wing-hung has been arrested at Hong Kong airport Thursday after arriving from Thailand. He is charged with conspiracy to commit criminal intimidation, conspiracy to wound with intent, and conspiracy to blackmail.</p>
<p>Police believe the 58-year-old crime boss had conspired with a retired Hong Kong senior superintendent to steal a large sum of money and conspire to commit fraud in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Macau">Macau</a>, involving up to HK$1 billion (almost $129 million U.S. dollars.) The Macau Judiciary Police is still investigating the case.</p>
<p>Kwok Wing-hung, nicknamed "Shanghai Boy,” is an alleged <em>dragon head</em> in the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/triads-overview">Wo Shing Wo Triad</a>, part of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/triads-overview">Wo group</a>, and one of Hong Kong’s biggest <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Triads">Triads</a>.</p>
<p>He made headlines around the world several months ago after he was punched in the face at Hong Kong’s most famous five-star Peninsula Hotel. He was also suspected by police of involvement in the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bloody-knife-attacks-as-triad-gangs-go-to-war-in-hong-kong">bloody slashing of three people</a> at the Yau Yim Kee fruit store as some sort of retaliation for the hotel beating.</p>
<p>After the hotel incident, “Shanghai Boy’ disappeared for seven months, while police placed him on their wanted list. He popped up in Japan in March where he did an interview with a Hong Kong magazine in which he claimed he wasn’t fleeing, but merely traveling.</p>
<p>And traveling he did, ending up in Phuket, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Thailand">Thailand</a>, before flying back home to Hong Kong where he now has to face criminal charges in the court of law.</p>
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Hillary Clinton allegedly told son of Mafioso she was willing to change RICO laws
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2016-06-02T20:55:40.000Z
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<p>Benghazi? Top secret emails? Fuggedaboutit! Hillary Clinton’s latest ‘scandal’ involves a private meeting with the son of an imprisoned Sicilian-American Mafioso who asked her to change the RICO laws in the United States. The son in question is Giovanni Gambino, whose father Francesco had been sentenced to 30 years in prison in the 1980’s.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/06/01/mafia-clinton-giovanni-gambino-2/" target="_blank">Breitbart News</a> recently interviewed the mob son about his meeting with Clinton (see photo above), which took place in 2007 on orders from Francesco. “He thought she’s got so much power, they [the Clintons] could maybe do something [to get him out of prison],” Gambino told the news blog.</p>
<p>They met at the Charleston Place hotel in South Carolina while Secret Service guards stood outside the hotel, according to Gambino. “We spoke for a while,” he told <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/06/01/mafia-clinton-giovanni-gambino-2/" target="_blank">Breitbart News</a>, calling Clinton a “very good listener.”</p>
<p>Clinton was confronted with quite the story. “I told [Clinton and an aide] about my father and how unfair the RICO law was to so many people,” Gambino <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/06/01/mafia-clinton-giovanni-gambino-2/" target="_blank">said</a>. “I told her I had a way of getting more votes for her. There are millions of inmates out there who have relatives. Those are organic votes. Instead of getting favors from the corporations and trying to get the employees of a corporation to vote for her, these are organic votes. They go out to vote for their loved ones.”</p>
<p>The message hit home, Gambino <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/06/01/mafia-clinton-giovanni-gambino-2/" target="_blank">claims</a>. “‘Of course,’ she told me. Once she settled down and once she accomplished what she wants to do she would do something about it.”</p>
<p>In an interview with British tabloid <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3351235/Hillary-Clinton-s-ties-MOB-former-Secretary-State-met-Mafia-heir-pizzeria-asked-father-s-release-prison-return-offer-couldn-t-refuse.html" target="_blank">The Daily Mail</a> in December 2015, however, Gambino had a different feeling about that same 2007 meeting. “She might have forgotten about it,” he said. “She probably hears stories like that every day.”</p>
<p>It didn’t matter. Barack Obama became the presidential candidate for the Democratic Party and went on to become a two-term president. Francesco Gambino died behind bars while serving his sentence for drug trafficking.</p>
<p>Clinton, meanwhile, is now on her way to becoming the Democratic presidential nominee going up against Republican presidential candidate <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/karen-gravano-hopes-president-trump-pardons-her-mob-dad">Donald Trump</a>, whose <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/karen-gravano-hopes-president-trump-pardons-her-mob-dad">links to the mob</a> have already been covered in various media reports.</p>
<p>What can be said? Politics is a dirty game.</p>
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Fugitive Russian mobster caught in Pattaya, Thailand
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2016-03-26T12:05:12.000Z
2016-03-26T12:05:12.000Z
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<p>Vladislav Yudichev (photo above) thought he was safe from the long reach of law enforcement when he settled in the coastal city of Pattaya in Thailand, but he underestimated Interpol, the organization that was looking for the gangster for his alleged acts of fraud and corruption.</p>
<p>Last week, the Chonburi Immigration Office deported 44-year-old Yudichev after the Russian embassy in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/russian-mob-boss-arrested-in-thailand">Bangkok</a> informed the Jomtien Beach immigration office that it had revoked the passport of the wanted fugitive and asked for their help in locating and repatriating him.</p>
<p>Immigration police contacted Yudichev and lured him to their office by telling the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/russian-mafia-overview">mobster</a> that his visa had changed and that he needed to sign some documents. Upon arrival he was placed in handcuffs and arrested.</p>
<p>He now faces fraud and corruption charges back in his home country of Russia. Yudichev denies having committed any crimes, but did say he was in debt about a million baht and recently sold property in Russia for sixty times that amount. Flush with cash, he doesn’t understand what the charges are related to.</p>
<p>Maybe authorities in Russia can explain it to him.</p>
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