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The majority of people worldwide live in countries with high levels of organized crime, a crisis made worse by COVID-19, according to an index released Tuesday by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
On Wednesday, the FBI announced the global takedown of hundreds of criminals involved in drug trafficking and organized crime, thanks to an encrypted social messaging platform the FBI was secretly peddling to criminals. Authorities around the world say this saved lives, and transforms the way investigators will fight organized crime in the future.
Experts say that traffickers have been able to exploit economic anxieties fueled by COVID, while using the Internet to advertise, recruit and exploit their victims. A new report tracks trafficking “hot spots” across the U.S.
“The mafia becomes almost like a benefactor–they behave like the Red Cross–for which a certain portion of society is grateful,” a roundtable of experts on Italian organized crime was told.
In Guadalajara, Mexico’s second-biggest city, Alejandrina Guzman, a daughter of jailed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was among those seen by reporters handing out the packages stamped with her own company’s ‘El Chapo 701’ logo.
James LaRossa’s clients included unsavory figures such as mob bosses Paul Castellano and Vincent Gigante. But the controversial New York trial lawyer’s defense career really began when he quit his job as a federal prosecutor after a collision over with Robert Kennedy over a terrorism case, LaRossa’s son tells TCR in a conversation about his recently published memoir.
The late Mafia boss John Gotti’s crime empire was facilitated by a group of murderous underlings whose eventual exposure led to a shakeup in New York’s organized crime hierarchy—and the Mob’s slow fade from power, journalist Anthony DeStefano, the author of a new book, tells TCR.
The murder of alleged Gambino crime boss “Frankie Boy” Cali outside his Staten Island home this month fanned speculation about a new Mafia war. But there are three sides to every mob story, writes a veteran observer of U.S. organized crime.
New Jersey man arrested for killing reputed Mafia kingpin Frank Cali may have acted because Cali wanted to end his relationship with Cali’s niece.