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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Americo Delgado
Benjamin Arellano Felix
TOLUCA, Mexico — A lawyer for a convicted Mexican drug kingpin was found stabbed to death in his home, authorities said Saturday.
Americo Delgado was the second Mexican defense attorney for high-profile drug suspects killed in less than a month. Lawyer Silvia Raquenel Villanueva was shot to death in the northern city of Monterrey on Aug. 9.
Delgado, 80, was found dead at his home in the central city of Toluca on Friday, the Mexico state attorney general’s office said in a statement. His throat had been slit and he had been stabbed multiple times, the statement said.
Police had no suspects or information on a motive.
Delgado was the defense attorney for Benjamin Arellano Felix, who is serving a 22-year-sentence in Mexico on drug trafficking and organized crime charges and is fighting extradition to the United States.
The Arellano Felix cartel emerged as a drug-trafficking powerhouse in the 1980s in Tijuana, across the U.S. border from San Diego. The gang began to weaken after Arellano Felix’s arrest in 2002 and the death of his brother Ramon in a shootout with police the same year.
A laborer worked on a security wall being constructed by a local business association in Karachi, Pakistan.
Pashtuns fleeing violence have flocked to Karachi areas like Sorabgoth, where poverty may bolster crime and militancy.
KARACHI, Pakistan — Taliban fighters have long used this city of 17 million as a place to regroup, smuggle weapons and even work seasonal jobs. But recently they have discovered another way to make fast money: organized crime.
There is overwhelming evidence that it’s an organized policy,” said Dost Ali Baloch, assistant inspector general of the Karachi police.
The police here say the Taliban, working with criminal groups, are using Mafia-style networks to kidnap, rob banks and extort, generating millions of dollars for the militant insurgency in northwestern Pakistan
READ MORE Sabrina Tavernise
Europol cops rousting thugs
Nine Irish organised crime gangs, with some 40 criminals involved, are operating across Europe, according to the European police intelligence agency Europol.
The agency said today it was tracking the activities of 100 separate organised crime gangs with the help of intelligence from various national police forces.
Many of the gangs are believed to be involved in major drug smuggling operations across the continent.
The Assistant Garda Commissioner Dermot Jennings said today the gardaí are working “very closely” with their counterparts in Europe to provide information on the activities of Irish criminals abroad.
Speaking in Mullingar today, Assistant Commissioner Jennings said that alongside 26 other European Police forces, members of An Garda Síochana are based with Europol in The Hague on a full-time basis and they are “up to date” with the activities of a variety of Irish criminals known to be operating on foreign shores.
“We work very closely with Europol and indeed with Interpol and other organisations including the FBI, and there is an open flow of information between the police force here, Northern Ireland, the UK and Europe with regard to organised crime in, and from, this country.”
He would not specify if there has been an increase in the information passing through the organisations in recent months, but communication between organisations “is improving all the time
The Blue Grotto, the most famous tourist attraction on the island of Capri, was closed to visitors yesterday due to fears its crystal waters had been contaminated by raw sewage, possibly dumped by the Naples mafia.
La Grotta Azzurra, as it is known in Italian, is celebrated for the intense blue tones of the water and the mysterious, silvery light thrown off by underwater rocks in the cave. In the 1st century AD, the Emperor Tiberius liked to retire to the grotto to swim and cool off during the hottest days of summer.
But the cave’s problems have been brewing since reports that two employees of a waste disposal firm at Castellamare di Stabia, near Naples, had dumped 5,000 litres of raw cesspool sewage in the grotto using hoses. The firm has the contract for the disposal of waste from homes and hotels on the island to sewage treatment plants in the area FULL STORY
Ted Lee Stall
A faThe gun turned over to the FBI purportedly belonged to Rolland McMaster, a Teamsters official who died in 2007 at age 93 and was suspected by Moldea and others of having a role in Hoffa’s disappearance. The farm, at U.S. 23 and Clyde Road, is owned by trucking executive Stan Barr, who in 1975 was called before the federal grand jury that probed the Hoffa disappearance. When Hoffa disappeared, the farm was owned by McMaster, who also was called before the grand jury.mily member of a late Teamsters official has turned over to the FBI a handgun that an ex-convict claims was used to kill former union boss James R. Hoffa, an author of a book about Hoffa said Monday.
The ex-con, Ted Lee Stall, 60, also claims he witnessed the burial of Hoffa at a farm in Hartland Township in the weeks after the former Teamsters boss disappeared from outside the Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Township in July 1975.
But the Genesee County prosecutor describes Stall as “a serial flim-flam artist.”
And Dan Moldea of Washington, D.C., author of “The Hoffa Wars,” said: “The longer I dealt with this guy, it became clear that his credibility was completely suspect.”
The latest developments show the Hoffa mystery continues to churn new leads and scenarios 34 years after his disappearance. Providing information about the case remains a potential get-out-of-jail card for criminals who can claim inside knowledge.
Fired New Jersey Commissioner Michael Madonna.
Tuesday, August 25th 2009, 4:00 AM
Waterfront Commission cops are charged with guarding the docks against the Mafia and other criminals – as long as it’s not at night or on weekends.
Detectives for the famed police force have been working bankers’ hours since late last year, the Daily News has learned.
It’s a joke,” complained a source familiar with the police division’s schedule. “Does the mob work Monday through Friday?”
Commission Executive Director Walter Arsenault said he would like to put a night shift back into action sometime soon, but defended the weekdays-only schedule.
“We have limited resources and have to try to pick the right priorities,” Arsenault said.
Earlier this month, New York’s inspector general blasted the bi-state agency as being rife with patronage, corruption and mismanagement
The findings led New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine to fire Commissioner Michael Madonna.
Read More John Marzulli
For anyone who has grown weary of the fond treatment of the Mafia in American popular culture this book is a tonic. Lupo’s myth-busting history explores why the Mafia survived despite Fascist repression, the “maxi-trial” in Palermo in the nineteen-eighties, and frequent predictions that it would disappear as Italy modernized. While Lupo’s focus is on Sicily, he also sketches the development of the Mafia’s stateside branches, occasioning the fascinating reminder that the crime network’s first American port of call was not New York or New Jersey but New Orleans. Fun is not a priority here, and Lupo often gives only cursory mention of pivotal episodes that might be common knowledge to Italian readers, but his unfailingly fastidious handling of such a slippery subject has its own satisfactions. ♦
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PHILADELPHIA – Motorcycle gang members are among 40 suspects charged with operating a crystal methamphetamine ring in Philadelphia and New Jersey, prosecutors are announcing Monday.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett announced the break-up of the $5 million ring during an 11 a.m. news conference in Philadelphia.
The 11-month investigation was dubbed “Operation Ice Breaker,” and Fox 29’s Dave Schratwieser reported that seven or eight members of the Outlaws Motorcycle Gang – including some high-ranking members – are charged in the case.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett announced the break-up of the $5 million ring during an 11 a.m. news conference in Philadelphia.
The 11-month investigation was dubbed “Operation Ice Breaker,” and Fox 29’s Dave Schratwieser reported that seven or eight members of the Outlaws Motorcycle Gang – including some high-ranking members – are charged in the case.
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New Jersey is considering forcing MGM Mirage to divest its 50% stake in the Borgata Hotel & Casino
New Jersey is considering forcing MGM Mirage to divest its 50% stake in the Borgata Hotel & Casino
Casino tycoon Stanley Ho has been described by U.S. officials as a “reputed organized crime figure.”
ALBANY – One of the bidders vying to build and run a Las Vegas-style video slots emporium in Queens has ties to a reputed organized crime figure in China, the Daily News has learned.
MGM Mirage is one of six groups bidding on the Aqueduct project at the same time New Jersey is considering forcing the company to divest its 50% stake in the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City.
The New Jersey Casino Control Commission is reopening a licensing hearing for the Borgata because of MGM’s partnership in a casino resort in Macau with Pansy Ho.
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