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Japanese Mafia Splitting Into Separate Crime Groups

InformIn the past, the group even followed a New Year’s tradition of giving o-toshi-dama to children who came to visit, o-toshi-dama essentially being envelopes full of cash with ornate New Year’s...

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Japan’s Yakuza Cancels Halloween

On Halloween, Japan’s largest organized crime group used to allow children to extort mobsters. But the event was called off this year due to a possible gang war.TOKYO — It’s been over a month since...

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Toronto on brink of a mob war, Italy warns

ADRIAN HUMPHREYS | October 27, 2015 | Last Updated: Oct 28 8:41 AM ETMore from Adrian Humphreys | @AD_HumphreysNational PostCarmine Verduci, 57, was shot several times outside Regina Sports Café in the...

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Russian Mafia Gangster: Putin's Mafia Statecraft

Russian Mafia Gangster: Putin's Mafia Statecraft: By Brian Whitmore October 27, 2015 In the past couple years, Russian hackers have launched attacks on a French television network,...

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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. -Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president 

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The Wee Book of Irish-American Gangsters: 'Fat' Freddie Thompson risked...

The Wee Book of Irish-American Gangsters: 'Fat' Freddie Thompson risked gangland hit to see ...: Ken Foy Thompson (34) arrived from England and spent two nights here, during which time he was in the...

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Italian Mafia In Rome: City Can No Longer Fight The Mob, Italy...

By Jess McHugh Rome is losing a continuing battle with the Italian mafia, Italy's anti-corruption chief said Thursday, as reported by European news outlet the Local. Often referred to as the mafia or...

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How Mafia dons made millions selling property as New York's seedy Times...

•           Trial of aging member of Bonnano crime family hears how mafia figures ran swaths of New York in the 1970s and 1980s•           Son of one notorious figure tells court how he cashed in on...

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TOKYO — Japan is bracing for war.

Not with other countries, but with the nation's notorious gangsters.A 43-year-old man was gunned down in the parking lot of a hot springs resort in western Japan earlier this month in what authorities...

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Goodfellas' heist trial

Brutal details of New York Mafia life recalled in 'Goodfellas' heist trialTina Susman The man in the black track suit spoke in a voice as deep and gravelly as the pits where the bodies were buried.He...

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Fukuoka pachinko parlors band together against yakuza

By Tokyo Reporter on October 31, 2015No CommentThe manager of a parlor consulted with police after having paid 40 million yen to gangsters over a 15-year periodA pachinko parlor in Kitakyushu...

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What Happened to the Mafia in Williamsburg?

November 4, 2015by John SuricoIn a city like New York, the past dies a fresh death every day. As you read this, something special is being built over, transformed, forgotten, or turned into a Pret a...

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Author now believes judge didn't leak info to mob

By Jane Ann MorrisonLas Vegas Review-JourbalRetired FBI agent and author Gary Magnesen has changed his mind.He no longer believes the late U.S. District Judge Harry Claiborne was leaking materials from...

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Real Estate investor Tamara Rand killed after messing with the mob

Reported by: Tom HawleyEmail: thawley@sbgtv.comLAS VEGAS (KSNV News3LV) – This month marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Martin Scorsese’s "Casino” – a movie which unlike many others set in...

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Prosecutor: Mobster accused in $6 million 'Goodfellas' heist embraced Mafia...

NEW YORK (AP) — An aging mobster who stayed in shadows for decades by adhering to the Mafia's strict code of silence should finally be held accountable for his crimes including the 1978 airport heist...

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Criminologist connects Mafia with Chicago street gangs

Brian Flood UIC professor John Hagedorn has studied gangs for over three decades. But he was forced to rethink much of what he knew about gangs while researching and writing his latest book, The In$ane...

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Trial of Vincent Asaro Highlights Loss of Mafia’s Code of Silence

By STEPHANIE CLIFFORDNOV. 9, 2015After he had helped pull off one of the biggest cash robberies in American history — the Lufthansa heist of 1978 — and stashed millions of dollars, along with burlap...

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Lawyer: Turncoats Framed Old Gangster in 'Goodfellas' Heist

BY TOM HAYS, ASSOCIATED PRESSThe government used opportunistic Mafia turncoats to make its case against aging mobster Vincent Asaro in a decades-old airport heist immortalized in the hit gangster movie...

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Fatal Prohibition shooting in Herald Square spurs NYPD to create Intelligence...

BY DAVID J. KRAJICEK Halfway through the fool’s parade of Prohibition, New York began to stink of Cicero, Ill.Hard liquor had been the first-line intoxicant glugged in the Big Apple’s speakeasies.But...

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