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The owners of a firm that operates school buses for the city were described by prosecutors as victims of an extortion plot who feared for their own safety.
JEFFERSON COUNTY - A man who claimed he was a member of the mafia and ran a large-scale illegal gambling and loan-sharking operation in Denver that contributed to two suicides was sentenced Monday to 16 years in prison.
A man who ran a high-stakes poker club that prosecutors said doubled as a sophisticated crime operation has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.
TRENTON — The former head of the Hoboken Parking Utility, who authorities say conspired with a Toms River man to steal coins from meters, has been indicted by a state grand jury.
The Catholic clergy in Juárez are not immune from the extortions and assaults that plague the rest of the community, church officials said.
A man who ran a high-stakes Denver poker club whose customers included prominent athletes, media personalities, attorneys and doctors has been sentenced to 16 years in prison. Forty-eight-year-old Jeffrey Castardi pleaded guilty in October to violating the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act. He was sentenced Monday. An indictment had accused him and his associates of running an illegal ...
The state Parole and Commutation Board will consider commuting the sentence of a 46-year-old Lake man serving time for drug trafficking and racketeering. Mark E. Gilman pleaded no contest to conducting a criminal enterprise and delivery or manufacture of marijuana...
Given current case law there is a widespread belief that Central American gang related cases are essentially unwinnable.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, shown in July, who has been criticized for his immigration sweeps, has filed a racketeering lawsuit against the entire Maricopa County power structure.
A Lubbock man will serve 18 months in prison for money Laundering.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, whose term has been plagued by corruption charges, sex scandals and nasty divorce proceedings, now faces court evidence from a mobster linking him to the Mafia. And opposition to the longtime political survivor is growing.
The former building inspector of a coastal South Carolina city is accused of attempted extortion and of making machine guns.
Authorities on Friday said they've cracked a drug pipeline that smuggled crystal meth and marijuana from Mexico to the farm fields of South Jersey.
Ruby Dee Davis has a gift for landing the perfect role. Her part in the 2007 film, “American Gangster,” where she played the mother of a real-life gangster portrayed by Denzel Washington, was set in Harlem, where she grew up. It was the backdrop for police riots and brutality that shaped the stage and screen actress' consciousness and made her an activist in the Civil Rights Movement.
NEW YORK (AP) — A new judge, new charges, new star witness and a new jury added up to a familiar result — a mistrial for John “Junior” Gotti on racketeering charges. This one, though, might be his last.
PINE RIDGE, S.D. -- Richard Wilson has been a pallbearer for at least five of his "homeboys" in the North Side Tre Tre Gangster Crips, a Sioux imitation of a notorious Denver gang.
