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  • Ex-Agents: FBI Recruits Violent Informants

    03/01/2003 3:02:21 PM PST · by RCW2001 · 6 replies · 261+ views
    Ex-Agents: FBI Recruits Violent Informants By JEFF DONN The Associated Press For decades, in cities from coast to coast, FBI agents recruited killers and crime bosses as informants and then looked the other way as they continued to commit violent crimes. When the practice first came to light in Boston - unleashing an ongoing investigation that has already sent one agent to prison for obstruction of justice - FBI officials in Washington portrayed it as an aberration. But Associated Press interviews with nine former FBI agents - men with a combined 190 years of experience in more than 25 bureau...
  • New York Attorney General Convicts 36 Members of NYC-Based Organized Crime Ring (Letitia James)

    07/12/2025 6:23:04 AM PDT · by Libloather · 34 replies
    Sourcing Journal via Yahoo ^ | 7/08/25 | Meghan Hall
    New York Attorney General Letitia James announced late last week that her office had convicted 36 members of an organized retail crime ring, including its leader, Roni Rubinov. James’ office said Rubinov and the ring he oversaw stole, then resold, millions of dollars’ worth of goods in the New York City area between 2017 and 2022. During an investigation, the attorney general’s office’s Organized Crime Task Force (OCTF) and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) retrieved over $3.8 million worth of stolen goods, more than $300,000 and over 550 stolen gift cards from Rubinov. James said the ring negatively...
  • Newsom Protests ICE Raid on Marijuana Farm Allegedly Found Using Child Labor

    07/11/2025 9:38:33 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 46 replies
    Breitbart ^ | July 11, 2025 | Joel B. Pollak
    California Gov. Gavin Newsom protested against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid on a marijuana farm in his state this week that was allegedly found to have been using child labor. Newsom reposted a video of the raid, calling President Donald Trump the “real scum” for enforcing the law. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott alleged that the farm had been found employing not only illegal aliens, but also “juveniles.”
  • Iran, Hezbollah implicated in Ireland’s largest drug bust

    07/09/2025 10:39:07 PM PDT · by Words Matter · 18 replies
    JNS ^ | 07.09.25
    The trial of two Iranians and six others, who tried to smuggle 2.2 tons of cocaine to the island, exposed networks spanning the Middle East and Venezuela. JNS Staff. July 9, 2025 / JNS) An Irish court on July 4 sentenced two Iranian nationals in connection with a transnational drug trafficking operation involving more than 2.2 tons of cocaine, as authorities investigate suspected links to Hezbollah and the Iranian regime, Irish media reported. The men—Soheil Jelveh, 51, a former captain of the cargo vessel MV Matthew, and Saied Hassani, 39, a senior officer with significant maritime experience—received sentences of 17.5...
  • ‘Clans, corruption, drugs’ — German documentary reveals clan crime gangs have bribed police and infiltrated state authorities across the country

    07/05/2025 11:11:13 AM PDT · by george76 · 21 replies
    Remix ^ | July 03, 2025
    Police officers in Germany now have to fear if their collegaues have been bought and their lives are in danger.. Criminal organizations, drug trafficking, money laundering and corruption – a new documentary by German public broadcaster ZDF has revealed serious irregularities in the relationship between the German state and organized crime, writes Mandiner news portal. “Kriminelle Clans in Deutschland” shows that criminal networks not only control large cities, but have also established their influence nationwide, right up to state institutions. Accumulating huge wealth illegally, they have built a tight network that includes law enforcement agencies. “It is a murderous and...
  • Berlin ‘Lost To Arab Clans’ Gangs Now Recruiting ‘Physically Strong Young Migrants’

    04/13/2016 5:02:20 AM PDT · by dennisw · 29 replies
    breitbart.com ^ | Apr 2016 | by Virginia Hale11
    The report reveals how Arab migration has transformed Berlin’s entire criminal landscape, exposes how extended migrant families, now recruiting new migrants, run the entirety of the city’s organized crime. The report speaks of the ‘amazing’ sight of luxury sedans cruising up to refugee, asylum centre, and migrant lodgings filled with “people who have lost everything.” Investigators reported that the criminal gangs have “exploited the situation” of the migrant crisis, in which German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policies saw well over a million migrants from the third world world settle in Europe last year. The source explained that “young and physically strong...
  • One of Sweden's most wanted criminals is arrested 1,600 miles away, police say

    07/04/2025 11:54:00 PM PDT · by piasa · 7 replies
    CBS/AFP ^ | July 4, 2025
    The head of one of Sweden's biggest crime organizations, accused of instigating a surge in violent crime, has been arrested more than 1,600 miles away in Turkey, Swedish police said on Friday. Police did not identify the man by name but Swedish media named him as 35-year-old Ismail Abdo, head of the Rumba crime organization and alleged to have been orchestrating operations from abroad. Abdo is one of Sweden's most wanted criminals and the subject of an international arrest warrant since 2024. The Scandinavian country, once known for its low crime rates, has struggled for years to rein in organized...
  • Edward Snowden: CBDCs Are 'Cryptofascist Currencies' That Could 'Casually Annihilate' Savings

    10/10/2021 4:12:00 PM PDT · by American Number 181269513 · 24 replies
    Decrypt ^ | Oct 10, 2021 | Tim Hakki
    In a barbed tweet yesterday, NSA consultant turned whistleblower Edward Snowden said that Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) could “casually [annihilate] the savings of every wage-worker” in the country. Snowden began his attack against the nascent promise of CBDCs—digital currencies backed by the monetary reserves of a central bank—in response to an article by New York Times guest columnist Dr. Eswar Prasad, a professor of trade policies at Cornell University. Dr. Prasad highlighted the growing move towards a cashless economy, a move signaled by the research and trials of CBDCs in countries such as China, Sweden, Japan, Britain, as well...
  • ICE Raids Luxury Homes... Occupied 'Entirely' by Migrants

    05/28/2025 10:48:35 AM PDT · by Morgana · 7 replies
    Cash Jordan youtube ^ | May 28, 2025 | Cash Jordan
    Homeland security has gone about apprehending suspects living in luxury homes (Hollywood Hills and Burbank), some of whom are in america illegally. Journalistic report, including news footage and commentary on current events.
  • Italy: Former Mafia boss expulsion from US delayed (Rosario Gambano, pal of Roger Clinton)

    04/03/2008 11:13:22 AM PDT · by HAL9000 · 17 replies · 366+ views
    ADNKronos (Italy) ^ | April 3, 2008
    [mugshot] Palermo, 3 April (AKI) - The deportation of former Mafia boss Rosario Gambino from the United States to Italy has been delayed, sources told Adnkronos. The 65-year-old Gambino,(photo) cousin of Carlo Gambino, boss of the Gambino crime family, has been sought by Italian authorities since 2001, when a request for extradition was originally denied by US judges. Eleven attempts for his extradition were rejected by US authorities on the grounds that a law known as '41-bis' could be result in Gambino being tortured in Italy. The '41-bis' article of the Italian penitentiary act gives power to the minister...
  • Utah couple arrested, accused of smuggling oil from Mexico worth at least $300 million

    04/25/2025 3:29:03 PM PDT · by CFW · 44 replies
    KSLTV ^ | 4/25/25 | Brian Carlson and Mary Culbertson
    SANDY — A Utah couple is being accused of money laundering and smuggling oil into the U.S. alongside Mexican cartels, after they were arrested during a multi-state raid by U.S. Marshals, according to court documents. James Lael Jensen and his wife, Kelly Anne Jensen, were booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on Wednesday. The couple and two of his sons are being federally indicted for allegedly conspiring to smuggle 2,881 shipments of oil from Mexico that they knew were illegal. The family is accused of moving at least $300 million from Mexico to the U.S. The couple was arrested...
  • Eastern European illegal immigrants arrested in LA for murder, robbery

    05/04/2025 5:33:26 PM PDT · by CFW · 24 replies
    The Post Millennial ^ | 5/4/25 | staff
    Three illegal immigrants from Eastern Europe have been arrested in connection with a violent home invasion, robbery, and murder that took place in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. The suspects were identified as Georgian nationals Paata Kochyashvili, 38, Zaza Otarashvili, 46, and Besiki Khutsishvili, 52. Each of the men has been charged with murder, and their bail has been set at $2 million. According to a report by Fox News, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has issued detainers for all three men who are in the country illegally. The Los Angeles Police Department responded to a residence in Woodland Hills shortly before...
  • WATCH: DEA Reveals Rogue Federal Agents Acting as Security for Illegal Alien Gangsters

    04/29/2025 8:39:46 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 20 replies
    American Tribune ^ | April 29, 2025 | Staff
    A shocking interview revealed that active duty service members got in the way of a Colorado raid that ended in the arrest of over 100 illegal aliens, with a DEA agent explaining that soldiers were acting as armed security for dangerous gang members in a drug-filled underground nightclub. For context, in a video shared by the X account Breaking 911 on April 27, 2025, DEA Agent John Pullen explained that several hundred federal law enforcement officers, supported by local police, raided an illegal underground nightclub, arresting over 100 illegal aliens who were inside. However, Agent Pullen noted that over a...
  • Stunner: DEA Raid Busted Several Active Duty Military Working as Armed Security for Illegal Alien Gang Underground Nightclub in Colorado

    04/27/2025 1:59:26 PM PDT · by DFG · 81 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 04/27/2025 | Kristinn Taylor
    Several active duty military members working as armed security for an illegal alien gang underground nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado were busted during a DEA raid early Sunday morning; several other active duty military members patronizing the club were also detained according to a statement to reporters by DEA Rocky Mountain Field Division Special Agent in Charge John Pullen. All told, over a dozen active duty service members were reportedly detained at the club. Pullen said that some of the military working security were involved in criminal activity at the club. Pullen said “significant drug trafficking, prostitution” and “crimes of...
  • Illegal migrant accused of snatching Kristi Noem’s Gucci bag identified serial criminal from Chile

    04/27/2025 1:24:13 PM PDT · by bitt · 32 replies
    https://nypost.com ^ | April 27, 2025 | Ronny Reyes
    The masked migrant who was arrested for stealing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s Gucci bag containing $3,000 in cash is a Chilean national who was previously busted for a similar scheme in London, law enforcement sources told The Post. Mario Bustamante-Leiva, 49, of Santiago, was arrested on Saturday after he allegedly made off with the luxury shoulder bag while Noem, 53, was at an Easter outing with her family at The Capital Burger in Washington, DC, sources told The Post. Bustamante-Leiva, who is in the US illegally, is believed to be part of a large East Coast robbery organization. Cops...
  • From a Lavish Prison, Tren de Aragua Ran a Transnational Gang. Now, it's a Favorite Trump Target

    04/08/2025 11:01:18 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 14 replies
    Houston Chronicle ^ | Regina Garcia Cano
    Tocorón once had it all. A nightclub, swimming pools, tigers, a lavish suite and plenty of food. This was not a Las Vegas-style resort, but it felt like it for some of the thousands who until recently lived in luxury in this sprawling prison in northern Venezuela. Here, between parties, concerts and weeks-long visits from wives and children, is the birthplace of the Tren de Aragua, a dangerous gang that has gained global notoriety after U.S. President Donald Trump put it at the center of his anti-immigrant narrative. But kidnappings, extortion and other crimes were planned, ordered or committed from...
  • Is Tren de Aragua a Military Incursion? You Bet!

    03/27/2025 7:15:55 AM PDT · by george76 · 76 replies
    American Greatness. ^ | March 27, 2025 | Bart Marcois
    Judge Boasberg blocks Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Tren de Aragua, despite intelligence linking the gang to Venezuela’s government and acts of sabotage in the U.S. As President Trump fulfills his campaign promise to deport criminal illegal aliens, a blatantly corrupt judge is trying to stop him. Judge James Boasberg, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, has abandoned all pretense to fairness. I will leave it to others to focus on his conflicts of interest (the FISA Court, his wife, his daughter) and his double standard of justice. This article...
  • 100 Women Kept as Slaves in “Human Egg Farm” For Egg Harvesting

    03/23/2025 11:42:03 PM PDT · by Morgana · 21 replies
    Rotten Mango youtube ^ | March 6, 2025 | Rotten Mango
    Video is 60 minutes long This youtuber, Stephanie Soo, has an excellent way of telling true crime stories. Three Thai women escaped a “human egg farm” in the country of Georgia.
  • Lee Zeldin Outlines Biden Admin's "green slush fund"

    03/06/2025 10:49:44 PM PST · by llevrok · 16 replies
    video at link
  • High-End Brothel Frequented by Military Officers, Politicians Believed to be ‘Honeypot’ Scheme by China, Russia, South Korea

    01/03/2024 8:06:58 PM PST · by bitt · 29 replies
    GATEWAYPUNDIT ^ | 1/3/2024 | cristina laila
    The politicians, military officers, and government contractors who visited high-end brothels in eastern Virginia and Boston may have been lured into a ‘honeypot’ scheme by Israel, Russia, China or South Korea, according to intel officials. The Daily Mail reported: Intelligence experts are becoming increasingly convinced that six high end brothels in the suburbs of Boston and Washington, D.C. were set up by a foreign nation as an espionage ‘honeytrap’. They believe the brothels – allegedly masterminded by a 41-year-old South Korean woman – targeted politicians, high ranking government officials and defense contractors. But the mystery is which country was behind...