The first is known as a 'net worth analysis,' generally used where the target has conspicuous assets, and a 'source and application of funds analysis,' generally used where the target has conspicuous spending habits." (Richards 1999, 215)
The Haymarket bombing may or may not have been perpetrated by anarchists, but even if it was the ideological threat posed by anarchism was more frightening to law and order as an ideology than as a political reality. Likewise McVeigh's deranged motives -- as far-right libertarian revenge attack on the idea of governmental overreach, as vengeance for Federal raids gone wrong at Waco and at Ruby Ridge in the early nineteen-nineties -- were not shared by anyone on the American right, even if he might have been seen as a direct inheritor of anti-government rhetoric from the political right wing in America (Serrano 1998, 73)
What is astonishing is not that such a large drug-trafficking organization would need to launder money but the fact that they were so brazen in the way that the did it: the Times reports that their activity began with buying "an estimated $3 million in quarter horses, including one named Number One Cartel" and eventually attained a level where "the Zetas funneled about $1 million a month into buying quarter horses in the United States." (Thompson 2012)
As a result, national borders have become increasingly porous." (Williams 1997, 318)
755). In response to these trends, law enforcement agencies at the national, state and local levels have all become more actively involved in developing appropriate responses to organized criminal activities, but the challenges are severe because the stakes are so high (Fazey, 2007)
Absent such cooperative, broad-based efforts, Shelley cautions that the conventional nation-state may become obsolete in the 21st century. This caution has assumed special significance in the post-September 11, 2001 environment because terrorist groups have increasingly relied on the same types of drug manufacture and distribution methods used by organized crime to fund their own criminal enterprises (Friman, 2003)
According to Kelly (2000), Barnes recognized that wars between rival gangs over drug-selling territory was counterproductive not only because of the blood that was spilled in the process, but the unwanted attention it attracted from law enforcement authorities. By the late 20th century, though, this business model had been replaced by one that was characterized by violence and gangs that were ready and willing to engage in violence to further their own interest (Kelly, 2000)
According to Kelly (2000), Barnes recognized that wars between rival gangs over drug-selling territory was counterproductive not only because of the blood that was spilled in the process, but the unwanted attention it attracted from law enforcement authorities. By the late 20th century, though, this business model had been replaced by one that was characterized by violence and gangs that were ready and willing to engage in violence to further their own interest (Kelly, 2000)
On the other hand, though, Knowles also emphasizes that the battle of wits between organized crime and law enforcement authorities continued unabated, with criminals continuously developing countermeasures to newly implemented approaches to interdiction developed by law enforcement. Such countermeasures include sophisticated and secure telecommunications devices, innovative drug concealment and smuggling methods as well as expensive equipment such as air transportation and even landing fields in remote locations (Knowles, 2008)
This debate was particularly vigorous during the decade between the hearings chaired by Tennessee senator Estes Kefauver in 1951 and the testimony of Mafia informant Joseph Valachi in 1963. (Bernstein, 2007) The stated purposes of the Apalachin meeting are varied, if not intriguing, and a couple of them even humorous
This debate was particularly vigorous during the decade between the hearings chaired by Tennessee senator Estes Kefauver in 1951 and the testimony of Mafia informant Joseph Valachi in 1963. (Bernstein, 2007) The stated purposes of the Apalachin meeting are varied, if not intriguing, and a couple of them even humorous
Several major Mafia figures were absent, either because they didn't want to attend, or because they were very much dead. We'll discuss a possible conspiracy later. (Enrique Cirules, 2004, p
It became clear that top hoodlums had organized themselves into a criminal conglomerate. (Hafer, n
However, they were relatively ineffective, winning only minor convictions against the mob, and then having them thrown out by judges. (Raab., 2006) It was Robert Kennedy, first from his position on the McClellan committee, and then from his post as JFK's attorney general who turned loose his attack dogs
Mob informant Joseph Valachi spoke plainly in his 1963 testimony (during which he famously coined the phrase La Cosa Nostra) when he remarked, "I'm not talking about Italians, I'm talking about criminals." (Sorte, 2008) Strange Twist or Just Another Rumor? At first glance, the Apalachin incident seems pretty cut and dried
While Hoover was busy looking for Communists, Kennedy had opened the files on organized crime in a way that had never been done before. (Ward, 1997) The Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities -- or McClellan Commission, as it became known -- had named as its chief counsel, Robert Kennedy
government. The people in power to eliminate opposition may misuse this act of state-organized crime (Friedrichs, 2010)
The concept is not new in the government as history traces events of state -- organized crime as early as the age of the Vikings. State -- organized crimes should be eliminated if corruption and other vices are to be eliminated (Rothe, 2011)
What is Organized Crime? Organized crime is typically defined as the universal venture and business that has encircled all the nations of the world and has become transnational organized crime. Although the experts and professionals have not developed any particular universal definition of organized crime, but organized crime typically refers to the organization or enterprise that is operating on a long-term basis with the primary function of production and trading of goods and services that are merely illegal and illicit (Abadinsky, 2009)
Taking into consideration the political body of the nation, it is comprised of government, which is a comprehensive governing authority with complete powers to rule over the citizens of the country. In addition, the government is the ruling body that design and make laws, settle and become a mediator in resolving the overall disputes, issue or pass decisions for administrative activities and so forth (Albanese, 2010)