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Search results for "Organized crime" ...
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At The Devil's Table
The inner-workings of Columbia's Cali cocaine cartel, the world's biggest and richest crime syndicate, are opened to public view like few organized crime enterprises have ever been exposed in this book based on the story of Jorge Salcedo- a former chief of security for the cartel who now lives under witness protection somewhere in the United States.
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Crime and Human Organs
Bloomberg Markets magazine shows how impoverished people from Belarus to Nicaragua have been humiliated, maimed, and killed by organ traffickers and the doctors with whom they work. The stories expose the activities of transplant rings that supply wealthy Americans, Europeans, and Israelis with kidneys extracted from the poor.
Tags: Belarus; Nicaragua; Kidney; Organ Donation; Black Market
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The Offshore Crime
While governments and citizen of Eastern Europe were struggling with the recent financial crisis and trying to borrow money from international institutions, billions of Euros circulated in the rgeion in an illegal, parallel system that enriched organized crime figures and corrupt politicians.
Tags: crime; financial crisis; phantom companies
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Scout's Honor
An investigation of the issue of sexual abuse inside Boy Scouts organizations both in Canada and the United States. CBC News and The LA Times uncovered that nearly 80 Boy Scout leaders have been convicted of sex related crimes since the 1950s.
Tags: Sexual Abuse; Boy Scouts; CBC News; The Los Angeles Times; 1950s
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Scout's Honour
An investigation on sexual abuse inside Canadian and U.S. Boy Scout organizations, revealing close to 100 scout leaders convicted of sex related crimes since the 1950s and over 300 victims.
Tags: sex offenders; sexual abuse; children; minors; boy scouts; scout organization; jamboree; Canada; United States
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Death In The Desert
Exposing trafficking and enslavement of African refugees in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula -- a lawless place ruled by Bedouin tribes. Crimes involved include, but are not limited to, extortion, torture, human and organ trafficking, and murder.
Tags: sinai; peninsula; human trafficking; africa; refugee; Bedouin; torture; extortion; organ trafficking
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Fallen Angel: Joe Gustafson lives above the law in North Minneapolis
Using public documents, confidential sources and internal information from law enforcement, the reporter told the secret history of one of North Minneapolis' organized crime rings.
Tags: Hell's Angel; bondsman; Big Joe; Little Joe; Beat-Down Posse; kidnapping; drug ring
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Europe's Hidden Billions
An investigation of spending by the European Unions questions whether there is proper oversight of taxpayer money. Although nearly impossible to track where EU money is spent, the Financial Times found that millions of euros are being siphoned off by organized crime syndicates. Additionally, many of the EU's programs meant to support under-developed countries no longer are serving that mission.
Tags: European Union; UNESCO; recession; spending; oversight
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Asylum Seekers
Mexican citizens are surrounded by violence and drugs in their native country. Many are seeking to become US citizens and find the only way is to gain political asylum or going through business channels. The US government is denying many asylum requests because they believe the law doesn’t fully apply to victims of Mexican organized crime. Further, many of these Mexican citizens have been sent back to Mexico, where a number of them face torture and even death.
Tags: cartel; victims; cases; American law; Gutierrez; safety; family; immigrants; danger; refugees
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Medicare Fraud: The New Cocaine Cowboys
Medicare Fraud has become one of the largest organized crimes in America. The investigation revealed that it costs “US taxpayers $60 billion in fraudulent Medicare benefits filed every year”. As a result of the first story, many groups moved in to initiate new laws, which would regulate Medicare and who gets the money.
Tags: 60 Minutes; Department of Health and Human Services; congressional; health care; medical; medicine; schemes; insurance; clinics; system