http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Organized_CrimeFind stories, videos, and photos about Organized Crime from CNN.com.en-usCable News Network LP, LLLP.Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:46:45 GMT5http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gifhttp://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Organized_Crime14433Find stories, videos, and photos about Organized Crime from CNN.com.http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/basketball/more/11/06/shabtai.murder/index.htmlhttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/basketball/more/11/06/shabtai.murder/index.htmlMOSCOW -- Of all the strange, colorful and often dangerous characters that traversed Russia's turbulent transition to a market economy in the 1990s, few had a more extraordinary biography than Shabtai von Kalmanovic, a real-life International Man of Mystery who bankrolled the most expensive women's basketball roster in the world.Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:40:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/29/italy.mafia.killing.video/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/29/italy.mafia.killing.video/index.html#cnnSTCTextSeeking to identify the man who shot dead another man outside a store in Naples, Italy, in the spring, an anti-mafia prosecutor distributed on Thursday a video showing the execution.Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:44:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/24/mogilevich.fbi/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/24/mogilevich.fbi/index.html#cnnSTCTextSemion Mogilevich may be the most powerful man you've never heard of.Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:21:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/22/medicare.organized.crime/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/22/medicare.organized.crime/index.html#cnnSTCTextOrganized crime gangs are exploiting a new target for illegal profit: Medicare and Medicaid.Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:26:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/07/wisconsin.capone.hideout.auction/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/07/wisconsin.capone.hideout.auction/index.html#cnnSTCTextAl Capone's legend of bootlegging, gangland slayings and tax evasion lives on more than 60 years after the Chicago gangster's death. Now comes a footnote that is a sign of the times: foreclosure.Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:19:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/10/new.york.gotti.trial/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/10/new.york.gotti.trial/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe son of the late Gambino family crime boss John Gotti is set to stand trial in federal court in New York on Monday on murder and racketeering charges that could put him in prison for life if he is convicted.Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:49:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/19/italy.mafia.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/19/italy.mafia.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCTextItalian police have arrested a suspected mafia boss who is considered one of the most dangerous criminals in the country, according to Italian media reports Tuesday.Tue, 19 May 2009 16:36:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/06/mafia.cops.sentenced/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/06/mafia.cops.sentenced/index.html#cnnSTCTextTwo former New York Police Department detectives were sentenced to life in prison without parole Friday for operating as Mafia hit men while employed by the NYPD.Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:58:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/02/25/mexico.mayor.killed/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/02/25/mexico.mayor.killed/index.html#cnnSTCTextA mayor in Mexican President Felipe Calderon's home state was ambushed and killed by a group of heavily armed men as he returned to his house, news reports said.Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:08:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/14/mafia.escape/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/14/mafia.escape/index.html#cnnSTCTextPolice Wednesday arrested the suspected head of an Italian mafia murder squad following a two-day manhunt after he eluded police by crawling through sewer pipes, according to Italian media reports.Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:36:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/12/16/mafia.raid.italy/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/12/16/mafia.raid.italy/index.html#cnnSTCTextItalian paramilitary police carried out massive arrests Tuesday against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, "decapitating" the organization's leadership structure, the head of the city's carabinieri said.Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:20:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/21/gotti.racketeering.trial/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/21/gotti.racketeering.trial/index.html#cnnSTCTextJohn "Junior" Gotti's lawyers are asking a federal judge in Florida to move his murder conspiracy and racketeering trial to New York.Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:22:00 ESThttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1854388,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1854388,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsA string of high-profile killings and trials revealing connections between politicians and mobsters threatens Zagreb's prospects for E.U. membershipWed, 29 Oct 2008 14:10:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1852464,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1852464,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsAs thousands express their anger at the Camorra's threat to a young writer, the Pope chooses to say nothingTue, 21 Oct 2008 18:00:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/05/gotti.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/05/gotti.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCTextJohn "Junior" Gotti, son of the late Gambino family mob boss John Gotti, was arrested in New York on Tuesday and faces a number of federal charges including racketeering, conspiracy to commit murder and drug trafficking, authorities said.Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:18:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/16/fbi.mob/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/16/fbi.mob/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe Teflon Don is dead and gone. The Mustache Petes of the Mafia's old guard are mostly behind bars. And the crime rackets have gone global.Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:10:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/02/scotus.moneylaundering/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/02/scotus.moneylaundering/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe Supreme Court dealt federal prosecutors dual setbacks Monday in efforts to prosecute the laundering of drug ring and organized crime profits.Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:36:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/23/organized.crime.threats/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/23/organized.crime.threats/index.html#cnnSTCTextAttorney General Michael Mukasey warned Wednesday that organized criminal networks have penetrated portions of the international energy market and tried to control energy resources.Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:54:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1721992,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1721992,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsViewpoint: Italy cannot fix its broken political system until it summons the anger and determination needed to fight the scourge of organized crimeThu, 13 Mar 2008 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/08/gambino.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/08/gambino.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCTextA massive anti-mafia sweep that stretched from New York to Sicily has not only cut off the head of the Gambino crime family but lopped off "the shoulders and chest" too, a spokesman for the attorney general of New York said.Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:41:00 ESThttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1711241,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1711241,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsA huge police operation leads to the arrest of nearly 80 alleged mafiosi and brings an old gang war to lightFri, 08 Feb 2008 02:00:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/07/gambino.roundup/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/07/gambino.roundup/index.html#cnnSTCTextA massive anti-Mafia sweep that stretched from New York to Sicily has not only cut off the head of the Gambino crime family but lopped off "the shoulders and chest" too, prosecutors said Thursday.Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:25:00 ESThttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1680632,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1680632,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsItalian police capture the reputed new head of the Sicilian Mafia and his son in a major victory in the battle against organized crimeMon, 05 Nov 2007 15:00:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/14/whitey.bulger/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/14/whitey.bulger/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe FBI on Friday released a picture and video of a man and woman seen on the Italian island of Sicily in April, saying they could be fugitive underworld crime boss James J. "Whitey" Bulger, sought for his alleged role in numerous murders and organized crime activities, and his girlfriend. Sat, 15 Sep 2007 22:06:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1660700,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1660700,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsOrganized crime may have brought in more than $2 trillion in revenue last year, about twice all the military budgets in the world combinedTue, 11 Sep 2007 13:40:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/08/30/italy.arrests.ap/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/08/30/italy.arrests.ap/index.html#cnnSTCTextHundreds of police raided a small town in southern Italy on Thursday and arrested 32 suspected members of organized crime clans believed to be involved in a feud that killed six Italians in Germany earlier this month.Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:17:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/08/30/mob.trial.ap/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/08/30/mob.trial.ap/index.html#cnnSTCTextMen who have nothing to hide don't talk in heavy code, prosecutors say.Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:49:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/08/28/mob.trial.ap/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/08/28/mob.trial.ap/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe government's star witness was an admitted hit man who casually described how he strangled, stabbed, beat or shot his victims, often not bothering to know why the mob targeted them.Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:42:00 EDThttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/hockey/nhl/08/24/bc.hkn.gamblingbust.ap/index.htmlhttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/hockey/nhl/08/24/bc.hkn.gamblingbust.ap/index.htmlThe last of three men who ran an illegal sports gambling ring was sentenced to two-years' probation Friday.Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:14:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/08/23/mafia.funerals/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/08/23/mafia.funerals/index.html#cnnSTCTextRelatives wailed and others threw red roses during the funeral Thursday for two brothers, killed in a suspected Mafia in Germany slaying that left four other Italians dead.Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:46:00 EDThttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/hockey/nhl/08/17/bc.hkn.gambling.ap/index.htmlhttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/hockey/nhl/08/17/bc.hkn.gambling.ap/index.htmlA former NHL player and assistant coach who ran an illegal sports gambling ring won't serve jail time despite international headlines linking the case to hockey's biggest star.Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:12:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/08/18/germany.shootings.reut/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/08/18/germany.shootings.reut/index.html#cnnSTCTextGerman police investigating the gangland-style killing of six Italian men in Duisburg this week said on Saturday they recovered a weapon and other objects that are now being analyzed as possible evidence.Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:03:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/08/17/germany.shootings.reut/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/08/17/germany.shootings.reut/index.html#cnnSTCTextGerman police have issued a sketch of a man thought to be linked to the gangland-style killing of six Italian men this week, attributed to a mafia clan feud, in the northwestern city of Duisburg.Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:16:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/08/15/germany.shootings/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/08/15/germany.shootings/index.html#cnnSTCTextPolice in Germany found six young Italian men shot in the head execution-style outside a train station in the western city of Duisburg Wednesday in an attack officials believe was part of a feud between organized crime clans.Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:02:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/24/best.gangsters/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/24/best.gangsters/index.htmlHaving spoken to the Godfather himself, CNN decided to respect the family of gangster movies. Here's our top 10 favorite mob-related flicks -- as well as the ones we'd like to see sleep with the fishes.Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:33:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/25/fitzgerald.profile.txt/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/25/fitzgerald.profile.txt/index.htmlHaving earned acclaim in legal circles for targeting the likes of Osama bin Laden and mafia figure John Gambino, Patrick Fitzgerald may soon garner mainstream attention if his probe into the leaked identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame ensnares top Bush administration officials.Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:02:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/08/04/police.charges/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/08/04/police.charges/index.htmlTwo former New York City police detectives accused of being hit men for the Mafia were each indicted Wednesday on another murder charge in the 1986 killing of a jewelry merchant.Thu, 04 Aug 2005 16:00:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/07/28/mafia.racketeering/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/07/28/mafia.racketeering/index.htmlTwenty people, including reputed members of the Genovese organized crime family, have been arrested and charged with wide-ranging racketeering counts, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan announced Thursday.Thu, 28 Jul 2005 19:06:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2005/06/07/pf/security_stoptheft2_0507/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2005/06/07/pf/security_stoptheft2_0507/index.htmA crook has two advantages: The rise of fast credit and the easy availability of the information he needs to pretend to be you.Tue, 07 Jun 2005 21:18:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/22/detective.hitmen/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/22/detective.hitmen/index.htmlTwo former New York City police detectives accused of being hit men for the Mafia more than 20 years ago pleaded not guilty at their Brooklyn federal court arraignment Thursday on charges that included murder, drug distribution and money laundering.Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:50:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/11/police.slayings/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/11/police.slayings/index.htmlTwo former New York City police detectives face a federal court hearing in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Friday after being indicted on murder charges for allegedly acting as hit men for the Mafia more than 20 years ago.Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:12:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/12/21/fbi.graves/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/12/21/fbi.graves/index.htmlThe New York Medical Examiner's Office has identified the skeletons of Philip "Phil Lucky" Giaccone and Dominick "Big Trin" Trinchera, two Mafia figures believed to be the victims of a gangland shooting more than 20 years ago, FBI officials said Tuesday.Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:21:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/US/10/19/mob.graveyard/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/US/10/19/mob.graveyard/index.htmlAuthorities have found the skeletons of two mafia captains, believed to be victims of a gangland shooting over 20 years ago, FBI officials said Monday.Tue, 19 Oct 2004 06:01:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/18/albanians.mob/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/18/albanians.mob/index.htmlThousands of Albanians and others who fled the Balkans for the United States in recent years have emerged as a serious organized crime problem, threatening to displace La Cosa Nostra (LCN) families as kingpins of U.S. crime, top FBI officials said Wednesday.Thu, 19 Aug 2004 01:36:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/04/13/way.wiseguy/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/04/13/way.wiseguy/index.htmlIn an episode of "The Sopranos," two members of Tony's inner circle, Christopher Moltisanti and Peter Paul "Paulie Walnuts" Gualtieri, get into a major beef over which one of them should pick up the check for an expensive dinner. The disagreement leads to a major and violent confrontation.Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:11:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/30/colombo.indictment/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/30/colombo.indictment/index.htmlTwo sons of the late Colombo crime family's boss were indicted with 29 others on federal racketeering and other charges Tuesday in New York City.Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:49:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/03/08/363706/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/03/08/363706/index.htmI started working as a court reporter in 1979. I was 23 years old. I wanted to go into medicine, but I got derailed. And this isn't so bad. Here we get notorious people. We've had [Mike] Tyson here...Mon, 08 Mar 2004 05:01:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/03/04/airport.drug.bust/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/03/04/airport.drug.bust/index.htmlThe New York City Police Department said Thursday it has cracked a major drug ring it says brought more than $75 million worth of cocaine from Guyana to the New York area each year.Thu, 04 Mar 2004 21:10:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/01/20/bonanno.indictments/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/01/20/bonanno.indictments/index.htmlEighteen people federal prosecutors identified as members of the Bonanno crime family were indicted Tuesday on racketeering and conspiracy charges, including involvement in 15 killings.Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:07:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/12/08/355094/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/12/08/355094/index.htmThere was a shortage of regular guys on the road. At least that's how it seemed to six young Russians driving on the Southern State Parkway. They had left the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn--kn...Mon, 08 Dec 2003 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/06/12/281972/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/06/12/281972/index.htmIf the Russian aluminum industry had a face, it would look like Lev Chernoy's: corrugated, pockmarked, insulated from the outside world by a metal detector and an army of armed guards. Crippled by ...Mon, 12 Jun 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/04/17/278053/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/04/17/278053/index.htmEven a Sopranos nut (like me) would be put to sleep by most day- to-day accounts of organized crime--which is why I nodded off through the middle of The Devil and Sonny Liston (Little Brown), a loo...Mon, 17 Apr 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2000/04/01/277547/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2000/04/01/277547/index.htmOn a hill in Tallinn, Estonia, with a steady rain falling, an American entrepreneur gazes out over a vast expanse of grass to a massive, Soviet-built band shell below. To anyone driving past on the...Sat, 01 Apr 2000 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/10/27/233323/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/10/27/233323/index.htmHow did the feds get in this mess? Mon, 27 Oct 1997 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/03/03/222753/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/03/03/222753/index.htmWhat is healthy for a Russian is deadly for a foreigner. --Russian proverb Mon, 03 Mar 1997 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/05/27/212867/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/05/27/212867/index.htmAfter dominating New York City's garbage business for 40 years, the Mafia may finally be getting dumped. Credit a government investigation and free-market forces, with perhaps a journalistic nudge....Mon, 27 May 1996 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/01/15/207168/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/01/15/207168/index.htmWILLIAM Ruckelshaus was lunching with a group of editors and reporters at the New York Times in Manhattan when the question was popped. It was 1992, and the chairman of Browning-Ferris Industries, ...Mon, 15 Jan 1996 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/11/30/77184/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/11/30/77184/index.htmFIRST you hear the pulsating thunder of three dozen unmuffled Harley-Davidsons snaking around the bend. Then you see them. An outlaw motorcycle gang, maybe Pagan's or even Hells Angels, overlords o...Mon, 30 Nov 1992 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/10/09/72555/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/10/09/72555/index.htmTHINK OF the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a service company with 260 lines of business -- the number of laws Congress tells it to enforce -- competing for resources and management attention. ...Mon, 09 Oct 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/10/09/72554/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/10/09/72554/index.htmORGANIZED CRIME HIT:Mafia kingpins cases, 1981-89. Over eight years, 87 members of Mafia leadership nationwide are convicted. Mon, 09 Oct 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/06/06/70628/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/06/06/70628/index.htmA CONCRETE-POURING job like Manhattan's new $486 million Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, completed two years ago, should have drawn a flock of bids. Not in New York City. Only two came in for th...Mon, 06 Jun 1988 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/06/22/69172/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/06/22/69172/index.htmTHE SEAT BELT SIGNS flash on. Over the intercom comes the pilot's voice: ''We have started our descent into John F. Kennedy International Airport.'' Descent indeed. Few passengers landing here real...Mon, 22 Jun 1987 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/12/22/68474/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/12/22/68474/index.htmThe government cracked down on the $50-billion-a-year business of organized crime, and indictments brought to trial about half of the 50 biggest Mafia bosses (FORTUNE, November 10). Now six of the ...Mon, 22 Dec 1986 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/11/10/68296/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/11/10/68296/index.htmWHAT more can be said about the Mafia? Well, plenty. Organized crime is, among other things, a potent economic force. Yet rarely, if ever, has the press examined the mob as a business, one that has...Mon, 10 Nov 1986 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/11/10/68273/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/11/10/68273/index.htmConsultants are almost as popular with organized crime families as they are with corporations. These special counsellors -- lawyers, labor experts, and political advisers -- shuttle between members...Mon, 10 Nov 1986 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/11/10/68272/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/11/10/68272/index.htmOrganized crime in the U.S. is not a Mafia monopoly. Members of the Chinese Triad secret societies and Japanese Yakuza have acquired growing influence in Hawaii and on the West Coast, where their l...Mon, 10 Nov 1986 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/11/10/68274/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/11/10/68274/index.htmAs underboss and comptroller of the Kansas City mob, Carl DeLuna felt immense concern for his fiduciary responsibilities. ''Toughy,'' as he is known, called his meticulous record keeping ''doin' th...Mon, 10 Nov 1986 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/04/01/65738/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/04/01/65738/index.htmEVEN BOSTON'S CAB DRIVERS, normally a shockproof bunch, are scandalized: they can tell you every detail of the troubles at the Bank of Boston, one of Beantown's oldest--and, until lately, most vene...Mon, 01 Apr 1985 05:01:00 EST