The Madoff Auctions

Bernie Madoff, Ponzi scheme mastermind, died in prison at 82 two weeks ago.

In late 2010, two years after he was first arrested for an $ 18 billion Ponzi scheme, Madoff possessions hit the auction market. Thousands of belongings from his New York City penthouse, including his used shoes, went on the auction block.

Bernard Madoff owned 250 pairs of shoes.

A bidder paid $55OK, for a 10.5-carat diamond engagement ring that belonged to Madoff's wife, Ruth. Ruth Madoff's French diamond earrings fetched the next highest price. They went for $135,000. A guitar signed by Bruce Springsteen was part of the sale.Platinum Brooch

The man who became a symbol of greed and deceit on Wall Street had a lavish collection of watches. One of his vintage steel Rolex "Moon Phase" watches sold for $68k. The watch was part of Madoff's 40-plus watch collection that also included 16 other Rolexes. U.S. marshals seized everything in the Madoffs' Manhattan apartment and Long Island beach house.

Worn socks, new monogrammed boxer shorts, even the used Italian velveteen slippers bearing the initials "BLM" in gold embroidery were seized.

Madoff's fleet were stars. A 55-foot Rybovich yacht named Bull fetched $700k. Madoff's 38-foot Shelter Island sport runabout, named Sitting Bull, went for $320k. The 24-foot Maverick center console dubbed Little Bull made $21,000. A black 1999 Mercedes-Benz CLK 320 convertible that belonged to Madoff's wife, Ruth, went for $30k.

Madoff's 4,000-square-foot duplex Manhattan penthouse sold for $8m, a 8,750-square-foot home in Palm Beach $7.4m, and Madoff's Montauk beach home sold for $9.4m.

Morrell Wine Auctions auctioned off 262 bottles of wine and liquor that had been seized by federal authorities from Madoff's mansion in Palm Beach. The collection sold for over $41,500. Five former employees were found guilty of conspiracy March 24 2014. A jury ruled they had for years helped conceal his massive Ponzi scheme.

Annette Bongiorno worked for Madoff for 40 years as his secretary and at one point had as much as $50m in her accounts. Bongiorno, 65, had multi-million dollar homes in Long Island and Florida and drove a Mercedes worth $100k.

Daycare Drug Bust

Suffolk County cops on Long Island raided the Channel Day Care, seizing two handguns with extended clips, bullets, 600 grams of cocaine, 60 grams of fentanyl and $173k cash. Magodeiry Landron, 50, and her son, Rafael Landron, 34, were both arrested on a variety of drug and firearm charges.

Cops subsequently raided the home of another of Magodeiry Landron's sons, Anthony Dominguez, seizing $66k, a gun with two extended clips and ammo. The daycare facility has a listed capacity of 12 children. The facility was hit with violations 13 times in the last six years.

Chicago serial killer Paul Frederick Runge

Paul Frederick Runge, 51, is an American serial killer who sexually assaulted and murdered at least six women and one girl between 1995 and 1997. Runge was charged with seven counts of murder. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2006. That sentence was later changed to life without the possibility of parole.

Prosecutors named him the "face of the death penalty". In 2011 capital punishment was abolished in Illinois.

Charles "Carl" Panzram - 31614

Charles "Carl" Panzram was a serial killer, rapist, arsonist, robber and burglar. In prison confessions he claimed to have committed 21 murders. After a series of escapes, he was executed by hanging in 1930 at age 39 for the murder of a prison employee at Leavenworth. Only five victims could be confirmed, though Panzram is suspected to have killed more than 100 men. Panzram wrote that he was "rage personified" and that he would often rape men whom he had robbed.

He was noted for his large frame and great physical strength. Panzram was hanged on September 5, 1930. As officers attempted to place a black hood over his head, he spat in the executioner's face. When asked for any last words he said, "Yes, hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard! I could kill a dozen men while you're screwing around!"

His grave, at the Leavenworth Penitentiary Cemetery, is marked only with his prison number, 31614.

Panzram's most famous quote: "I wish you all had one neck and my hands were around it."

Ackquille Jean Pollard : Bobby Shmurda - Out

In December 2014, 14 members of GS9 were charged in a 69-count indictment, which included murder, attempted murder, drugs, weapons, and other crimes. Bobby Shmurda was declared the “driving force” behind the gang. Shmurda is out after he accepted a 7 year plea deal. "My lawyer told me we don’t want to go to court in Manhattan with these white people ..."

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Bobby Shmurda faced at least 25 years on conspiracy charges for running a gang. Pollard is best known for the hit song "Hot Nigga". He also popularized a dance craze called the “Shmoney dance”. On December 17, 2014, New York City Police arrested Pollard and charged him with conspiracy to commit murder, weapons possession, and reckless endangerment. After pleading not guilty, he failed to post $2m bond and was incarcerated while awaiting trial.

Cops said Shmurda was the boss of GS9, the name of his label, as they dealt crack and waged a deadly battle with rival gangs for territory. Shmurda's songs and videos were "almost like a real-life document of what they were doing on the street." In "Hot Nigga", Shmurda rapped that "I been selling crack since like the fifth grade" because "Jaja taught me".

Rashid Derissant shot and killed a 19-year-old rival in 2013. He then tried to kill three others in the same incident.

Shmurda also rapped about his crew's past and future murders. A gangster with ties to Shmurda was jailed for 98 years for conspiracy, murder and assault. Rashid Derissant, 24, was found guilty of gang-related charges.

During one of his court appearances, Shurmda wore a pair of $500 shoes.

YouTube star insults Mexican drug lord - ends badly

Juan Luis Lagunas Rosales, 17, won't be remembered for his intelligence. In 2017 the man known as 'El Pirata de Culiacán' thought his 300k followers on Instagram and 37k followers on Twitter made him bulletproof. Rosales decided to post a video mocking Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes (El Mencho), a notorious drug lord and cartel boss. In the clip, Rosales can be heard saying, “El Mencho can suck my dick.” That was a fatal mistake. Rosales gave away his whereabouts by tagging his location on Instagram. He was shot 18 times. An employee of the bar was also shot dead.

Cervantes is one of Mexico’s most wanted men and has a $5m bounty on his head.

Richard 'The Iceman' Kuklinsky

Fellow mobsters called him 'the one-man army' or 'the devil himself'.

Richard Leonard Kuklinski (April 11, 1935 – March 5, 2006) was a hitman and serial killer. He was convicted of murdering six people, but confessed to far more. He was associated with the DeCavalcante crime family, and the Five Families of New York. He was given the nickname 'The Iceman' for his method of freezing a victim to mask the time of death. His favorite method of murder was a nasal-spray bottle filled with cyanide.

"This guy is just doing stuff because he likes it. There is nothing that's driving him to this. He just likes killing people."

Kuklinski recalled in an interview: "By now you know what I liked most was the hunt, the challenge of what the thing was. The killing for me was secondary. I got no rise as such out of it ... for the most part. But the figuring it out, the challenge—the stalking and doing it right—that excited me a lot. The greater the odds against me, the more juice I got out of it." A psychiatrist said Kuklinski was a bipolar psychopath with paranoid personality disorder.

Kuklinski used guns, knives, explosives, tire irons, fire, poison, asphyxiation, and even beatings "just for the exercise". He favored cyanide, since it killed quickly, wasn't blood-messy and was hard to detect. He fed living human beings to cave rats in Pennsylvania and recorded footage in order to collect torture contracts. Upon viewing one of the tapes, Mob Boss Roy DeMeo could not finish watching and said Kuklinski 'had no soul'. Kuklinski said the rats disposed of a body in about 2 days, leaving no trace.

DeMeo would later became one of his victims. Kuklinski was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988 for 5 murders, with an additional 30 years added on for murdering a mob-corrupted police officer. He died in prison at age 70 on March 5, 2006. See ----->Part II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceERzARTMGs

Ex-Quebec HA Michel "L'Animal" Smith

Michel "L'Animal" Smith

5 years ago the HA awarded a golden parachute to one of their most influential members, who receives a $10k monthly pension after 23 years of service. Michel "L'Animal" Smith, a pillar of the South chapter, withdrew from the OMG. Smith, previously Michel Lajoie-Smith, left the club "with honor" - or in "good standing". The biker received his patches in 1993. Smith was one of two HA at the table with the Italian mafia to control the cocaine market in the Montreal area.

Cops believe Smith sponsored the first chapter of the Hells Angels in Ecuador in 2015. In Quito, the Devils Clowns officially joined the ranks of the Hells Angels. The charter is strategic since Ecuador is one of the main conduits through which Colombia cocaine transits, before being exported to North America.

A retiree on good terms with the Hells Angels must have the date of his departure under his tattoo with the effigy of the gang. Club rules stipulate that a retired member on good terms must have the date of his retirement below his "official" Hells tattoo. Those who leave in "bad standing" must remove or camouflage their tattoos.