Denver HA Dustin 'Dusty' Ullerich sues the basterds

Denver HA Dustin 'Dusty' Ullerich, 49, was shot in the gut by cops during a raid. A Jefferson County sheriff’s SWAT deputy shot him with a projectile that was meant to break the lock on his front door. Ullerich suffered serious injuries. He's not only suing the cops, he's begging for money on Go Fund Me. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-help-dusty

Ullerich helped other HA kidnap and severely beat a man as they kicked him out of the club in July 2019. The man became an informant.

The tattoo shop owner was one of 14 targeted in the Nov. 7, 2019 raid against the local HAMC. Cops used flash-bang grenades and door-blasting projectiles to execute 19 search warrants, seizing meth, cocaine, cash and firearms. Of those targeted in the raids, seven are facing federal charges in connection with the kidnapping and conspiracy, and four men are facing criminal charges in state court.

Italy convicts 70 'Ndrangheta in major mafia trial

An Italian judge found 70 defendants guilty in the first sentencing at one of the country's largest mafia trials. The 'Ndrangheta clan is based in Calabria, the toe of Italy's boot. It is considered the most powerful mafia group in the country, eclipsing the Cosa Nostra in Sicily. Key 'Ndrangheta were handed jail sentences of up to 20 years for charges including extortion, drug trafficking and theft. Over the next two years, 355 mobsters and corrupt officials will face court for their crimes. Hundreds of lawyers and nearly a thousand witnesses are involved. Boss Luigi Mancuso, 67, 'the Uncle', and ex-senator Giancarlo Pittelli, 68, who prosecutors say was his white-collar fixer, will face longer court trials later.

Turkish cops arrest female mob boss Güniz Akkuş - Hanımağa

Turkish police arrested female mob boss Güniz Akkuş. Akkuş is known as 'Hanımağa' (boss lady).

She was taken into custody with Mustafa Kemal Yavuz following police raids across Istanbul targeting organized crime.

Rat hit man reveals Scoppa brothers hit list

The hit man who shot the Falduto brothers, and who later became an informant, revealed that Salvatore Scoppa and his brother Andrea, paid him. He said the Scoppa brothers were of Calabrian origin and sought to eliminate as many Sicilians of the Montreal Mafia as possible. He revealed their hit list.

Liborio (Pancho) Cuntrera, 53 is the son of Agostino Cuntrera, a Montreal Mafia leader who remained loyal to the Rizzuto organization while it was under attack. That loyalty likely cost the elder Cuntrera his life. He was killed in June 2010. Salvatore Brunetti, 69 is a longtime member of the Hells Angels. He has close links to the Montreal Mafia. Francesco Del Balso, 51 was often identified as a member of the Rizzuto organization. On May 6, 2017 an armed gunman entered Del Balso’s home in Laval. Giuseppe 'Joey Gator' Focarazzo, 46 has long been associated with the Montreal mafia. He is described as a street boss. Gang leader Arsène Mompoint, 47 was whacked in Kanesatake on July 1, weeks before the rat began testifying in the Viau/Dion case.

Antonio 'The Florist' Mucci, 67, came to notoriety in the 1970s when he was convicted of the attempted murder of reporter Jean-Pierre Charbonneau. Mucci was sentenced to an eight-year prison term in 1973. Marco Pizzi, 51, is a key member of the Calabrians. An attempt was made on Pizzi’s life on Aug. 8, 2016. Calogero 'Charlie' Renda, 54, is the son of Paolo Renda. Paolo Renda was abducted in May 2010 near his home in Montreal and hasn't been seen since.

Vito Salvaggio was tied to both the Hells Angels and the Montreal mafia. He is thought to be a key figure in business between the Hells Angels, Montreal Mafia and street gangs. Nicola 'Nick' Spagnolo, 45 was on the hit list and had been followed by people tied to the Scoppa brothers days before Spagnolo’s father, Vincenzo, a longtime friend of Vito Rizzuto, was killed in October 2016. Stefano Sollecito, 54, and his brother Mario, 50. The rat testified the Scoppa brothers weren't content with the death of Rocco Sollecito and wanted two of his sons killed as well.

Antonio Vanelli. Montreal homicide detectives showed up at Vanelli’s home to inform him his life was in danger . Hours earlier, someone shot 72-year-old Angelo D’Onofrio in a case of mistaken identity. Gianpietro 'JP' Tiberio, 48 was discussed on wire taps by bosses of the Rizzuto organization. Tiberio was named at the Charbonneau commission into organized crime and hit the news in a tow truck scam in 2016.

See ----->Montreal towing company stole cars, extortion - Rizzuto Organization/Hells Angels
See ----->Arsène Mompoint whacked
See ----->Francesco Del Balso a walking target
See ----->Marco Pizzi survives failed Montreal mafia hit

U.S. offers $5m bounties on Sinaloa bosses

The US State Department has announced rewards of up to $5m each for the capture of four Mexican drug cartel leaders, including the brother of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

Along with Aureliano Guzman-Loera, US authorities are also upping their pursuit of brothers Ruperto Salgueiro-Nevarez, Jose Salgueiro-Nevarez and Heriberto Salgueiro-Nevarez.

Kevin Hobbs - Vanbex

Vancouver-based Vanbex raised up to $33m in July 2017 for its cryptocurrency offering, Fuel token. Cops say Kevin Hobbs and Lisa Cheng used most of that money to bankroll a lavish lifestyle complete with luxury cars, high-stakes gambling and luxury real estate. RCMP began investigating Vanbex in May 2018. Soon after, the Canadian Revenue Agency began a tax probe. During Vanbex’s cryptocurrency offering and in the months following, US$8.9m made its way into Hobbs’ personal bank account. Bank accounts and properties of Hobbs and Cheng were seized in March of this year.

Before the offering the couple lived in a condo owned by Cheng's parents. Shortly after the offering, Hobbs’ and Cheng’s Instagram accounts filled with posts of their fortune and lavish lifestyle. They flaunted luxury goods, Rolex collections, exotic vacations and real estate. Hobbs is a degenerate gambler, and was placed on the BC Lottery Corp.’s watch list after laundering between $1.8m and $2.3m in B.C. casinos. The pair deny all. “It will all be shown that [the money] was legally obtained,” Hobbs spewed.

Hobb's $3.6m condo on the 52nd floor of a building in downtown Toronto has been seized.

Hobbs claims innocence, saying that fraud allegations are being made by ex-employees with axes to grind. A pillar of their defence involves claiming that Vanbex’s former director of engineering, Kip Warner, defamed them.
See ----->Kevin Patrick Hobbs and Lisa Cheng targeted for civil forfeiture

Power of the Patch = jail time

Jack Shore, 68, is a full-patch of the Winnipeg HA chapter and has been since its inception in 2001. Dylan Hutchinson, 24, is a prospect and David Saunders, 47, a hangaround. They are on trial for B&E with intent to commit an indictable offence in support of a criminal organization. Richard Wonder had been communicating with a woman over Facebook for sex, problem was she was Shore’s girlfriend. ‘Stay away from (her) or else I’m going to come down there and tune you up or possibly kill you" Shore texted. He and his possee showed up on Wonder's doorstep hours later. Cops showed up before the party got rolling. Shore downplayed the fact he was wearing colours, saying he was only there to 'talk'. Prosecutors say the boys in their gang colours is a clear act of intimidation and, by extension, proof of their committing an offence for a criminal organization.

'Bugsy' Siegel

Siegel was a driving force behind development of Las Vegas as a gambling mecca.

Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (born Benjamin Siegelbaum) was an American gangster and associate of the Genovese crime family. Siegel was one of the most feared gangsters of his day. Siegel was one of the founders and leaders of Murder, Inc and a bootlegger. After prohibition was repealed in 1933, he turned to gambling. His time as a mobster was mainly as a hitman and muscle. In 1937 he left New York and moved to California.

Bugsy Siegel was a textbook sociopath and murderer many times over. Ruthless and cold blooded, remorse was alien to him. In gangster circles, the nickname "Bugsy" is often a term of endearment or honor. It is given out to those racketeers who show no fear. Seigel was quoted as saying "My friends call me Ben, strangers call me Mr. Siegel, and guys I don't like call me Bugsy, but not to my face." In 1937, the East Coast mob sent Siegel to California to develop syndicate gambling rackets with Los Angeles crime family boss, Jack Dragna. Using investments from the mob, he took over the plans to build the first casino resort in Vegas.

The project ran far over budget as no expense was spared during the war-time economy. The mob was not happy, as they had already put about 5 million into the project. By late 1946 the syndicate issued an ultimatum: provide an accounting or else.

No one was charged, and the crime remains officially unsolved.

On the night of June 20, 1947, as Siegel sat in Virginia Hill's Beverly Hills home reading the Los Angeles Times, an unknown assailant fired at him through the window with a .30-caliber military M1 carbine, hitting him many times, including twice in the head.

Catalytic converter theft getting ridiculous - update

A B.C. law passed a decade ago to put a stop to metal thefts doesn’t cover catalytic converters. The loophole allows thieves to sell them to scrap dealers without scrutiny. The significant rise in the price of the precious metals inside the converters; platinum, palladium and rhodium, has resulted in an explosion of thefts. Rhodium is priced around $11k an ounce, up from $780 five years ago. It hit $29k an ounce in March. A converter has a gram or two of rhodium. There is no legal requirement for scrap dealers to record a converter purchase in B.C. Thieves use online platforms such as Facebook Marketplace or Kijiji to find buyers. Because converters don’t have serial numbers or distinctive markings, there's nothing stopping them.

Catalytic converter thieves in Vancouver are getting so brazen, broad daylight and witnesses with cameras aren't slowing them down. Scum are so practiced it takes less than 30 seconds for them to remove a converter that costs $1,000 to replace. Converters are money on the hoof for drug addicts. 1,189 thefts have been reported to VPD in 2021 so far, up from 1,060 in all of 2020. Claim costs are more than $2.3m and rising exponentially.

Creeper da Reaper = life

Tennessee Gangster Disciples Brandon Durell Hardison, who went by "Creep" and "Creeper da Reeper," was found guilty of RICO conspiracy, murder in aid of racketeering, and a slew of other charges. On Jan. 6, 2012, he murdered a gang associate over an unpaid debt and then shot and killed the victim's girlfriend, who witnessed the killing. He was promoted to the "Blackout Squad," a group of hitmen. He participated in multiple shootings related to the rival Bloods. Hardison was the last of 12 indicted in an investigation into the Gangster Disciples. He's likely to be sentenced to life.

Al Capone's bulletproof 1928 Cadillac

The 1928 Cadillac Town Sedan has only 1,111 miles on the odometer and a host of hardware. It features one-inch-thick bulletproof glass windows all around, and the side windows can even be cranked up to allow a two-inch gap at the bottom for gunmen to shoot a Thompson submachine gun. The back window opens as well to allow rear-firing. The car was outfitted with a police siren, flashing police lights, and a police radio hidden in the glove box. The car sold for $341,000 in 2014.

The green and black paint was similar to Chicago’s police cars. The infamous Caddy has lived a quiet, little used life, occupying museums.

The U.S. Treasury Department impounded Capone’s Caddy after he was arrested in 1931. When FDR went to Congress to ask for a declaration of a state of war on December 8, 1941, he rode in this Cadillac.

Russian Crime Bosses hit by U.S. sanctions - Pandora Papers

In 2016 the U.S. passed the Global Magnitsky Act, which allows the U.S. State and Treasury departments to name and shame corrupt actors.

Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov

In 2017 they hit a group of 10 Russians and others connected to major organized-crime syndicates with sanctions. The syndicate targeted is known as "Thieves-in-Law" which is widely used to describe powerful organized-crime figures. The group engaged in money laundering, extortion, bribery, and robbery in Russia, Europe, and the U.S. Among those targeted was Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov, who had been indicted twice in the U.S., once in 2013 and for the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Gafur Rakhimov

Also included was Gafur Rakhimov, an Uzbek native renowned throughout former Soviet Central Asia and accused of money laundering, drug trafficking, and other crimes. Others were Vladimir Tyurin, Ruben Tatulian, and Yury Pichugin.

Vladimir Tyurin

Vladimir Bogdanov, Oleg Deripaska, Suleiman Kerimov, Igor Rotenberg, Kirill Shamalov, Andrei Skoch, and Viktor Vekselberg were added the following year, along with a dozen of their 'oligarch owned companies'. The Pandora Papers revealed the bite. It has meant a loss of hundreds of millions, as the impact of sanctions rippled across a hidden corner of what critics call Russia’s kleptocracy. Sanctions are not only hitting their Russian targets, but are then triggering losses that spread across their interconnected financial networks. The documents contain material on at least 46 Russian oligarchs who appear on the Forbes list of billionaires.

Drug dealer Darrin Southall going away for a long time

Darrin Southall was the ringleader in a multi-state, multi-million dollar drug ring from 2016 through 2021. He reached a plea deal that will see him caged from 30 to 35 years. Southall admits he moved about 4,000 kilograms of cocaine, 24 kilograms of heroin, and took in over $24 million during the time of his operation. He did some of his business in Mobile Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas. He is also the prime suspect in a double murder.

Guilty in major Niagara-based cocaine operation = Life

Two Ontario drug traffickers have been hit with life sentences after being convicted in the largest cocaine bust in Ontario history. Vito Buffone, of Caledon, and Jeffrey Kompon, of Welland, were each sentenced to life in prison following an appeal decision this month. The operation brought 2,431 kg of cocaine into Ontario in 2013 alone.

A jury took less than four hours to find two men guilty for their roles in an Niagara-based cocaine ring for which cocaine-filled granite boulders were imported from Mexico. Jeffrey Kompon, 46, of Welland and Vito Buffone, 53, of Caledon had pleaded not guilty in Superior Court of Justice to possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, trafficking cocaine and conspiracy to import. The trial lasted more than three months. Cocaine was smuggled in boulders imported from Mexico and Brazil as building materials for kitchen countertops and other uses.

Police seized more than $1.2m in cocaine.

The cocaine was imported into Canada at Montreal and other border points in Ontario and taken to a warehouse in Port Colborne where the drugs were extracted from the boulders. The cocaine was then transported to various locations in the Toronto area. Kompon and Buffone were among 14 people arrested when police conducted a series of raids in 2014.

The ring imported more than a tonne of cocaine in less than two years. The operation included associates of the Sinaloa crime cartel in Mexico. Also seized during the raid was $250k worth of marijuana, $430k cash, $400k in watches and other jewelry, a handgun and two shotguns. Thirteen high-end vehicles were also seized including a Ferrari and a Porsche. Two people who were associated with the cartel received 17-and 18-year terms behind bars, respectively. Kompon and Buffone were in the “upper echelon”. Vito Buffone was originally sentenced to 22 years, minus a year for pre-sentence custody and restrictive bail. Jeffrey Kompon, was originally sentenced to 20 years, minus 18 months' credit for restrictive bail and pre-sentence custody.