GenevaLunch » Mafia http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 09:11:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no US mafia thumped by FBIhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/20/us-mafia-thumped-by-fbi/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/20/us-mafia-thumped-by-fbi/#comments Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:42:58 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=52697 GenevaLunch.com Organized crime has taken a beating, says the FBI, which Thursday 20 January rounded up 110 suspected members of the mob in the New York area, the largest single sweep according to federal authorities. Charges have been pressed against a total of 127 people for extortion, murder and narcotics. The haul includes leaders of some [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/16/mafia-boss-arrested-in-sicily-after-15-years-on-the-run/feed/ 0 Largest-ever Swiss organized crime trial openshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/04/01/largest-ever-swiss-organized-crime-trial-opens/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/04/01/largest-ever-swiss-organized-crime-trial-opens/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:02:39 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=14552 GenevaLunch.com Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland (TSR, Fre) – More than CHF1 billion laundered in Switzerland, the profits from contraband cigarettes that went from Switzerlnd to Italy via Montenegro in Switzerland: the trial opens 1 April of 10 people charged with money laundering, the largest organized crime trial in Switzerland. The smuggling operation took place from 1996 to [...]

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