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Looking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball to drugs, alcohol, and sex. He was left to fend for himself before the age of 14. The Latin Kings, one of the largest and most notorious street gangs in America, became his refuge and his world, but its violence cost him friends, freedom, self-respect, and nearly his life. This is a raw and powerful odyssey through the ranks of the new mafia, where the...
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Le 10 juillet 2022, l'annonce de la mort de Maurice «MOM» Boucher, clt un sombre volet de l'histoire du crime organisé au Québec. L'ancien président du chapitre Nomads des Hells Angels, purgeait une peine d'emprisonnement à perpétuité pour avoir commandé les meurtres de deux gardiens de prison, Diane Lavigne et Pierre Rondeau. Maurice «MOM» Boucher, le chef de guerre des motards, est l'un des criminels les plus notoires de l'histoire du...
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The U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that Americans in the early 1970s were smoking upwards of 35,000 pounds of marijuana per day. By the time the decade drew to a close, Time magazine reported that reefer had become "the most widely accepted illegal indulgence since drinking during Prohibition. " You can thank Jimmy Moree for helping to feed America's insatiable pot habit. Nicknamed "Jimmy Divine" for his teetotaling ways, he would...
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Tell no-one anything. Don't ask questions. Be invisible.This was the mantra of mafia associate John Kruger.Born into a family of criminals, John Kruger began his life of crime while still in primary school. Bagman of the Brothel follows his tumultuous upbringing in southern Sydney and into adulthood, where he found himself employed by a mafia organisation during the 1980s.Set against a background of police corruption, seedy characters, and violence,...
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In Education of a Felon, the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was--at seventeen--the youngest inmate ever in San Quentin. His hard-won experiences on L.A.'s meanest streets and in and out of prison gave him the material to write some of the grittiest and most affecting novels of our time.
From smoking a joint in the gas chamber to...
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My background is crowded with robberies, burglaries, and thefts too numerous to recall. All manner of crimes against property. Arrests, trials, acquittals, convictions, escapes. Penitentiaries! I see in the background four of them. County jails, workhouses, city prisons, Mounted Police barracks, dungeons, solitary confinement, bread and water, hanging up, brutal floggings, and the murderous straitjacket. I see hop joints, wine dumps, thieves' resorts,...
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These short stories are actual true events, in which I was personally involved. They occurred between 1982 and 1995 while I was serving as a Police Officer, Detective in the Bomb and Arson Unit, Homicide Unit, the Burglary and Auto theft Units with KCPD. These incidents are taken from my memory of the events as they took place. They are not in any way, meant to hurt or cause discredit to anyone or any place described or resembled in these stories....
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They called Meyer Lansky the Godfather of the Godfathers, the Chairman of the Board of the National Crime Syndicate, the Mafia's banker. They credited him with a personal fortune of $300 million, with having said "We're bigger than U.S. Steel." He was portrayed on the screen in The Godfather, Part II as Hyman Roth, dividing up Cuba with his fellow gangsters, and more recently in Boardwalk Empire as himself, played by Anatol Yusef. If, in the mythology...
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Bikies consider themselves 'the last free people in society'; unrestricted by the laws that rule ordinary citizens. Yet they have strict joining rules and jealously guard their privacy. The twenty-first century has seen bikie culture move from secretive disorganized crime to far more threatening organized criminal activities that led to the death of a Hells Angel's associate at Sydney airport in 2009, and the gang-style killings that preceded it. Arthur...
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A hedonistic descent from innocence to narcissism into the dark culture of IV methamphetamine, psychedelics, organized drug crime and sex in 80's Los Angeles. Pot & alcohol at 14, LSD by 15 and slamming-dope by 17. Scott's high-school friends became a notorious counterfeit & drug-dealing group in L.A. Intense, shocking and brutal to the senses, A Stone's Throw teleports you on a journey he barely survived. A sinister, secret society of sex, crime...
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Summary of A Mother's Reckoning by Sue Klebold | Includes Analysis Preview: In her memoir A Mother's Reckoning, Sue Klebold struggles to come to terms with her son Dylan's role in the infamous Columbine High School shooting. Writing 16 years after the shooting, she reflects on when and where things went wrong for Dylan-and how she and her husband, who were loving parents, could have missed the warning signs. Klebold's story begins with the voicemail...
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At age 50, when some people start planning for retirement, John Lefebvre hit the digital motherlode. Neteller, a tiny Canadian internet start-up that processed payments between players and online gambling arenas, rocketed into the stock market. In its early years, Neteller had been a cowboy operation, narrowly averting disaster in creative ways. Co-founder Lefebvre, a gregarious hippie lawyer from Calgary, Alberta, had toked his way through his practice...
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We all know there are "bad seeds" - those who show signs early in life of being troublemakers, deviants, or career criminals. By all accounts, Dwaine Casmey was one of those kids. Sent to juvie by his parents when they felt they could not control him, graduated through the system for discipline problems, and shifted from one facility to another in an attempt to rein him in. Dwaine seemed incapable of making a right or good choice for his life. In...
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Bernie Madoff's arrest could not have come at a more darkly poetic moment. Economic upheaval had plunged America into a horrid recession. Then, on December 11, 2008, Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme came to light. A father turned in by his sons; a son who took his own life; another son dying and estranged from his father; a woman at the center of a storm-Madoff's story was a media magnet, voraciously consumed by a justice-seeking public. Bernie Madoff...
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Joseph Di Prisco's latest memoir brings back to life the hustler, gambler, criminal, bookmaker, and confidential informer who was his father. On the street they called him Pope, and he made his bones in Brooklyn during the 50's and 60's. Di Prisco discovered by accident fifty-year-old transcripts of New York State Appellate Division trials, where his dad was the star witness against corrupt NYPD cops--cops with whom he collaborated. Suddenly, Pope's...
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Hay muchas personas que han manifestado su incredulidad con respecto al hecho de que todo este libro sea en sí, la narración de un terrorista, y tienen dudas sobre la veracidad de la historia. Me gustaría responderles a todos ellos con ese adagio tan conocido de que: "A veces, la realidad supera a la ficción " Lo que tenemos que entender aquí es que, la mayoría de los terroristas en el mundo son jóvenes engañados; sus mentes han sido manipuladas,...
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17 is a biographical account of two years in the life, ages 16 and 17, of an Oklahoma boy starting out as a completely innocent youth and transforming into one of the wildest street running, vagabond traveling, drug using, crime committing, womanizing, crazy people imaginable. People who grew up in the 60s and 70s will recognize a lot of the activities and parts of life described, but few will have experienced them to the extent that the subject of...
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In 1973 when I started practicing law – the country was in anti-war mode, with widespread demonstrations. Most law graduates, including myself, did not want to work for the large law firms or corporations and certainly not for "the government." We were an idealistic bunch – wanting to help the down trodden and helpless masses. The great anti-poverty movements were active and growing. I soon discovered that good deeds and free legal services do...
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Follow this orphan through two orphanages in Pennsylvania from the age of 2 until the age of 14 when he runs away and lives on the streets of Philadelphia. A four-year stint in the US Air Force is followed by a concurrent pursuit of education including law school while working as a conductor on the railroad and publishing a small town newspaper. Many relationships are attempted but none succeeded. A despicable crime earns him a punishment of a 20-year...
20) Chasing Joseph
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When making the decision whether to tell my story in print, I have to admit, I struggled. I knew that it meant I would have to share all of the events of my life until now. And I knew that it meant I would have to reveal all of it - some of which I'm not proud to be associated with no matter how I feel wronged or victimized due to a rush to judgment by the media. It's ironic that I would even want to reveal anything since I have been so fiercely protective...
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