Pirate kingpins CNN has learned that the United Nations and the United States are investigating at least two pirate kingpins for providing material support to terror groups.
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His crime bill expanded the death penalty for drug kingpins.
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The program has protected terrorists and turncoats, kingpins and peons.
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That often leads to the capture of drug kingpins in Mexico.
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Read more: China raids fentanyl factory but remains silent on wanted kingpins.
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Poorly enforced money laundering controls allow kingpins to easily clean their millions.
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Shady new kingpins are always popping up, eager to make their fortune.
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Arresting a few "kingpins" here and there will never be a substitute.
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This included James and Barry Gillespie, the two on-the-run alleged kingpins.
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Like Mr. Trump, Mr. Sessions favors the death penalty for certain drug kingpins.
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The two countries' security agencies work together on intercepting drugs and capturing kingpins.
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Should they be subject to the same legal consequences imposed upon drug kingpins?
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In Roanoke, the largest heroin dealers weren't drug kingpins looking to make money.
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Captures of kingpins increase violence by motivating rival gangs to exploit the weakened organizations.
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Ferrara says the kingpins are opportunistic, purchasing kidnapped migrants from other criminals in Africa.
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The lack of sanctions means that kingpins behind failed deposit schemes are rarely punished.
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Most are not high level actors or drug kingpins and have limited criminal records.
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This, they announced, was "the General," one of the kingpins of international human smuggling.
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"The heroin kingpins have to know that we are not plea-bargaining," he said.
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Mr le Carré introduces Russians of various hues, from double agents to mafia kingpins.
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"This area has a reputation: the gangsters, the underworld, the crime kingpins," Anjara said.
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The kingpins may still be using encrypted phones to communicate with family and associates, though.
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Frank Lucas, one of America's most infamous drug kingpins, died Thursday night ... TMZ has confirmed.
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For the most part the victims have been petty users and dealers, rather than kingpins.
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A secret spy plane operated by the US Marshals hunted drug cartel kingpins in Mexico.
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We were all 14 and 15 at the time, and we felt like drug kingpins.
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Was America safer with me locked away, while the kingpins and ringleaders gain their freedom?
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Arresting the "kingpins" of wildlife trafficking doesn't seem to be making much of a dent.
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Before long, Mr. Roberts and Mr. Geffen had emerged as kingpins of the new scene.
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These individuals are sometimes referred to as kingpins, a term that experts say is overused.
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The U.S. Treasury Department added Salazar to its list of designated drug kingpins in 2014.
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He proposed granting amnesty to drug kingpins as homicides in Mexico hit an all-time high.
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As Wasser says, the "small number of large kingpins" can be located by "following the tusks."
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Ishaqzai was arrested in 2012, after being one of the United States most wanted 10 kingpins.
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First, the capturing of "kingpins" has left gangs fragmented, undisciplined and prone to fighting among themselves.
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The government has had a longstanding strategy of attacking organized crime groups by taking down kingpins.
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Everybody looked at them like these drug kingpins, but I looked at them like my homies.
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The Justice Department has indicted two suspected fentanyl kingpins, but the Chinese government refuses to arrest them.
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You really have to overcommunicate on Survivor – but Aubry and Joe still act a bit like kingpins.
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It's easy to hate on EDM kingpins like Harris for lack of artistry or button-pushing mundanity.
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" He says it reminded him of his days prosecuting Mafia kingpins with their "silent circle of assent.
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Pence also announced that three individuals connected to the Maduro regime would be designated as drug kingpins.
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In Latin America the destruction of coca bushes generally hurts small producers but leaves the kingpins untouched.
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By linking kingpins to boats, prosecutors can add maritime smuggling to the list of charges against them.
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Prosecutors like to see their targets behind bars whether they are presidential advisers or alleged drug kingpins.
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READ: Here's the most damning evidence against El Chapo You talk about the success in capturing these kingpins.
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The kingpins, with their resources, egos and catchy nicknames, never fail to capture the imagination of the world.
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Drug users and low level drug dealers receiving jail terms reserved for the most notorious kingpins, Jones says.
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He reported on Irish mob kingpins, Moroccan drug lords, assassination plots, biker gangs, and his frequent partying habits.
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The strategy toppled some kingpins, including Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the longtime boss of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel.
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"The heroin kingpins have to know that we are not plea-bargaining," Mr. Perini said during the campaign.
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Kingpins of wildlife trafficking keep getting arrested, but endangered species like rhinos, elephants and others continue to dwindle.
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To its detriment, "True to the Game" tries to reform kingpins before it maximizes on its own investments.
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In terms of taking down kingpins and burning heaps of their narcotics, it has been a stunning success.
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They manage about 180,000 of the worst criminals in our country, including terrorists, drug kingpins, gangsters and murderers.
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These criminal kingpins have this crazy role in society where they head these big business empires and organizations.
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Fashion forward, James socializes with young technology kingpins like Elon Musk, a founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX.
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In recent years, Mexico had grown adept at the capture of so-called kingpins, for better or worse.
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One of the goals of arresting drug kingpins like El Chapo is to stifle the international drug trade.
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In 2014, MGA then started another suit; this time, the Bratz kingpins sued Mattel for a billion dollars.
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"In Mexico we go after kingpins but not the business owners or investors who support them," he said.
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Instead, the DEA focuses its efforts on going after kingpins like Rodriguez -- along with other traffickers, manufacturers and distributors.
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The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, the Kingpins, the Memphis Horns, and the Sweet Inspirations defined Ms Franklin's Atlantic singles.
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Hunting down poachers on reserves and tracking down elusive kingpins, it's conservation at the end of a gun barrel.
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Running an illegal operation, kingpins like Guzmán must enforce their own agreements and protect themselves from authorities and competitors.
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And the arrests of kingpins like El Chapo are supposed to cripple trafficking networks by removing their top commanders.
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"You try to get the kingpins behind the trade and not only focus on arresting the poachers," he said.
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Oil's biggest kingpins are now at the G40 summit in Buenos Aires, where they will try to set things right.
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Over three years, it's become quite clear that Trump prefers the company of kingpins to diplomatic drudgery with US allies.
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In the years since the 9/2023 attacks, both men were identified as kingpins in Bin Laden's international recruiting network.
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Critics, including the Catholic Church, say the campaign has overwhelmingly targeted the urban poor and left drug kingpins largely untouched.
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Federal authorities have long tried to stem the opioid epidemic with drug-trafficking charges against street dealers and cartel kingpins.
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It destroyed lives, and it turned a black gangster named Frank Lucas into one of America's most notorious drug kingpins.
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The Calderón administration decided to employ extradition "very muscularly" as a means of degrading the kingpins' command and control capabilities.
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In street terms, it went after the guys selling $10 bags on the corner—not the kingpins or major distributors.
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Almost all are locked up for selling, not using, drugs, but most are hardly the "kingpins" of the drug trade.
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The list is long -- big-time sports kingpins fighting for the men and women who will make them even wealthier.
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As a teenager in Detroit in the 1980s, Richard Wershe Jr. ran with some of the city's biggest crack kingpins.
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Criminals who force others to commit crimes, such as kingpins who send teenagers to deal drugs, also count towards the tally.
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On Tuesday, the FTC announced it's doing something about it by suing some kingpins who allegedly facilitated billions of unwanted calls.
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The gangs are linked to bank heists, drug trafficking and gun-running, with jailed kingpins running their empires via smuggled cellphones.
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Separately, OFAC cited the parent company for the same subsidiary's violation of sanctions regulations regarding Syria and suspected foreign narcotics kingpins.
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It started with low-level drug dealers, working our way up to midlevel management, all the way up to the kingpins.
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Amnesty concluded that the majority of victims reside in the country's poorest urban neighborhoods — not exactly the home of drug kingpins.
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For Netflix, MediaMonks edited and added text to video snippets from season three of "Narcos," a show about Mexican drug kingpins.
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He'd spent the past 11 years in solitary confinement alongside some of the world's most notorious terrorists, spies, kingpins, and murderers.
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The U.S. Sentencing Commission has found that street-level dealers and mules get sentenced to mandatory minimums more often than kingpins.
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The Mafia sometimes works with drug kingpins American mob groups may be involved in other businesses, but they still sell drugs.
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There's an entire scamming ecosystem populated by lead list brokers, runners, middlemen, and kingpins — in both Jamaica and the United States.
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While the global media is fascinated by billionaire kingpins like Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, who was recaptured on Jan.
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For a decade, Mexican troops have worked with American agents to pursue kingpins, in what is known as the cartel decapitation strategy.
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Their 500 or so separate nations lacked kingpins or settled agriculture, so colonisers deemed the land terra nullius, free for the taking.
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For those that don't have an otaku relationship with famous hip-hop kingpins, Death Row Records is the brainchild of Suge Knight.
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Suspected dealers and addicts have suffered the brunt of violence but few inroads have been made towards shutting down the narcotics kingpins.
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Felix In this episode, Felix reveals the tragic flaw which he shares with all the other drug kingpins we've seen in Narcos.
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His tactic of capturing or killing kingpins caused the gangs to split into warring factions and to enter new lines of business.
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Suspected dealers and addicts have suffered the brunt of violence but few inroads have been made toward shutting down the narcotics kingpins.
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In season 1 of Vanderpump Rules, a cheating conflict I won't fully spoil arises between the show's original kingpins: Jax and Stassi.
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"It is more fractured than it would be off Somalia where there were a few major gangs and kingpins operating," he said.
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The Mexican government has spent over a decade waging a military-led crackdown, detaining or killing kingpins in all the major cartels.
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The strategy of presidents before AMLO of removing kingpins caused infighting as would-be heirs killed each other to seize vacant thrones.
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On Thursday, the Justice Department unveiled new charges against the company that invoked racketeering statutes usually used to bring down mob kingpins.
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She added the department must also put as much emphasis on its efforts to cull criminal kingpins who have fueled retaliatory violence.
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Markey also called out the new Republican chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, describing him as a pawn for broadband kingpins.
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The worry ... that the lawyers Chapo hires will use the info to warn other drug kingpins of the DEA's moves, compromising the investigations.
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During the 13-episode series, which was posted online on April 9, Joseph encounters corrupt cops and officials as well as drug kingpins.
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In the debate Mr Anaya criticised the priority that Mr Peña and Mr Calderón (a member of his party) gave to capturing kingpins.
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Moreover, Tsongas, unlike Clinton, offered only limited support for the death penalty (in the cases of drug kingpins and deaths of police officers).
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We must get rid of intractable mandatory minimum sentences for drug users, the kind that treat non-violent addicts the same as kingpins.
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The gangs have been linked to bank heists, drug trafficking and gun-running, with jailed kingpins presiding over criminal empires via smuggled cellphones.
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Guzman was the head of the Sinaloa cartel and one of the world's most wanted drug kingpins until he was captured in January.
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Despite the notoriety of cartel kingpins, a disproportionate share of drug offenders in Mexico are charged for crimes involving tiny amounts of drugs.
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The film of that date is on YouTube, and you can hear her singing her hits, fronting King Curtis's astonishing band, the Kingpins.
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"Narcos" is a crime drama about the gritty wars of the 1980s between drug kingpins and law enforcement agencies, set mostly in Colombia.
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Yet while these kingpins rot in prisons and graves, their assassins have formed their own organizations, which can be even more violent and predatory.
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Because of government offensives that toppled narco kingpins in recent years, Mexico's drug cartels have splintered and are eager for new sources of revenue.
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To let unpunished "kingpins" hold office is to endorse impunity and encourage lawlessness, says Iván Duque, a senator from the conservative Democratic Centre party.
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US involvement in the Mexican government's policy of "decapitation" — using elite military units to capture or kill cartel kingpins — is controversial in both countries.
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But one of the biggest cocaine kingpins in Miami history, who's been smoking freebase for half his life, can play the piano so beautifully.
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Brazil's notorious gangs have been linked to bank heists, drug trafficking and gun-running, with jailed kingpins presiding over criminal empires via smuggled cellphones.
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Most of these people are not violent drug kingpins; mandatory minimum sentencing laws have filled jail cells with low-level drug offenders—primarily minorities.
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But as trust in big tech companies erodes, Kohn and crew see an opening to finally take on the powerful kingpins at the top.
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Yet in both cases (the details of which differ significantly) the kingpins operated with a certain opaque logic and caution rather than blind narcissism.
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Mexican Attorney General Arely Gomez said while extraditing kingpins takes on average a year, it could take up to five years in Guzman's case.
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That's what Dodd is trying to do with his new book Generation Oxy: From High School Wrestlers to Pain Pill Kingpins, out this month.
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Singapore's $10,000 bank note — worth about $7,500 in United States currency — has long been a favorite of the region's smugglers and illegal logging kingpins.
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China, ethnic kingpins and the state of Myanmar, once known as Burma, have all profited from the bounty of the nation's war-torn borderlands.
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Victims of crimes and cooperators who help convict kingpins are also eligible for special visas, but Chapo's family is unlikely to qualify for those.
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And not a word about Hillary Clinton's long-standing ties to Wall Street kingpins and the tens of millions she's accepted in donations from them.
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Gonzalez Anaya said Mexico has the political will to tackle the issue, pointing to the arrest of powerful drug kingpins like Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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But Attorney General Arely Gomez said that while extraditing kingpins takes on average a year, it could take up to five years in Guzman's case.
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The government has arrested many kingpins, but that has only increased the violence because organizations have fractured into smaller groups led by more ruthless lieutenants.
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Our prosecutors managed to put away some very undesirable characters — cartel leaders and kingpins who were wreaking havoc on the streets with their violent trade.
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While first-time offenders may face fines as low as $2120, the penalties for kingpins can rise to $10,000, with prison sentences exceeding 15 years.
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With Narcos and now Narcos: Mexico, Netflix leveraged the appeal of true crime in dramatizing the rise of drug kingpins Pablo Escobar and Félix Gallardo.
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But because of the way the poaching and trafficking networks work, taking down any one of these supposed kingpins will not stop the illegal trade.
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The laws were sold as a way to take down drug kingpins, but prosecutors frequently used them against small-fry street dealers like Mr. Rhines.
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It's the day the House will decide whether or not it will #ListenToSurivors or come down on the side of the kingpins of sex trafficking.
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At least one former prosecutor who worked on the investigation that led to Mr. García's indictment said he had no regrets for going after kingpins.
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A veteran agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration once admitted to me that the policy of taking down kingpins didn't stop the flow of drugs.
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When the American government declares drug cartels to be terrorist organizations, the two aim to take down the kingpins by any means, legal or otherwise.
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For good measure, Ky also showered ethnic and religious kingpins with patronage, as quid pro quo for bringing bodies to the polls on his behalf.
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That story is likely to begin in the early 1980s when Colombian kingpins like Pablo Escobar ran the narcotics industry in New York and Miami.
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The phrase "drug dealers" calls to mind villainous kingpins cackling while ordering murders and surrounded by luxury, stacks of hundred dollar bills, and beautiful women.
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During the bootlegging years, Rosselli rode the train between Los Angeles and Chicago, delivering messages from the two cities' respective kingpins, Jack Dragna and Al Capone.
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Though governments claim they need Stingrays to catch suspected terrorists and drug kingpins, they are more often used in routine police work, without warrants or oversight.
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And it would remove an important weapon in the fight against organised crime, namely the ability to reward minor figures for helping to take down kingpins.
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The NCB said Myanmar had not presented evidence that smuggling kingpins were hiding in India, or even that the pseudoephedrine it had seized was Indian-made.
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In season three of The Wire, Stringer Bell, the brains behind the Barksdale Organization, brings the drug kingpins of Baltimore together and offers them a proposition.
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Mexico's new president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has declared the country's drug war "over" and vowed to focus on bringing down insecurity rather than netting kingpins.
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DeepMind and OpenAI, which is funded by various Silicon Valley kingpins including Khosla Ventures and the tech billionaire Reid Hoffman, can afford all that computing power.
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A cornerstone of the strategy was to focus on kingpins, on the theory that cutting off the head of a criminal organization would wither the body.
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Like most prosecutors in that era, Mr. Brown adopted a tough-on-crime approach, bringing the hammer down on everything from squeegee men to drug kingpins.
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After all, it's (usually) not kingpins who get high on their own supply or make the penny ante transactions in which drugs reach their final destination.
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Escobar was killed in the last finale, and the new trailer shows the DEA setting its sights on a new set of drug kingpins: the Cali cartel.
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But they want to see better police investigations that lead to the arrest of the kingpins behind the murders, not just the gangsters who carry them out.
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But after locking up several drug kingpins, his administration did not respond when their would-be heirs began to fight each other and diversify beyond drug smuggling.
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We'd see ever-more powerful gangs, turf wars, kingpins... But "might makes right" is the law that we actually do use for the oil of foreign countries.
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Since its early days, rap has celebrated larger-than-life businessmen, crime lords, and drug kingpins, which has resulted in rappers comparing themselves to some questionable individuals.
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Men like Siegel — corporate kingpins who bear much of the blame for the ravages of greed — don't share as much time in this collection as do women.
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After breaking the back of the Russian mob in New York, the squad had set its sights on border-crossing financial crimes involving oligarchs and mafia kingpins.
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More than 100 kingpins have been caught in Venezuela during Mr. El Aissami's tenure in the government, the president said, with many extradited to the United States.
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Among the featured guests: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, hedge fund kingpins Ray Dalio, Julian Robertson and Jim Chanos, and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, among many others.
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They, like every other Bogotano except a handful of officials and El Bronx kingpins they tipped off, found out about the operation through the splashes of headlines.
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The program allows the DEA to vet and train police and military personnel from other countries, then work closely with them to target drug kingpins and cartels.
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"The PCC may soon step into the same playground as Mexican or Colombian kingpins," said Vladimir Aras, Brazil's secretary of international cooperation at the Attorney General's office.
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Then they built a system to overtake the corner-dealing model that had kept their mothers high, letting software do the heavy lifting once required of drug kingpins.
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But perhaps the kingpins are the "trauma fees," in part because they often run more than $253,000 and in part because they seem to be applied so arbitrarily.
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Organized crime spiraled under the previous president, Enrique Peña Nieto, who tasked the army with going after drug kingpins, leaving them with few resources to tackle fuel theft.
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However, we can toss all those misgivings out today because former emo kingpins Fall Out Boy have unleashed the movie soundtrack anthem to end all movie soundtrack anthems.
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"The United Nations and the United States are investigating at least two pirate kingpins for providing material support to terror groups," according to a CNN report Monday morning.
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The Coast Guard has claimed that between 2002 and 313, cases against these maritime smugglers helped the government secure three-quarters of its extraditions of Colombian drug kingpins.
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This conundrum was often resolved by embedding American agents in the teams going after kingpins, and sharing intelligence only with Mexican forces highly vetted by the Americans beforehand.
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Mr. El Aissami had ordered the arrest of scores of Venezuelan kingpins over the years, some of whom were even extradited to the United States, Mr. Maduro asserted.
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Politicians may intend to target "kingpins" with these proposals, but these laws typically end up targeting people who sell small amounts of drugs simply to fund their addiction.
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They say national drug-control policies are skewed toward harsh measures that criminalize users but have failed to staunch the deluge of drugs or catch the kingpins behind it.
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But historically, an untold chunk of money for some schools has come from jogo do bicho (animal game), an underground lottery in many neighborhoods run by mafia-like kingpins.
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In the early 214s, London's kingpins spotted an opportunity to cut out these dealers by recruiting their own couriers to sell crack cocaine and heroin directly to provincial consumers.
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Of course, the majority of drug dealers are, by and large, not the gang-bangers or narco kingpins Sessions and his pearl-clutching ilk imagine them to be. Sure.
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VICE: Many stories about drug dealers and cartels glamorize the kingpins at the top of these organizations, but Wolf Boys focuses on the foot soldiers at the bottom run.
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The answer, it turns out, was to splendidly hit the reset button, with Pedro Pascal moving to the center and a quartet of Cali Cartel kingpins filling the void.
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When they get busted, possession of even a small number of pills can trigger statutory thresholds that cause these users to be charged as if they were drug kingpins.
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On top of his several tax leins and judgemnets, El-Shabazz is locally known for defending murderers and drug kingpins, and is personally affiliated with anti-Semitic religious groups.
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If Trump thinks he can stop senior espionage kingpins from remaining in the know, he will be mistaken, since such officials build up extensive networks at home and abroad.
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On Tuesday, US District Court Judge Edward M. Chen successfully shot down an attempt by soda industry kingpins to stop pending legislation requiring the warnings, according to CBS Local.
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"Arresting a few alleged wildlife-trafficking 'kingpins' may be a useful symbolic tool for promoting the importance and feasibility of strong enforcement to the general public," Dr. Wittig said.
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One of his most intriguing recent commitments, amnesty for drug-cultivating peasants and engaging in conversations with cartel kingpins, while innovative and bold, might be considered anathema in Washington.
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The United States and United Nations are looking into at least two pirate kingpins for helping Somali terror groups smuggle arms and people, according to a report from CNN.
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The documents showed that Mossack Fonseca has worked with Ponzi schemers, diamond traders, members of FIFA, property tycoons, Saudi kings, wealthy art collectors, drug kingpins, and Ukrainian oligarchs alike.
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With an authoritative tone, Lozano accused López Obrador of wanting to "forgive and forget" drug war criminals (the candidate floated the idea of an amnesty for cartel kingpins in December).
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As a result he helped get several kingpins arrested and tried, including Yang Fenglan, "The Queen of Ivory", and Boniface Methew Malyango, known as Shetani, "The Devil has no Mercy".
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In recent years local kingpins have been putting the industrious locals to new work: felling the hills' forests to get at the coal, limestone, China clay and even gold underneath.
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"Major FARC kingpins won't take the oath of office" when congress is seated on July 20th, he promises (though, if he wins, he would not become president until August 7th).
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The Colombian people can't understand why opposition leaders are silenced and persecuted while FARC kingpins are granted full amnesty and a privileged political platform allowing them to run for office.
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Poachers Of course, prospective buyers and ivory kingpins don't actually go into the bush in Niassa to shoot the elephants -- much like a drug lord wouldn't harvest his own cocaine.
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The trend follows the US government's mammoth $2600bn fine of HSBC bank, after a Senate investigation found that it had served as a channel for "drug kingpins and rogue nations".
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Researchers are exploring similar techniques at places like the University of California, Berkeley, and OpenAI, the artificial intelligence lab founded by the Silicon Valley kingpins Elon Musk and Sam Altman.
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Some of the funds went to parks where WWF knew guards were accused of brutal abuses against local villagers — not the international poaching kingpins the charity says are its target.
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Zambada-Imperial is a member of the so-called "Narco Juniors," a generation of offspring of cartel kingpins who are following in the footsteps of their rich and powerful fathers.
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In a YouTube video posted by Netflix France on September 5, and first spotted by TorrentFreak, four actors who play drug kingpins say violence is coming for those who torrent Narcos.
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Other possibilities included tapping asset forfeiture funds, including money seized by the Department of Justice from drug kingpins, according to a congressional Republican not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations.
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The Golden Globe-nominated show, which follows stories of drug kingpins in the late 1980s, will air on the network later this year ahead of its season 2 debut on Netflix.
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The strategy succeeded in taking down kingpins such as Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the longtime boss of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel, who now sits in a New York prison awaiting trial.
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the left-wing Morena party, the early front-runner in Mexico's presidential election, sparked fury by proposing amnesty for drug kingpins who agree to abandon violence.
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So the private equity kingpins who pillage companies and walk away get tax subsidies to pull it off, and this incentivizes them to borrow even more to run the game again.
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In a money-fueled culture where tweets, not position papers, shape the national conversation, these kinds of philosopher-kingpins "are likely to be more influential than we are," Mr. McGann said.
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Meanwhile, in the U.S., the DEA under Trump is doubling down on its strategy of targeting kingpins, which has failed for decades to stop the flow of drugs or reduce violence.
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The steady rise in homicides over the past two years is a severe test for President Enrique Peña Nieto, who has failed to develop a security strategy beyond pursuing drug kingpins.
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As for El Chapo, my colleague Miguel Angel, who follows the U.S. legal proceedings of extradited drug kingpins for RioDoce, doesn't feel his conviction will have any long-term positive impact.
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Now Lomachenko and IBF champion Gevonta Davis are the kingpins at 130, and the featherweight division took a major step forward thanks to Santa Cruz's rivalry with Northern Ireland's Carl Frampton.
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In a Q&A session, she clarified that Trump's comments on the death penalty referred only to "drug kingpins," and suggested that the threat of execution would "punish and deter" these figures.
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But what's indisputable is NAFTA's impact on the global drug trade and on the massive wealth and power accumulated by Mexican cartels and kingpins, like Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican federal judge who presided over appeals from high-profile drug kingpins in recent years was fatally shot in the head outside his home on Monday, authorities said.
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Both crews signed up immediately—Soundways' labelhead Miles Cleret and Sofrito's Frankie Francis will perform at Manana, as will New York's Latin music kingpins Fania Records, who are curating their own stage.
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A longstanding strategy of the Mexican government's fight against organized crime was to go after kingpins, on the theory that cutting off the head of a criminal group would wither the body.
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Kingpins shipped north After his arrest, the Mexican attorney general's office published a video of his confession, in which he said he managed lucrative drug routes from Panama to the United States.
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That's not to say that these kingpins didn't get a fair comeuppance or that the interests of investigators and filmmakers trump the public's right to see criminals brought to (hopefully fair) justice.
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Another committee, in the Philippine House of Representatives, soon began hearings at which imprisoned drug kingpins testified that they had given Ms. de Lima bribes through her driver and bodyguard, Ronnie Dayan.
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Unlike LVMH and Kering, companies that eschewed discounting to maintain pricing power and market position, affordable-luxury kingpins in the United States chased meteoric growth targets, which have since come crashing down.
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Related: Scalia's Death Clouds US Supreme Court Decision on Colorado's Legal Weed As a teenager in Detroit in the 1980s, Richard Wershe Jr. ran with some of the city's biggest crack kingpins.
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Earlier Tuesday, before the police announcement, Motherboard revealed that the two on-the-run kingpins of a highly sophisticated drugs and weapon trafficking group were the secret creators of encrypted phone company MPC.
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The United States itself still has on the books a 1994 federal law that allows the death penalty for some "drug kingpins"—even if they are not killers and haven't arranged specific killings.
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The two kingpins teamed up again following Chapo's first escape from maximum-security jail in 2001 to become leading figures in a broad alliance of Sinaloa groups known then as the Sinaloa Federation.
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Sicilian prosecutor Calogero Ferrara has named two men – Ermias Ghermay, an Ethiopian, and Medhanie Yehdego Mered, an Eritrean – as kingpins in an organized-crime network responsible for bringing thousands of refugees to Italy.
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His demands for tougher treatment of FARC "kingpins" than the peace accord mandates and for forced eradication of coca are aimed at upholding the rule of law, not wrecking the agreement, he says.
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The U.S. responded by designating additional high-level Venezuelan officials as drug kingpins, including Diosdado Cabello, who has been a long-time crony of the regime and a blatant violator of human rights.
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They know hunting down the people who poach is not an ideal solution to the conservation problem, but they also see no other way around the untouchable kingpins who control global rhino trade.
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Washington's Plan Colombia, which began in 2000 and has been rebranded several times, has effectively conditioned United States military and diplomatic aid on the extradition of some FARC members and drug-cartel kingpins.
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Three truck kingpins made by Detroit's traditional Big Three automakers — Ford's F-series, General Motors' Chevrolet Silverado and Fiat Chrysler's Ram — were the top three best-selling vehicles in the U.S. in 2017.
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Vice President Tareck El Aissami was blacklisted on Monday by the Treasury Department, which said that Mr. El Aissami and an associate had moved drugs within Venezuela and had helped protect international kingpins.
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Experts say the surge in violence reflects an increasingly volatile criminal landscape that has resulted in part from the Mexican government's longstanding strategy of pursuing kingpins as a way to disrupt organized crime.
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Venezuela has also become a "narcostate," with cabinet members indicted for drug trafficking, nephews of the First Lady convicted of drug running to the U.S. and other top officials known as drug kingpins.
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On October 5, the New York Times published an exposé alleging that Harvey Weinstein, one of Hollywood's most revered moguls and influential kingpins, has been sexually harassing and abusing women for nearly 30 years.
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MANILA/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the arrest of Jack Lam, one of Asia's top casino kingpins, on charges of economic sabotage and bribery, according to the country's police chief.
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Over the past nine weeks, the jury in Chapo's case has heard from dozens of witnesses, including former high-ranking Sinaloa cartel members, ex-Colombian cocaine kingpins, and law enforcement officials from multiple nations.
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But the Costa del Crime was once the inspiration for Sexy Beast—a place where drug kingpins shimmering with tan oil gleamed like ingots by the pool, living a life of money and blow.
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MEXICO CITY — The allegation landed like a bombshell in the United States: One of the world's biggest drug kingpins had paid a $100 million bribe to the former president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto.
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Newly hired and poorly trained Prohibition agents, along with local and state police, targeted violators at the margins, but they lacked the capacity, and at times the will, to go after powerful crime kingpins.
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The attorney general says Peralta, who is known as "Cesar the Abuser," has been involved in drug trade for more than two decades, ascending the ranks as other drug kingpins were arrested or killed.
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Usually at the beginning of a zero-tolerance campaign, those leading the charge promise it will vanquish the worst of the worst: the drug kingpins, the gang leaders, the serial sexual predators, the murderers.
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Mohamed Garfanje, one of the kingpins reportedly being investigated, heads the powerful Hobyo-Haradhere Piracy Network and is one of the main suspects in the 2012 kidnapping of German-American journalist Michael Scott Moore.
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As we come to learn during the film's first chapter, several of Bin's colleagues in the jianghu are being systematically knocked off by a new generation of upstarts looking to usurp these aging kingpins.
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She was sentenced to life in prison even though her crimes were nonviolent, the sort of harsh punishment common at the time for so-called kingpins on the wrong side of America's war on drugs.
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Bharara's team of hard-driving prosecutors also went after international narcotics traffickers, corruption in local and state government, including in Albany, and took down gang kingpins and mobsters in the Bronx, Yonkers and other areas.
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Before that, Curiel served for 17 years as a federal prosecutor and was even targeted by a Mexican drug cartel in the 1990s for assassination after his efforts to extradite two drug kingpins from Mexico.
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Rumours about Aguirre's departure from cabinet went into overdrive in recent weeks after his justice department, due to insufficient evidence, dropped charges against several drug kingpins who had admitted their involvement in the drug trade.
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This stands in stark contrast to the strategy the United States has long financed in the region — a combination of aerial herbicide spraying, manual eradication and the prosecution of drug kingpins in the United States.
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How changing drug demand in the U.S. is affecting Mexican farmers, why the Mexican military allegedly abducted a teenage boy from the mountains of Sinaloa, and what this story tells us about loyalty to kingpins.
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Popularized in the 1980s, civil forfeiture was presented as a bold weapon in the war on drugs, a means of depriving kingpins of their profits in cases where they couldn't be charged with a crime.
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A lead-up to the War on Drugs was underway—especially as black drug kingpins began to crack the Mafia business model and stake out their own territory in places like Harlem and the Bronx.
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It applies a federal racketeering law that has historically been used to bring down mob leaders and gang kingpins and allows the government to file charges that would otherwise fall outside the statute of limitations.
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The bombing came as the abrasive former prosecutor wages war on narcotics kingpins and street dealers, Islamist rebels and corrupt bureaucrats, scoring big points in opinion polls but at a risk of making powerful enemies.
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Seal's exploits brought him into close contact with infamous figures like Medellín cartel kingpins Pablo Escobar and Jorge Ochoa and Panama dictator Manuel Noriega — and he was abetted, the film argues, by the CIA and DEA.
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Archana Kotecha, Asia region director and head of legal at anti-slavery charity Liberty Shared, said long sentences can be effective deterrents when they are addressed at kingpins in trafficking cases and not low level offenders.
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The crackdown is popular among Filipinos, with a September opinion poll showing 82% of respondents believed it effective, although critics say it has been failed to curb addiction or drugs supply or rein-in drugs kingpins.
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In recent years, though, kingpins from London have begun to displace small-fry local dealers, sometimes violently, in a phenomenon called county lines (a reference to the mobile numbers used by distant clients to place orders).
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In an interview with Reuters in August 2016 - the second month of the crackdown - he said he backed Duterte's campaign but believed drug kingpins should be the main targets, otherwise thousands of people would be killed.
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Our view is the federal prosecutorial resources ought to focus on major drug kingpins, international drug cartels, very serious cases, and those that require the resources that the federal government has, like cases across state lines.
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Franklin's Live at the Fillmore West is regularly cited as one of music's best live albums, in part because of the approximately nine minutes she spent on this song, backed by King Curtis and the Kingpins.
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We also heard about the deep mistrust that the people in rural Sinaloa have for their government, and how they depend on kingpins like El Chapo to bankroll basic services like roads, running water, and electricity.
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The following month, his proposed public security minister, Alfonso Durazo, clarified that the amnesty would apply to impoverished farmers cornered into cultivating drugs and youth forced into crime because of a lack of economic opportunities — not kingpins.
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Read: China won't arrest two fentanyl kingpins wanted by the U.S. The 40-year-old was one of the targets of a large U.S. federal investigation dubbed "Operation Darkness Falls" that went after dark web drug dealers.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered a review of a decision by state prosecutors to dismiss complaints against several suspected drugs kingpins, amid outrage among the public and some of his allies about them walking free.
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It came as the uncompromising president wages war with just about anyone from drugs kingpins and street dealers to Islamist rebels and corrupt bureaucrats, scoring big points in opinion polls but at a risk of making powerful enemies.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Human smuggling often conjures up images of shady networks run by organized crime gangs, but new research reveals that independent operators rather than criminal kingpins control routes that bring migrants into Europe from Africa.
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On tonight's episode of Hamilton's Pharmacopeia, host and resident chemist Hamilton Morris meets various mushroom kingpins and gets a look inside their massive underground grow room to learn more about the latest popular strains of the psychoactive drug.
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Over the past dozen years, Mexican security forces have toppled some high-profile drug kingpins but more than 200,000 people have been killed and tens of thousands more disappeared since a military-focused approach was initiated in 2006.
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It's a tale that sounds too wild to be true: An American Oscar winner and a Mexican telenovela star walk into the Mexican jungle and proceed to drink tequila with one of the world's most infamous drug kingpins.
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While informants or undercover agents regularly use concealed listening devices to surreptitiously gather evidence for federal investigators, they are typically targeting drug kingpins and Mafia bosses in criminal investigations, not a president viewed as ineffectively conducting his duties.
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The bloodshed comes as the Brazilian government is taking steps to assert greater control of the country's chronically overcrowded and underfunded prisons, where drug kingpins have long managed to run their trade from behind bars with relative ease.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India is targeting the kingpins of sex trafficking with a new initiative that maps victims' journey from village to brothel, building a concerted case against traffickers who run the lucrative industry, campaigners said on Wednesday.
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In the story, Cox tells how MPC — a now-seemingly defunct company that apparently sold phones, tablets, and computers running custom firmware with significant encryption protections — was ultimately controlled by two at-large criminal kingpins known as The Brothers.
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At the trial, Guzman's lawyers argued that he was the fall guy for other kingpins who were better at paying off top Mexican politicians and law enforcement officials to protect them while the US government looked the other way.
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Over the years, the cast of villains has included British colonizers with shaved heads and icy blue eyes; decadent feudal landlords; drug kingpins with amber-tinted sunglasses; corrupt politicians in starched white kurtas; and, naturally, terrorists of every stripe.
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New sanctions announced at the same time, against three drug kingpins, and 22019 companies that they control, also reflect a U.S. policy of continuing to ratchet up pressure on the Maduro regime, and these measures should command regional support.
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If you're a lawyer and want some tips on how to catch drug cartel kingpins, here's your golden opportunity ... you can travel to Mexico City for a conference that poses more danger than a Sean Penn Rolling Stone interview.
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The surging violence is blamed in part on the fracturing of large organized crime groups as a result of the government's longstanding strategy of targeting drug kingpins, a cornerstone of its offensive against the nation's main drug trafficking organizations.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence called on Monday for the Organization of American States to suspend Venezuela's membership in the 35-nation group, and he announced new U.S. sanctions targeting drug kingpins said to be linked to the government.
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The leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, aka El Mencho, belongs to the new generation of kingpins who are reputedly less cautious about provoking the kind of turf wars that are currently raging around the country.
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Mother Nature and the host Toronto Raptors provided the stereotypical bone-chilling Canadian winter weather as A-list celebrities, industry kingpins and the world's best basketball players, including LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Stephen Curry took over the frost-bitten city.
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Photo via a source in Sinaloa showing Chapo Guzmán after his capture The navy is reputedly more reliable and less corrupt than other Mexican law enforcement agencies and is regularly entrusted to lead operations targeting the country's highest profile kingpins.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Most Filipinos believe only the poor are killed in their country's war on drugs, and want President Rodrigo Duterte to reveal the identity of alleged narcotics kingpins and charge them in court, a survey released on Monday showed.
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MANILA, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday he would allow Jack Lam, one of Asia's top casino kingpins, to do business in the country after he had ordered his arrest on charges of economic sabotage and bribery.
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Sterling told VICE News he initially suggested that only Pablo Escobar-level kingpins be subject to mandatory minimums, but some senators wanted a law that would be prosecuted on a regular basis, so that they could take credit for cracking down.
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Back then, Congress turned to civil forfeiture laws to empower law enforcement authorities to seize and forfeit the ill-gotten gains of drug kingpins, criminal organizations, and money launderers, as well as the property they used to commit their crimes.
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ABC reports that Soerensen's lawyer said his activity was "stupid," and he called Soerensen the "front man" of a plot overseen by Danish kingpins, who were large investors in Sorensen's parent company, Pork Australia ApS, which is based in Denmark.
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The firm has been on a public-relations campaign in recent months to show its value to law enforcement, and has cited several examples of its spyware's being used, it says, to capture drug kingpins and to stop terrorist attacks.
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The underlying framework of so many crime films—whether they focus on gritty police procedurals or drug kingpins—is that the greed, amorality, and physical violence necessary to succeed in the criminal underworld is simply lacking in the female sex.
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A longstanding cornerstone of the Mexican government's fight against organized crime — backed by hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid — has been to aim at the kingpins, on the theory that cutting off the head will wither the body.
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Well, here we are with the outcome four decades later: teachers barely making it, prisons privatized, roads in ruin and smug contractor-kingpins claiming that the solution is further privatization while they're really only seeking to further line their wallets.
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The collapse of the cases will be a blow to Duterte, who has been criticised by political opponents and human rights groups for primarily targeting small-time users and dealers in a brutal campaign that has left drugs kingpins largely untouched.
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Yet their complexions match the profiles and images that African-American rappers have long relied on for their drug-dealer allusions, the real and make-believe kingpins with empires spanning the Caribbean to Colombia and then further down the South American continent.
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Or, more accurately, that we've chosen them: to stand out and join the resistance during a period marked by a turbulent, openly anti-women administration, and the ongoing call out and takedown of the entertainment and media industries most powerful and menacing kingpins.
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A top Chinese drug official announced Thursday that Beijing authorities busted an illicit fentanyl factory and detained 19 people associated with the operation — but made no mention of two fentanyl kingpins who are wanted by the U.S. and presumably still on the loose.
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A top Chinese drug official announced Thursday that Beijing authorities busted an illicit fentanyl factory and detained 20163 people associated with the operation — but made no mention of two fentanyl kingpins who are wanted by the U.S. and presumably still on the loose.
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READ: Exclusive: China won't arrest the two fentanyl kingpins wanted by the U.S. Yu Haibin, the agency's director of precursor chemical control, said the two suspects indicted by the United States have not been arrested because there's no evidence they violated Chinese law.
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Both sides of the equation are fascinating, with Gallardo seeking to forge an uneasy peace among the various drug kingpins -- in what only can be likened to the mob families parceling off Cuba in "The Godfather Part II" -- establishing Mexico's first narco-union.
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Human rights groups say the anti-drugs crackdown, the signature policy of the populist Duterte, has been disastrous and has almost entirely targeted the poor, with most of those killed or arrested drug users and small-time dealers, with narcotics kingpins largely untouched.
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In the Alston case, one must wonder if the old time-honored recruitment and indoctrination of rookie police officers was adhered to in hiring someone who had been associating with drug kingpins since high school, yet still managed to get on the NYPD.
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"El Chapo" was the head of the Sinaloa drug cartel and one of the world's most wanted drug kingpins until his capture in January, six months after he broke out of a high-security jail in central Mexico through a mile-long tunnel.
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A year ago, they all farcically marched for the abolition of the one flickering light of hope: The UN's International Commission Against Impunity, which has taken down criminal kingpins as high as the President in 85033 and has reportedly prevented 4,500 anticipated murders.
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Controversial lawyer Michael Avenatti is being kept in a special unit of a Manhattan federal jail that has housed accused terrorists and drug kingpins "for his own safety" because of his notoriety, the jail's warden told a New York federal judge Tuesday.
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If #MeToo exposed the extent to which media moguls and kingpins operate on the assumption that sexual payola is their due, it turns out that sexual shakedowns go on in every industry, from fast food joints to auto assembly plants to Wall Street.
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In many parts of the country, kingpins such as Joaquin "el Chapo" Guzman (who was sentenced to life in an American prison in July 2019) are revered by locals as the most consistent providersof work, charity, and business for marijuana and poppy harvests.
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In its nearly two decades on newsstands and in cellblocks, the gritty quarterly, which calls itself the Original Street Bible, has offered scoops on hip-hop killers and cocaine kingpins, all of whom have trusted that its editors would get their stories right.
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"The president makes a distinction between those that are languishing in prison for low-level drug offenses and the kingpins hauling thousands of lethal doses of fentanyl into communities, that are responsible for many casualties in a single weekend," she told Axios.
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And despite Mr. Guzmán's infamy, there are questions about whether he was truly the biggest drug trafficker in Mexico or just one of various powerful kingpins, including his fellow Sinaloan trafficker Ismael Zambada García, called El Mayo, who is still at large.
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Yes, it's easier to find "drug dealers with a pen" if you simply define dealing as prescribing more than a certain amount—and busting doctors is certainly less risky for officers than going after violent cartel kingpins who run the fentanyl trade.
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Still, Olga Sanchez, Lopez Obrador's proposed interior minister, said the new administration would move fast to reconsider drug policies and a militaristic approach that, despite toppling some high-profile kingpins, failed to prevent more than 313,000 murders since first adopted in 2006.
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Gab has over 42,000 people on its waitlist, more than 11,000 active members, and among them are nearly all the alt-right's online kingpins, including the Internet's self-styled super-villain, Breitbart writer Milo Yiannopoulos himself, who was recently banned for life from Twitter.
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States began adopting a flurry of their own statutes — on top of federal law allowing seizures — during the War on Drugs as a tool to keep kingpins from holding onto ill-gotten items, like cash from a drug trade or cars used for trafficking.
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"Most of the kingpins who dominate this illegal trade are Eritrean nationals, but they collaborate with minorities in Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan in order to facilitate cross-border operations," said Commander Tuemay Aregawi, who is in charge of IGAD's operations to fight organized crime.
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We could decorate a long wall with posters of former kingpins: Miguel Angel Gallardo, Carlos Lehder, Griselda Blanco, Frank Lucas, Benjamin Arellano-Felix, Pablo Escobar of recent "Narcos" fame, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, the former "Lord of the Skies", Osiel Cardenas and now Joaquin Guzman.
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"As a former federal prosecutor and head of the Department of Justice's Criminal Division, Chris Wray has successfully prosecuted terrorists, drug kingpins, and white-collar criminals," Sessions said, and "earned the respect of his colleagues at DOJ," as well as bipartisan support from the Senate.
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" Finally, and staying dark, you should listen to this episode of "Reveal," based on Aaron Glantz's book "Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream.
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Ultimately, allowing the kingpins of sexual exploitation to escape criminal culpability and civil liability in order to safeguard the special interests of Big Tech via NAFTA would be a victory for unadulterated corporate greed, and could make Internet-facilitated sexual violence a major American export.
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With a "direct listing," Spotify essentially posted available shares on the New York Stock Exchange and let the market figure out a fair price, rather than selling a certain number of shares to Wall Street kingpins before the rest of us could buy them.
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First and foremost, it seems they intend to tell the jury that witnesses who testify against El Chapo — which are likely to include including several former Mexican and Colombian kingpins — should not be trusted because they're criminals who are only trying get leniency for themselves.
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Not only that, but the three local kingpins and one-time enemies were brought together, apologies were exchanged, and the cool water of time gave way to new friendships —or at least some form of civility that will ensure the Blackpool scene can grow.
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He has also recently celebrated the successes his government has seen in taking out kingpins, particularly the capture, in January 2016, of El Chapo, who had been on the lam for six months after his embarrassing escape from a maximum-security penitentiary the previous summer.
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If the trial proceeds as planned, it's expected to last several months and feature high-drama testimony from former Mexican and Colombian kingpins, but some of the most powerful stories to emerge from his epic rise and fall won't be heard inside the courtroom.
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Smugglers of migrants are often not cartel kingpins but small players directing a web of independent contractors: foot guides, drivers and operators of stash houses where migrants are held until friends or family members pay an installment for the next leg of their trip.
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Former and current U.S. officials have argued against the move, stating that a 85033 law that allows U.S. officials to designate foreign drug traffickers as drug kingpins already empowers the U.S. to impose sanctions similar to those triggered by a foreign terrorist organization designation.
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They also found that, over their 30 years in business, Mossack Fonseca has attracted an array of colorful clients, such as Ponzi schemers, diamond traders, confectionery oligarchs, international arms smugglers, Saudi royals, members of disgraced football association FIFA, art dealers, drug kingpins, and so on.
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Many kingpins have fallen, but the smuggling industry survives The Mexican government points to evidence of its successes in the war on drugs: The leadership of the biggest cartels has been captured or killed (or recaptured, as in the case of serial escapee Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman).
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In the last few rounds of commutations, Cook said one inmate was the leader of a drug ring that trafficked in over 28500 tons of cocaine, six had previously been convicted of being drug kingpins and another had been convicted of possessing a sawed off shot gun.
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As Marley Jay reports, the view from Wall Street is less favorable:Morgan Stanley says WeWork's failed IPO marks the end of an era for unprofitable unicorns — and explains why it leaves the market's tech kingpins vulnerableAnd then there's the question of what's next for Neumann himself.
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Many critics question the drug war's focus on killing petty users and dealers from poor communities, rather than nabbing the kingpins who supply them with crystal meth, a highly addictive stimulant known locally as 'shabu' that officials blame for high crime rates and other social ills.
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U.S. sanctions on Iran instigated in November failed to have as deep an impact on supply as forecast as a handful of waivers were granted to oil consuming countries, taking away a need for oil kingpins Saudi Arabia and Russia to produce more to fulfil a potential shortfall.
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In June, ProPublica revealed that the 2011 massacre of many as 300 people in Allende, some 40 miles southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas, happened after an operative in the Zetas cartel handed over trackable cell phone ID codes for two of its kingpins to the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
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Due to the economic forces at play, kingpins and organizations can and will rise and fall, but someone will always step in to fill in any gaps left by the fallen, as there is simply too much money to make by feeding the insatiable appetite for illicit drugs.
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But as someone who's covered the Amazon during its latest boom and bust, I've seen that the carnage within the prison walls is a consequence of a more insidious crisis in the world's largest forest: narco-corruption that blurs the line between cops and hitmen, governors and kingpins.
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To figure out a way to shut down the cartels' ability to smuggle people in and out, Matt devises a plan to pit them against one another by kidnapping the daughter (Isabela Moner) of one of the kingpins and letting them think it's the work of a rival cartel.
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Investigators suspect they still operate their steroid business in Slovenia, which does not have an extradition treaty with the US. The US Treasury Department added Karner, his brother, and wife to the list of international drug kingpins, and three other key business associates of Karner were also added to the list in 2015.
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Read more: Morgan Stanley says WeWork's failed IPO marks the end of an era for unprofitable unicorns — and explains why it leaves the market's tech kingpins vulnerableA personal guarantee would mean Neumann agreed to use other assets, such as property and other investments, to repay the loan if the shares weren't enough.
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Wayne, who, as mentioned, has spent the previous years insinuating himself with local big wigs, has now placed key contacts inside the Coast Guard, and he personally escorts T.I.'s yacht to the port, where the product is distributed, allowing T.I. and Wayne to blossom into the kingpins they'd always dreamed of being.
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Sinaloa, a crucial corridor in the drug trade, has recently been plagued by an upsurge in violence stemming from a dispute between the sons of Joaquín Guzmán, known as El Chapo, the cartel leader who was extradited to the United States in January, and senior kingpins, including Ismael Zambada, known as El Mayo.
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The one thing no one has done in this whole saga is do what Clinton did in 1996 and defend welfare reform on the merits by bragging about "work requirements," touting how much smaller the welfare rolls are, or talking up the "death penalty for drug kingpins" as a key Democratic achievement.
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"(China's internet kingpins) have been able to leverage the potential for China to internationalize its internet behemoths to make sure that it remains part of the global internet community -- even with huge restrictions on that global status," Rana Mitter, director of the University China Center at Oxford University, said, placing Ma second in his ranking.
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María McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which works to reduce the harms of both drug misuse and drug prohibition, said that while the war on drugs had led to prison terms for kingpins like Mr. Guzmán, it had also yielded waste, violence, crime and corruption throughout Latin America.
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An investigative reporter who has covered the border for publications like Time and The Guardian for nearly two decades, del Bosque based her account on scores of personal interviews and reams of court documents, and proves herself fluent in detailing the exceedingly different, but equally rich, milieus of cartel kingpins, Texas equestrians and federal investigators.
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The government's focus will now be on meeting the needs of marginalized communities, Lopez Obrador said, as part of a broader strategy to curb an illegal drug trade that is thriving despite the capture of high-profile kingpins like Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who is on trial in New York for drug trafficking that spanned more than two decades.
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The government's focus will now be on meeting the needs of marginalized communities, Lopez Obrador said, as part of a broader strategy to curb an illegal drug trade that is thriving despite the capture of high-profile kingpins like Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, who is on trial in New York for drug trafficking that spanned more than two decades.
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Trump has claimed he is authorized to give such an order under the Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, but Wallace noted the powers granted by that law only apply to future investments rather than existing ones, have only been used against entities such as rogue nations and drug kingpins, and require a formal emergency declaration.
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With a sentence of 23 years for rape and sexual assault in New York, Harvey Weinstein, once a a member of Hollywood's elite, finds himself at the bottom of the totem pole in the state's prison system, looking up at killers, gang members, mafia guys, drug lords, kingpins, stick-up kids, armed robbers, white collar criminals, and drug users.
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But the law also allows prosecutors to ask for the death penalty for "drug kingpins" who are convicted of leading criminal enterprises that either involve large quantities of drugs (600 grams of heroin or of "a substance that contains a detectable amount of" fentanyl, for example) or that rake in huge amounts of money ($20 million in the course of a year).
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Cradle of kingpins More than anything, Badiraguato, which takes its name from the Tarascan word meaning "creek of many mountains," is known for being the birthplace of a long list of drug traffickers, none more infamous than Guzman, the leader of the Sinaloa cartel and, until his January 8 capture in Los Mochis, the most wanted drug lord in the world.
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But who could have predicted the sheer collision of kingpins that occurred only a mere nine hours ago (at the time of writing) at the British Fashion Awards, when fate aligned to put Skepta and Marilyn Manson in the same building—nay, within the same iPhone camera frame—in a pow wow of titanic significance, to be immortalized in one Instagram post forever?
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Schwarzman's Blackstone and its subsidiaries swept up legions of such properties at foreclosure, thereby transferring billions of dollars of residents' equity to Blackstone, as the journalist Aaron Glantz demonstrates with macroeconomic rigor and novelistic intimacy in Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream.
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" John Blume, a law professor at Cornell University and director of the university's Death Penalty Project, said the Federal Drug Kingpin Act, which allowed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in which a homicide occurred during the commission of a drug transaction, yielded "few kingpins or major dealers -- and mostly ensnared poor, African-American, mid- to low-level persons involved in the drug trade.
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Read more: Morgan Stanley says WeWork's failed IPO marks the end of an era for unprofitable unicorns — and explains why it leaves the market's tech kingpins vulnerableWhile the economy and market have held up in the past few years despite Rosenberg's forecasts, his track record is worth noting: He was one of the first experts to warn about the downturn that came to pass as the Great Recession.
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As WeWork bleeds cash, Bernstein lays out 4 ways the struggling company can stay afloatMorgan Stanley says WeWork's failed IPO marks the end of an era for unprofitable unicorns — and explains why it leaves the market's tech kingpins vulnerableWeWork's unraveling will have a chilling effect on direct-to-consumer companies, says former AOL and Google exec and DTX Company CEO Tim ArmstrongSilicon Valley's founder-led startups have lost their shine with IPO investors.
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White House counselor Kellyanne ConwayKellyanne Elizabeth ConwayIllinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Trump health chief: Officials actively 'working on' ObamaCare replacement plan Campaign aide: Trump asking questions shared by 'millions of Americans' with Epstein conspiracy theory MORE, who is leading the president's opioid strategy, has since said that Trump is referring to "drug kingpins" and suggested that the threat of the death penalty would "punish and deter" them, BuzzFeed reports.
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Read more: Morgan Stanley says WeWork's failed IPO marks the end of an era for unprofitable unicorns — and explains why it leaves the market's tech kingpins vulnerable"In our base case they need a total of $234 billion in incremental funding in order to see themselves through to cashflow positive operations," he wrote, adding that if there's a recession that hurts demand for office space, it could need as much as $15 billion without other changes.
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In Mexico, the reason for the increase in violence has been attributed to three major factors: Balkanization: While the government has crowed about the capture of high-profile cartel kingpins, most notably the capture of Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman last year, analysts say this has led to a "balkanization of organized crime in Mexico," leading to more intense fighting between rival gangs, all eager to fill the power vacuums left when a major player is captured.
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Read: This is what it was like to almost get picked for El Chapo's jury Law enforcement witnesses have testified in El Chapo's trial about seizing tens of thousands of kilos of cocaine — even producing several bricks for the jury to examine — but even with these successes, there was never a shortage of blow on the streets of the U.S. The kingpins keep getting killed or captured, the drug shipments keep getting busted, but nothing changes.
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Here are the books discussed by The Times's critics this week: "Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream," by Aaron Glantz "Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership," by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor "Janis: Her Life and Music," by Holly George-Warren "In the Dream House: A Memoir," by Carmen Maria Machado We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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Iran's strategic location between Afghanistan and Europe plays a significant role in fighting drug trafficking Its 900-kilometer common border with Afghanistan "has been used as the main conduit for smuggling Afghan drugs to narcotics kingpins in Europe," Tasnim reported in May 2018 In 2018, Iran's anti-narcotics police forces seized more than 330 tons of illicit drugs across the country, Iranian state media reported According to a United Nations report, Afghanistan is considered a major source of opium, morphine and heroin for Iran, Pakistan , India and Central Asia.
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