(Part 2) Best organized crime true accounts according to redditors
We found 399 Reddit comments discussing the best organized crime true accounts. We ranked the 147 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
22. When the Mob Ran Vegas: Stories of Money, Mayhem and Murder
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Used Book in Good Condition
Have you read McMafia (It's also a good TV series) by Misha Glenny?
It goes into detail how Israel became the hub for human traffic/prostitution operations in the early 90’s (mostly girls from Eastern Europe).
If yes, were you able to make some connections to Wexner and Epstein?
if not, then you should read the book first thing in the morning.
https://www.amazon.com/McMafia-Misha-Glenny-ebook/dp/B0015DYLPQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Bonus Clip of Glenny talking about it:
https://youtu.be/r28674tI3uE
Existentialism and Human Emotions, by Sartre, is only 96 pages and quite an easy read. {ISBN-13: 978-0806509020} Existentialism and the Philosophical Tradition, [Raymond], gives a broad selection of thinkers throughout history, but it is pricey. {ISBN-13: 978-0132957755} Another approach would be texts that are not strictly philosophical yet present some existential points such as: The Plague, The Stranger, and The Rebel, all by Camus, Nausea by Sartre, Notes From Underground, by Dostoevsky, or Waiting For Godot by Beckett
I host Atlanta's Beer Guys Radio and this week's show (Saturday at 1PM on AM920, or catch the podcast) focuses on Georgia breweriana and history. Ken Jones has been collecting and researching Georgia breweries for over 40 years and he joined us (along with Lee Dickson) to chat and share some of his collection.
There's a lot of history tied to alcohol in Georgia, and a lot of crazy stories. If the subject interests you check out the books Atlanta Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in the Hub of the South and Prohibition in Atlanta. Both are great reads for beer or history buffs, there are a lot more pics of Ken's collection in the books.
> or that in won't make the problem worse
It will actually make the problem far worse in Mexico. If the Orange Clown got things his way, there would only be a few approved border crossings. This would limit the avenues for drug and human trafficking into the US. As a result, there would be a substantial increase in cartel violence over control of these points of entry.
This is exactly what turned Ciudad Juarez into a war zone. It was a battle to control one of the largest points of entry into the US.
Yes, the cartels that did not control the major points of entry, would find ways to smuggle contraband into the US, but it would not be via tractor trailers, but in back packs and through small tunnels.
There is an excellent book, detailing all of this - Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel. I highly recommend it, if you are interested in learning more.
McMafia de Misha Glenny.
Consta histórias do crime organizado na ascensão do capitalismo que culminou com a queda do comunismo e o fim da Guerra Fria. Muito interessante para entender tudo o que aconteceu nos Bálcãs, Rússia, Oriente Médio e se estendeu por todo o globo.
Tem até uma série, que não cheguei a assistir.
Check out The Mob Museum gift shop, they have tons of selections. I picked up When The Mob Ran Vegas (https://www.amazon.com/When-Mob-Ran-Vegas-Stories/dp/0977065804) there and it was a really interesting read.
Last year on Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Bourdain sat down with journalist Anabel Hernandez, author of Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords And Their Godfathers. Apparently her work investigating the cartels was so explosive that she now lives in hiding with private security.
There are quite many details here
https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Dawn-Russian-Criminal-State/dp/0300105916
Mafia and the Machine.
All about Kansas City’s ties to the mafia
Edit - grammar
John Nores Hidden War: How Special Operations Game Wardens Are Reclaiming America's Wildlands From The Drug Cartels
You should read this book if you want to know how the laws that were passed and written in California have made the problem worse.
Oh cool, written by Ron and Mary, too!
https://www.amazon.com/Prohibition-Atlanta-American-Ron-Smith/dp/1626196060
The guy that wrote that blog post has a good book called Spam Nation that talks about his deep dive investigation into Russian cybercrime gangs. It's incredibly good, and he's one of the best reporters on the cyber underground.
I'd also look for the coverage of Stuxnet. There's a really good documentary about it called zer0days, and since you specifically asked about books you could do Countdown to Zero though I haven't read it so I don't know how good it is. If you haven't heard about Stuxnet it's a fascinating story about just how advanced US cyber warfare capability is.
> blowing up Russian apartment blocks
It was the FSB tho. https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Dawn-Russian-Criminal-State/dp/0300105916
> massacring school children
It was the FSB too (Alfa & Vympel). https://www.amazon.com/Dubrovka-Beslan-Hostage-Crises-Counter-Terrorism/dp/389821608X
Oh hells yeah. Like how [Russians] (http://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Dawn-Russian-Criminal-State/dp/0300105916/) chose to dissolve their pensions in the 1990s, when not choosing to dissolve physically in collapsing infrastructure. Or like how they chose to [replace police] (http://www.amazon.com/Violent-Entrepreneurs-Making-Russian-Capitalism/dp/0801487781/) with violent, for-profit thugs.
In Sicily, the Mafia helped the Allies with the invasion. Mussolini had hit the Mafia quite hard (the only good thing he did) and helping the Americans (which of course they were already well familiar with) suited them fine.
They are also traditionally ultra conservative, and therefore could be relied on not to get involved with the communists Partigiani, in fact to keep them in check.
I am not sure what serious historians think of Tim Newark, but here's a book of his on the matter
http://www.amazon.com/Mafia-Allies-Americas-Secret-Alliance/dp/0760324573
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There's a Kindle Single called "Lifted" that tells the full story of this heist. Good, short read and well worth the $2.
Do you read books? If yes you should read Agni Shridhar's Daadagiriya Dinagalu. Shridhar was actually a gangster, now a journalist. Or you can watch movie Aa Dinagalu. The plot revolves around actual underworld growth in B'lore, since 70s and rift between Kotwal Ramachandra and Jayaraaj. These two are the guys who established underworld in B'lore.
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English version - link, Kindle - only 11rs
El Narco
Narcoleaks
Narcoland
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Drug War Mexico
There is also a good book about Juarez and the cartels also by Anabel Hernández, Los señores del narco, but I do not know if it is in Spanish.
I'm pretty awesomely adept at Greek mythology and literature.
Some of my favorite literature:
[Waiting for Godot] (http://www.amazon.com/Waiting-Godot-Eng-rev-Tragicomedy/dp/080214442X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368735525&sr=1-1&keywords=waiting+for+godot) by Samuel Beckett
[The Stranger] (http://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Albert-Camus/dp/0679720200/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368735498&sr=1-1&keywords=the+stranger+by+albert+camus) by Albert Camus
[Shades of Grey] (http://www.amazon.com/Shades-Grey-Novel-Jasper-Fforde/dp/0143118587) by Jasper Fforde
[The Diamond as Big as the Ritz] (http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Big-Ritz-Scott-Fitzgerald/dp/1603551050/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368735594&sr=1-2&keywords=diamond+as+big+as+the+ritz) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This is a little late in the day, I know, but I only just came across your post and thought I'd pitch in.
You should look up Agni Sreedhar, the reformed gangster from Bangalore. His memoir is quite gripping. Check it out: http://www.amazon.com/DAYS-UNDERWORLD-RISE-BANGALORE-MAFIA-ebook/dp/B00FGQBUPW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=
https://www.amazon.com/Mafia-Allies-Americas-Secret-Alliance/dp/0760324573
Titles from Palo Alto's Cybersecurity Canon may make for great reads in this audience. Here are some of my favorites:
If you want to know where private investigation will be two or three decades from now... begin with Future Crimes.
oh, you sweet summer child..
here's a tip of an iceberg. it's only one example of cancer growing inside the US government.
crucial follow up reading would be public enemies. shame they made it into such a terrible movie. life gives you the greatest script and hollywood fucking changes it.
the rabbit hole is deep. might be better off not jumping in, but the truth is out there if you care enough to find it.
He is rated the #7 spammer in the world according to Spamhaus. Whether or not he was involved in attempted hacks of the two state databases is not so clear. RT is possibly overstating the evidence on that one. His Kelihos botnet is associated with election meddling is all that is known for sure publically. TBD. I think the FBI figures he may know more than actually be involved and therefore a possible deal. RT is probably not liking that.
> Peter Carr, a spokesman for the U.S. Justice Department’s criminal division, said: "The U.S. case remains under seal, so we have no information to provide at this time."
> Levashov was better known as “Severa,” the hacker moniker used by a pivotal figure in many Russian-language cybercrime forums. Severa was the moderator for the spam subsection of multiple online communities, and in this role served as the virtual linchpin connecting virus writers with huge spam networks — including some that Severa allegedly created and sold himself.
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> There is ample evidence that Severa is the cybercriminal behind the Waledac spam botnet, a spam engine that for several years infected between 70,000 and 90,000 computers and was capable of sending approximately 1.5 billion spam messages a day.
More background on this guy can be found in this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Spam-Nation-Organized-Cybercrime-Epidemic-ebook/dp/B00L5QGBL0/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1
This is one of the best books I have ever read and it's all true and about many unsolved crimes in the boston area...This book is the ring leaders confessions release post mortem. An aboslute must read for anyone living in boston.
https://www.amazon.com/Final-Confession-Unsolved-Crimes-Cresta/dp/155553449X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1523299687&sr=8-2&keywords=true+confession+phil+cresta
As someone who lives in Colorado, I can tell you the boom isn't just in industrial and commercial real estate. People have been flocking to the state by the thousands. This is in part to an economy that wasn't hit as hard by the recession, and that recovered faster. But also because of legalization. This is both good and bad. Property values have shot up, but with that cost of living, so it's a double edged sword.
The article addresses the concern over federal illegality, but fails to address what I feel to be the bigger threat to the industry, federal legalization. As Tom Wainwright discusses in his book Narconomics , federal legalization would result in the ability to import marijuana. This would allow companies to move their grow operations offshore (most likely Mexico or Central America) to capitalize on lower costs for both facilities and labor. Suddenly all of these big grow operations are unable to compete on price and justify these massive facilities. Cue warehouse real estate bubble burst.
The Triangle reminded me a lot of The Wire.
https://www.amazon.com/Triangle-Ground-Yorks-Bloods-Crips/dp/1493007602
I don't really like "your sister died in the street last week", because as far as I know my sister didn't die in the street last week. It should be "his" sister or "her" or "somebody's" sister died in the street last week, because that would be true and you should never, ever lie in a song. Or so I've heard. Other than that it's the best thing I've heard lately.
I should listen to it again but I don't remember a coda or bridge or solo, that stuff is important.
You're a good singer and I think this is a keeper song, my recommendation is to read Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 and write a few more verses. more is always better, throw em out later
chorus is good.
Mafia Allies
They will keep doing what they are doing.
The Mafia and the Machine: The Story of the Kansas City Mob
A plume or cloud of spores isn’t something you’d see in that scenario. The household molds that is the offender in this sub Reddit doesn’t really do that and if people say it does it’s probably dust. It’s very much not like stepping in a mushroom in the woods where the cloud may be visible.
I think you have a lot of variables and poor lifestyle choices that can easily contribute to your issues. Even your nervous nelly demeanor could be explained with a biological cause.
You should read hidden war a book on the special operations team trained to fight cartels in Cali from growing pot. The endemic nature of that piece of marijuana commerce isn’t something to be over looked. The cartel growers have been caught using pesticides even the third world won’t touch anymore. Sadly they sell to dispensaries and in the state of Cali alone they grow more weed the the entire US consumption. Don’t read this as me being against weed. I’m not. This problem which is very serious is often overlooked as a variable.
https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-War-Operations-Reclaiming-Wildlands/dp/1946267619
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Although I would recommend Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy by Moisés Naím. I believe it is along the same vein.
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Comeback: One Man's Triumph Over a Near Death Experience
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07N47FB1Z
FREE on February 1st
> "A powerful. compelling human life story of tragedy and triumph over adversity"
Earl Ofari Hutchinson Political analyst and best selling author
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Comeback: One Man's Triumph Over a Near Death Experience is a compelling, moving and inspiring story of how one man, Douglas Sandoval, overcame penury and violence at home and in the war, suffering, family loss and abandonment and trauma in his native El Salvador to seek a better life in United States. But it's also a story that tells of his enduring more hardships, family disruption, and personal trauma as an immigrant in adapting to and trying to find his place in a new country and losing himself and ending with his violence towards his mother. Given the massive media and public attention and concern about immigration and immigrants--legal and otherwise--from El Salvador and Central America, it's an even more compelling story for our times.
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Murderous Minds Volume 4: Stories of Real Life Murderers That Escaped the Headlines
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07N31HZ7N
FREE until February 2nd
> Tales of murder and darkness have a way of both terrifying and enthralling us.
>The line between man and monster is never as definitive or sturdy as we’d like to think. When seemingly ordinary people cross the line between normal behavior and violent acts, it raises the question: what were they thinking? Can your own mind be the key to becoming a monster?
I have read this engaging book When the Mob Ran Vegas. It can have the feel of an old Uncle telling yarns. How would you rate it's accuracy and do you have any recommendations for similar or more historical sources.
Steve Fischer's book ("When the Mob Ran Vegas") is not academic and does not purport to be. I'm curious as to whether you consider it inaccurate or exaggerated.
https://www.amazon.com/When-Mob-Ran-Vegas-Stories/dp/0977065804
Here you go chap. A brief intro. For an almost exhaustive explanation, see Narcoland.
I agree Bea, he was in love with Perry.
Try Public Enemies it's a really interesting look at the bank robbers of the 1920s.
For those interested, I recommend spending $2 and buying Lifted by Evan Ratliff. Tells the story of this robbery, and let me tell you, it is pretty epic. And he's a great writer. Check it out.
(and no, I'm not affiliated with Ratliff in any way. This ain't no commercial)
I'm not an expert, I just finished reading Illicit by Moises Naim and was kind of repeating what he said in the arms control chapter of the book about arms deals like this. I'm cheering on the rebels too but I thought people might want to know another viewpoint. Most of Europe has excess capacity in arms factories and excess stockpiles which means countries are less concerned if they sell to non-state actors. My point was that it's not the Cold War where countries are supporting prodemocracy or procommunist factions for ideological reasons.
If you're interested in card and dice hustlers theres a good few books on that. Titanic Thompson and Fast Jack are two great places to start
I wanna get this: https://www.amazon.com/Fast-Jack-Last-Hustler-Farrell/dp/1491236728
Add it in please?
lol https://www.amazon.com/Spam-Nation-Organized-Cybercrime_from-Epidemic/dp/1501210424
Waiting for Godot
> SO sorry I fucked up one of the gun terms, I obviously know nothing about guns after that.
Well obviously you don't if you if you don't understand what an AR-15 and AK really are, and don't understand how magazines work.
> Ban the MAGAZINES over 15 round standard
Why? You can change a magazine in under 2-3 seconds (at 40 seconds) And most mass shootings occur in places with totally defenseless victims, like schools, churches, and in this case a medical facility. They could do just as much damage with a bolt action rifle or a machete.
> walk into a store and buy a fucking 100 round drum MAGAZINE.
Actually if all mass shooters used 100 round drugs the death tolls would be much lower. 100 round drums suck total ass, and jam all the time. The guy shooting up the theater in CO had a 100 round drum mag, that jammed up multiple times and he ended up ditching it with ~80 rounds still loaded into it.
> Also if you know where the black market is, kindly inform your local police department about it,
Lol it's not a "black market", it a street corner where the local gangs hang out. The cops know full well where it is, there's been books written about the Linden Triangle, with actual interviews with actual gangsters describing exactly how they traffic arms and drugs. But when the demand is stronger and more profitable than the risks of getting caught, crime lives on. Just look at how well the drug war is working out, or stopping illegals from getting over the Mexican border. The police can't stop everything.
Also there's also 2-3 bars that openly serve alcohol to people 18+ in the same town (often times with the cops hanging out at the Popeye's next door watching drunk minors stumble home).
I'm guessing you live in a state like Vermont or just out in a rural / suburban area, and really have no idea what the world is like in densely populated urban areas. You also don't understand jack shit about guns or how they operate.
> if it was not you, that someone would sell their own house and car to get a gun like that, it's obviously not impossible.
So why have exactly zero fully auto weapons been used in any recent mass shootings? You'd have to go back 40-50+ years to find someone murdered with one, and probably back to Al Capone's time to find one used in a mass shooting.
Educate yourself. The world doesn't need ignorant people voting on things they don't even understand. Do some research, then come back and have a real discussion. Because now all you're doing is becoming more and more hostile to cover for the fact that you have no idea what you're talking about. Remember rule number one of this subreddit.