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Two explosive stories began circulating in Italy in November. The first was about a nine-year-old Muslim girl who was hospitalized after being sexually assaulted by her 35-year-old "husband" in the northeastern city of Padua.
Dawn's first rays were streaming through the palm trees in Spain's laid-back jet-setter paradise Marbella when the crashing of waves was drowned out by the whomp-whomp of hovering police helicopters and the wail of sirens. Roadblocks went up and streets were shut down all morning as more than 100 officers of the Guardia Civil, the Spanish military police, raced across the port city - storming villas, ritzy eateries, yachts, a golf course, the soccer stadium, a bank, even raiding a water-bottling plant deep in the dusty hills.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein released the full transcript of testimony that Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson gave to the Senate Intelligence Committee - and it contains explosive allegations that President Donald Trump has direct ties to international money laundering operations. During his testimony, Simpson detailed ways that money had been stolen from a bank in Kazakhstan, then laundered throughout multiple countries - before being funneled in part to the Trump Soho hotel project.
Flamboyant lawyer Richard Luthmann may fancy himself a champion of the little guy, but federal prosecutors say he is little more than a "violent criminal and fraudster" who, along with accomplices, bilked customers in a scrap-metal business they had formed, had a victim threatened at gunpoint, and took advantage of a blind client in a bid to hide their scheme. Luthmann, 38, who two years ago famously sought to resolve a civil lawsuit through "trial by combat," was arrested Friday morning by the FBI on a slew of charges, including kidnapping, kidnapping conspiracy, money laundering, brandishing a firearm to commit a crime, aggravated identity theft and extortion conspiracy.
Four alleged members and associates of the Gambino and Bonanno crime families, including a man from Bellmore, were arrested on Wednesday as part of a major federal investigation into cocaine dealing and racketeering. Salvatore Russo, 45, of Bellmore, was charged in a cocaine trafficking scheme involving at least 10 kilograms.
He's the top lieutenant in Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller's investigation of potential collusion between Russia and the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has always styled himself as something of a cross between a businessman and mafia boss. But running a protection racket from the Oval Office is something else entirely.
Ricky Dale Munsey, 48, of Del Rio, was sentenced Thursday by Senior U.S. District Court Judge R. Leon Jordan to serve nearly 22 years in federal prison following a conviction for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Tennessee. According to the plea agreement on file with the U.S. District Court, Munsey admitted that he was responsible for the distribution of at least 4.5 kilograms of methamphetamine, a Department of Justice news release states.
This 1995 file photo taken in West Palm Beach, Fla., and released by the FBI shows Francis P. "Cadillac Frank" Salemme. Federal prosecutors said Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, that the former Mafia boss has been arrested on charges related to murder of a witness.
Donald Trump sounded an awful lot like the mafia types he's been linked to in the past when he told CBS' Face The Nation , that he wants foreign countries to pay "protection money," to the U.S. In responding to host John Dickerson's question about Hillary's criticisms of Trump's policies, Dickerson asked, "what policy of yours did she mischaracterize?" Trump responded by saying she only gave a "Trump policy" speech and said, "She talked about I wanted to nuke all of these countries, that's ridiculous. No, I want these countries to pay for protection."