Résultats pour "De ware" dans Affaires criminelles

Peter Rachman dominated housing in post-war London—he owned swathes in the west of the city, accumulating huge wealth as his tenants lived in squalor and fear of his hard-nosed collectors and enforcers. He was also at the heart of the city's murky, post-war underworld. In Slumlord, Neil Root pulls back the curtain on this seedy world to paint a portrait of a fascinating man whose path intersected with figures as diverse as Christine Keeler, the glamorous society girl at the heart of the Profumo Scandal, and Michael X, the Black Power activist who later went on to be hanged for double murder.

The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold War Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a “contract wife” performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young...

Although much has been written about Al Capone, there has not been-until now-a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition. This exhaustively researched book covers the entire period from 1920 to 1933. Author John J. Binder, a recognized authority on the history of organized crime in Chicago, discusses all the important bootlegging gangs in the city and the suburbs and also examines the other major rackets, such as prostitution, gambling, labor and business racketeering, and narcotics.

This book says outright what many have merely hinted at: that President George W. Bush knowingly misused the findings of the erroneous and incompetent U.S. intelligence community to provide a pretext for war with Iraq. The author hones in on the systematic weaknesses of the intelligence agencies that caused them to ignore the crucial signs leading up to the attacks of 9/11.

""Stunning. Sean McFate is a new Sun Tzu."" -Admiral James Stavridis (retired), former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO An Economist Book of the Year 2019 An urgent, fascinating exploration of warfare—past, present and future—and what we must do if we want to win today from an 82nd Airborne...

The bestselling author of Body of Secrets and The Puzzle Palace presents his most hard-hitting book to date—a sweeping, authoritative, and fearless account of the failures of America’s intelligence agencies and the Bush administration’s calculated efforts to sell a war to the American...

Lange bevor Joaquin "Jack" Garcia mit einigen der mächtigsten Capos der New Yorker Mafia verkehrte, war er einer der untypischsten Neuzugänge im Agentenstab des FBI: Unter falscher Identität sollte der gebürtige Kubaner in Mafiakreisen ermitteln und erhielt dafür als erster Geheimagent in der Geschichte des FBI eine fundierte "Gangsterausbildung".

From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, "a page-turning thriller" (James M. Scott) about ​one of the greatest heists in history: the U.S. Navy’s clandestine capture of a Nazi U-boat at the climax of World War II. Shortly before noon on June 4, 1944, the sonar...

Nagseine is ’n dokumentêre podcast oor onverklaarbare gebeure, geheimsinnige verdwynings en ware stories wat nooit volledig verduidelik is nie. Elke episode ondersoek bevestigde feite, bekende verslae en historiese rekords — en fokus op die oomblikke waar antwoorde ophou sin maak. Van vreemde voorvalle tot onverduidelikte ervarings en onopgeloste vrae wat oor dekades bly voortbestaan. Ideaal vir luisteraars wat belangstel in ware raaisels, onverklaarbare verskynsels en rustige, feit-gebaseerde vertelling.

For eight years, two outlaw biker clubs fought to control street-level drug sales in Quebec, Canada. The notorious Hell's Angels went up against local drug dealers, the mafia, and a rival biker club, the Rock Machine. Many unfortunate bystanders got caught in the crossfire. When the smoke cleared and dozens of outlaws were arrested, over 150 people were dead. This true-crime book depicts the history of both clubs and the events known as the Quebec Bikers War.

The Lundin War Crimes Trial is a podcast series that follows the landmark criminal trial of two executives from the Swedish oil company Lundin, accused of aiding and abetting war crimes in Sudan between 1999 and 2003. The company also faces allegations of profiting from these crimes, which left a devastating impact on communities in what is now South Sudan.During Lundin's operations, 200,000 people were forcibly displaced, and 12,000 lives were lost. This podcast uncovers the human cost of corporate greed and explores a critical question: Can a Swedish court deliver justice for the survivors ...

With his brother dead, Eddie Richardson feels free to detail the story of a vicious family feud that provoked extravagant acrimony. No Handcuffs unravels the mysteries of decades of crime and political incident. The story of a turbulent era, it rivals the most imaginative fiction in its portrayal of gangland life with all its chanciness and rawness and careless disregard for any obstacle on the way to its target: the big money.

It’s March 2012 in a region of Afghanistan known as the birthplace of the Taliban. Staff Sergeant Robert Bales leaves his base–in the dead of the night–and lays siege to two villages, killing a reported sixteen innocent Afghan civilians. The reaction from the American government is swift and severe; provoking universal condemnation and a life sentence in Fort Leavenworth military prison. Over a decade later, the lingering question about what became known as the Kandahar Massacre remains. Why did it happen? Anchored by 18 hours of exclusive interviews from America's most notorious war ...

Exploring cases and stories about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Men and members of the LGBTQ 2 Spirit community.

Where Police, Veterans and Firefighters get together and tell each other their War Stories.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-war-locker-show--6767179/support.

Thrillerauteur Patrick Bernauw laat zijn licht - en ook al eens dat van een ander - schijnen over historische misdaden, dicht bij huis (= België en Nederland) maar ook internationaal. En er komen zowel bekende criminele zaken aan bod - of wat dacht je van de Bende van Bonnie & Clyde? - als minder bekende, maar daarom niet minder boeiende... Want wist jij dat Adolf Hitler zijn opleiding als redenaar kreeg van een joodse variété artiest en 'ziener', die wellicht ook daarom moest vermoord worden? Of dat er niet minder dan 41 Canadezen begraven liggen op het kerkhof van het Franse dorpje ...

Sex offenders who molest and rape children inflict damage upon them for life. Many victims become drug addicts and criminals who were never defended. In The Art of War: A Prison Memoir, best-selling author Glenn Langohr takes you inside a California prison where a guard worked with the inmates to have a notorious child molester stabbed. He furnished them with the court paperwork that exposed 44 convictions of rape. Where mobsters, serial killers, and gangs are all fighting to survive, this is The Art of War.

Dead For Justice: 7 Years at War with the Irish Police / Gardaí. Listen to the true story of E.F. Fluff's nightmarish war with Irish Police after a corrupt Kevin Street Cop / Gard targeted me with wholly false charges as part of a scam to defraud the Irish State, and the physical torture, sexual assault and false imprisonment I was put through in the nightmare of trying to escape.

Were the war crimes trials held by the Allies in Europe and the Far East after the Second World War fair and just? We look at the trials: the law, the charges and the evidence. Be prepared to be surprised.

B.J., a white inmate serving time on drug charges, gets caught up in a Mexican gang war. The northern California Mexicans demand that the southern California Mexicans keep their shirts on to cover up their gangland tattoos. The prison explodes into chaos as each building erupts in deadly violence. For B.J, the war isn't over when he and over a hundred inmates get housed in solitary confinement, it's just beginning. For getting involved, he's labeled a southern Mexican gangster.