Résultats pour "Veritas" dans Crime organisé

From Oxford Ballroom to Federal Courtroom—The Rise and Fall of High Society's Most Notorious DaughterShe was born into unimaginable wealth. She died in a prison cell of her own making. For six decades, Ghislaine Maxwell lived as high society royalty. Oxford-educated, internationally connected, and seemingly untouchable—she glided through a world of billionaire parties, royal gatherings, and political power circles. But behind the designer gowns and charity galas, she was building something sinister: a criminal empire that would ultimately destroy everything she'd spent her life creating.

Empire City Under Siege shares true stories of an FBI Special Agent spanning three tumultuous decades in New York City, beginning in the gritty 1970s when law enforcement refused to let their city be consumed by corruption and violence.

In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital centre of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America—addiction like no other the country has ever faced. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland.

Carlos Lehder es mundialmente famoso por haber sido uno de los fundadores y principales capos del cartel de Medellín, tal vez el más singular del grupo, y el primero de ellos en ser extraditado a los Estados Unidos, en 1987, luego de ser traicionado por Pablo Escobar Gaviria, su socio y cabecilla indiscutible del cartel. Lehder fue sentenciado a cadena perpetua y 135 años adicionales, que logró reducir por su colaboración en el juicio de Estados Unidos contra el dictador panameño Manuel Antonio Noriega.

Ved 02.30-tiden lørdag den 26. november 1983 blev en 23-årig mand likvideret ved skydning, knivstik, slag og spark under et rockeropgør i Skanderborg. Likvideringen, der var en kulmination af længere tids interne stridigheder, vakte stor opmærksomhed. Forbrydelsen blev opklaret i løbet af få døgn på grund af politiets store lokalkendskab. I det følgende beskrives rockergruppen, dels dens baggrund og tilbliven, dels udvikling og dels forholdet til lokalsamfundets beboere, politi og andre myndigheder med flere, samt politiets efterforskning.

How did a once faceless bureaucrat, a man whose own wife said he was born under the sign of the vampire, become the idealized face of Russian manhood and its authoritarian leader? Deputy Mayor Putin examines the man behind the myth. We will explore how Putin’s formative years shaped and drove him and how the supporting cast of characters he gathered along the way helped him get to the Kremlin’s inner sanctum.

The heist was flawless. The silence that followed wasn’t. In the explosive second volume of The Great Bookie Robbery Trilogy, A.J. Salara returns to 1970s Melbourne to chronicle the unraveling of a crew once believed to be untouchable. The money is gone, the job is done—but the danger has just begun. The perfect crime gave way to a perfect storm of secrecy, suspicion, and betrayal. Blood & Betrayal isn’t a story about how the heist was pulled off. It’s about what came after—when the celebration faded and fear took root.

Todo indica que en realidad AMLO no era el hombre que venía a romper el sistema criminal, sino que ha sido su Caballo de Troya, uno más de los instrumentos del Cártel de Sinaloa para culminar su plan de conquista de nuestra nación.

El retrato demoledor de una dinastía cuya fortuna se construyó gracias a Valium y cuya reputación fue destruida por OxyContin.

During the mid-1980s, Howard Marks had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines, and owned 25 companies throughout the world. Whether bars, recording studios, or offshore banks, all were money-laundering vehicles serving his core activity: dope dealing.

At last! The complete Alpha Female Files: Books 1-3 are available in a single volume! It looked like an ordinary email. But when she opened it, a Hong Kong housewife unwittingly uncovered a decade's old plot to blackmail her and her husband. Determined to find out who was responsible, she soon finds herself thrust into a shadowy underworld of sex, lies, and dirty money. The men who had orchestrated the plot thought that because she was a woman, she was weak.

After years of living in the shadows, Jess is ready to step into the light. In this final installment of The Alpha Female Files, she pulls no punches, revealing the full extent of the lies and conspiracies that have shaped her life. The truth is darker and more twisted than she ever imagined, and the stakes have never been higher.

In The Lufthansa Heist: The Mob’s Big Score, author James G. Edwards II delivers a gripping account of the people, the plan, and the bloody aftermath of the crime that stunned law enforcement and fed the public imagination for decades. From Jimmy Burke’s deadly leadership to Henry Hill’s later confessions, this book explores how mob discipline broke down, how investigators struggled to connect dots, and how Hollywood mythologized a heist that remains shrouded in mystery.

Fortællingen løber fra hashhandlens spæde start i hjertet af 1970'ernes sociale eksperiment, Christiania, til forråelsen med rockernes indtog i 1980'ernes over de kriminelle gruppers professionalisering i 1990'erne og frem til i dag, hvor en epoke ser ud til at være slut. For første gang fortælles historien gennem de mennesker, der befolker, arbejder og opererer i og omkring gaden.

Erstmals ein Buch über die Rolle der Frauen in der Mafia – Roberto Saviano zeigt, wie die Strukturen und Werte des organisierten Verbrechens das Liebes- und Familienleben bestimmen. Packend erzählt „Treue“ von realen Frauen in der Mafia: beispielsweise von Maria Grazia Conte, deren heimlicher Sohn mit einem Mafiaboss ihr zum Verhängnis wird. Von Vincenzina Marchese, durch deren erzwungene Heirat der Frieden zwischen zwei rivalisierenden Mafiafamilien besiegelt werden soll.

To infiltrate international drug cartels, he had to become a player...‘Undercover’: The true story behind Operation Julie, one of Britain's largest drug busts and how the same detective infiltrated a cartel planning to smuggle cocaine into Britain. Forget ‘Breaking Bad’ this is the extraordinary story of the 1970s Welsh LSD ring that supplied the world, told by a cop in deepest cover on the case. In the dim chaos of a Liverpool nightclub, a sharp question cut through the noise: “Are you guys cops?” For Steve Jackson, the words chilled him to the bone.

In the early 2000s, Dave Gunn and his brother Colin built the Bestwood Cartel, a multi-million-pound empire based on drugs, extortion and violent crime during a time when Nottingham was labelled Britain's gun crime capital. Much has been written about the Gunn Brothers in the media and books such as Hoods, but no gang leader has ever detailed the real-life warfare in Nottingham in the early 2000s. In Bestwood Boss, Dave Gunn sets the record straight with the first ever insider’s account of what led to the blood-soaked ganglands.

En este nuevo libro de Canaletti el oyente encontrará casos, crímenes, víctimas y victimarios, pero también los sentimientos, amores, dolores y deseos de personajes inolvidables.

Noël är 15 år när han blir omhändertagen av staten för första gången. Hans unga liv är redan då en krokig väg kantad av våld, vapen, stölder, orosanmälningar och Soc. Gängens lockande livsstil med löften om snabba pengar, gemenskap och makt höll honom i ett järngrepp. Efter att ha bott på flera SiS-hem vet Noël att tillvaron ser väldigt olika ut beroende på var i landet man placeras.

Hampton County is a rural county in South Carolina with a long and storied history, but it has a shady side. Author Michael DeWitt details the corruption, murders, and crimes that remained in the memories of locals for years.