Organized Crime Registry - News Digest - 19th January, 1998
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Crime Boss Pleads Guilty to Chinatown Execution

Organized Crime boss TRUONG CHI TRUNG pled guilty today to a federal
racketeering indictment charging him with two murders, four armed 
robberies, heroin trafficking and extortion. 

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/980112/us_attorne_1.html
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Ex-FBI agent admits gifts from mobsters

An ex-FBI agent admits (Thursday) he exchanged Christmas gifts
with two reputed Boston underworld leaders and even cooked dinner
for them on several occasions while they were informing on their
fellow mobsters. 

http://biz.yahoo.com/upi/98/01/15/general_state_and_regional_news/usmob_1.html
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"Hey, Whitey! Can you lend me five grand?"

That kind of request was probably heard more than once on the
streets of Boston, where James J. "Whitey" Bulger ruled the rackets
for decades as head of the so-called "Irish Mafia".

http://www.foxnews.com/search/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=mafia&days=0&wires=0&startwire=0
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Crime doesn't pay for Japan brokers as profits dip 

Hit hard by a high-profile racketeer payoff scandal at home and
financial turmoil in Asia, Japan's top three securities houses
posted steep losses in the the last quarter of 1997.

http://www.infoseek.com/Content?arn=a0644LBY555reulb-19980119&qt=organized+crime&col=NX&kt=A&ak=news1486	
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UN, ex-Soviet states to bolster anti-drugs drive

The United Nations, Russia and five ex-Soviet republics in Central
Asia vowed on Friday to step up their fight against the illegal
production and trafficking of drugs in a region already dubbed the
second ``Golden Triangle.''

http://www.infoseek.com/Content?arn=a2713LBY891reulb-19980116&qt=mafia&col=NX&kt=A&ak=news1486		
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German lawmakers adopt landmark surveillance law

Despite warnings it was reviving the police state tactics of
earlier governments, Germany's lower house of parliament
voted Friday to allow electronic snooping in private homes as
a tool against rising organized crime.

http://www.foxnews.com/news/wires2/0116/n_ap_0116_252.sml
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