When you break it down, Ricky was only a lucky drug dealer at the right place at the wrong time… a pawn essentially. To find out how the crack epidemic in L.A. started, you have to take a trip to the capital city of Managua in Nicaragua. In June of 1979, the hills surrounding Managua were swarming with Cuban assisted Sandinista rebels who pulled of a major upset in the battle for the Managua. This was one of the biggest upsets in Central American history. In the bloody Cuban instigated war the Sandinistas demolished the well U.S. trained army of Nicaragua’s Dictator Anastasio Somoza.
Frank Lucas The American Gangster Frank Lucas was born in La Grange, North Carolina on September 9, 1930. He made a living in Harlem, New York in the 1960’s and 70’s as a heroin dealer and organized crime boss. He was successful mainly for cutting out the middleman and buying his heroin directly from Southeast Asia. A rumor, denied by Leslie Atkinson, was that he smuggled heroin into the U.S. in the coffins of dead servicemen (American Gangster True Story). Much of Frank Lucas’s childhood life explains his motivation for living a life of crime.
During this CIA and mafia plan and execute many plots of taking out Castro without JFK’s approval and none other than Santo, Carlos and Johnny were responsible. This is was a win-win situation as the US were getting closer in achieving their goal of removing communism from Cuba and the mafia were making money from the gambling and drugs. By July 1963 6 mob associates infiltrate the plan, and the CIA have no idea that their mafia collaborators are now players in the president’s plan. But the mafia realizes that it is in prime position for something that no one dared to consider before. Under the protection of the CIA in the shadows of a secret plan, a presidential assassination plot is born.
Jon Roberts who flooded Miami with $2 billion worth of cocaine in the '80s,was one of the drug trafficker and government informant who operated in the Miami area and was an associate of Medellín Cartel during the growth phase in cocaine trafficking. Soon after he hooked up with Medellin Cartel he began using his own method to ship cocaine into the United States. He began orchestrating plane shipments of hundreds of kilos of cocaine a week. He was associated with Mickey Munday who is the last Cocaine Cowboys left alive. He was also involved in the cocaine business during that time.
CIA Beach Party: The Bay of Pigs By: Lee Mcginnis [pic] The United States Central Intelligence Agency spent its first two decades dealing with Communist incursions into western spheres of power in the same way: over throwing foreign governments from within. This response was the US golden standard until the CIA decided to try this against the great white whale of Communism in the western hemisphere: Castro’s Cuba. This doomed to fail from the start plan was executed in a series of errors that led several hundred Cuban exiles to slaughter against Cuba’s Military and bring the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon and signal a falling out of favor of the CIA among American government for the next twenty years until the Soviet
Many of the people in Roberto Settineri’s life in Miami had no idea that he was a mobster and was part of an international organized crime. With the theories mentioned it helped me understand the different organized crimes that can take place and the reasoning behind them. Settineri is sneaky and conniving. He was able to get away with multiple murders and criminal charges and just get caught on getting rid of money laundering and sentenced for only four years. It becomes difficult to comprehend and reason how all these crimes come about.
Initially, a criminal investigation was the primary focus for one the Navy’s main ship supplier, Glen Defense Marine Asia, a Pacific Fleet. However, investigators turned their inquiry to another contractor who supplied ships located in the waters of Africa, Middle East, and South America. A whistle-blower who worked for Inchcape Shipping Service, which is owned by the government of Dubai, suspected the company of fraudulent activity as a result ignited a civil fraud investigation to be conducted by The Justice Department. According to the article, it was alleged Inchcape, along with subcontractors, overcharged the Navy by millions of dollars (Drew & Ivory, 2013). The owner of Glen Defense was arrested in September 2013, charged with conspiracy to bribe Navy officials with cash, trips, and prostitutes.
Drug Trafficking in the United States Jason Reed ENG122 English Composition Instructor McKenna September 23, 2012 Drug Trafficking in the United States Over forty years ago, the world declared the war on drugs. Today, after decades of failing to control drug consumption, the drug problem has emerged and allowed violent drug traffickers to expand their networks and corrupt even more Mexican and American government officials. The use of violence by traffickers against authorities and witnesses represents a major challenge to the neighboring countries as the ultimate guarantor of law and order within their borders. This in turn, has allowed drug cartels to move illegal narcotics freely throughout Mexico in an attempt to smuggle them
The next breaking discovery was the arrest of five men who committed the crime of burglary in the Watergate offices. The men arrested were Virgilo Gonzalez, Bernard Barker, James W. McCord, Eugenio Martinez, and Frank Sturgis (galenet.galegroup.com). Most of the men were of a Cuban decent and when arrested had a large amount of money that they could have not possibly earned. People started to worry that the large amounts of cash might be hush money, offered to complete the crime so the President wasn’t suspected to wrong doings. Soon after, a man, John Dean was subpoenaed and was to testify.
Drug Trafficking in the United States from Mexico Drug trafficking in the United States and Mexico is a huge problem for the United States because it has a negative impact on other areas in society such as crime rates. The government needs to find a solution to better control drug trafficking because it claims lives and destroys families. Research shows Marijuana and Cocaine are the top two most illegally abused drugs in the United States. James Gray (2001) points out: Not only is this drug-money corruption problem of enormous concern in its own right, but additional lawless behavior often is derived from it as well. For example, the entire southern California area was shocked in September 1999 when a former officer of the Rampart Division