Juan Ramón Matta Ballesteros, 80, Dies; Cartel Kingpin Fed Cocaine Boom

Before being imprisoned in the late 1980s, he made a fortune as a Honduran power broker connecting Colombian and Mexican cartels.
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Fact Check Team: NYC Mafia families resurface with alleged $7M gambling scheme

New York City’s infamous Mafia families, once thought to be relics of a bygone era, are back in the headlines.
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Police massacre in Brazil reignites debate on how to combat organized crime in Latin America

Rio’s governor echoes Trump’s rhetoric on ‘narco-terrorists’ and places the issue at the center of 2026 presidential campaign ...

'High-ranking' Russian mobsters get 25 years for Iran-backed plot targeting Masih Alinejad

Accepting a $500,000 contract to kill Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad earned Russians Rafat Amirov and Polad ...
Irish ExaminerOpinion

Jack Anderson: When gambling sees an opportunity, trouble isn't far behind

GOODFELLAS is one of the great gangster movies. The central character, played by Ray Liotta, is Henry Hill. Hill was in fact ...
The New York Sun

‘I Was Treated as a Business Transaction’: Brooklyn Woman Marked for Death by Iran Tells Court of ‘Humiliation’ as Would-Be Assassins Get 25 Years

Masih Alinejad tells the court she’s had to move 21 times since the assassination attempt at her Brooklyn home.

2 men face sentencing in plot to kill Iranian American journalist

NEW YORK (AP) — A plot to assassinate Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad at her Brooklyn home came “chillingly near success,” prosecutors told a judge who will sentence two purported Russian ...

Two men sentenced to 25 years over Iran-backed plot to kill dissident

(Reuters) -Two men convicted of murder-for-hire charges were each sentenced in New York on Wednesday to 25 years in prison ...