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Muckraking journalist Walter Liggett dubbed Pittsburgh the "Metropolis of Corruption" in 1930 when he reported the city had more vice per square foot than New York, Detroit, Cleveland, or Boston. Decades earlier, the Magee-Flinn political machine ruled public officials, and crooked police helped racketeers protect brothels and gambling dens. Mayor (later Governor) David Lawrence was indicted several times for graft but acquitted each time. Even Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney Sr. colluded with gangsters. Join Richard Gazarik as he reveals the wicked history of the Steel City.

Tras el suicidio de un inspector de policía belga que había avisado de la posibilidad de los ataques yihadistas de París, los servicios de seguridad del Estado movilizan todos sus esfuerzos para evitar algo similar en España, la denominada Operación Protector, con ramificaciones entre terroristas, las mafias de la Costa del Sol y los traficantes de armas. El autor de este libro, curtido en mil batallas, narra los entresijos de esta operación al mismo tiempo que describe de primera mano los temores, dudas y ambiciones que asaltan a su protagonista, un policía infiltrado. 

Mark Perlstrom is no stranger to money laundering, drug smuggling and crooked firms. In the late 1980s he started working for HM Customs and was quickly thrown in the deep end, joining Operation C-Chase, an undercover investigation that penetrated Pablo Escobar's mighty Medellin cartel, brought...

All the varieties of power – star, political, sexual, criminal and emotional – are on show in this definitive, untold story of Frank Sinatra and the Mafia. Drawing on an enormous archive of previously unseen records held by international law agencies, the FBI, the CIA and big-city police...

In 1976, the body of Anna Mae Aquash, an American Indian luminary, was found frozen in the Badlands of South Dakota—or so the FBI said. After a suspicious autopsy and a rushed burial, friends had Aquash exhumed and found a .32-caliber bullet in her skull. Using this scandal as a point of departure, The Unquiet Grave opens a tunnel into the dark side of the FBI and its subversion of American Indian activists. But the book also discovers things the Indians would prefer to keep buried. What unfolds is a sinuous tale of conspiracy, murder, and cover-up.

When Manny McDonnell was twelve, he awoke to discover British troops surrounding his home in the toughest area of trouble-torn Belfast. Internment had begun and, encouraged by a fiercely Republican mother, he took to the streets with other school kids, throwing bricks, bottles and petrol bombs...

Biography of Jack Spot, king of the 1950s London underworld who inspired both the Krays and the Richardsons. One time king of the underworld, Jack Spot was known as one of the most powerful criminals in Britain – amassing incredible wealth, and being associated with a string of women...

Marisa Merico, the daughter of one of Italy's most notorious Mafia Godfathers, was dazzled by her father, Emilio DiGiovine. To her he was all powerful, sophisticated and loving; to the rest of the world he was staggeringly ruthless. Marisa knew her father would do anything for her, but she...

George Anastasia exposes what it really means to be married to the mob—and fathered by it. As revealed in their personal accounts, life for the wife and sons of Thomas "Tommy Del" DelGiorno became a descent into hell. In the end, guilty of a raft of crimes that included multiple murders, Tommy Del served less than a year in prison in exchange for turning government witness during a dozen trials against fellow mobsters. Based on years of reporting, thousands of pages of court testimony, and extensive interviews, Mobfather takes the listener deep into the heart of corruption.

Three years after undercover agent Robert Mazur infiltrated Pablo Escobar’s Medellín drug cartel, he re-emerged, a half-million-dollar bounty still on his head, with a new identity for a risky new sting. Deployed to Panama, he worked, travelled, partied and washed millions with Central...

När namnet Christiania nämns i något av de nordiska länderna vet alla vad man menar. De flesta har tagit ställning till rådande förhållanden och Christiania har under årens lopp varit föremål för många hårda debatter såväl i Danmark som i övriga Norden. Under 1970- och 1980-talet gick debatten om narkotika, och i synnerhet hasch, varm i Danmark. I Christiania skedde handeln på öppen gata, vilket under denna tid oroade de nordiska grannländerna.

Den 15 januari 1988 försvinner 47 oersättliga konstverk från Carl Larsson-gården i Sundborn, Dalarna. Detta är en av de största konststölderna i Sveriges historia. De stulna konstverken som är skapade av några av Sveriges mest älskade och kända konstnärer är både ömtåliga och ovärderliga. När nyheten om kuppen nådde allmänheten skapade den stor upprördhet, och satte lokalsamhället i chock. Polisen börjar genast utreda stölden; poliser från hela landet, samt även Interpol, tas in för att utreda brottet.

The book that inspired the feature film The Stranger (Netflix), starring Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris. The disappearance of Queensland schoolboy Daniel Morcombe was one of the most heartbreaking and confounding child abduction and murder cases of the century, spanning almost a decade prior to...

Nordisk Kriminalreportage indeholder en lang række spændende og autentiske politisager fra Sverige, Norge, Finland og Island. Sagerne er skrevet af de politifolk, der var med i opklaringsarbejdet. Sagerne er alle afsluttede, og domsfældelse har fundet sted. Det er hæsblæsende læsning, og ofte overgår virkeligheden fantasien. Læseren kommer med ind bag nogle af de mest dramatiske sager i skandinavisk politihistorie, og får stiftet bekendtskab med det puslespil, det er at finde frem til gerningsmændene.

I "Rockerdrabet" kaster Anders og hans ven Kalle sig ud i en vild opklaring af mordet på Nicki Hansen. En sag, der bringer dem vidt omkring og helt ind i rockernes mørke verden. Hvem lyver, og hvem taler sandt. I asken fra kriminalassistent Madsens nedbrændte hus finder Anders en gammel metalkasse. Den er fyldt med gamle journaler. Det er uopklarede sager, som Madsen har efterforsket. Nu er han død. Serien "Journal X" handler om Anders og hans ven Kalle, der efterforsker gamle kriminalsager. Peter Grønlund (f.

Belgique, le 15 janvier 2015. À Verviers, les hommes des Unités spéciales partent à l'assaut d'une maison ouvrière dans laquelle trois terroristes préparent un attentat. La fusillade qui s'ensuit intervient une semaine après l'attentat meurtrier de Charlie Hebdo ; elle présage la vague de terreur qui va frapper la Belgique et la France. En première ligne, l'inspecteur principal Lionel D. de l'Escadron spécial d'intervention (ESI). Pour la première fois, un membre de cette unité d'élite de la police fédérale belge se livre à coeur ouvert sur sa vie et sur son travail.

I midten af ​​det 19. århundrede er Sicilien en fattig ø præget af total lovløshed. Midt i anarkiet opstår et hemmeligt broderskab af tidligere bønder og arbejdere. Disse udvikler sig til sidst til det frygtede kriminalsyndikat Cosa Nostra. Få år senere strømmer tusinder af italienske immigranter ind i New York - og med dem fulgte den sicilianske mafia. Alt om Historie tager dig med på en halsbrækkende rejse til tidligere tider, så du kan nyde historiens største begivenheder. Følg med tilbage i tiden - tilbage til frontlinjerne af 2.

Ian Brady, Myra Hindley og landskabet mellem Lancashire og Yorkshire udgør tilsammen en dødelig kombination. For over 50 år siden kidnappede, voldtog og myrdede Ian Brady og Myra Hindley flere børn. Efter de såkaldte Moors Murders (hedemordene) savnes fortsat den 12-årige Keith Bennetts jordiske rester. Drengen fra Longsight forsvandt sporløst den 16. juni 1964, bare fire dage efter sin fødselsdag. Han var gået hjem til sin mormor, da Hindley og Brady var ude på jagt og spottede drengen alene.

As featured on Netflix’s “Bad Sport,” the high-octane, Seabiscuit-meets-Scarface story of how Randy Lanier became a 1980s international sports star, soaring through the ranks of car racing while holding a dark secret: he was also one of the biggest pot smugglers in American history As a...

A biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as "Crazy Eddie," whose home electronics empire changed the world even as it turned out to be one of the biggest business scams of all time Back in the fall of 2016 we heard the news about the passing of Eddie Antar...