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  2. Money laundering - Wikipedia

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    While existing laws were used to fight money laundering during the period of Prohibition in the United States during the 1930s, dedicated Anti-Money Laundering legislation was only implemented in the 1980s. [2] Organized crime received a major boost from Prohibition and a large source of new funds that were obtained from illegal sales of alcohol.

  3. African-American organized crime - Wikipedia

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    During the 1920s and 1930s, African American organized crime was centered in New York's Harlem, the largest black city in the world, [4] where the numbers racket was largely controlled by Casper Holstein and the "Madam Queen of Policy", Stephanie St. Clair. St.

  4. List of Ponzi schemes - Wikipedia

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    In April 2013, in Israel, Eran Mizrahi was convicted for multiple counts of fraud and money laundering and sentenced to 12 years [129] [130] [131] in a scheme which promised and investment in foreign-currency via Swiss banks, but in which outflows were paid from existing investor's funds which were also funneled to Mizrahi and his family.

  5. Meyer Lansky - Wikipedia

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    Also, as early as 1932, Lansky shifted money from illegal activities in New Orleans to Swiss offshore accounts. The Swiss secrecy law from 1934 sanctioned the money laundering by "banks whose officials knew very well they were working for criminals". [17] By 1936, Lansky had established gambling operations in Florida, [18] and Cuba. [19]

  6. Loan shark - Wikipedia

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    Organized crime began to enter the cash advance business in the 1930s, after high-rate lending was criminalized by the Uniform Small Loan Law. The first reports of mob loansharking surfaced in New York City in 1935, and for 15 years, underworld money lending apparently did not expand beyond that city. [34]

  7. 1930s in organized crime - Wikipedia

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    Agostino Loverdo is placed by Capone as head of the Union Siciliane. However, the organization's value greatly declines over the decade, quietly dissolving by the late 1930s. November 5 – Mobsters Steve Ferrigno and Alfred Mineo, allies of Joe Masseria, are killed by Salvatore Maranzano's gunman outside Ferrigno's home in New York. Masseria ...

  8. Chicago Outfit - Wikipedia

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    1.4.1 1930s–1950s. 1.4.2 1960s–1990s. 1.5 21st century. ... Sidney Korshak, and Jimmy Hoffa, to engage in massive money laundering through the Outfit's casinos.

  9. Gulf Cartel - Wikipedia

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    The Gulf Cartel, a drug cartel based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, was founded in the 1930s by Juan Nepomuceno Guerra. [15] [16] Originally known as the Matamoros Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Matamoros), [17] the Gulf Cartel initially smuggled alcohol and other illegal goods into the U.S. [16] Once the Prohibition era ended, the criminal group controlled gambling houses, prostitution rings ...