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Front organizations often use facades of legitimate businesses to cover up illegal activity. Many organized crime operations have substantial legitimate businesses, such as licensed gambling houses, building construction companies, hair salons and karaoke bars, engineering firms, restaurants and bars, billiard clubs, trash hauling services, or dock loading enterprises.
The word syndicate also means "an association of people or firms formed to promote a common interest or carry out a business enterprise". [ 14 ] [ 3 ] Synanon began as a two-year residential program, but Dederich soon concluded that its members could never graduate, because a full recovery was impossible. [ 13 ]
Fraudsters may set up dummy corporations to create the illusion they are an existing corporation with a similar name. Similar to the " pump and dump " scheme, Fraudsters mislead investors in order to sell securities in the dummy corporation, in this case, making investors incorrectly believe "that they are buying shares in the real corporation".
Business. Food. Games. Health. Home & Garden ... “the most depressing place on earth,” “pure hell,” “trauma of compulsory detainment,” “they drugged me up so bad to the point where I ...
‘The 10 O’Clock news thought it was the second most important thing that happened in the world,’ he said
Paris Hilton is taking her power back. In a revealing new interview with Glamour UK, the hotel heiress, reality star and author of the forthcoming Paris: The Memoir, out March 14, spoke candidly ...
The classical model of drug cutting refers to the way that illicit drugs were diluted at each stage of the chain of distribution. [1]Drug markets have changed considerably since the 1980s; greater competition, and a shift from highly structured (and thus controlled) to greatly fragmented markets, has generated competition among dealers in terms of purity.
But some of his behavior was simply too violent to dismiss. In September 1975, Audrey Pavia, who had just turned 18, ended up backstage at an early Runaways show, when the band was just a trio. Without warning, Fowley ran at her from across the room. “He threw me up against the wall and he put his arm across my neck,” Pavia remembers.