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William Donati is an English professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) and author of the recently-released book: “Lucky Luciano: The Rise and Fall of a Mob Boss” By William Donati For ticklethewire.com LAS VEGAS — The debut of the Las Vegas Mob Experience — a new museum housed in the legendary Tropicana…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More is spilling out about Arizona shooter Jared Loughner in the weeks before he went on a shooting spree that would stun the country. The Washington Post’s Sari Horwitz reports that weeks and days before the shooting, Loughner surfed the Internet on his computer “in what investigators believe was an effort…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The last of the remaining fugitives in the historical mob take down last week surrendered on Wednesday to the FBI in New York, authorities said. Joseph “Joe Dogs” Lombardi, a “made” Gambino crime family soldier, who faces extortion charges, was the last fugitive of the 127 indicted last week in what…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In Arizona, which is locked in an endless battle to keep guns from going into Mexico, comes the latest. Authorities on Tuesday announced indictments in five cases resulting in charges against 34 people accused of assisting Mexican drug trafficking organizations with illegally running firearms from the United States to Mexico. Authorities…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com These days the lion’s share of news involving drug cartel violence seems to focus on Mexico. But the problem hasn’t exactly vanished in Colombia. The publication Colombia Reports wrote that the DEA has uncovered a plot to assassinate Ana Margarita Duran, head of Colombia’s drug control agency UNAIM. The report cited…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Who the heck is William G. Hillar? Well, if you read his online bio you’d see that he had some darn impressive credentials in the military, had a Ph.d and he’s been raking in cash teaching, conducting workshops and giving speech. Problem is, federal authorities say, he’s a fraud. On Tuesday,…