From The Nation:
A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia.
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In their testimony, both men also allege that Blackwater was smuggling weapons into Iraq. One of the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Crime’
Blackwater and the Black Market
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Black Markets, Corporations, Crime on August 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Dubner on Body Parts
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Crime, Economic Debates on July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stephen Dubner (of Freakanomics fame) has a post on the recent corruption scandal, mostly in New Jersey, but stretching across the globe. He makes sure to point out that some of those involved dealed in black market body parts:
Note that the case even involved some trafficking in human organs:
“Another man in Brooklyn, Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum, was [...]
Crime and the Economy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Art, Crime, Economic Crisis on May 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
From the LA Times:
The economy is a wreck, and crime is down. Does that mean hard times and lawbreaking aren’t linked?
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As L.A.’s most recent crime data suggest, high unemployment doesn’t necessarily translate directly into high crime rates. But that’s because the specific economic pinch in itself is not the immediate cause of criminal activity. What [...]
Crisis a Boon for Italy’s Mafia
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Crime on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From the AP:
While businesses around the world are hunkering down for survival, the Italian mob is living a golden moment. Italy’s various organized crime syndicates – often lumped together colloquially as Mafia Inc. – are gobbling up gas stations, muscling in on supermarket franchises, making loans to cash-starved businesses, taking over trattorias and acquiring buildings [...]
