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• Mexico Has Been Waiting for This

  05-07-2026 12:00 via NYT > Organized Crime
  In Mexico City, World Cup euphoria is overshadowing political gloom.
  
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• 8 Accused of Stealing Millions in Food Stamp Benefits From New Yorkers

  30-10-2026 15:12 via NYT > Organized Crime
  A group was able to use stolen information linked to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to create clones of E.B.T. cards.
  
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• Taking the Saga of a Criminal Gang From Page to Screen to Opera Stage

  30-10-2026 10:02 via NYT > Organized Crime
  Italians can’t get enough of “Romanzo Criminale,” a best-selling novel that has been made into a hit film, a bigger hit TV show and now, an opera.
  
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• Lula Defeats Bolsonaro for Brazil Presidency, in Blow to Latin America’s Right

  26-10-2026 08:07 via NYT > Organized Crime
  President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva triumphed over Flávio Bolsonaro, the eldest son of the right-wing leader he defeated four years ago.
  
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• What to Know About Brazil’s Election as Bolsonaro Faces Off With Lula

  25-10-2026 10:01 via NYT > Organized Crime
  Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the leftist incumbent, and Flávio Bolsonaro, the right-wing challenger, face off in a narrow race that could redefine the future of Latin America.
  
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• Unsealed O.J. Simpson Records Prompt a Request for a New Investigation

  22-10-2026 21:51 via NYT > Organized Crime
  Tanya Brown said she believed someone helped O.J. Simpson get rid of the murder weapon. One of Mr. Simpson’s former lawyers called for a special prosecutor.
  
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• Nicole Brown Simpson’s Sister: ‘We Deserve Answers’ on Accomplice Question

  22-10-2026 18:29 via NYT > Organized Crime
  Tanya Brown said she believed someone helped O.J. Simpson get rid of the murder weapon. One of Mr. Simpson’s former lawyers called for a special prosecutor.
  
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• He Told Us About an O.J. Accomplice. Then He Said He’d Lied. What Next?

  22-10-2026 18:07 via NYT > Organized Crime
  A source said his brother had been with O.J. Simpson the night of the murders in 1994. But when we refused to pay, he retracted his story.
  
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• He Told Us About an O.J. Accomplice. Then Said He’d Lied. What Next?

  22-10-2026 17:45 via NYT > Organized Crime
  A source said his brother had been with O.J. Simpson the night of the murders in 1994. But when we refused to pay, he retracted his story.
  
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• Scientists: This Election Could Decide Amazon's Fate

  19-10-2026 18:53 via Organized crime news stories on Newser
  
  Brazil's presidential race could help decide whether the Amazon keeps functioning as a rainforest. In the New York Times , Sergio Peçanha and Ana Ionova lay out how much is at stake as right-wing senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, leads ahead of Sunday's runoff . Brazil controls about...
  
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• Brazil Election Puts Amazon's Future on the Line

  19-10-2026 18:53 via Organized crime news stories on Newser
  
  Brazil's presidential race could help decide whether the Amazon keeps functioning as a rainforest. In the New York Times , Sergio Peçanha and Ana Ionova lay out how much is at stake as right-wing senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, leads ahead of Sunday's runoff . Brazil controls about...
  
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• How a Trillion-Dollar Industry Launders Illegal Gold

  19-10-2026 11:00 via NYT > Organized Crime
  The line between dirty and clean gold is an industry fiction. Wall Street and governments profit off gold from criminals, gangsters and those who exploit children.
  
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• Read the Letter Detailing Joey Ippolito’s Tips About Mafia, O.J. Simpson

  18-10-2026 11:45 via NYT > Organized Crime
  This letter, written by a prosecutor and filed in federal court in New York in December 1996, detailed Joey Ippolito’s cooperation with law enforcement shortly after his arrest in August 1995. The letter had been kept secret in a court file until The Times persuaded a judge earlier this year to unseal it.
  
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• O.J. Simpson, a Secret Informant and a Decades-Old Mystery

  18-10-2026 11:45 via NYT > Organized Crime
  An “extremely reliable” informant told authorities about the missing murder weapon, according to newly unsealed records. The informant’s brother told The Times his sibling was at the crime scene.
  
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• 5 Takeaways From The Times’s Re-Examination of the O.J. Simpson Case

  18-10-2026 11:45 via NYT > Organized Crime
  Newly unsealed court files and interviews challenge the popular narrative around the murders and the “trial of the century.”
  
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• What We Saw in One Venezuelan Gold Town

  28-09-2026 11:02 via NYT > Organized Crime
  With U.S. support, traders arrived and cut deals. That investment has so far failed to improve the bleak conditions in the mining industry.
  
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• Man Guilty of Conspiracy for Running Drug Ring in Washington Square Park

  23-09-2026 20:51 via NYT > Organized Crime
  A jury convicted the man, John Livigni, whom prosecutors said was a leader of a narcotics operation that resulted in two deaths and involved millions of sales around the Greenwich Village park.
  
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• Manhunt Underway After Mass Shooting Leaves 11 Dead

  23-09-2026 15:55 via Organized crime news stories on Newser
  
  A party south of Durban ended in mass bloodshed on Tuesday night when three gunmen stormed a home and started shooting, killing 11 people, South African police say. Ten victims died at the scene in KwaMakhutha's Ziko area, per CNN . An eleventh died at the hospital. Among the dead is...
  
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• Visa Issue Threatens U.S.-Brazil Cooperation on Crime

  12-09-2026 11:02 via NYT > Organized Crime
  Officials say the Trump administration is blocking some of Brazil’s efforts to expand cooperation on fighting transnational crime.
  
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• Trump Administration Says U.S. Will Work With Peru on Crime Crackdown

  10-09-2026 22:35 via NYT > Organized Crime
  The Trump administration is taking an increasingly militarized approach to Latin America, and it has pushed governments across the region to work with U.S. forces.
  
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• Judge Ends Federal Oversight of Teamsters

  04-09-2026 04:09 via NYT > Organized Crime
  The union and federal prosecutors agreed that organized crime groups had been rooted out of union operations, the judge wrote.
  
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• More Than 22,000 Ancient Artifacts Seized in Florida

  30-08-2026 20:47 via NYT > Organized Crime
  The items include Egyptian statues and ancient Greek and Roman coins that date back 1,000 to 5,000 years, officials said.
  
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• Mexican Governor, Accused by U.S. of Helping Cartel, Returns to His Job

  21-08-2026 23:41 via NYT > Organized Crime
  After U.S. prosecutors accused Gov. Rubén Rocha Moya of protecting the Sinaloa cartel, he said he would step down to focus on his defense. On Friday, he declared he was back.
  
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• Trump Wants to Influence Brazil. It’s Way Ahead of Him.

  20-08-2026 23:45 via NYT > Organized Crime
  The country’s coming election will not be decided by the American president.
  
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• What to Know About the Cuban Mafia in Quintana Roo

  11-08-2026 11:02 via NYT > Organized Crime
  A group of Cuban men in Mexico was charged with smuggling people to the United States. One of its leaders said Raúl Castro’s grandson helped, according to interviews and court records.
  
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• Daniel Kinahan Extradited From the U.A.E. to Ireland

  10-08-2026 02:25 via NYT > Organized Crime
  Daniel Kinahan, accused of leading a family crime syndicate, was flown home from Dubai on an Irish government jet on Sunday.
  
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• 12 Years After 43 Students Vanished, Ex-Governor Arrested

  07-08-2026 18:05 via Organized crime news stories on Newser
  
  More than a decade after 43 college students vanished in southern Mexico , a former state leader is now accused of helping cover it up. Angel Aguirre, ex-governor of Guerrero, has been arrested on charges of obstruction of justice and forced disappearance, reports Reuters . He has previously denied any wrongdoing. Federal...
  
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• John O’Malley, Bronx Detective and Federal Investigator, Dies at 73

  06-08-2026 23:02 via NYT > Organized Crime
  As a detective with the N.Y.P.D., he helped prosecute violent crimes under federal law. At the U.S. attorney’s office, he was involved in high-profile exonerations.
  
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• Mexican Influencer Killed During Livestream

  06-08-2026 00:40 via Organized crime news stories on Newser
  
  A TikTok star was shot to death in Mexico on Tuesday night during a livestream, and investigators are looking into whether organized crime is responsible. Authorities say 25-year-old Cesar Gastelum, who had more than 600,000 followers on TikTok and nearly 140,000 on Instagram, was killed in Culiacan, the...
  
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• Canadian Intern at NATO Military HQ Is Arrested on Suspicion of Spying

  25-07-2026 09:37 via NYT > Organized Crime
  The authorities in Belgium did not name the country that the intern, a woman “of Chinese origin,” is suspected of spying for.
  
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