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  Crime boss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A crime boss is someone in charge of a criminal organization of any kind.
Crime bosses are typically respected and/or feared by their men.
Crime groups of all kinds have similarities and differences in their structure, and the names of certain ranks may differ, but the basic premise remains constant.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crime_boss   (199 words)

  
 Boss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boss Tweed, a 19th-century politician in New York City
Boss (rapper), a female rapper with the debut album Born Gangstaz
Big Boss (Leader), a crime boss from Hasbro's C.O.P.S. Nicolas Lucifer III, aka "The Boss", from the animated series The Baskervilles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boss   (263 words)

  
 Bonanno Crime Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It was viewed as an effort by Bonanno to become a new "Boss of Bosses." Allied with Bonanno was the ailing Joseph Magliocco, the successor to Profaci, and the uncle of Bonanno's eldest son's wife.
Newspaper talk settled on Galante becoming the new boss of bosses, but he was assassinated by the combined agreement not only of all the New York crime families but also of many the dons around the country.
The crime family that had been in much disgrace following the Galante period and had even been booted off the National Commission made a remarkable recovery with about 100 active wise guys and was fast approaching the Gambinos under the imprisoned John Gotti as the country's second-most-dangerous Mafia faction.
www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/bonf.html   (1087 words)

  
 Crime lab boss placed on leave
The allegations, made in sworn statements by a crime lab scientist, were that Hamby had covered up abuses in DNA testing.
In December, crime lab scientist Mohammad Tahir gave a sworn statement in a serial rape case about problems in the lab.
Tahir's description of the crime lab, however, was alarming enough that McGoff began calling other members of the Forensic Services Board a week ago to consider a special commission to investigate Hamby's administration.
bioforensics.com /news/crime_lab_boss.html   (861 words)

  
 Staffordshire Police - Crime is down on Britain's service stations (24 July 2002)
BOSS - the organisation that tackles crime at Britain's service stations - estimates that forecourt crime, excluding credit card fraud, cost the oil industry £19 million last year compared to £28 million in 2000, and £35 million in 1998.
When the new figures are measured against the 2000 BOSS Forecourt Crime Survey drive-offs cost the industry £12 million in 2001, compared to £17.1 million, burglary costs £2.7 million rather than £3.5 million, and robbery costs £2 million compared to £2.1 million.
One area where BOSS and member companies are particularly active is in trying to tackle the rising level of assaults on forecourt staff.
www.staffordshire.police.uk /news086.htm   (624 words)

  
 Joseph Massino Surviving Mob Boss
He became the Bonanno boss in 1993, months after he was released from federal prison, sources said, just as the crime family was near extinction.
The boss is well insulated, his second in-command is reputedly his brother-in-law and there are no known cooperating witnesses.
Boss: He once wandered Greenwich Village in a bathrobe, now Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, 72, is serving a 12-year sentence for racketeering and extortion conspiracy in a Fort Worth, Tex., prison hospital.
www.laborers.org /nyd_NYMob_Massino_9-17-00.html   (1359 words)

  
 Crime boss
Crime bosses are often highly respected, and or feared by their men.
A crime boss can refer to a person who is in charge of a small crew of amateur criminals, to a highly respected boss of a very organized and profitable outfit, eg.
Mourners have gathered in Dublin for the funeral of murdered crime boss Martin 'Marlo' Hyland.
www.studycrime.com /Crime/Crime_boss.php   (512 words)

  
 Crime Boss crime links UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
An antique screen of haunting beauty, a family curse, vile crimes committed in high circles and low in China's great T'ang Empire -- and Judge Dee, magistrate/detective, masquerading as a crime boss and on the trail of embezzlement, fraud...and murder.
When crime boss Freddie Baker approaches him with a wad of cash for the recovery of his daughter from the clutches of a rival gang, it is an offer Fritz can't refuse.
Crime Boss crime links UK or references to the subject of crime boss...
crimeuk.ronnieboumusic.co.uk /crime/crimeboss.html   (1479 words)

  
 The History of the Kansas City Family by Allan May
The underworld bosses, beginning with Johnny Lazia in the late 1920s right through the death of Charles Binaggio in 1950, were different from their counterparts in other cities because of their close ties to the Kansas City political scene.
Boss Tom seemed to be making all the right moves, no matter how wrong they looked to his confidants.
On June 17, 1933, one of the most celebrated crimes in U.S. history – the crime that J. Edgar Hoover used to launch the Federal Bureau of Investigation – was committed in the parking lot in front of Kansas City's Union Station.
www.crimemagazine.com /kcfamily.htm   (15986 words)

  
 AmericanMafia.com - Feature Articles 296
There's a new crime boss on the screen---and he's not a fictional character.
Vitali Dyomochka,34,a Russian gangster, is the first crime boss on the planet to 'star' in a real-life TV crime show.
Serving as writer, producer and director, he stars as the crime boss in "Spets", with fellow mobsters from his criminal organization.
www.americanmafia.com /Feature_Articles_296.html   (1279 words)

  
 The Ten Commandments of the Economic Crime “Boss”
If necessary, the boss can claim he or she did not participate in, and had no knowledge of, the group’s illegal activities.
boss will consistently use the name of the scapegoat as the real perpetrator, among the members of the gang, and especially when caught.
Never underestimate the power of an economic crime boss to produce a powerfully persuasive lie—on the stand, in a debriefing, at sentencing.
www.nacm.org /bcmag/bcarchives/2003/jul_aug/selected_topic7_8_6.html   (855 words)

  
 The Genovese Crime Family
The next boss of the Genovese Crime Family was its namesake, Vito Genovese.
The acting boss of the family, Liborio "Barney" Bellomo, entered a guilty plea to charges of extortion for the role of The Genovese Crime Family in the San Gennaro festival.
The street boss of The Genovese Crime Family during Gigante's incarceration is Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo.
www.carvelli.com /noFlash/genovese-crime-family.html   (311 words)

  
 Crime Boss Cartoons
Crime Boss cartoon 1 - catalog reference ksm0087
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www.cartoonstock.com /directory/c/crime_boss.asp   (260 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Bonanno Crime Boss Convicted on All Counts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
NEW YORK, July 30 -- Bonanno crime boss Joseph Massino was found guilty Friday of racketeering and other charges, including having a role in the slaying of the man who let FBI agent "Donnie Brasco" infiltrate the family.
The once-powerful mob boss and close friend of late Gambino family head John Gotti faces life in prison at his sentencing.
A turncoat witness said Napolitano was thrown down a flight of steps into a basement and shot to death as he begged for his former friends to finish him with a final bullet.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A28646-2004Jul30?language=printer   (413 words)

  
 Crime Boss, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
Houston's Crime Boss debuted in 1994, guesting on a track from Eightball & MJG's On the Outside Looking In.
As part of a deal with Relativity, Crime Boss' second album Conflicts & Confusion fo...
As part of a deal with Relativity, Crime Boss' second album Conflicts & Confusion found a much wider issue upon its release in mid-1997.
www.emusic.com /artist/11591/11591531.html   (172 words)

  
 Site Map of The Crime Library
A look at crime in prison, deep in the cell blocks of the Massachusetts Walpole Penitentiary.
Through an unusual physics experiment, police determine whether a woman was hunted or a victim of a hunting accident.
Tragic story of a man jailed for 15 years for crimes he didn't commit.
crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/.../index.html   (416 words)

  
 Japan Organised Crime Boss review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
On his release from prison after 8 years he finds himself suddenly elevated to the position of gang-leader however a complicated power struggle is about to be played out; orchestrated by the Danno gang who are trying to extend their power.
The film moves at a brisk pace to deliver some tense encounters between the Yakuza bosses which result in the bloody fight scenes that make up a significant part of the running time.
The plot may be quite complex and often subtle but the use of narration means that its always easy to follow and allows the viewer instead to concentrate on the dynamics of each scene.
homepage.ntlworld.com /john.richards250/japanorganisedcrimeboss.htm   (220 words)

  
 Crime boss lawmaker killed in Kyrgyzstan - Boston.com
A gunman in a passing car shot and killed a reputed crime boss Wednesday night who was recently elected to Kyrgyzstan's parliament, the Interior Ministry said.
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan --A gunman in a passing car shot and killed a reputed crime boss Wednesday night who was recently elected to Kyrgyzstan's parliament, the Interior Ministry said.
Akmatbayev won a seat in parliament in an April by-election, but the election body refused to register him as lawmaker because of a current criminal proceeding in which he is charged with murder.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/05/10/crime_boss_lawmaker_killed_in_kyrgyzstan?mode=PF   (268 words)

  
 crimebosskillings
As long as there have been gangsters in New York, there have been turf wars and power struggles on the city's streets.
One of the bloodiest of these battles began in 1930 when the ever-building tensions between two Sicilian born kingpins -- Joe the Boss Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano -- finally erupted into all-out warfare.
The conflict became known as the Castellammarese War and forever changed the way organized crime did business in America.
www.artmontague.com /crimebosskillings.html   (111 words)

  
 Prison In Crime Boss’s Future.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The boss, Kenichi Shinoda is the head of Japan's principal underworld crime association.
Last Thursday, the Supreme Court sentenced Shinoda to six years in prison, for conspiracy wit a bodyguard in the illegal possession of a gun in 1997.
Prison is nothing new to him, nor is crime.
www.cardgamesclub.com /future-for-crime-boss-may-be-prison.php   (177 words)

  
 Crime Boss Gifts
Crime Boss gift image 1 - catalog reference sbo0247
Crime Boss gift image 2 - catalog reference ksm0087
Crime Boss gift image 3 - catalog reference cbon54
www.cartoonstock.com /directory/c/crime_boss_gifts.asp   (601 words)

  
 The secret life of a chinese crime boss in Canada
Asian Organized Crime investigators in Ontario believe Kwai is one of the 36,000 illegals who have gone underground in the province.
Fung Kin-man, chief superintendent of the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau in Hong Kong said police have pinned between 15 to 20 violent armed robberies in the 90's and the last few years to Kwai and his gang.
The Organized Crime and Triad Bureau posted a HK$2 million reward for the capture and convictions of Kwai and his gang.
primetimecrime.com /APNS/20040204crimeboss.htm   (1881 words)

  
 The New York Times > New York Region > Career of a Crime Boss Ends With Sweeping Convictions
he New York mob boss often called "the last don" was convicted yesterday in a federal racketeering case that centered on charges that his bloody 25 years as the dominant power in the Bonanno crime family included seven murders and a host of other crimes.
The conviction of the boss, Joseph C. Massino, 61, on all 11 counts followed a startling trial that included damaging testimony from his own brother-in-law and underboss and an unusual claim by the defense lawyer that if Mr.
Massino was a crime boss, he was a peaceful one opposed to rubouts.
www.nytimes.com /2004/07/31/nyregion/31mob.html?ex=1248926400&en=fa0e297ba0de7789&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland   (834 words)

  
 Free Football Picks - Mafia Crime Boss Joseph Bonanno Dies
Unlike many organized crime bosses who died in prison or in mob rubouts, Bonanno died of heart failure at the age of 97 Saturday at a hospital in the city where he had retired in 1968.
By his own admission, the Sicily native was a member of ``the Commission,'' which acted as an organized crime board of directors in New York and other major U.S. cities.
The crime family still bears his name, though he maintained in his 1983 collaboration ``A Man of Honor, the Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno,'' that ``I'm not a Father anymore and there is no Bonanno Family anymore.''
www.bettorsworld.com /web/forums/showthread.php?p=67377   (682 words)

  
 A Rogue's Gallery, Crime Photos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Purported organizer of organized crime in the United States, predecessor to Alphonse (Al) Capone.
Alleged current Gambino boss, in jail as of 1996.
Son of alleged Colombo family boss Carmine Persico, and his choice to succeed him.
www.alternatives.com /crime/phomenu.html   (245 words)

  
 Crime Boss - Music and Dvds
Charlton Athletic boss Les Reed has been assured his job is safe until the end of this season.
Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez was unhappy with the decision to call off last night's Carling Cup tie against Arsenal due to heavy fog.
Newcastle United boss Glenn Roeder is set to sit down with chairman Freddy Shepherd to finalise their January transfer plans.
www.beta-entertainment.com /productinfo-453835551.html   (430 words)

  
 NJ Division of Gaming Enforcement - "DGE Moves to Exclude Alleged Organized Crime Boss From Atlantic City ...
Ligambi is the reputed boss of the Bruno/Scarfo Philadelphia organized crime family since former boss Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino was convicted of extortion, receipt of stolen goods, and illegal gambling charges last year.
He was sentenced to life in prison, along with mob boss Nicodemo “Little Nicky” Scarfo, Salvatore and Larry Merlino, and five other members of the organized crime family, by the State of Pennsylvania in April 1989 for the 1985 murder of associate Frank “Frankie Flowers” D’Alfonso.
Information regarding Ligambi’s alleged role in the Bruno/Scarfo organized crime family was also provided by officials in the Philadelphia Police Department and FBI as well the New Jersey State Police and New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice.
www.state.nj.us /lps/ge/2002news/dge_moves_to_exclude.htm   (450 words)

  
 Cancer cannot spare crime boss from jail: judge - National - smh.com.au
DESPITE having terminal cancer, the crime boss Michael Hurley has lost his bid to be granted bail.
"He is a long-term criminal and is regarded by both state and federal police as having been a leading crime figure in NSW for the last 20 years," Justice Cliff Hoeben told the Supreme Court yesterday.
Meanwhile, a respected Australian Federal Police (AFP) officer, an expert on organised crime and on Hurley in particular, has been sacked for failing to make a formal report on a meeting he had with the crime boss before police smashed the drug ring in which Hurley was the alleged kingpin.
www.smh.com.au /news/national/cancer-cannot-spare-crime-boss-from-jail-judge/2006/04/12/1144521402578.html   (617 words)

  
 Crime Boss , Eightball & Mjg : All in the Game CD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Crime Boss : All in the Game CD Release Date: 07 February, 1995
Availability of Crime Boss : All in the Game: This item is currently not available.
This is the Best CD Crime Boss has done.
www.point19.com /cd/B0000061UI   (198 words)

  
 Vincent 'Chin' Gigante, 77, Crime Boss - December 20, 2005 - The New York Sun
For two decades, Gigante was head of the Genovese crime family, which emerged as the largest of the five New York Mafia clans after decades of concerted federal prosecutions decimated its rivals.
It was narcotics that first sent Gigante to prison, in 1959, when he received a five-year sentence after being caught conspiring to smuggle heroin from abroad.
Also sentenced in the case was the man who gave his name to the crime family, Vito Genovese.
www.nysun.com /article/24729   (484 words)

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