Stephanie St. Clair, the notorious queen of the illegal numbers racket in New Yorks Harlem neighborhood, sat in a witness chair to testify about payoffs she made to New York police to protect her employees from arrest. We do this by explaining and documenting the identifiable techniques, government-funded propaganda and indoctrination programs including DoD/CIA funding of Hollywood programming including 800 plus movies and 1000+ television shows, 6 monopoly media companies running hundreds of subsidiaries to give the illusion of choice. The root words are Gubernare (To control or govern) and Mente/Mens (the Mind) I.E. The message read: Dont be yellow. Chinese Triads launder billions through Vancouver, buying luxury real estate, cars. In 2004, thanks to lax sentencing guidelines from the 1990s, she only had to serve one-third of her sentence and won release from prison. After the protests in Tiananmen Square in the Chinese capital of Beijing, the U.S. permitted additional Chinese nationals to emigrate, which greatly increased Sister Pings smuggling trade, but also drew gangs in Hong Kong and New York into the snakehead game. RICHMOND, Va. (AP) It's a scene that's gone viral over and over, with social media videos showing groups of thieves brazenly stealing bags of merchandise from stores around the country. That effort ended with a consensus to pursue legislation. "This is about organized crime, people being directed and acting in concert with each other.. "This is about organized crime, people being directed and acting in concert with each other.". You can hardly turn the TV on anymore without seeing these crime rings. Probably we put in too much and we might step back a little bit from that.. Epstein met with her in Europe. Press Release. She allegedly attacked and broke the windows of white-owned small businesses in Harlem that accepted bets for Schultz. Women have served as acting bosses in Italys major crime families, including the Ndrangheta and Camorra. So he and his shady lawyer Dixie Davis approached the numbers bankers of Manhattan, offering them a deal to let Schultz take over if they each paid him $500 a week. Democratic state Sen. Joe Morrissey said he finds the legislation overly punitive and said it could still be used against segments of the population it is not meant to target. Its our cash cow and we will never give it up If you think the DEA are the good guys, they are not. Stephanie St. Clair ran the lucrative numbers racket in Harlem during the Prohibition era until mobster Dutch Schultz seized control of her territory. The result is outrageous profits for criminals with well-known unintended consequences for the population: This is well known and former DEA spokeswoman and self-described agency Chief Propagandist Belita Nelson has publicly testified to that fact the agency is dishonest in its policies: Marijuana is safe, we know it is safe. Kathy Byron, the lead sponsor of the House bill. Select LanguageArabicChinese (Simplified)DutchEnglishFrenchGermanItalianPortugueseRussianSpanish, function googleTranslateElementInit2() {new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: 'en',autoDisplay: false}, 'google_translate_element2');}if(!window.gt_translate_script){window.gt_translate_script=document.createElement('script');gt_translate_script.src='https://translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit2';document.body.appendChild(gt_translate_script);}, Both Byrons bill and a separate bill sponsored by Republican Sen. Richard Stuart met resistance from some Democrats and criminal justice advocates who said the legislation could ensnare people who may resort to stealing to survive, including low-income people, the homeless and people struggling with drug addiction. Anyone with the most basic understanding of economics and public policy knows that almost every problem he identified isnt a result of drugs but of Prohibition and the War on Drugs itself. The National Retail Federation, in its 2022 security survey of retailers, found that inventory loss when taken as a percentage of total retail sales in 2021, accounted for $94.5 billion in losses in 2021, up from $90.8 billion in 2020. 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The legislation, which has the governors support, will make it a Class 3 felony for anyone to conspire or act in concert with one or more people to steal retail merchandise with a value exceeding $5,000 in a 90-day period, with the intent to sell the stolen goods for profit. She said the bribes came to $6,000 as of 1928. the authors found that there are organized crime activities in virginia of sufficient magnitude to be a cause of concern. As it turned out, the heroin was indeed too pure to use, and nearly a dozen addicts died on city streets. "Theyre not stealing so they can go home and feed their family. Organized retail theft is a financial problem for businesses and a crime trend that police and lawmakers want to stop. However, in 1966, a person on a morning walk discovered Hills body lying in the snow next to a tree in Austria. Honest and intelligent police officers, judges, and prosecutors who also realize this have organized themselves into Law Enforcement Against Prohibition(LEAPWhich has been recently renamed Law Enforcement Action Partnership) to address a wider range of institutionalized criminality in monopoly policing including arrest quotas, civilasset forfeiture, stop and frisk and police militarization among others. BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) Romanian court upholds 3rd extension for detention of influencer Andrew Tate in human trafficking, organized crime case. In 1994, Florida charged her in the killings of the two-year-old boy and the married couple. I gave it in cash to [Harlem gambler] Mustache Jones. This is not about a poor old drug addict (stealing), Stuart said. Instead, Blanco in 1998 pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and got three concurrent twenty-year sentences. [1] [2] The state has significantly lower crime rates than demographically similar neighboring states Maryland, North Carolina, and Tennessee. The final symbolism is, because we are dealing with inter-generational organized crime and shave-headed, mind-controlled cult-member order followers financially and psychologically dependent on The System and. Sister Ping (aka Big Sister Ping), as leader of an underground crime group in New Yorks Chinatown, trafficked about 3,000 illegal immigrants from China to the United States. Jay S. Albanese, Ph.D. Criminologist. That June, Siegel was shot and killed as he sat in their rented house in Beverly Hills. All of the services provided by Government from protection to roads to charity can be better provided by voluntary interaction, the free market, and real charity. St. Clair had arrived at the Superior Court building in an expensive squirrel fur coat and cloche hat. As egregious as using SWAT teams on poker games and football betting is, it pales in significance to the death and destruction of the governments War on Drugs which likewise makes criminals out of overwhelmingly peaceful people, disproportionately African-American, and sentences them to slave labor in for-profit prisons. In 2022, Miyares office held three work group meetings that included lawmakers, representatives of major retailers, trade groups and law enforcement. There is a growing number of women who hold executive roles, Gaetano Maruccia, an Italian police commander in greater Naples, told The Daily Telegraph newspaper in 2009. Within a few days, in revenge, she allegedly had fourteen people murdered. (Julia Rendleman for The Washington Post via Getty Images / Getty Images). The Museum is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with a mission to advance the public understanding of organized crime's history and impact on American society. Observers considered it the end of the Golden Venture disaster. The date was December 8, 1930, in a Prohibition-era city reeling from recent exposures of police officers who, as the New York Daily News put it, for years have waxed wealthy on vice, gambling and speakeasy shakedowns.. Since we consider organized crime to be multi-layered, structural criminal organizations, smaller teams of bandits from the 1930s Gangster Era are not included. Still trailed by the IRS, Hill tried to move frequently but authorities caught up with her and forced her to sell her house, cars, furs and other valuables, including jewelry given to her by Siegel. and Five Meme Friday - a weekly e-mail or Telegram summary of the best of the alternative media, censored truth videos, and at least 5 fresh, hot, dank liberty memes every week, and Government, Media, and Academia Exposed! It exposes the hidden curriculum of Statism in the governments mandatory schools, scouting programs, and police/military training. When the FBI took associates of the Fuk Chin Gang in for questioning, they reported on Sister Pings crime activities, and a grand jury indicted her in 1994. She would serve eight months in state prison. In Virginia, this year's push came after related legislation last year largely pitted brick-and-mortar retailers, including Walmart, against online retailers, including Amazon. They're not stealing so they can go home and feed their family. U.S. immigration officials deported her to Colombia. Then, a gang war erupted over a substantial shipment of heroin from Istanbul. Maybe we cried too much last year, James Kehoe, Walgreens' global chief financial officer said during the call. The bill aims to tackle what is called 'organized retail theft.' The legislation follows a report that alleged approximately $1.3 billion in merchandise is stolen in Virginia annually. Several months later, Blanco had a married couple, who owed her for dealing cocaine, shot dead in front of their children. [1] In 2012 Virginia had the 3rd-lowest rape rate by state after New Jersey and New York. But others remain opposed to the legislation. If it is impossible for We the People to delegate the right to rob everyone in society, boss them around, and make up rules to criminals in Washington DC, Richmond, and Leesburg then where did the police and the government get those rights? The infatuated Epstein sent her cash, which he withdrew from a safe deposit box, for almost the rest of her life. Syndicate representatives told Virginia to tell Siegel she had to travel to Paris to shop for wine for the Flamingo. Any list of women in organized crime, at least in America, has to include Virginia Hill. The simplest question that exposes the fraud of the whole idea is the one I asked twice If I, as a regular citizen dont have the right to order people around, steal their stuff (taxes) or make up rules for everyone (laws), then how I can delegate rights I dont have myself to a representative or government? She grew up with a close-knit family deeply involved in the Camorra syndicate. They hold the reins. The Police Solution: African-Americans Roll Over and Lick BootShockingly, to the visible and audible disgust of many in the crowd, myself included, Sergeant Easton McDonald of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (Executives?NOBLE?) She fought extradition but was sent back to face charges in 2003. Kathy Byron, the lead sponsor of the House bill. In Virginia, this years push came after related legislation last year largely pitted brick-and-mortar retailers, including Walmart, against online retailers, including Amazon. The legislation has the support of Gov. One was the barely seaworthy Golden Venture, which Kay had won in a poker game. Blancos reputation for smuggling cocaine from the notorious Medellin Cartel of Colombia to the United States earned her the nickname La Madrina the Godmother. You are forgiven! Stuart said organized retail theft is a major problem in Virginia and around the country. Share. In 1932, Madame St. Clair talked to police and reporters about it, extended a plea to Mayor Joseph McKee and took out newspaper ads accusing gangsters such as Schultz and crooked politicians of trying to take her livelihood away. This is not about a poor old drug addict (stealing)," Stuart said. Convicted of smuggling, she served four months in prison, and then resumed her illicit business. The legislation was tabled so that the office of Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares could study the issue. The legislation, which has the governors support, will make it a Class 3 felony for anyone to conspire or act in concert with one or more people to steal retail merchandise with a value exceeding $5,000 in a 90-day period, with the intent to sell the stolen goods for profit. (Ned Oliver/ Virginia Mercury) The General Assembly is coming back to Richmond yet again today, this time to vote on a long-delayed budget and take up several dozen unresolved bills.. Neapolitan police came after her with an arrest warrant in 1999. Supporters of the legislation said thieves often sell the stolen merchandise through Amazon, eBay and other online marketplaces. I have developed a petition template for such a campaign that can be used in Loudoun County (or any other county in the US or abroad) which you can find in our flash drive/Dropbox of Freedom: The Hidden Curriculum of Mandatory Govt Schools. well-known high stakes poker game in Great Falls, Virginia in 2015 made up of successful businessmen and seized/stole the cash! These men receive lengthy prison terms, creating the demand for outside help to run their rackets. Loudoun County is the wealthiest county in the US with neighbors Fairfax County, VA and Howard County, MD coming in #2 and #3, In addition to football field-sized data centers spying on the population, this little county leads the nation in the sale of luxury automobiles, fine jewelry, expensive wine and spirits, premium cigars, kind bud, McMansions, cosmetic surgery, bought-and-paid-for-politicians, and Federal workers making $170,000+ a year. State lawmakers are now considering legislation they hope will address the problem. Charging a high of $40,000 a head, she amassed herself a fortune of $40 million in the 1980s and 1990s. What followed was an extraordinary and daring performance by St. Clair, a haughty, profane and driven African-American woman still at the peak of her authority as one of the wealthy bankers for the numbers racket in Harlem. An executive with Walgreens acknowledged in an earnings call with analysts last month that the drugstore chain may have overblown the shoplifting threat and gone overboard with added security measures. function doGTranslate(lang_pair){if(lang_pair.value)lang_pair=lang_pair.value;if(lang_pair=='')return;var lang=lang_pair.split('|')[1];if(GTranslateGetCurrentLang() == null && lang == lang_pair.split('|')[0])return;if(typeof ga=='function'){ga('send', 'event', 'GTranslate', lang, location.hostname+location.pathname+location.search);}var teCombo;var sel=document.getElementsByTagName('select');for(var i=0;i Etienne de la Boetie is the nom de plume of the voluntaryist author of Government The Biggest Scam in History Exposed! Calvary Baptist Church, Wendall Fischer Supervisor, Office of Outreach Program LCPS, Ken Coopwood, CEO-Coopwood Progressive Workshops, Gregory C. Brown Chief of Police, Town of Leesburg, and Virginia State Senator Jennifer Wexton. People referred to her as Madame.. an organized crime information . Her infamy as a cold-hearted murderer and shrewd Miami-based narco smuggler, whose syndicate imported a billion dollars worth of cocaine, made for a cable channel biopic last year, Cocaine Godmother, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones. Freedom doesnt guarantee utopia, but it is the most moral alternative that unleashes the natural creativity and capital creation mechanisms of the market. Areas of expertise in organized crime, transnational crime, professional ethics, white collar crime, gambling, future of crime, criminal justice. This is about organized crime, people being directed and acting in concert with each other.. You have, Organized Retail Theft To Become Felony In Virginia, Man Behind 1995 North Carolina Bombing Attack Resentenced, Supreme Court Considers Reach of Aggravated Identity Theft Statute, Charlottesville Vehicular Homicide Perpetrator Accused Of Prison Misconduct, Virginia Lawmakers Disagree On How To Tackle Drug Crimes. Del. Overall, there were 177,060 crimes reported in 2014 in Virginia, including 338 murders and homicides. Meanwhile, the smuggling ring had expanded to involve a New York Fujianese gangster, Ah Kay. In 1950 and 1951, he chaired a Senate committee charged with investigating organized crime and exposing its corruption of public institutions. It is the most moral of all the political systems in that it recognizes. Recent research by TransCrime shows that male bosses headed for prison commonly hand their assets over to their wives or sisters. The Virginia Retail Federation, the Virginia Association of Commonwealths Attorneys and the National Federation of Independent Business also backed the measure. She and her family moved to Austria. The jury convicted her of immigrant smuggling, money laundering and trafficking in kidnapping proceeds. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Police said that by the late 1980s, Sister Ping had loaned money to just about everyone in Chinatowns Fujianese enclave. Kathy Byron, R-Bedford, confers with colleagues before a floor session of the House of Delegates at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia., on Aug. 4, 2021. RICHMOND, Va. (WDBJ) - Major retailers in the Commonwealth and across the country report an increase in organized criminal activity. And 1951, he chaired a Senate committee charged with investigating organized crime and exposing its corruption of public.! 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