The Peaky Blinders were a street gang based in Birmingham, England, which operated from the 1880s until the 1920s. The group consisted largely of young criminals from lower- to working-class backgrounds. They engaged in robbery, violence, racketeering, illegal bookmaking, and control of gambling. Members wore signature outfits that typically included tailored jackets, lapelled overcoats, buttoned waistcoats, silk scarves, bell-bottom trousers, leather boots, and peaked flat caps.

Its history is brought to life through historical re-enactors.

Blists Hill Victorian Town is an open-air museum built on a former industrial complex located in the Madeley area of Telford, Shropshire, England. The museum attempts to recreate the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian Shropshire town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Peaky Blinders were a street gang based in Birmingham, England, which operated from the 1880s until the 1920s. The group consisted largely of young criminals from lower- to working-class backgrounds. They engaged in robbery, violence, racketeering, illegal bookmaking, and control of gambling. Members wore signature outfits that typically included tailored jackets, lapelled overcoats, buttoned waistcoats, silk scarves, bell-bottom trousers, leather boots, and peaked flat caps.

Its history is brought to life through historical re-enactors.

Blists Hill Victorian Town is an open-air museum built on a former industrial complex located in the Madeley area of Telford, Shropshire, England. The museum attempts to recreate the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian Shropshire town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Peaky Blinders were a street gang based in Birmingham, England, which operated from the 1880s until the 1920s. The group consisted largely of young criminals from lower- to working-class backgrounds. They engaged in robbery, violence, racketeering, illegal bookmaking, and control of gambling. Members wore signature outfits that typically included tailored jackets, lapelled overcoats, buttoned waistcoats, silk scarves, bell-bottom trousers, leather boots, and peaked flat caps.

Its history is brought to life through historical re-enactors.

Blists Hill Victorian Town is an open-air museum built on a former industrial complex located in the Madeley area of Telford, Shropshire, England. The museum attempts to recreate the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian Shropshire town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Peaky Blinders were a street gang based in Birmingham, England, which operated from the 1880s until the 1920s. The group consisted largely of young criminals from lower- to working-class backgrounds. They engaged in robbery, violence, racketeering, illegal bookmaking, and control of gambling. Members wore signature outfits that typically included tailored jackets, lapelled overcoats, buttoned waistcoats, silk scarves, bell-bottom trousers, leather boots, and peaked flat caps.

Its history is brought to life through historical re-enactors.

Blists Hill Victorian Town is an open-air museum built on a former industrial complex located in the Madeley area of Telford, Shropshire, England. The museum attempts to recreate the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian Shropshire town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Peaky Blinders were a street gang based in Birmingham, England, which operated from the 1880s until the 1920s. The group consisted largely of young criminals from lower- to working-class backgrounds. They engaged in robbery, violence, racketeering, illegal bookmaking, and control of gambling. Members wore signature outfits that typically included tailored jackets, lapelled overcoats, buttoned waistcoats, silk scarves, bell-bottom trousers, leather boots, and peaked flat caps.

Its history is brought to life through historical re-enactors.

Blists Hill Victorian Town is an open-air museum built on a former industrial complex located in the Madeley area of Telford, Shropshire, England. The museum attempts to recreate the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian Shropshire town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Peaky Blinders were a street gang based in Birmingham, England, which operated from the 1880s until the 1920s. The group consisted largely of young criminals from lower- to working-class backgrounds. They engaged in robbery, violence, racketeering, illegal bookmaking, and control of gambling. Members wore signature outfits that typically included tailored jackets, lapelled overcoats, buttoned waistcoats, silk scarves, bell-bottom trousers, leather boots, and peaked flat caps.

Its history is brought to life through historical re-enactors.

Blists Hill Victorian Town is an open-air museum built on a former industrial complex located in the Madeley area of Telford, Shropshire, England. The museum attempts to recreate the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian Shropshire town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Christopher James "Chris" Christie (born September 6, 1962) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who has served as the 55th Governor of New Jersey since January 2010.

Born in Newark in 1962, Christie volunteered for the gubernatorial campaign of Republican Thomas Kean when he was 15. A 1984 graduate of the University of Delaware, Christie earned a J.D. at Seton Hall University School of Law. Christie joined a Cranford, New Jersey, law firm in 1987, rose to become a partner in 1993, and continued practicing until 2002. He was elected county legislator in Morris County, serving from 1995 to 1998, during which time he generally pushed for lower taxes and lower spending. By 2002, Christie had campaigned for Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush; the latter appointed him as United States Attorney for New Jersey, a position he held from 2002 to 2008. In that position, he emphasized prosecutions of political corruption and also obtained convictions for sexual slavery, arms trafficking, racketeering by gangs, and other federal crimes.

In January 2009, Christie declared his candidacy for Governor of New Jersey. He won the Republican primary, and defeated incumbent Governor Jon Corzine in the election that November. In 2013, he won re-election as Governor, defeating Democrat Barbara Buono by a margin of over 22%. He was sworn in to a second term as governor on January 21, 2014. On November 21, 2013, Christie was elected Chairman of the Republican Governors Association, succeeding Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal.

Christie was seen as a potential candidate in the 2012 presidential election, and though not running, he was the keynote speaker at the 2012 Republican National Convention. He is viewed as a potential presidential candidate in 2016. Following the controversial closure of toll plaza access lanes in Fort Lee in 2013, an internal investigation commissioned by the Governor's Office found no evidence of Christie having prior knowledge of or having directed the closure. Investigations of the affair by United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey and the New Jersey Legislature are ongoing.

Welcome to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference

May 21-23 promises to be a rendezvous with destiny in Oklahoma City. The unofficial start of the 2016 Republican Presidential campaign begins here, in the new energy capital of America!

The 2016 election will be one of the most important in our lifetime. The choices we make in the next two years will define America for the next 50 years.

On behalf of the Oklahoma Republican Party and the entire SRLC Committee, please join us as we begin our shared Republican journey towards capturing the White House and renewing our nation.

It is our distinct privilege to invite you to attend the 2015 Southern Republican Leadership Conference, to be held at the Cox Convention Center and Downtown Oklahoma City Renaissance Convention Center Hotel on May 21-23, 2015. We hope you will join us!

The SRLC has a star-studded history as one of the premier conferences for all Republicans and conservative activists. This year we anticipate 50 speakers, break-out sessions with energy, utility and manufacturing opinion leaders, and 75 partnering organizations. In addition, we are hosting the largest regional presidential straw poll of the year.

We look forward to your participation in this historic conference as we energize the Grand Old Party and America together!

SRLC 2015 Committee

The Peaky Blinders were a street gang based in Birmingham, England, which operated from the 1880s until the 1920s. The group consisted largely of young criminals from lower- to working-class backgrounds. They engaged in robbery, violence, racketeering, illegal bookmaking, and control of gambling. Members wore signature outfits that typically included tailored jackets, lapelled overcoats, buttoned waistcoats, silk scarves, bell-bottom trousers, leather boots, and peaked flat caps.

Its history is brought to life through historical re-enactors.

Blists Hill Victorian Town is an open-air museum built on a former industrial complex located in the Madeley area of Telford, Shropshire, England. The museum attempts to recreate the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian Shropshire town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Title: Striking members of the New York Cloak Joint Board carry placards against racketeering July 29, 1952.

Date: 1952

Photographer: Unknown

Photo ID: 5780PB25F8A

Collection: International Ladies Garment Workers Union Photographs (1885-1985)

Repository: The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives in the ILR School at Cornell University is the Catherwood Library unit that collects, preserves, and makes accessible special collections documenting the history of the workplace and labor relations. www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel

Notes: No additional information available.

Copyright: The copyright status of this image is unknown. It may also be subject to third party rights of privacy or publicity. Images are being made available for purposes of private study, scholarship, and research. The Kheel Center would like to learn more about this image and hear from any copyright owners who are not properly identified so that we may make the necessary corrections.

Tags: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives,Cornell University Library,Cloakmakers, Picketing, Placards, Strikes

The Peaky Blinders were a street gang based in Birmingham, England, which operated from the 1880s until the 1920s. The group consisted largely of young criminals from lower- to working-class backgrounds. They engaged in robbery, violence, racketeering, illegal bookmaking, and control of gambling. Members wore signature outfits that typically included tailored jackets, lapelled overcoats, buttoned waistcoats, silk scarves, bell-bottom trousers, leather boots, and peaked flat caps.

Its history is brought to life through historical re-enactors.

Blists Hill Victorian Town is an open-air museum built on a former industrial complex located in the Madeley area of Telford, Shropshire, England. The museum attempts to recreate the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian Shropshire town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Mr. Abedi was born in 1922 in India. When India was freed from British rule and partitioned in 1947, he and many childhood friends who would later work with him fled to the newly independent Islamic nation of Pakistan, where he immediately went into banking.

The banker from Pakistan, Starting in 1972 with a $2.5 million investment, Mr. Abedi built B.C.C.I. into an international financial force. At its peak in the 1980's, the bank had 14,000 employees, 400 offices in 72 countries, 1.3 million depositors and more than $20 billion in assets.

Later, the Abu Dhabi and US governments wanted to extradite him for fraud and racketeering, but old friends in Pakistan protected him. With many of his former colleagues detained in Abu Dhabi, in Britain or facing trial in New York, Abedi died disappointed, ill and in obscurity.

His extraordinary career says as much about the failings of the world's banking system as it does about a man of overweening ambition, and without any scruple. His legacy is the continuing woe of the legions of small BCCI depositors who lost everything when the bank Abedi had built closed.

Legendary or Shady i'd leave that to you.

I have photographed this building several times, so I concentrated on details today.

The Pui Tak Center, formerly the On Leong Merchants Association Building, was designed by architects Christian S. Michaelsen and Sigurd A. Rognstad (there were no architects of Chinese ancestry in Chicago at the time). It was completed in 1928 at 2216 S. Wentworth Ave. The association used it as an immigrant assistance center, and the building was informally referred to as Chinatown's "city hall." In 1988, the FBI and Chicago Police raided the building as part of a racketeering investigation. The US federal government seized the building that same year.

The building was purchased by the Chinese Christian Union Church (CCUC) for $1.4 million and renamed the Pui Tak Center in 1993.The CCUC spent $1 million raised from community donations to renovate and update the building's neglected interior. The newly named Pai Tak Center now hosts various religious, community, and educational programs, such as English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) courses.

Photograph from Chicago Architecture Foundation Explore Chinatown tour.

Cell Phone Required

06 March 2013 -- 65/365

Providence, Rhode Island

This morning, I returned to the same garish store front seen in yesterday's photo to take this image of the remains of a pay-phone still somewhat attached to the building. There are numerous phone stands like this one, almost all of which are in various stages of decay. I've only seen a few that still have a phone attached, and it's doubtful if any of them still function. In the age of cell phones, outdoor pay phones now border on extinction. Interestingly, these small phone enclosures were relatively new when the first mobile phones appeared as harbingers of their impending doom. They replaced the larger phone booths we all remember from our youth, but with virtually everyone sporting cell phones, the need for these relics has all but disappeared.

The sign in the window is as antiquated as the phone booth. It's a campaign poster for John Lombardi who ran for Mayor of Providence in the 2010 Democratic Primary, losing to the eventual Mayor, Angel Taveras. He earned only 29% of the vote to Taveras' 48%. Lombardi does hold a spot in Rhode Island lore, however. He was President of the Providence City Council in 2001 when Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci was convicted of Racketeering Conspiracy (running a corrupt criminal enterprise) and served as acting mayor for four months. In 2012, Lombardi was elected to the Rhode Island State Legislature.

Post processing was more challenging than expected. While composing the shot, I planned to process this as a black and white, however I underestimated the muddy light grey tone the fluorescent yellow paint on the building would produce. Much of the processing was spent darkening the yellow tone to produce a more pleasing shade of grey. I started with a classic filter in Topaz B&W FX and then heavily adjusted the color sensitivity sliders. I adjusted adaptive exposure and regions, almost to their maximum values. Contrast, details, and protect highlights were also heavily adjusted. A more gentle touch was applied to boost black and boost white. A brightness, contrast, and levels adjustment was added in PSE followed by a sepia photo filter.

we have breaking news right now a judge has doomed songster R Kelly to 30 times in captivity he was condemned in September of wrong doing.

Eight counts of coitus trafficking during the trial multiple substantiations spoke about how they were sexually and physically abused by Kelly.

Execution argued r. kelly used his celebrity status to produce a quotation network of people at his disposal to target girls

Boys and youthful women for his own sexual delectation let's bring in paul bautista he's a felonious defense counsel as well as the author of the book civil rico paul thanks veritably much for being with us.

I want to get your response to this are you surprised i am not at each surprised uh these were these were veritably heavy rulings but this is this has been a bad two days for the rich and notorious miss Maxwell history.

R kelly moment are both in effect doomed to life in captivity and uh this the size of r Kelly's uh judgment which exceeded the quantum that the government was demanding did not really come as a surprise to me given the fact that he surprisingly enough he was condemned of uh violations of the wrongdoing enactment.

what we generally call the rico enactment which carries enormous penalties so it was no surprise to me so

Paul as you refocused out execution prosecutors were asking for uh 25 times the judge issued a advanced judgment than that why do you suppose that the execution did not ask for a advanced judgment.

alfainvester.com/r-kelly-sentenced-30-years-in-jailhouse-...

2010 0306 BTYCC Outdoor Experience

Mar 2010, annual Outdoor Experience, Beau Turner Youth Conservation Center

Officer Jeff Babauta will retire from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on February 28, 2019, with 35 years of outstanding service.

Jeff Babauta began his career in 1984 starting with the Division of Freshwater Fisheries as a Lab Technician at the Richloam Fish Hatchery in Sumter County but his service crosses all boundaries within the agency.

In 1987, Jeff transferred into the Division of Wildlife as a wildlife technician, assigned to Osceola County where he was responsible for the Three Lakes and Bull Creek Wildlife Management Areas.

In 1994, Jeff was accepted to the Division of Law Enforcement. After graduating from the law enforcement academy, he relocated to Manatee County as a patrol officer. Jeff has shown outstanding dedication and professionalism through 25 years of work with the Division of Law Enforcement. Jeff is highly recognized and respected by his community. In 1999, Manatee County awarded Jeff as Manatee County’s Officer of the Year. In 2001, a local civic group awarded Jeff the Outdoorsman of the Year award. In 2002, Jeff received a commendation medal from the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.

In 2006, Jeff was accepted to the FWC K-9 academy where he completed a 400-hour training program. Jeff was teamed with his new K-9 partner, “Mack.” For the next four years, Officer Babauta and Mack served the woods, waters, and community protecting Florida’s natural resources.

In 2007, Jeff and Mack transferred to Jefferson County serving the Northwest Region. Once again, Jeff and Mack served with distinction. The K-9 pair successfully apprehended resource violators recovered evidence of crimes and conducted search and rescue missions for missing and endangered citizens.

In 2015, Jeff embarked on his most demanding assignment. Jeff accepted a volunteer position for a long-term undercover law enforcement assignment. For two and a half years, Jeff lived in a full-time role as an undercover agent infiltrating the worst of the commercial resource violators. Jeff’s dedication to protecting our resources led to one of the agencies most comprehensive undercover operations, Operation Alligator Thief. 14 suspects were arrested on the agencies first use of the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICCO). Over 10,000 alligators were unlawfully collected and sold by these organized commercial resource violators.

Jeff’s motivation and unbridled dedication to the FWC mission is unmatched. Jeff has served with distinction three FWC divisions over 35 years. Jeff has influenced and impacted all those around him during his lifetime service to the State of Florida.

The Rock Says To “NWO”, 2018 Day 341 & “CRO” Rehab Of Your Disorder, Corrupt Life, With God’s Libra Group Exposing Set-Up Frame Jobs Of Evil, Corrupt & Jaded Libraeologists, Screwing Righteous Innocent Victims With Vicious Rumours, Stories, Fables & Tales, Whereby Victim Forced To Succumb To Barrage Of Attacks By Aggressor, With Pair & Dare Motions Upon Innocent Victim, To Point Of Submission, From Pairing & Daring Position, As Aggressor Forces Themself Against Victim’s Center Of Universe, While Adding Insult To Injury, By Forcing Victim To Support Aggressor, By Sitting Down With Legs Driven Apart, While Holding On To Aggressors Waist For Support, So Aggressor Can Sit On Top Of Victims Waist, While Splitting Legs Apart As Body Turned Sideways, With One Hand Around Victims Neck, & Other Hand On Floor For Support, So Aggressor Can Pair & Dare Victim, With Libra Attack Full Of Bullshit Propaganda Crap, Until Righteous Innocent Victim Submits, That Satisfies Corrupt Dominant Personal, Financial & Political Interests’ Thirst For Revenge, With Evidence Doctoring Of Bullshit Propaganda Radicalized Extremist Terrorist Liberation Movement (ETLM), Poisoning Minds To Extremes, By Converting Perception Of THE ROCK’s Web Market, From Next Big Thing In Intranet Based Marketing, To Star Wars Galactic Propaganda Gas & Marvel Entertainment Racketeering By Mass, With Demented Conversions Into Terrorist Threat Perversions, As God Chooses To Expose Another Ploy By Hosts With Demonic Ghosts, That Somehow Perceived Imminent Terrorist Threat From THE ROCK’s Web Market World Peace News post of, “ISIS tentacles spreading hate into the UK with MANCHESTER massacre by ABEDI mentally insane killing 22 and injuring over 120 innocent civilian fates for trying to celebrate ARIANA GRANDE’s Dangerous Woman tour slated as great.”, Albeit Subsequent Elaborate International Efforts Uncover Absolutely Nothing In Terms Of Substantive Evidence, For Heat To Conclude That THE ROCK Is Right That More Logical To Insist On Immediate Psychotherapy, Then To Enter Into Military Exercises To Uncover Nothing, As Military Cannot Save Hosts With Demonic Ghosts, Suffering Psychological Maladies?

Government witness testimony by Miguel Brennan in CASE 92-CR-00018-AA given during the Federal racketeering trial United States of America vs. Ronnie Hudson a.k.a. Fleet in July 1993 at the Ann Arbor US Courthouse before the Honorable Judge GEORGE LA PLATTA presiding.

Title: Strikers demonstrate against racketeering and open shops during a strike in 1958.

Date: 1958

Photographer: Unknown

Photo ID: 5780PB36F5B

Collection: International Ladies Garment Workers Union Photographs (1885-1985)

Repository: The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives in the ILR School at Cornell University is the Catherwood Library unit that collects, preserves, and makes accessible special collections documenting the history of the workplace and labor relations. www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel

Notes: No additional information available.

Copyright: The copyright status of this image is unknown. It may also be subject to third party rights of privacy or publicity. Images are being made available for purposes of private study, scholarship, and research. The Kheel Center would like to learn more about this image and hear from any copyright owners who are not properly identified so that we may make the necessary corrections.

Tags: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives,Cornell University Library,Picketing, Placards, Strikes, Demonstrations, Dressmakers

Greenpeace Forest Campaigners Rolf Skar, left, Amy Moas, center, and Daniel Brindis outside of US District Court. Activists and free speech supporters show their support outside the US District Courthouse in San Francisco May 31, 2018. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California held a hearing to decide whether or not to dismiss Resolute Forest Products’ baseless racketeering lawsuit against three Greenpeace entities, Stand.earth, and five individual staff members of these independent organizations after the hearing on an amended complaint.

I have photographed this building several times, so I concentrated on details today.

The Pui Tak Center, formerly the On Leong Merchants Association Building, was designed by architects Christian S. Michaelsen and Sigurd A. Rognstad (there were no architects of Chinese ancestry in Chicago at the time). It was completed in 1928 at 2216 S. Wentworth Ave. The association used it as an immigrant assistance center, and the building was informally referred to as Chinatown's "city hall." In 1988, the FBI and Chicago Police raided the building as part of a racketeering investigation. The US federal government seized the building that same year.

The building was purchased by the Chinese Christian Union Church (CCUC) for $1.4 million and renamed the Pui Tak Center in 1993.The CCUC spent $1 million raised from community donations to renovate and update the building's neglected interior. The newly named Pai Tak Center now hosts various religious, community, and educational programs, such as English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) courses.

Photograph from Chicago Architecture Foundation Explore Chinatown tour.

Description: In what may be the final phase of a federal investigation aimed at breaking up a major Asian organized crime operation in San Francisco's Chinatown, jury selection is scheduled to begin in a racketeering case against two alleged gang members, Raymond Chow and Andy Li.

Original Material Type: Newspaper clipping

Article Title: Racketeering Case Jury to be Picked

Author: Bill Wallace

Publication Info: San Francisco Chronicle, February 26, 1996, pp. A13 & A14

Subject Keywords: San Francisco, Chinatown, Chinatown gangs, organized crime, Raymond Chow, Shrimp Boy, Andy Li, Peter Chong, racketeering, Ping On Tong, Wo Hop To Triad, U.S. Justice Department, Organized Crime Strike Force

Collection: Chinatown Branch Archives

Repository: San Francisco Public Library - Chinatown/Him Mark Lai Branch

The Peaky Blinders were a street gang based in Birmingham, England, which operated from the 1880s until the 1920s. The group consisted largely of young criminals from lower- to working-class backgrounds. They engaged in robbery, violence, racketeering, illegal bookmaking, and control of gambling. Members wore signature outfits that typically included tailored jackets, lapelled overcoats, buttoned waistcoats, silk scarves, bell-bottom trousers, leather boots, and peaked flat caps.

Its history is brought to life through historical re-enactors.

Blists Hill Victorian Town is an open-air museum built on a former industrial complex located in the Madeley area of Telford, Shropshire, England. The museum attempts to recreate the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian Shropshire town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

I have photographed this building several times, so I concentrated on details today.

The Pui Tak Center, formerly the On Leong Merchants Association Building, was designed by architects Christian S. Michaelsen and Sigurd A. Rognstad (there were no architects of Chinese ancestry in Chicago at the time). It was completed in 1928 at 2216 S. Wentworth Ave. The association used it as an immigrant assistance center, and the building was informally referred to as Chinatown's "city hall." In 1988, the FBI and Chicago Police raided the building as part of a racketeering investigation. The US federal government seized the building that same year.

The building was purchased by the Chinese Christian Union Church (CCUC) for $1.4 million and renamed the Pui Tak Center in 1993.The CCUC spent $1 million raised from community donations to renovate and update the building's neglected interior. The newly named Pai Tak Center now hosts various religious, community, and educational programs, such as English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) courses.

Photograph from Chicago Architecture Foundation Explore Chinatown tour.

The Peaky Blinders were a street gang based in Birmingham, England, which operated from the 1880s until the 1920s. The group consisted largely of young criminals from lower- to working-class backgrounds. They engaged in robbery, violence, racketeering, illegal bookmaking, and control of gambling. Members wore signature outfits that typically included tailored jackets, lapelled overcoats, buttoned waistcoats, silk scarves, bell-bottom trousers, leather boots, and peaked flat caps.

Its history is brought to life through historical re-enactors.

Blists Hill Victorian Town is an open-air museum built on a former industrial complex located in the Madeley area of Telford, Shropshire, England. The museum attempts to recreate the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian Shropshire town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Peaky Blinders were a street gang based in Birmingham, England, which operated from the 1880s until the 1920s. The group consisted largely of young criminals from lower- to working-class backgrounds. They engaged in robbery, violence, racketeering, illegal bookmaking, and control of gambling. Members wore signature outfits that typically included tailored jackets, lapelled overcoats, buttoned waistcoats, silk scarves, bell-bottom trousers, leather boots, and peaked flat caps.

Its history is brought to life through historical re-enactors.

Blists Hill Victorian Town is an open-air museum built on a former industrial complex located in the Madeley area of Telford, Shropshire, England. The museum attempts to recreate the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian Shropshire town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Government witness testimony by Melissa Issacson a.k.a. Tammy Ireland in CASE 92-CR-00018-AA given during the Federal racketeering trial United States of America vs. Ronnie Hudson a.k.a. Fleet in July 1993 at the Ann Arbor US Courthouse before the Honorable Judge GEORGE LA PLATTA presiding.

The Peaky Blinders were a street gang based in Birmingham, England, which operated from the 1880s until the 1920s. The group consisted largely of young criminals from lower- to working-class backgrounds. They engaged in robbery, violence, racketeering, illegal bookmaking, and control of gambling. Members wore signature outfits that typically included tailored jackets, lapelled overcoats, buttoned waistcoats, silk scarves, bell-bottom trousers, leather boots, and peaked flat caps.

Its history is brought to life through historical re-enactors.

Blists Hill Victorian Town is an open-air museum built on a former industrial complex located in the Madeley area of Telford, Shropshire, England. The museum attempts to recreate the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian Shropshire town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Peaky Blinders were a street gang based in Birmingham, England, which operated from the 1880s until the 1920s. The group consisted largely of young criminals from lower- to working-class backgrounds. They engaged in robbery, violence, racketeering, illegal bookmaking, and control of gambling. Members wore signature outfits that typically included tailored jackets, lapelled overcoats, buttoned waistcoats, silk scarves, bell-bottom trousers, leather boots, and peaked flat caps.

Its history is brought to life through historical re-enactors.

Blists Hill Victorian Town is an open-air museum built on a former industrial complex located in the Madeley area of Telford, Shropshire, England. The museum attempts to recreate the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian Shropshire town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Official US Court document regarding government witness testimony by Elizabeth Collins in CASE 92-CR-00018-AA given during the Federal racketeering trial United States of America vs. Ronnie Hudson a.k.a. Fleet in July 1993 at the Ann Arbor US Courthouse before the Honorable Judge GEORGE LA PLATTA presiding.

Description: In what may be the final phase of a federal investigation aimed at breaking up a major Asian organized crime operation in San Francisco's Chinatown, jury selection is scheduled to begin in a racketeering case against two alleged gang members, Raymond Chow and Andy Li.

Original Material Type: Newspaper clipping

Article Title: Racketeering Case Jury to be Picked

Author: Bill Wallace

Publication Info: San Francisco Chronicle, February 26, 1996, pp. A13 & A14

Subject Keywords: San Francisco, Chinatown, Chinatown gangs, organized crime, Raymond Chow, Shrimp Boy, Andy Li, Peter Chong, racketeering, Ping On Tong, Wo Hop To Triad, U.S. Justice Department, Organized Crime Strike Force

Collection: Chinatown Branch Archives

Repository: San Francisco Public Library - Chinatown/Him Mark Lai Branch

Greenpeace Staff Charlie Holt and Jasper Tuelings talk outside US District Court. Activists and free speech supporters show their support outside US District Courthouse in San Francisco May 31, 2018. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California holds a hearing to decide whether or not to dismiss Resolute Forest Products’ baseless racketeering lawsuit against three Greenpeace entities, Stand.earth, and five individual staff members of these independent organizations after the hearing on an amended complaint.

The Peaky Blinders were a street gang based in Birmingham, England, which operated from the 1880s until the 1920s. The group consisted largely of young criminals from lower- to working-class backgrounds. They engaged in robbery, violence, racketeering, illegal bookmaking, and control of gambling. Members wore signature outfits that typically included tailored jackets, lapelled overcoats, buttoned waistcoats, silk scarves, bell-bottom trousers, leather boots, and peaked flat caps.

Its history is brought to life through historical re-enactors.

Blists Hill Victorian Town is an open-air museum built on a former industrial complex located in the Madeley area of Telford, Shropshire, England. The museum attempts to recreate the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian Shropshire town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Help impeach this insane evil dictator-traitor of the United States of America, racketeering money laundering lying criminal con-artist, diabolical pussy-grabbing shit-mouth monster, Mr. Bigot, Donald J. Trump the teflon piece of shit ... impeachdonaldtrumpnow.org

The Peaky Blinders were a street gang based in Birmingham, England, which operated from the 1880s until the 1920s. The group consisted largely of young criminals from lower- to working-class backgrounds. They engaged in robbery, violence, racketeering, illegal bookmaking, and control of gambling. Members wore signature outfits that typically included tailored jackets, lapelled overcoats, buttoned waistcoats, silk scarves, bell-bottom trousers, leather boots, and peaked flat caps.

Its history is brought to life through historical re-enactors.

Blists Hill Victorian Town is an open-air museum built on a former industrial complex located in the Madeley area of Telford, Shropshire, England. The museum attempts to recreate the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian Shropshire town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Eccentric and notorious Kim Dotcom (born Kim Schmitz, 21 January 1974), also known as Kimble and Kim Tim Jim Vestor, is a German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur and political activist who resides in Auckland, New Zealand. He first rose to fame in Germany in the 1990s as an Internet entrepreneur. America have tried many times to extradite him on fraud and piracy violations without success. Previously married to Filipina Mona Verga. Other vehicle number plates were MAFIA, STONED and HACKER.

Since picture was taken he has married Elizabeth Donnelly on Jan 20th 2018 may now be thinking of moving to Queenstown, NZ. He is also suing the NZ Government: Internet mogul Kim Dotcom's legal case returns to court in New Zealand Monday for what may be the Megaupload founder's final chance of avoiding extradition to the United States.

Dotcom's epic extradition battle has dragged on for more than six years, starting in January 2012 when armed police acting on an FBI request raided his Auckland mansion.

The 44-year-old German national is accused of industrial-scale online piracy via his Megaupload empire, which US authorities shut down when the raid took place.

If sent to the United States he will face charges of racketeering, fraud and money laundering carrying jail terms of up to 20 years.

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Government witness testimony by Miguel Brennan in CASE 92-CR-00018-AA given during the Federal racketeering trial United States of America vs. Ronnie Hudson a.k.a. Fleet in July 1993 at the Ann Arbor US Courthouse before the Honorable Judge GEORGE LA PLATTA presiding.

Despina Lalaki the Greek Sociology doctoral candidate in Hellenic Studies and University Lecturer has published an article on Aljazeera titled ‘The Greek crisis as racketeering’ citing the Greek government’s classic mobster tactic of offering citizens protection from threats it has itself created. In the article Lalaki states “Sociologist Charles Tilly drew a compelling analogy between the state as the place of organized means of violence, and racketeering. He defined the racketeer "as someone who creates a threat and then charges for its reduction", in order to gain control and consolidate power. In this regard, a state and its government differ little from racketeering, to the extent that the threats against which they protect their citizens are imaginary or are consequences of their own activities. Considering the pain, the humiliation, and the social degradation that the economic and political policies of the Greek government have inflicted upon the country the past four years, Tilly's analogy may offer us a useful tool to both describe and evaluate the current crisis and the regime of fear that the state has unleashed on the Greek public. …In defiance of this fear, an awakening of political consciousness is taking place in Greece's squares, streets, and online social networks, not merely condemning the policies of austerity and social degradation but collectively working towards new types of political resistance. It is becoming clear that only the people of Greece can deliver and ultimately save themselves from the racketeering, criminal practices of their "protectors".” Inspired by Aljazeera ow.ly/coJd1 image source Academia ow.ly/coJbM

Government witness testimony by Elizabeth Collins in CASE 92-CR-00018-AA given during the Federal racketeering trial United States of America vs. Ronnie Hudson a.k.a. Fleet in July 1993 at the Ann Arbor US Courthouse before the Honorable Judge GEORGE LA PLATTA presiding.

Government witness testimony by Miguel Brennan in CASE 92-CR-00018-AA given during the Federal racketeering trial United States of America vs. Ronnie Hudson a.k.a. Fleet in July 1993 at the Ann Arbor US Courthouse before the Honorable Judge GEORGE LA PLATTA presiding.

Government witness testimony by Elizabeth Collins in CASE 92-CR-00018-AA given during the Federal racketeering trial United States of America vs. Ronnie Hudson a.k.a. Fleet in July 1993 at the Ann Arbor US Courthouse before the Honorable Judge GEORGE LA PLATTA presiding.

Nick and Nora are at their wise-cracking best as they investigate murder and racketeering at a local race-track. Starred William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson, Donna Reed, Sam Levene, Alan Baxter, and Henry O'Neill. Directed by W.S. Van Dyke.

Government witness testimony by Miguel Brennan in CASE 92-CR-00018-AA given during the Federal racketeering trial United States of America vs. Ronnie Hudson a.k.a. Fleet in July 1993 at the Ann Arbor US Courthouse before the Honorable Judge GEORGE LA PLATTA presiding.

Government witness testimony by Elizabeth Collins in CASE 92-CR-00018-AA given during the Federal racketeering trial United States of America vs. Ronnie Hudson a.k.a. Fleet in July 1993 at the Ann Arbor US Courthouse before the Honorable Judge GEORGE LA PLATTA presiding.

I have photographed this building several times, so I concentrated on details today.

The Pui Tak Center, formerly the On Leong Merchants Association Building, was designed by architects Christian S. Michaelsen and Sigurd A. Rognstad (there were no architects of Chinese ancestry in Chicago at the time). It was completed in 1928 at 2216 S. Wentworth Ave. The association used it as an immigrant assistance center, and the building was informally referred to as Chinatown's "city hall." In 1988, the FBI and Chicago Police raided the building as part of a racketeering investigation. The US federal government seized the building that same year.

The building was purchased by the Chinese Christian Union Church (CCUC) for $1.4 million and renamed the Pui Tak Center in 1993.The CCUC spent $1 million raised from community donations to renovate and update the building's neglected interior. The newly named Pai Tak Center now hosts various religious, community, and educational programs, such as English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) courses.

Photograph from Chicago Architecture Foundation Explore Chinatown tour.

Government witness testimony by Elizabeth Collins in CASE 92-CR-00018-AA given during the Federal racketeering trial United States of America vs. Ronnie Hudson a.k.a. Fleet in July 1993 at the Ann Arbor US Courthouse before the Honorable Judge GEORGE LA PLATTA presiding.

Government witness testimony by Elizabeth Collins in CASE 92-CR-00018-AA given during the Federal racketeering trial United States of America vs. Ronnie Hudson a.k.a. Fleet in July 1993 at the Ann Arbor US Courthouse before the Honorable Judge GEORGE LA PLATTA presiding.

Government witness testimony by Miguel Brennan in CASE 92-CR-00018-AA given during the Federal racketeering trial United States of America vs. Ronnie Hudson a.k.a. Fleet in July 1993 at the Ann Arbor US Courthouse before the Honorable Judge GEORGE LA PLATTA presiding.

[Leo Frank Museum Curator: Thank you to our contributor who used Artificial Intelligence in 2021 to colorize the 1856 image of Judah P. Benjamin. He was a Jewish-American Southerner who worked successfully as an attorney and political leader in two different countries. He was the treasurer of the Confederate States of America during the secessionist war of independence (called the civil war or war between the states) of which they lost. His face was on the two-dollar bill of the Confederate currency. ]

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Judah P. Benjamin has often been cited as the historical evidence that the Antebellum South was not anti-Semitic, despite Jewish agitation groups like the Anti-defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL in 1987 thereafter) and other Judaic activist syndicates masquerading as civil rights organizations who defame the American South as having rampant Antisemitism, at the time, historically. Screen captures have shown ADL fundraising with the Leo Frank case by racketeering Antisemitism. A wide number of independent Jewish sources cite the Leo Frank case as inspiring the league's founding in 1913.

Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who was a United States Senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Benjamin was the first Jew to hold a Cabinet position in North America and the first to be elected to the United States Senate who had not renounced his faith.

Benjamin was born to Sephardic Jewish parents from London, who had moved to St. Croix in the Danish West Indies when it was occupied by Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. Seeking greater opportunities, his family immigrated to the United States, eventually settling in Charleston, South Carolina. Judah Benjamin attended Yale College but left without graduating. He moved to New Orleans, where he read law and passed the bar.

Benjamin rose rapidly both at the bar and in politics. He became a wealthy planter and slave owner and was elected to and served in both houses of the Louisiana legislature prior to his election by the legislature to the US Senate in 1852. There, he was an eloquent supporter of slavery. After Louisiana seceded in 1861, Benjamin resigned as a senator and returned to New Orleans.

He soon moved to Richmond after Confederate President Jefferson Davis appointed him as Attorney General. Benjamin had little to do in that position, but Davis was impressed by his competence and appointed him as Secretary of War. Benjamin firmly supported Davis, and the President reciprocated the loyalty by promoting him to Secretary of State in March 1862, while Benjamin was being criticized for the rebel defeat at the Battle of Roanoke Island.

As Secretary of State, Benjamin attempted to gain official recognition for the Confederacy by France and the United Kingdom, but his efforts were ultimately unsuccessful. To preserve the Confederacy as military defeats made its situation increasingly desperate, he advocated freeing and arming the slaves late in the war, but his proposals were only partially accepted in the closing month of the war. When Davis fled the Confederate capital of Richmond in early 1865, Benjamin went with him. He left the presidential party and was successful in escaping from the mainland United States, but Davis was captured by Union troops. Benjamin sailed to Great Britain, where he settled and became a barrister, again rising to the top of his profession before retiring in 1883. He died in Paris the following year.

Reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_P._Benjamin