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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 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.
Outlaws Get Long Prison Sentences August 29, 1989
MIAMI — Three members of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club received maximum sentences Monday on charges they ran a racketeering enterprise that sold drugs, committed gang rape and killed suspected snitches. Donald Joe Sears, 42, of Atlanta, Michael Lee Cave, 41, of Luddington, Mich., and Timothy Kevin Duke, 34, of Louisville, Ky., were among six bikers convicted in January after a 14-month federal criminal trial, one of the longest in U.S. history. Sears and Cave were given 40-year sentences with no parole, and Duke was sentenced to 20 years.
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.
A member of the Bellingham chapter of the Bandidos, at Oyster Run in Anacortes, WA. This guy had a fantastic face with a lot of character.
The 1%er patch signifies membership in the most elite of clubs - Bandidos, Hells Angels and the like. Each club has a variety of "support clubs", which are serious clubs but not quite the same thing - support club members wear patches that say something to the effect of "I support Bandidos worldwide".
The Bellingham chapter of the red and gold received a large amount of press in 2005 and 2006 as its chapter president was indicted on federal racketeering charges.
See also this shot of this man: www.flickr.com/photos/patl/1430710467/in/photostream/
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.
Sam "Black Sam"/"Wings" Carlisi
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Died Jan. 2, 1997 of a heart attack while he was in prison, serving 13 years for convictions on mob racketeerings, loan sharking and arson in connection with an illegal gambling business in the Chicago area and the West suburbs.
Carlisi was convicted in March 1996, after having remained in custody as a flight risk since 1993, having been arrested in 1992.
Alleged killer of Michael and Tony Spilotro, underboss to Joseph Ferriola.
Partners in JEP Truck Leasing with Ernest Rocco Infelise.
Former driver for Joey Aiuppa when Aiuppa was the boss of Cicero and when Aiuppa became the boss of the Outfit in the early 70s. Released from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in 1986 when Joey Aiuppa was convicted of skimming from Las Vegas casinos, serving as his replacement and mob frontman.
Deborah J. Palfrey as a senior at Charleroi Area High School in 1974.
By Scott BeveridgeStaff writer
CHARLEROI, Pennsylvania – Deborah J. Palfrey had big plans to revitalize her hometown of Charleroi that took shape after she launched a social networking Web site for graduates of her high school.
Palfrey’s Internet site, founded in 2002, attracted numerous fans, including a Washington County judge, who used it to reconnect with their old classmates. She drew even more interest after being profiled last year in a Mon Valley newspaper about her lofty goals to return Charleroi to its pristine roots.
Now, people in her hometown have been distancing themselves from Palfrey, shocked by news of her March 1 indictment on accusations she ran a prostitution ring catering to the Washington, D.C., area.
“I was excited about this Web site thing she set up because it looked like a good vehicle for the community where I grew up and my parents still live, Charleroi,” said Washington County Judge Mark Mascara, who attended Charleroi Area High School in the 1970s with Palfrey. “Once I read the indictment, my connection to the Web site ended.”
Most of the people who had registered to Palfrey’s site, www.charleroipahsalumni.org, severed their ties to it after she became known as the “D.C. madam” in news articles and blogs that have flooded the Internet.
Palfrey, 50, of Vallejo, Calif., is facing federal racketeering charges that she made nearly $2 million from prostitution-related activities over 13 years. She reportedly hired young college-educated women, who charged men in the D.C. area between $275 and $300 for sex. The prostitutes turned over half of the income to Palfrey in money orders, the indictment indicates.
Palfrey has considered selling 46 pounds of her telephone records to raise money for her legal defense, according to another Web site she created to tell her side of the case.
She claims she is innocent, that she operated a “legal escort service” and paid the women incomes that were reported to the IRS. The government, meanwhile, reportedly seized $500,000 and nearly $1 million in real estate during the investigation.
In a Thursday e-mail to the Observer-Reporter, Palfrey indicated that her attorney had advised her against speaking directly with reporters. She wrote that updates on her case, which include “troubling constitutional and civil rights issues,” can be found on her Web site, www.DeborahJeanePalfrey.com. Her attorney, Montgomery Blair Sibley of Rockville, Md., did not return a message seeking comment.
Palfrey never graduated with her classmates at Charleroi in 1974, having moved in the middle of her senior year to Florida. Her parents, Frank “Moon” and Blanche Johnson Palfrey, raised their family at 828 Shady Ave. Her younger sister, Roberta L. Palfrey of Port Charlotte, Fla., refused to comment when contacted Thursday by telephone.
Deborah Palfrey was remembered beside her senior photograph in a high school yearbook as liking sewing and dancing and being with friendly, outgoing people. She planned then to attend airline school.
“She was quiet,” Mascara said.
Under her profile on the Charleroi alumni site, Palfrey said she was self-employed and in the design/import business and affiliated with the National Innocence Project. She also predicted that she would most likely “be slugging it out in the California prisons/courts in my 60s and 70s. A good way though to take my final curtain call,” she wrote in the profile that was updated in 2005.
Palfrey was upset over the declining condition of Charleroi and its crime problem when she returned home in 2004 to attend a high school reunion, she stated in an article published in August 2006 in The Valley Independent.
She then proposed forming a committee of successful Charleroi graduates to serve as a think tank for economic revitalization, something she pitched in a letter to the borough’s mayor, Frank Paterra.
“I didn’t respond to her,” Paterra said. “She was in California. I didn’t know who she was.
“She had a flowering concept of a ‘Leave it to Beaver’ neighborhood for Charleroi. As you know, we’re anything but a ‘Leave it to Beaver’ neighborhood,” Paterra added.
Apparently, few, if anyone in Charleroi, knew at the time that Palfrey had been convicted in 1991 in California for running a prostitution service. She served 18 months in jail, and was on probation when she allegedly reopened the business in Washington, D.C., according to an article published last week in The Washington Post.
Palfrey was the topic of many conversations Thursday in Charleroi, a community of fewer than 5,000 residents, as more and more reporters had begun to ask questions about her life there.
The San Francisco Chronicle dispatched a reporter to the borough Wednesday, who interviewed Paterra and Charleroi attorney Melvin Bassi, whose law firm’s telephone number appears on a short list of Palfrey’s telephone bills, which she also posted on the Internet.
“I don’t know who she talked to,” Bassi said, when questioned Thursday about the 1996 telephone bill. “Nobody here admits to talking to her.”
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.
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.