>> the mexican mafia has a code.hey don't assault the officers. >> they don't want any attention brought upon them. if one of their members assaults staff, they already know that now staff is going to start watching them more closely, which is what they don't want. >> because inmate rubio broke that code, he's going to have to pay a penalty. that penalty could be as severe as a beating. it could be anything beyond that. >> rubio, however, denies being a member of the gang. >> they say i affiliate with the mexican mafia. and i don't. >> he's being deceptive. rubio has signed a gang acknowledgment form identifying himself as a member of the mexican mafia. it's not uncommon for these guys to deny it to people who he thinks doesn't know his history. but in the end we do have all of our paperwork intact. >> officer rodriguez, part of the jail's gang intelligence division, heads to rubio's cell to discuss the situation. if rubio is willing to refute the mexican mafia, he can be placed in a protective custody housing unit f

his family is and ninety eight the colombian version of the mafia. his father and uncle are in prison for life and you sit in his downtime and self. the rhythm of the band i was always facing the temptation of going down the wrong path is often just to hear you but i'm not a bad person. he wants to graduate from high school in june it's extremely rare for someone from a mafia family to me a life of crime. need to comprehend is the base of operations for thin on detail europe's most powerful crime syndicate. the members of its clients had little chance of going legit. especially if they've already conduct criminal record. a judge ruled. it is determined to change that. he skated majors juvenile court for two years now. she knew if they are the descendants appearing before me are often the sons or brothers of people i can take to twenty years ago we're dealing with actual dynasties here were criminal careers are passed from father to son. tee hee. his approach is to order a delinquent or at least teenager to be removed from their mafia families and sen

her. >> the mexican mafia member is her boyfriend. but she says she asked few questions about his gang activity. >> i've heard stuff i don't want to do know, seen stuff i don't want to know. i was like, you hang around with me, don't bring it to me. he would just come home with money. i mean, i had a clue, not a rocket scientist to figure that out. >> perales says the orejone inmate who wrote to her is a pen pal, met him through a girlfriend after her boyfriend stopped writing her. said you don't got nothing do, your boyfriend ain't writing you, i was like, i guess, somebody just to make my time pass quicker, i was like all right. >> at this opponent i don't think the men are aware they're communicating to the same person. it is possible but i don't think they're aware of it. once they find out, the only person that could be punished is the female receiving the two letters, we have to walk on this with kid gloves. >> in addition to perales' safety, officer rodriguez has a new concern, the last letter written by her orejone pen pal was

it doesn't matter, if they're ex-mexican mafia members.all of them the same way. >> now, i talk about her. it just hurts me. you know. >> it hurts you. it is good to talk about it though. you let your, your feelings, your emotions out. it is better, you know, than to leave them inside you where they will hurt you more. >> when i see them, a see a reflection of myself. eventually they will be mere in years to come. at lest i know that i gave them some advice that nobody gave me when i went to prison. >> maybe with this tragedy in the future, you can make better decisions, you know, regarding your children, or what have you. you get to a point where you have got to make a decision, is this the type of life i want? or do i want to stay out there and do something for my family, you know. >> for some it can be too late for meaningful change. but the jail has seen a trend toward younger inmates who request refuge in the ex-gang unit. steven is a new arrival. he joined a branch of the mexican mafia on the streets at age 17. >> i have actually nev

mafia is known as m.a., la m.a. they will be recognized by the eme, which is the spanish letter "m." >> the mexican mafia was born in california prisons in the mid-1950s. its members, who swear allegiance for life, are mostly mexican-americans from southern california. among gangs, the mexican mafia is considered the most disciplined and powerful within the california prison system. >> if you're an active gang member or an active hispanic within the group, you're expected to be up at 6:00 in the morning when they go to the exercise yard together. they do exercises together in cadence. that's one of the rules. you have to. you don't have a choice. you have to participate. what they're told to do is expect to have a fight anytime the cell doors open, with their weapons readily available. if you notice when a cell door opens, whatever inmate's inside that cell will walk to the cell door immediately to see why the door's open. they'll look up and down the tier to see if there's any enemies on the tier, and if there is,

sochi could never be a mafia city because this is a city where people come to relax. >> reporter: theic committee to choose sochi was made seven years ago. there's no doubt that the personal appearance by russian president vladimir putin was a big factor. he spoke in english, something he almost never does in public. >> sochi's olympic bid has already brought its benefits. >> reporter: but that's not the whole story of why putin and the russians won the day. >> awarded to the city of sochi. >> reporter: an abc news investigation found that behind the scenes, this mystery man was directly involved in helping russia get the needed olympic votes. he says he's just a businessman, a vice president of what's known as the olympic council of asia. he has been publicly thanked by the russian olympic committee for his single minded work in delivering the votes of some asian countries for sochi, without which it would have been hard for sochi to count on the victory. but we discovered he is much more than just another businessman with friends on the olympic committee. >> he is one of the four or

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you just can't go after one part of the mafia you have to go after the mafia as a racket it's all it's a racketeering well when you mention stew of course that makes me think this mexican drug cartels h.s.b.c. does business with and they would melt people down into a stew and us doing business with them we've turned ourselves in to do we need to declare economic freedom solver and t. financial freedom and sovereignty from these banks to worry about what i have sitting on a turtle like on that show breaking bad that would be a nice american flag that's a lot more than the stupid stars and stripes i want out of the nobody believes that nonsense any more right a time stacey we must move on thank you stay away from turtles and heads ok stay tuned for the second half a whole lot more. with . a. very hard to believe. that. we. that hurt rick perry no place. to play. look if cliff. if if if if. if if. the people. playing comes in the future. is here so we fix the roads focus on new technology. on this moon show no parties complete without school shootings. and we learn about the next in kill

you just can't go after one part of the mafia you have to go after the mafia as a racket it's all it's a racketeering well when you mention stew of course it makes me think this mexican drug cartels h.s.b.c. does business with and they would melt people down into a stew and doing business with them we've turned ourselves in to do we need to declare economic freedom sovereignty financial freedom and sovereignty from these banks to worry about it sitting on a turtle like on that show breaking bad that would be a nice american flag that's a lot more than the stupid stars and stripes i want out of the nobody believes that nonsense any more time stacey we must move on thank you stay away from turtles and heads ok stay tuned for the second hole more. the united states is a very good example here because in earlier years they had a pretty strong genuine democracy that by now i would argue has degenerated into a system where money and power mattered much and did a dead end of them. jordan since the founding fathers of the united states would constantly say that they were not trying to instill

you just can't go after one part of the mafia you have to go after the mafia as a racket it's all it's a racketeering well when you mention stew of course it makes me think this mexican drug cartels h.s.b.c. does business with and they would melt people down into a stew and us doing business with them we've turned ourselves into stew we need to declare economic freedom sovereignty financial freedom and sovereignty from these banks to worry about what i have sitting on a turtle like on that show breaking bad that would be a nice american flag that's a lot more than the stupid stars and stripes i want out of the nobody believes that nonsense any more right a time stacey we must move on thank you stay away from turtles and heads ok stay tuned for the second half a whole lot more. to see good leverage or to curb we was able to build the world's most sophisticated group which owns the league doesn't give a dollar amount anything to mission to teach creation why it should care about you . and. this is why you should care only. tanya. well tell me how you are my little grandson. i know. i don

. >> anybody that thinks that a prison gang like the mexican mafia can't reach out and touch anybodyng that way because they can. they can reach out and touch anybody they want. >> most often it is about smuggling drugs, most often heroin, methamphetamines and marijuana into corcoran. >> this would be a state boot. take the bottom of the heel here and actually cut and remove the heel and carve out an area in this section here in order to put the narcotics underneath the heel. this is actually -- we opened up the packaging of it. we have marijuana on this side, marijuana in the center. the way it's wrapped there is so the inmate could actually insert it into his body cavity and traffic it from the visiting room into his housing unit area where it's sold. >> even a simple greeting card can be a vehicle for transporting drugs. >> in this case, the peacock here, the bird, the parrot was soaked in methamphetamines and it's mailed in. once it's mailed in, the inmate will cut up pieces of the picture and actually sell it. >> narcotics inside prison can be sold for almost 30 times their stre

. >> stephen: oh, dow not want to mix with the french mafia.ou forever in an invisible box. but folks, folks, this brushed off the concern assuring the public he was always safe. >> my security is guaranteed everywhere and at all times. when it's private it's a lighter protection but everywhere i'm protected. >> stephen: see, he had plenty of protection. >> new reports of mistress of the french president is pregnant. >> stephen: okay, maybe a little more protection would have been nice. now-- (cheers and applause) >> stephen: now remember remember restill hasn't broken up with the first mistress here who i got to say is not taking this well. >> his long-term partner france's first lady valerie in hospital said to be suffering the blues what the french call a-- a sleep cure in by she is kept sedated until she feels better. >> stephen: yes. just kept sedated until she feels better. or until the leaches balance her humor. there is your socialized medicine, folks. all of this has compromised holland's trip to the united states. >> today francois ho

why do you think this guy would identify you as a member of the mexican mafia? >> who is he? >> it doesn't matter who he is. why would he say that? >> to put you on lockdown. >> why would he want to do that to you? why does somebody want to get rid of you? >> i don't know. i don't have no response to that. . >> you got in a fight with two guys, didn't you? or one guy? what was that about? >> money. >> talking about drugs here? know, talking about money he owed me. >> how much did he owe you? >> 50e. >> for what? >> for fixing his car. >> when they did the investigation, you told them it was borber. >> it was beer and the car. >> only one person has inconsistent stories that. 's a liar. i mean, we're both grown men here. there's no beating around the bush. you've been lying in the past. why, on earth, would i believe anything you tell me at this point. so here's what i'm seeing. you're going to fight as a member in the population. you talk like a duck, you walk like a duck, don't get mad at me if i think you're a duck. >> narrator: still, without concrete proof of sanchez's ga

the russian mafia and that the case is from the bay area. calaveras county sheriff deputy found a decomposing body they believe had broken free of weights floating on the surface of the lake. for almost five months, calaveras officials tried unsuccessfully to identify the body. sources tell us that about three weeks ago, fbi agents from los angeles showed up and told local officials they had obtained information that lakes in the area might be dumping sites for organized crimes. locals told authorities about the bodies. a death certificate filed just last week identifies the dead man at myer muskatell, 68, a real estate developer. muskatell had been missing just seven days with his body hands bound was found floating in the lake. that's the same day los angeles police released this press statement. announcing a $54,000 reward from his family for information that would help find him. unaware he had already been found. sources tell me the fbi has dental x-rays of people they believe may be the victims recovered this week. they also say the bod

the italian mafia literally was organized by italian politicians. so maybe that tells you something. but let me talk to you about what do i mean about functioning in this manner? what do i mean about extortion? by extortion i don't mean the things you usually see in mafia films. not talking about people being violent physically or holding guns or threatening. the example i would give of the sort of extortion i'm talking about is image that comes from urban america, about 20 years ago, and probably older individuals here, like myself, will remember this, perhaps the younger students won't, but there used to be a plague called the squeegee men. these were guys in new york and other cities would wait at stoplights and you'd pull up with your car and they'd stand in front of your car and have a siegeie and have a one in one hand and a brick in the other. shay said, can i wash your window? they never said if you didn't bay the guy, he was going to smash a brick through your windshield. so it pretty soon became clear that people would pay these guys and i

an intelligence agency report made links between mafia bosses and politicians has been under lock and key for years under orders of the former government. many marijuana farmers say the government is complicit in trying to hush things up. >> if the government had wanted to stop the drug production, it would have done so. >> she expects demand for marijuana to rise. she has had a bumper harvest this year, like other farmers here. they are determined to defend that crop 24 hours a day by any means necessary. we were wary of overstaying our welcome. the locals are determined to defend what is one of albania's most flourishing businesses. >> people on the margins ofpsocd compassion from others, but we overlook their needs all too often. christmas is different. for many of us, it is also a time to practice charity, but there's one person here in brussels who does not wait for christmas to come around before he opens his doors to homeless people. >> a cup of coffee, a piece of bread. he says you need nothing more than that to yield human, and equal among equals. he is actually homeless with

as ten million tonnes of toxic waste suffering burns and buried here in the last twenty years by a mafia gangs. the world health organization says that sometimes there are linked to exposure to the waist. local people are increasingly concerned. tomorrow is the government's clean those up soon it was in london soon you'll know them everyday we see people who get sick says this month. we don't know if this is the place of life and all its low as the blue in the of the verses of the nori seaweed our hearts we are destroyed to channel whose chairman is incompatible with us till we move from painted it from its aspiration to something that could bring a change to the situation the mafia whistleblower told authorities about the dangerous dumping years ago to put the information was to cut secret till now the government is considering deploying the onli to help. eleven more and more steady and migrants are entering europe through bulgaria popping across the border with turkey without while they coming and what treatment to these asylum seekers expect in the huge tourist eight deaths reported o

ticket holder in areas just to prawns and democracy the loom five reported members of the new york mafia family have been arrested and charged with crimes including racketeering murder and the long unsolved nineteen seventy lufthansa heist at jfk international airport the arrested were named as vincent vinny is sorrow and roll style. john bond and trey thomas tommy d d fiore and sean was newer dunno along with the airport i just made famous in the nineteen nineties crime film goodfellas the man from me but now no mafia family also committed acts of extortion and arson according to court papers unsealed in new york the arrests followed the discovery by the fbi of human remains at a new york property tight jeans continue the agenda for last summer for the suspected mastermind of the lufthansa heist and died in prison in nineteen ninety six while serving time for the murder of a drug dealer. actor robert de niro plays a character based on her in goodfellas. vincent sorrow identified as one of the leaders of the bin on the game was charged with the theft of five million us dollars in cash an

. >> are you in the mafia? >> am i in the what? >> and the wife who put up with archie. ♪ those were the days >>> good evening on this new year's eve and thanks for joining us and beginning your countdown right here with abc, diane at home counting down, too. tonight millions of americans ushering the new year while ushering the arctic cold, too. this is new york city's times square, the party already starting an estimated 1 million people with hats and glasses ready to welcome in the new year. this evening overlooking it all, the empire state building in new york with its own dazzling light display to mark the new year. to a different side of the season, duluth, minnesota, the wind chill making it feel like 40 below, the water warmer than the air above it. before heading out, so many clearing off the heavy snow. get ready, the first big storm of 2014 is already brewing. abc meteorologist ginger zee on the weather and the celebration tonight. she's live tonight in the middle of it all. she couldn't hide from us, not even in that cr

those who are match -- mafia afish nad doughs. there's a level of brutality that is just terrible. okay. all right. you can never -- you know, as a writer, by the way, people say like i'm being interviewed. peter, don't you get captured by this? don't you get lost in who they are? and the term moral capture what a federal prosecutor later used to describe what he thought happened. he would wear pinky ring and dress like a wise guy. it every other word in the have lab was an f word. i had to get with them and be like them to convince them to trust me. after a certain point, the stockholm syndrome happens. you going potentially cross the line. as a journalist, as fascinated as i am every day -- think of the scene in good fellows. he went after john gotty and put a -- had a guy put if bomb in the guy -- frankee heart and he wasn't there. franky died and died blown to bits. okay. and so now the contract out on, anthony. and about three young guys came and shot at one day. he was eating an ice cream cone. but he wanted to know right away. wroi a pilot for "missing persons." i was a show

. >> fairly tangled web, right, that the kennedys had weaved at that point whether there were mafia connections and questions about cuba and the soviets that feel still unsettled. >> that's right. there were possible players. it's not like this guy had no connections. he may have had connections to people, but he may still have acted alone. it's something i know i'll never answer in my lifetime. >> we'll take a quick break and be back with more from doris kerns in a moment. >>> we're back with more from doris kerns good win who is out with a new book. i want to ask about your craftsmanship at this stage of your career. because you've kbot. to be thinking a little bit differently. for people now they think of the lincoln book, but they think about the film. so these have become iconic. already early on into this book, i see scenes because of how you are writing. have you changed as you kind of walked back through history and created and analyzed it and distill it for people? do you think sinmatically? >> it's a subtle thing if it happens, but i'm aware having to worked to some extent reading the

coming up right here on "bloomberg west," an original member of the paypal mafia will tell us why hes carl icon's plan to spin off paypal from ebay actually makes a lot of sense. ♪ >> welcome to the early edition of "bloomberg west." i'm emily chang. carl icahn says he is ready for a proxy fight over ebay. he expects the company to resist his proposal that he spin off the paypal unit. our next guest is an original member of the paypal mafia and thinks the proposal may make a lot of sense. in studio. here what do you think of this idea? >> this is an idea we have been talking about for years. you can see wall street having the same conversation. i think this is driven by reality. ebay,e sold paypal to ebay transactions were two thirds or more of paypal. today they are one third or less of paypal's volume. and decreasing rapidly. the non-ebay portion is growing much, much faster than the ebay portion. question ofis not a if but when. its trendlinesat keep going the way they're will, ebay transactions eventually be a single digit percentage of volume. it is always hard to specify the be

the do you have the kilty yeah i have to find them because you pave the mafia to enter the territory. you can go alone. and you need to pay to pass through. many times they use us as bait because they have to smuggle the drugs over the border. they say that they will take us there so we can confuse the police and then they don't care much about bringing the human cargo which is what we are to the other side and they are only interested in the transport of the drugs and you also young how do you manage to contact the quota to cross the border given that it isn't easy you don't look for them anymore it's them that find you and they find you they see you with a backpack and say what are you doing i'll take you they'll teach you and say if you come with me you'll only walk two or three days and once you're there it's between five and ten days and you can only accept it when you arrive there did you pay. five thousand. dollars. the cop handed me over to the sheriff i didn't have the documents i was deported sheriff arpaio writes yes i can do anything are they bastards there that man has no

them people to me are the same people as me in a mexican mafia. lot of people live in fear with them. me personally i never did. they're something i kind of grew up with. >> jeremy bowles is basically the ultimate chameleon. he truly is capable of doing just about anything, including killing people >> narrator: bowles has never been charged with murder. he says gang violence has been a significant part of his past. >> how many people have you killed? >> oh, man, i'd like to keep that to myself. enough that maybe i shouldn't be saying this on camera, but a lot. i don't believe in drive byes. i believe on knocking on people's door, anybody can pull a gun. you can look the other way, you wake up the next day, you never seen nothing. to actually get up in somebody's face to do something with them, once you do it once, you can do it for the rest of your life. >> jeremy bowles is a very sophisticated, very experienced, very dangerous individual. jeremy bowles is ever evolving. >> narrator: and a short time later, bowles would see an evolution in his cha

. >> funcionarios de seguridad y analistas consideran que las pandillas se consideran en mafias que quierenización criminal en poder político real en el país, y eso no lo podemos permitir como autoridades >> operativos policiales permanentes no logran contener una escalada de la violencia pandillera >> le dispararon directamente al joven >> el fin de semana fue particularmente violento, los pandilleros cometieron homicidios, y atacaron un autobús con feligreses de una iglesia >> las pandillas intensifican los ataques y enveiar un mensaje para ganar posiciones >> buscan cambiar las autoridades para fortalecer su poder criminal, salvador castellanos, univisión. >> el presidente panameño ricardo martinelli tuvo conversaciones con empresarios españoles por la expansión del canal de panama, dieron un plazo de 21 días para que paguen un ecedente de costo relacionado con la construcción de un tercer conjunto de exclusas >> muestra el preciso momento, este video, en que una mujer es corneada, en una plaza de costa rica y varias cámaras captaron , la mujer-. >> el comandante de un grpo deel gobierno

he helps workers ex employed by the japanese mafia, criminals meshed in right ring politics who target those in low skilled okay payings. many of the gangs supply fukushima with the lab orers to decontaminate. >> to quickly gather 5,000 decontamination workers in fuk shim a. you need to do it the quick way. using them. >> what do the workers tell you about the conditions that they're dealing with in. >> from the decontamination workers, i often hear about money problems. danger pay. >> the government promises danger pay for those who are exposed to radiation while cleaning up the hundreds of square miles of contaminated countryside. that promise is used to lure them to fukushima. that brought this worker to fukushima city. >> the government says it will may 100 a day, but i initially got 20. the contractors and subcontractors took the remaining 80. >>> when sato complained, he was told that his contract had changed. that now he owed money for food and lodging. >> did they have anything to do with your company? >> the akuzo were involved. and i found out later that the company president

desciende, el negocio sigue siendo rentable, entonces la pregunta que se hacen muchos es quÉ poderosa mafia. detrÁs del bronx están los paramilitares desmovilizados. >> un grupo armado que ha tomado el control, posterior a la desapariciÓn de las auc, tiene que ver con eso, gran parte de las personas que estaban con el tema de las autodefensas pues encontraron un negocio muy bueno. >> aunque la policÍa ha logrado poner tras las rejas algunos de los lÍderes paramilitares, y de vez en cuando, con un amplio despliegue de fuerzas, entran en el bronx, sigue siendo el mayor centro de trÁfico de armas y drogas en colombia y nadie parece tener soluciÓn para este problema. >> el bronx es una bomba de tiempo que puede estallar en cualquier momento, sigue sin control, y podrÍan aumentar en la ciudad los s+ ♪ ♪ >> le sale al paso a guillermo dÁvila, la mujer que asegura que su hijo es del famoso cantante venezolano, eso tras las declaraciones exclusivas que ofreciÓ ayer en "primer impacto", desde perÚ, ampliamos. >> fue el producto de un accidente. >> quÉ bajo. >> asÍ reaccionÓ jessica al escuchar las d

. >> esto e sus una mafia. >> hugo chÁvez calificÓ como u un cancel el sistema carcelario y por eso creÓiscotecas en las carcel cÁrceles siempre han exist o existido. >> stestas imÁgenes revelean l e ley tras las rejas. >> cuando vemos una graÁfica d e eun preso y un arma con eÉl d e pedir a otro que ponga la mano para cortarle un dedo, kond¿dÓ e estÁn los guaridias?. >> desde caracas, telemundo. >> ho yy tomÓ posicion el nue p pdresidente de honduras, tambiÉ estuvo el princÍncipe de asturi manifestantes llevaron a cabo i disturbios, quemaron llanattas alegando fraudes electorales. >> se avecinan cambios para las etiquetas de aliimentos, es que mcuchuchos intenta n leer etiq pero salen mÁs confundidos, e devamos con los detalles para b saber los cambios que expertos p piden por aÑos. >> marisela carmona dice que no entendÍa la informaciÓn de las e etiquetas d¿de lode los produc salen en el mercado. >> nosotros los hispanos quer querem queremos llenarnos y comer y comer y no sabemos quÉ comemos, por eso que hoy hay tanta dia a diabetes y colesterol, yo era n una de ellas. >> la fda introd

. >> are you in the mafia?