Criminal Organizations: Mau Maus, Puro Tango Blast, Ghost Shadows, Snakehead, October Lewis, Tap Boyz, Stidda, Triston Jay Amero, Sio Sam Ong

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Mau Maus, Puro Tango Blast, Ghost Shadows, Snakehead, October Lewis, Tap Boyz, Stidda, Triston Jay Amero, Sio Sam Ong, D-Company, Kala Kaccha Gang, Binh Xuyen, Baxter Street Dudes, Fff, Estonian Mafia, Green Gang, Collaborations Between the United States Government and Italian Mafia, Iraultza, Cragg Vale Coiners, Vvt, Big Circle Gang, Raskol Gangs, Thieves in Black, Four Seas, Razor Gang, Potato Bag Gang, Aizukotetsu-Kai, Flying Dragons, the Yiddishers, Bamboo Union, Bennett Funding Group, Toa-Kai, Varrio Nuevo Estrada, Elephant and Castle Mob, Zarate Willka Armed Forces of Liberation, Westmob, Barriox13, Rockers Mc, Acadmie Parisienne Des Inventeurs, Hizb-E-Abu Omar, Yamano-Kai, D.c. Blacks, Takumi-Gumi, Otari Totochiya, Red Wall Gang, Obtshak, Asano-Gumi, Taishu-Kai, Los Quesitos. Excerpt: Acadmie Parisienne des Inventeurs Industriels et Exposants was a scam run by one E. Boettcher in Paris, France, in the 1890s. He would write to patent holders in various European countries (including at least Britain, Norway, and Germany) to inform them that they had been considered for the title of honorary and awarded corresponding member of the (so-called) academy and would receive a diploma and gold medal, provided they posted 30 francs for the diploma and 15 francs for the medal, plus 2 francs postage and 12 francs for a pair of clichs. Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at The Fifth Aizukotetsu-kai (, Godaime Aizukotetsu-kai ? ) (sometimes written Aizu-Kotetsukai or Aizu Kotetsu-kai ), based in Kyoto, is Japan 's sixth-largest yakuza organization. Its name comes from the Aizu region, "Kotetsu," a type of Japanese sword, and the suffix "-kai," or society. Rather than a stand-alone gang, the Aizukotetsu-kai is a federation of approximately 100 of Kyot...