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--- organized-crime [2021/06/17 03:12]
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 In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel spent $2,500 per month on rubber bands only to keep all their cash together. [([[https://www.businessinsider.com/pablo-escobar-and-rubber-bands-2015-9?IR=T|Business Insider]])]
+===== Los Zetas =====
+Los Zetas, probably Mexico's most ruthless gang, began as a group of Mexican Special Forces enticed away from their postings by the Gulf Cartel to serve as their "killing squad." They immediately became uncontrollable and broke into independence. [([[https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mgjft/til_that_los_zetas_arguably_mexicos_most_ruthless/|Reddit]])]
+===== Burning Cash =====
+Pablo Escobar burned almost a million dollars in cash to keep his daughter warm when they were fleeing. [([[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1224904/Colombian-druglord-Pablo-Escobar-burned-1million-cash-daughter-warm-single-night-run.html|Daily Mail]])]
+===== Errol Flynns =====
+In the 1970s, the Errol Flynns were a deadly Detroit gang renowned for their colorful manner of dress and a particular dance for their gang sign. [([[https://thestreetsdontloveyouback.ning.com/m/blogpost?id=3378072%3ABlogPost%3A7577|The Streets Don't Love You Back]])]
+===== Training Day =====
+To give the film "Training Day" a real feel, it was shot on-location in some of Los Angeles' most hazardous neighborhoods. Almost all of the gang members in the film are real-life gang members.[([[https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/6r2o7u/til_the_neonoir_crime_thriller_movie_training_day/|Reddit]])]
+===== Sinaloa =====
+Between 2000 and 2012, the United States established an agreement with Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel that permitted the group to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs into the United States in exchange for information about rival organizations. [([[https://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1?IR=T|Business Insider]])]
+===== Arnold Rothstein =====
+Arnold Rothstein, the Jewish mafia mastermind behind the Black Sox scandal, refused to identify his assailant to police, saying, "You stick to your trade." I'll stick to my guns.” [([[https://www.jewage.org/wiki/en/Article:Arnold_Rothstein_-_Biography|Jewage]])]
+===== Los Zetas Kidnapping =====
+The Los Zetas drug gang kidnapped hundreds of innocent bus passengers in Mexico in 2011 and forced them to fight to the death as gladiators. Following that, the winners were sent on suicide missions. [([[https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/06/gladiator-death-fights-mexico-drug-war/351738/|The Atlantic]])]
+===== Juan Guerra =====
+During the 1930s prohibition era, a little Mexican boy sneaked alcohol from Mexico to Texas. That child grew up to become Juan Guerra, the founder of The Gulf Cartel, one of Mexico's oldest and most powerful cartels. [([[https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/21ck1b/til_during_the_prohibition_era_in_the_1930s_a/|Reddit]])]
+===== Capturing Technicians =====
+Drug cartels in Mexico have been kidnapping technicians and forcing them to establish their own secret cell phone network. [([[https://www.npr.org/2011/12/09/143442365/mexico-busts-drug-cartels-private-phone-networks|NPR]])]
+===== Gregory Scarpa =====
+Gregory Scarpa, Sr., of the Colombo crime family, detested African-Americans so much that he refused to get blood from a blood bank after suffering from an ulcer. He contracted HIV from another Italian gangster who donated blood to Scarpa. [([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/20/nyregion/mobster-was-mole-for-fbi-tangled-life-mafia-figure-who-died-aids-exposed.html|NYTimes]])]
+{{tag>crime history people}}

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