The Corruption Of Organized Crime

Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, also known as El Chapo, was born in the rural community of La Tuna, Badiraguato, Sinaloa (Beith, 2010). Guzman Loera started his trafficking career in the 1980’s working for the powerful Miguel Angel Felix-Gallardo (U.S Department of State, 2015); he was able to quickly move up the ranks because of his expertise in air logistics (U.S DOS, 2015). Guzman Loera is now the most powerful drug trafficker in the world and the leader of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico. Thousands of killings have been attributed to Guzman Loera’s organization, along with kidnappings, and extortions. Mexican authorities arrested Guzman Loera on June 9th, 1993, for murder and drug related charges and was given a twenty year sentence in a maximum security prison in Jalisco, Mexico. However, he managed to escape from the maximum security prison on January 19, 2001 (U.S DOS, 2015). His escape from the maximum security prison in Jalisco has allowed him to

Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera (El Chapo) was born on December 25, 1954 in the community of Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico. His parents were Emilio Guzman Bustilos and Maria Consuelo Loera Perez. He grew up on his father’s cattle ranch with his two younger sisters, Amida and Bernarda, and four younger brothers, Miguel Angel, Aureliano, Arturo and Emilio. It is also known that his father was an opium farmer. Throughout Guzman’s childhood he was often beaten by his father for standing up to him. Usually protecting his younger siblings therefore he ended up taking his father’s wrath. Guzman dropped out of the third grade to work for his father, this was due to the fact that the nearest school was 60 miles away and the family could not afford to commute. With little education and few opportunities for employment in his hometown, he became to help cultivate opium for his father. His brothers also joined the family business when they came of age. They would harvest the plant by the kilos and his father would sell it to other suppliers. Guzman became tired of his father’s mismanagement, so he started growing and cultivating his own marijuana plantation with a few distant cousins. He then became financially able to support his family, while his father could not. This ended up leading to his father kicking him out due to jealousy. He then went to live with his grandfather, this is where he earned his nickname El Chapo, which means shorty. This due to the fact that he was 5’6” and

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera was born on April 4, 1957 in Sinaloa, Mexico. He was born into a poor family in a rural community. His parents are Emilio Guzman Bustillos and Maria Consuelo Loera Perez. For numerous generations, his family’s legacy lived and died in La

Considering this, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is a big time drug lord in Mexico. He was born April 4, 1957. As a child, his family was in penury. His father was an abuser and a drug dealer as well. While a teenager, he got kicked out of his home. He had to make a living on his own, so he followed his father’s

El Chapo Guzman Loera was born in a Mexican town of Badiraguato. Guzman’s childhood was shaped by his family’s poverty and abusive father a violent man who was in drug trade. He was kicked out of the family’s house and he was forced to make his own way. He eventually found himself following his father’s path by growing marijuana for small amount of cash. Guzman earned his nicked name “El Chapo” (“shorty”) by his 20s, he was supervising organization for another drug kingpin, Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo a founder of the Guadalajara cartel.

It is obvious that police officers are using their jobs as law enforcers to obtain illegal items and are shamefully betraying their police departments. The policemen who were involved in this drug smuggle were veterans. When people think of veterans, whether it be a veteran of war or a veteran of a police department, we think of someone who has devoted many years, served and been loyal to the service. People have admiration for veterans and recognize them for being committed to the service as well as being faithful to every year they have been involved in it. Now the four veteran police officers from Chicago will be spending time in prison instead of adding more years to the service of policing. Those years that the veteran police officers were dedicated to the policing is now history, they could have helped lower crime rates in Chicago, but instead they are facing prison time.

During the 19th century there were various issues that were occurring that launched an epidemic of organized crime, in the United States problems with organized crime were mainly seen in a social, political and cultural spectrum.

Guzmán was born on April 4, 1957 to a poor family in the hamlet of La Tuna near Badiraguato, where he sold oranges as a child. He had two sisters: Armida and Bernarda; and had 4 brothers: Miguel Angel, Aureliano, Arturo and Emilio. Little is known about Guzmán's early years. His father was supposedly a cattle rancher, as were most in the area; it is believed, however, that he also grew opium poppy.[2][7] Fortunately for Guzmán, his father had connections to higher-ups in the Sinaloan capital of Culiacán through a relative, Pedro Avilés Pérez, Joaquin Guzmán's uncle. Aviles was a key player in the Sinaloa drug business, seen as a pioneer for finding new methods of transporting the rural produce to urban areas for shipment by way of

The Bureau uses the Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act to expand criminal accountability for a number of “predicate offenses,” and to expand a single offense across multiple members of a criminal enterprise. Unlike typical investigations, which target a single criminal act, this multi-pronged approach allows the FBI to disrupt or dismantle the entire enterprise. The project was called Central Research Monographs and produced extensive analyses of Communist Party ideological statements designed to track the party’s changing policies and better inform agents working to recruit party members. Studies of groups like the Ku Klux Klan, the LCN, the Black Panthers and others were similarly aimed at ensuring up-to-date knowledge

The topic of this paper is gangsters in organized crime can either work alone or work with other gangsters. When people commit crimes with other criminals, their personal ties to each other become strong when there is especially trust or there could be no trust, however, those ties can become strong at some point.

There are many organized crimes happening in the world. And we should wonder how they earn money to commit those crimes. One of the biggest money source for organized crime is money laundering. Money laundering is disguising the origin of the money and making it look like a wealth traded legitimately. According to UNODC report in 2009, criminal proceeds amounted about USD 1.6 trillion dollar being laundered. To reduce organized crimes, it is important to eliminate money laundering since it is their main source of money.

Defining organized crime has proven to be a general difficulty throughout history. The belief of this paper is that definition is crucial, however, at the same time one should identify that within the scope of organized crime, definition has been quite subjective and controversial. The reason why it is important is because the exact way in which organized crime is defined goes a significant distance in determining how legislation and laws are constructed, how research studies are completed, how examinations and prosecutions are coordinated, and lastly, how interactive and connected legal assistance

What is organized crime, by definition according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), it is “an organized crime is any crime committed by a person occupying, in an established division of labor, a position designed for the commission of crimes providing that such division of labor includes at least one position for a corruptor, one position for a corruptee, and one position for an enforcer (Cressey 1969:319 Pg. 3)”. Each of the articles used within the context of this paper have this fact in common. The common link is that groups of individuals have made a commitment to engage in illegal activities as a way of life and sustainability. Another common factor is the globalization of crime. Crime

Bono, an Irish venture capitalist and philanthropist, once stated, “The biggest disease is corruption. The vaccine is transparency.” Unfortunately, Latin American and Caribbean states became infected after the end of colonialism in the 1800’s, and not a single Latin American or Caribbean state has cured itself. On 25 January 2017, Transparency International, an anti-corruption NGO, released its 2016 edition of the Corruption Perceptions Index, which revealed that the average score on the Index for the Latin American and Caribbean region (LAC) was a meager 44 out of 100. Anything below a 50 out of 100 indicates that governments are failing to tackle corruption. There are two principal reason for the rampant corruption witnessed in the LAC: the relationship between organized crime and corruption and the region’s skewered political system that creates a breeding ground for powerful oligarchies that misappropriate power and funds to satisfy their own desires. First, the correlation between organized crime and corruption is both a cycle and geographical. Organized crime cannot exist without corruption, but corruption is, in part, briberies by criminal organizations or simple businesses looking to bypass government regulations. Moreover, Central America, due to its geographical location, is a hub of drug trafficking and criminal gangs. With regard to the LAC’s crooked political system, during the region’s colonial days it was ripe with corruption, and that trend persisted after

Organized crime can be defined as a group of three or more people, not randomly formed, existing for a period of time, acting together to commit a crime punishable by at least four years in prison, for financial or material gain. (UNTOC) As this addresses, organized crime can be characterized by many factors, one of which being an organized hierarchy or group of people. Organized crime has a prime focus on rational profit – the goal is to earn money. Provision of illicit goods and services in the most common method of profiting, infiltration of legitimate businesses for illegitimate reasons also occurs. Corruption of public officials also allows for the organized crime members to develop and retain a sport of illegitimate immunity. Use of force or threats can also play a role.