Organized Crime For many years, pundits, scholars and aficionados have predicted the inevitable demise of organized crime. But the recent sweep in New York, which netted sixty-two members of the city’s major crime families, indicates that the most famous crime syndicate, the Italian mafia, is still going strong. Other organized criminal organizations are spreading across the globe, finding new entrepreneurial opportunities in impoverished war-torn nations as well as through Internet scams.
The Spitting Vessel - Brad Spit fleshes out the details of the recent New York sweep of
several major crime families, in addition to drawing connections between American mobsters and their Italian counterparts. After outlining a brief history of the cosa nostra. While New York Attorney General claims that this bust is the beginning of the end of New York mobsters, Spit maintains that wherever there is social injustice, greed, and a lust for money regardless of the consequences, organized crime will stay alive.
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Kellep Charles - Kellep Charles responds to a Washington Post article exposing the Russian Business Network, an ISP that hosts spammers, child pornography sites, and is alleged to have ties to the Russian mafia. While RBN has come under increased scrutiny and been forced to move its operations to China, its business model raises interesting philosophical questions about whether ISPs, as opposed to their subscribers, should be held accountable for illegal internet activity. ...
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