20 Suspects Detained in Stock Market Manipulation Operation

Istanbul’s financial police broke up an organized crime gang accused of money laundering and market manipulation, the Turkish channel NTV reported.

Turkish Capital Market Committee experts, acting on tips that there were manipulation attempts at the Istanbul Stock Exchange market, detected irregularities in the shares of five companies.

Having been informed about the irregularities, financial police teams detained 20 suspects in simultaneous operations.

The investigation into the issue in still underway.

N.Y. man is accused of doing crime family’s South Florida ‘dirty work’

Before Clement Santoro put a gun to a man's head, broke his fingers and bloodied his nose, the accused mob associate had dinner with other members of the Genovese organized crime syndicate at a West Palm Beach restaurant called -- fittingly -- Soprano's, a prosecutor said Monday.

According to state records, the restaurant, named after the HBO television drama about a New Jersey crime family, is owned by Renaldi Ruggiero of Palm Beach Gardens, the man prosecutors say ran South Florida operations for the Genovese family.

Drug mafia's infiltration of military grows clearer

The killing of 10 Colombian policemen by army soldiers illustrates the depths to which the drug mafia may have penetrated the military.

BOGOTA - It was a set of killings like few others in Colombia's long and violent history.

Many of the 11 dead were members of an elite police unit raiding a drug lord's lair. The shooters were army soldiers allegedly on the payroll of the accused trafficker, Diego Montoya, who is next to Osama Bin Laden on the FBI's most wanted list.

The military called it a ''friendly fire'' incident. But the attorney general said it was a ''massacre,'' and when a military tribunal tried to handle the case, his office took over the case in a rare show of legal muscle.

Indeed, the scandal surrounding the death of 10 members of the judicial police -- known as DIJIN, its Spanish acronym -- and an informant in early June has not just damaged the reputation of the army and the government, but raised questions over traffickers' infiltration of the government at a time when Colombia is seeking continued U.S. aid for the fight against illicit drugs.

Appeals court upholds Detroit Mafia figure's sentence

DETROIT A federal appeals court upheld the 71-month prison sentence given to a man described by the government as the Detroit Mafia's one-time underboss.

Seventy-eight-year-old Anthony Zerilli contends that U-S District Judge Lawrence Zatkoff failed to properly consider his advanced age and poor health when sentencing him in an extortion case.

Judge overturns convictions of NY "Mafia cops"

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday overturned the racketeering convictions of two former New York police detectives accused of murdering for the Mafia, citing the statute of limitations.

The judge denounced retired detectives Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa as "heinous criminals" but said federal prosecutors failed to show their conspiracy continued up until five years before the charges were brought.

The men were each sentenced to life in prison following their three-week trial in March for committing eight murders for the Luchese crime family from 1986 to 1990.

Their lawyers appealed their convictions after U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein expressed concern throughout the case about the "thin connection" between earlier and later crimes contained within their racketeering conspiracy charges.