From Wired comes this view of Organized Crime: The World’s Largest Social Network — it shows the many netowrks of criminality around the globe:
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February 7th, 2011 at 3:03 pm
What happened to the Unione Corse? More worrisome, I don’t see any mention of the greatest global criminal organization of all: SPECTRE.
February 7th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Next criminality we’ve witnessed in the global financial “industry,” $128B is chicken feed.
February 7th, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Uh.. Next to the . .
February 7th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
@Petey
The article linked to “estimated” transnational crime to be approximately $2 Trillion dollars per annum or 15% of the U.S. Economy (or 15% of the current U.S. Debt)
February 7th, 2011 at 3:55 pm
formerlawyer:
Checked the chart and clicked around a little, but I didn’t see that (what’s up w/Central Europe and human trafficking?). I was going by the small graphic, shown above.
February 7th, 2011 at 4:01 pm
Petey is right. How can they leave out the banksters, the biggest organized crime syndicate on the planet?
February 7th, 2011 at 4:57 pm
Many of America’s, and the world’s, greatest fortunes were built upon the basis of organizing an illegal activity, and then controlling it. Why fight the human tendency toward greed.
If you’re gonna steal, don’t go at it alone.
February 7th, 2011 at 5:33 pm
I should have added: Start a for-profit college and begin taking Federal government student aid. Currently, since you can’t sell mortgage backed securities as easily, that’s the way to make money off the government. In bunches.
February 7th, 2011 at 6:18 pm
What, no gun trade?
February 7th, 2011 at 10:52 pm
@Petey
That factoid was in the original article.
@Braden
The principle gun-running is out of the United States into Mexico.
February 8th, 2011 at 3:55 am
I don’t see blackwater and their heroin lines, or the exotic animal trade. @formerlawyer most narcos buy their arms from the Mexican military vs smuggling them across the border
February 8th, 2011 at 12:27 pm
@hondje
I have no doubt that is the case, however the article refers to “trans-national crime.” As to exotic animal products etc. the breakdown can be found at:
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_orgchart_crime/
click through the fractional colored thingey at the top right