FBI 'used gangster to strongarm KKK'
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The FBI recruited a mafia enforcer to help solve the slaying of three civil rights workers by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in the 1960s, according to evidence provided in Brooklyn state court by a mobster's moll.
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Doubts have been raised across the country about the value of using aggressive tactics to crackdown on gangs.
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A huge police operation leads to the arrest of nearly 80 alleged mafiosi and brings an old gang war to light
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Federal prosecutors launched a broad legal assault on two of Chinatown's most prominent organized crime groups Friday, aiming to disrupt a new wave of mobsters who thrive in a global economy by smuggling immigrants and counterfeit goods around the world.
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A man who was storing weapons in his Brooklyn Heights apartment was also responsible for writing a rash of hateful messages aimed at Jews in his neighborhood last year, the police said.
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Â· Victim 'threatened public' with Uzi-style weaponÂ· Locals link death to 'troubled' stranger in pub
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Authorities in central Mississippi arrested a reputed former Ku Klux Klan leader on charges of killing three civil rights workers in 1964.
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Robert Henderson was not fired as a state trooper because he belonged to the Ku Klux Klan and another white supremacist group, authorities said. Instead, he was ousted because he could not uphold public trust while participating in such groups, they said.
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Operation targets power base of Calabrian underworld organisation.
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A US criminal defense lawyer helped her militant Muslim client smuggle messages out of prison that called for violence including the slaughter of Jews everywhere, a federal prosecutor said on Wednesday.
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&#151; The FBI said Friday it had completed a DNA analysis of eight-month-old evidence that could help solve the mystery of the disappearance of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa.
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The FBI was acting illegally when it used the USA Patriot Act to covertly obtain telephone, business and financial records about people living in the United States, according to an audit by the Justice Department. By the Associated Press.
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Federal agents arrested three men on gun and explosives charges Tuesday, including a white supremacist who once served time for plotting to kill Martin Luther King Jr.
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John White grew up hearing stories from family members about the racial hatred of the Deep South, including the Ku Klux Klan's torching of his grandfather's business in Alabama in the 1920s.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 7 -- U.S. and Italian law enforcement officials Thursday rounded up dozens of organized crime figures, including the top leadership of New York's notorious Gambino family, in what was described by authorities here as the biggest takedown of the Mafia in recent memory.
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The white supremacist Ku Klux Klan is on the rise in the United States and is exploiting the issue of illegal immigration to attract new members, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League.
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Dozens of people are held by US and Italian authorities targeting an alleged drug-trafficking racket.