Feds reportedly look at mob ties to Franco
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The baseball commissioner&#39;s office will wait until after a government investigation to examine whether there has been a relationship between New York Mets reliever John Franco and alleged mobsters.
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The Yankees may try to take action against Jason Giambi in the wake of a damaging report that he illegally used steroids.
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Madrid says two Islamic men arrested in the Netherlands are linked to a terror suspect held in Spain, the Spanish news agency EFE reported Friday.
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Riggs Bank investigators have found evidence of possible criminal activities by some former employees who managed the accounts of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and have referred their findings to federal prosecutors, according to several sources.
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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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Chicago Tribune - The arrest of President Vicente Fox's travel coordinator, Nahum Acosta Lugo, has led to a deeper investigation into whether drug traffickers have infiltrated the Mexican president's office.
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A member of the Bonanno crime family said that John Franco, the Mets' pitcher, gave free tickets to him and other crime family members in the early 1990's.
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PALERMO, Sicily  - A large anti-Mafia operation involving arrests in Italy and the United States was under way on Thursday, judicial sources in Sicily said.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into a spate of bomb threats phoned in to businesses that resulted in employeesâ wiring thousands of dollars overseas.
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MADRID - A spokesperson claiming to be from the Basque separatist group ETA issued warnings before at least six small explosions went off around Spain Monday.
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Spanish police arrested three people on Saturday for suspected links to the armed Basque separatist group ETA, officials said.
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Â· Foreign Office among departments hit Â· Military involvement suspected
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There is a link between "honour killings" and extremist groups abroad, a  BBC investigation is told.
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A resurgent Red Brigade group smashed by police earlier this week had links to organised crime, Interior Minister Antonio Amato told parliament Wednesday.Comment
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A suspected Islamist linked to the Madrid train bombings on March 11 says Spain was targeted because of its support for the United States in Iraq, local media reported on Friday.
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An Italian police officer is due in court  to answer charges that he had links with the Mafia.
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Three Algerians who were considered close to the suspected ringleader of the Madrid train bombings are being questioned about an alleged suicide plot to blow up Spain's National Court, officials said yesterday.