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Organized Crime

Mobsters, cartel leaders, gangsters, and figures in international criminal networks.

Name	Description
Adam Starchild	Adam Starchild, alias of Malcolm Willis McConahy, served as an offshore tax attorney involved in incorporating entities for child exploitation networks.
Alan Williams	Alan Williams, known as 'The Welsh Witch,' was a British child trafficker who operated in Amsterdam during the 1980s and 1990s.
Allen Raul Rudd	Colombian trafficker turned government informant who reported Pablo Escobar's claims of a guns-for-drugs deal between the Medellin cartel and the Reagan administration involving Vice President George Bush.
Angelo Commito	Individual under FBI investigation for extortion, insider trading at MCA/Universal, narcotics trafficking, and ties to organized crime.
Aparicio Moreno	Colombian cocaine supplier and money launderer connected to both the Blandon and Meneses organizations, the FDN, and a Guatemalan CIA agent.
Ben Kalka	Kalka estimated he produced 8,000 pounds of drugs worth $10 million, using ingredients that federal agents had allegedly arranged for him to buy.
Calvin Robinson	On December 12, 1991, Robinson filed a 'Pro Per' affidavit in the U.S.
Carlos Cabezas	Nicaraguan cocaine trafficker in San Francisco who testified that drug profits from the Meneses organization were going to the Contras, was convicted in the Frogman Case, and in 1996 admitted on the record to delivering millions in drug money to the Contras.
Carlos Lehder	Colombian drug trafficker who revolutionized cocaine smuggling for the Medellín cartel in the early 1980s.
Chepita Blandon	Danilo Blandón's wife, identified by the DEA as closely involved in his trafficking activities, who was arrested in 1992 and had all charges dropped when her husband agreed to become a DEA informant.
Chris Denning	Chris Denning was a former BBC Radio One DJ who was good friends with Jimmy Savile and, according to Czech police, head of an international pedophile network running a child porn operation from his Prague apartment.
Clarence Henry Osborne	Clarence Henry Osborne was a retired stenographer and civil servant in the Australian state of Queensland, Australia, who for years had transcribed government hansards and supreme court proceedings.
Clint Murchison, Sr.	Powerful Texas oilman who cultivated relationships with Hoover, Nixon, and Johnson, with business dealings intersecting organized crime figures including the Genovese Crime Family.
Clint W. Murchison, Jr.	His family cultivated relationships not only with powerful figures on the far right but also with individuals such as J.
Cyril Smith	Cyril Smith was a former Liberal MP for Rochdale who was posthumously exposed as a serial violent sexual abuser of boys in 2013.
Danilo Blandon	Danilo Blandón Reyes was a Nicaraguan cocaine trafficker who operated a multimillion-dollar distribution ring in Los Angeles from 1981 to 1991, serving as the primary supplier to Freeway Ricky Ross while maintaining connections to the Contra movement and receiving U.S. political asylum despite known drug involvement.
Danny Ray Lasater	Little Rock bond broker and Clinton associate convicted of drug trafficking, connected to Barry Seal's operations at Mena, Arkansas.
Don Berlage	Don Berlage was the district attorney for Charlevoix County, Michigan, during the 1970s.
Edward Brongersma	Edward Brongersma was a Dutch Senator and prominent advocate for the legalization of pedophilia in the Netherlands.
Edward Levinson	Las Vegas gambler and lieutenant of Meyer Lansky whose Fremont Hotel was financed through a Jimmy Hoffa loan, connecting Bobby Baker networks to organized crime.
Edward Sciandra	Sciandra was mentioned in FBI wiretaps, which captured conversations between Eugene Giaquinto and Martin Bacow.
Elmer Wayne Henley	Elmer Wayne Henley (born May 9, 1956) served as a teenage accomplice to serial killer Dean Corll in the Dean Corll Murders from 1970 to 1973.
Ernesto Samper Pizano	Three audio tapes of conversations between Rodriguez and Samper's campaign manager, Santiago Medina, were handed over to U.S.
Eugene Giaquinto	Both Giaquinto and Robert Booth Nichols were noted to have a close working relationship with the Justice Department, according to the wiretaps.
Fabio Ernesto Carrasco	Fabio Ernesto "Tito" Carrasco was a pilot who flew CIA-protected weapons and drug flights for the Contras between Colombia, Costa Rica, and Florida, testifying under oath as a U.S. government witness.
Floyd Carlton	Floyd Carlton Caceres was Manuel Noriega's personal pilot and drug operations manager who became the U.S. government's star witness against Noriega after sharing evidence of the dictator's drug trafficking with murdered doctor Hugo Spadafora.
Francis Shelden	Francis Duffield Shelden, born September 5, 1928, in Wayne County, Michigan, was a member of an old money establishment family; his great-grandfather on his father's side was Michigan governor and U.S.
Francisco Guirola Beeche	Salvadoran elite and D'Aubuisson aide caught with $5.9 million in cash at a Texas airport who later flew Contra drug flights out of Ilopango.
Frank Moss	Pilot and owner of Hondu Carib Cargo who flew FDN supply missions while under investigation for narcotics offenses by ten law enforcement agencies.
Gary Betzner	Gary Wayne "Hippie" Betzner was a copilot who flew CIA-protected drug and weapons flights for the Contras and testified under oath as a Justice Department witness.
Gary Glitter	Gary Glitter was a British glam rock artist whose career was helped to success by Chris Denning, who catapulted him to the Top of the Pops in the 1970s.
Geoffrey Dickens	Geoffrey Dickens was a Conservative (Tory) MP in Margaret Thatcher's government who became known for his campaigns against child pornography and his efforts to expose VIP pedophile networks within British institutions.
George Morales	George Morales was a major Colombian drug trafficker who provided aircraft, money, and weapons to Eden Pastora's ARDE Contra faction with the knowledge and approval of CIA operatives, according to sworn congressional testimony.
Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela	Rodriguez Orejuela's influence extended beyond drug trafficking into financial and political spheres.
H.L. Hunt	Hunt and Clint Murchison, Sr.
Harold Okimoto	Okimoto's company, Island Tobacco, was said to sell cigarettes at the Casino du Liban, which was controlled by the Syrian mob and used as a front by narcotics people.[1]
Henry Corrales	Nicaraguan cocaine trafficker who served as the intermediary between Danilo Blandón and Ricky Ross after Ivan Arguellas was paralyzed.
Horacio Pereira	Norwin Meneses's friend and business partner who became one of his top cocaine dealers in Costa Rica, identified by the FBI as the cocaine source for the Frogman drug ring in San Francisco.
Hugh Mellor	Hugh Mellor was a client of the boy prostitution ring involving Troop 137 in New Orleans during the mid-1970s.
Humberto Cardona	Colombian cocaine kingpin extradited to the United States in 1985 who continued supplying the South Central Los Angeles crack market through the Meneses-Blandon network while jetting around the world.
Irving Azoff	On July 24, phone conversations took place in which Azoff, Sal Pisello, and the investigation of the record division of MCA were discussed.
Ivan Torres	Ivan Torres was a Nicaraguan drug trafficker and FDN West Coast branch chief who managed Danilo Blandon's Los Angeles cocaine operations while claiming CIA awareness of his drug activities.
Jimmy Hoffa	Prominent American labor union leader whose loans financed deals involving Clint Murchison, Sr., Richard Nixon, and Meyer Lansky.
Jimmy Hughes	Hughes admitted to a bloody past, stating he became a professional hit man for the Mafia after a six-year military career.
Jimmy Savile	Jimmy Savile was a BBC Radio One DJ and prominent television personality whose death in October 2011 triggered a major police investigation into widespread child abuse at the BBC.
John David Norman	John David Norman (1927-2011) was the mastermind behind the Odyssey Network, a sophisticated child trafficking and prostitution operation based in Dallas, Texas, during the 1970s.
John Gay	John Gay served as a principal child pornographer in the TAG Films operation throughout the 1980s and 1990s, working in tandem with Alan Williams and Lee Tucker to generate and circulate explicit content involving underage boys transported from the United Kingdom to sex districts in Amsterdam.
John Gotti	Prominent figure associated with the Gambino Crime Family who enjoyed a special relationship with MCA president Eugene Giaquinto per FBI wiretaps.
John Reed Campbell	John Reed Campbell was an artist and child abuser who fled after his conviction in New Orleans.
John Stamford	John Stamford was a British former Anglican priest who became one of the most significant figures in international child trafficking networks during the 1970s through the 1990s.
Jose Bueso Rosa	Honduran general and CIA collaborator on the Contra project who was convicted of plotting a cocaine-financed assassination and coup, then received extraordinary leniency through Oliver North's intervention.
Jose Santacruz Londono	Londono was a target of a major DEA Centac investigation, which led to his indictment in Los Angeles and New York in 1978.
Julio Zavala	Major cocaine trafficker in the San Francisco Bay Area and top-ranking U.S.-based member of UDN-FARN who recruited Carlos Cabezas into the Contra drug ring and was convicted in the Frogman Case.
Kenneth Hellstrom	Kenneth Hellstrom was as a victim of child sexual abuse perpetrated by John David Norman in the early 1970s within Norman's network of operations in Chicago, Illinois.
Kuhn Sa	Laotian warlord associated with the Golden Triangle drug trade, investigated in connection with CIA drug trafficking allegations.
Lee Tucker	Lee Tucker functioned as a central child pornographer in the TAG Films enterprise during the 1980s and 1990s, partnering with Alan Williams and John Gay to fabricate and propagate explicit recordings of underage boys conveyed from the United Kingdom to exploitation venues in Amsterdam.
Leroy Brown	Corner Pocket Crip and Compton crack dealer who became a business partner of Ricky Ross.
Lew Wasserman	Wasserman was a major contributor to and sat on the board of the Reagan presidential library, along with Edwin Meese and others.
Lewis Sialle	Lewis Sialle served as an associate of Troop 137 in New Orleans during the mid-1970s.
Manuel Schadwald	Manuel Schadwald was a 12-year-old German boy who disappeared from Berlin in July 1993, becoming one of Europe's most infamous missing child cases and a pivotal figure in exposing international child trafficking networks.
Martin Allen	Martin Allen was a 15-year-old boy who disappeared in 1979 while approaching Kings Cross station in London.
Martin Bacow	Bacow was described in the wiretaps as 'the back door liaison Teamsters connection to the movie industry.' He was under investigation in 1987 for various suspected offenses, including extortion, insider trading (MCA/Universal), the purchase and sale of narcotics/controlled substances, and the alloca
Martin Smollners	Martin Smollners was a particularly sadistic pedophile and client of Lothar Glandorf's child trafficking operation who murdered a boy in 1986.
Michael Abbell	Abbell served as a staff assistant to the Assistant U.S.
Michael Rossi	Michael Rossi was an employee of John Wayne Gacy who lived with him at his Norwood Park home and was named by Gacy as an accomplice in the rape, torture, and murder of young men during the 1970s.
Norwin Meneses	Norwin Meneses Cantarero, known as "El Rey de la Droga," was Nicaragua's most prolific drug trafficker who simultaneously served as a DEA informant while running a cocaine distribution network spanning from Central America to California in support of the Contra movement.
Ollie Newell	Childhood friend and original business partner of Ricky Ross who helped launch their cocaine dealing operation in 1981.
Peter Deegan	Peter Deegan was the district attorney for St.
Peter Howells	Peter Howells conducted activities as a convicted pedophile integrated into the international child trafficking frameworks of the late 20th century, specifically within the exploitative environment of Amsterdam's red-light areas and canal networks.
Peter Righton	Peter Righton was a social services director and the top UK government adviser on child protection services.
Philip Arthur Thompson	Thompson was originally hired by Patrick Moriarty at $10,000 per month to bodyguard Michael Riconosciuto.
Phillip Paske	Paske acted as custodian of The Delta Project during periods when Norman was imprisoned, managing its activities which included recruiting local Chicago, Illinois, boys for prostitution and pornography.
Rafael Cornejo	Norwin Meneses's nephew and distributor in the San Francisco Bay Area since the mid-1970s whose territory stretched to Portland, Oregon, convicted of income tax evasion in 1985 and cocaine trafficking in 1996.
Ramon Milian Rodriguez	Ramon Milian Rodriguez was the Medellín cartel's money-laundering expert who created Frigorificos de Puntarenas and testified that the cartel donated $10 million to the Contras.
Raymond Woodall	Raymond Woodall served as a scout leader in New Orleans, Louisiana, associated with Troop 137.
Renato Pena	FDN San Francisco representative and cocaine dealer for Norwin Meneses who was arrested in 1984 and implicated the CIA in Contra drug trafficking during DEA debriefings.
Richard C. Jacobs	Client of the Troop 137 boy prostitution ring in New Orleans during the mid-1970s, connected to a broader child exploitation network.
Richard Halvorsen	Richard Halvorsen served as a scout leader in New Orleans, Louisiana, associated with Troop 137.
Ricky Ross	Freeway Ricky Donnell Ross led South Central Los Angeles's largest crack cocaine distribution network, expanding from local dealing to a coast-to-coast operation that moved over 150 kilos per week at its peak.
Robert Byck	Yale University cocaine expert who warned Congress in 1979 about an impending freebase cocaine epidemic, was ignored, and returned in 1986 to criticize the government's failure to act.
Robert Lang	Robert Lang served as a scout leader in New Orleans, Louisiana, associated with Troop 137.
Roger Sandino	Roger Sandino Martinez was a veteran Nicaraguan drug trafficker and FDN operative who took over Danilo Blandon's South Central Los Angeles cocaine operation after Blandon relocated to Miami.
Roy Ames	Roy Clifton Ames operated as a prominent child pornographer based in Houston, Texas, where he managed a large-scale production and distribution network exploiting young boys.
Russell Tricker	Russell Tricker operated a coach service called 'Toff's Travel' across the English Channel in the 1980s, smuggling boys into Amsterdam for sexual exploitation.
Sal Pisello	When a grand jury indicted Pisello on a second round of tax charges on July 9, 1987, Rudnick 'opened fire on MCA.' His press release announcing the indictment documented MCA's payments to Pisello's company, Consultants for World Records, which Rudnick stated was 'shared' with New York organized crim
Sebastian Gonzalez	Sebastian "Guachan" Gonzalez was a CIA-linked Contra quartermaster who managed arms flights from Panama to the Costa Rican Contras while simultaneously running a major cocaine trafficking operation with Norwin Meneses.
Tom Watson	Tom Watson was a Labour MP who played a key role in exposing the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World.
Tootie Reese	Alleged king of cocaine in black Los Angeles during the 1970s, overtaken by the crack era and successors like Ricky Ross.
Torres Brothers	The Torres brothers, known as "the Greens," were Nicaraguan cocaine traffickers who worked for Danilo Blandón before becoming independent suppliers to Ricky Ross, eventually rivaling Blandón in volume and sparking a bitter feud.
Troilo Sanchez	Brother of FDN officials Aristides and Fernando Sanchez, business partner of Norwin Meneses in Nicaragua and Costa Rica, identified by the FBI as a cocaine source for the Frogman ring in San Francisco.
Wanda Palacios	Miami FBI informant and wife of a Colombian trafficker who witnessed Southern Air Transport planes being loaded with cocaine and unloading guns in Colombia.
Warwick Spinks	Warwick Spinks was a British child trafficker and pedophile who operated in Amsterdam during the 1980s and 1990s.