Authors: Hitha Prabhakar
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),
240
license plate recognition software,
202-203
Llorens, Gilbert,
187
Looney, Robert E.,
225-227
Los Angeles Area Organized Retail Crimes Association (LAAORCA),
70-72
Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD),
68-72
Loss Prevention Research Council,
49
Loyd, Ed,
194
LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam),
240
Luxottica Retail,
216
Luxury Institute,
32
LVMH,
32
Lynch, Stephen F.,
142
M
M-18,
22
Madoff, Bernie,
95
Maktab al-Khidamat,
135
Malik, Abdul,
62
Malik, Rehman,
171
Mancuso, Salvatore,
195
Mangones, Jose Gregorio,
196
Manson, Charles,
163
Mansur family,
187
Mara Salvatrucha.
See
MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha)
Maras.
See
cross-border gangs
Maria (booster),
60
,
77-80
,
97-98
Markaz-e-Dawa Irshad,
171
Markaz-ud-Dawa-wal-Irshad,
172
Marra, Kenneth,
194
Martel, Bill,
10
Masood, Talat,
171
Mastermind Tobacco Company,
190
material support,
239-241
matricula consulars,
22
Medellin drug cartel,
151
Mehsud, Baitullah,
9-10
MEK (Mujahadeen-e-Khalq),
80
Merritt, Randy,
137
Mervyns,
64
Mexican Zetas,
152-155
Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks
(Napoleoni),
220
Mohamed, Abderahman,
169
Mundial (World) Engineering and Construction,
123
,
135
money brokers,
187
money laundering,
25-27
,
139-141
,
185-188
banking regulations and,
145-150
Black Market Peso Exchange,
152-155
with cigarette smuggling,
183-192
credit card fraud,
231-234
hawalas,
142-144
,
219-221
,
224-227
RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act),
234-235-238
on Second Life,
230
South American, Mexican, and African connection,
155-157
stored value cards,
227-231
Money Laundering Control Act,
150
Monnier, Patrick,
187
Monograph on Terrorist Financing
,
144
Monsoor, Ahmed,
165-166
Moore, Michael,
70
Morel family,
119
Moreno, Marin,
73
Morton, Jesse.
See
Younous Abdullah Mohammed
mosques, funding of terrorist organizations,
168-169
motor vehicle theft,
113-115
Moynihan, John,
122
MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha),
21-25
,
60
,
152
Muddu, Prashant,
224
Mueller, Robert,
45
Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK),
80
Mullah Minbullah,
18
Murillo, Diego Fernando,
195
Murphy, Sean,
192
Muslim charities
charitable donation loopholes,
173-175
funding of terrorist organizations,
169-172
online solicitation of donations,
175
U.S. fundraising for,
172-173
USAID Antiterrorism Vetting Procedures,
175-177
Muslim extremism.
See also
terrorist organizations
domestic terrorism,
17-19
recruitment of prison inmates,
19-21
in U.S.,
160-165
Mutschke, Ralf,
191
Myrick, Sue,
128
N
NADRA (National Database and Registration Authority),
225
National Cargo Theft Task Force,
67
National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA),
225
National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB),
83
,
154
The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty,
181
National Retail Federation (NRF),
54
,
88
,
205
National Retail Security Survey (NRSS),
207
Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute,
210
The New Tribes Mission Group,
194
NICB (National Insurance Crime Bureau),
83
,
154
Nixon, Richard,
67
Nkunda, Laurent,
190
NRF (Nationals Retail Federation),
54
,
88
,
205
NRSS (National Retail Security Survey),
207
O
Obama, Barack,
243
OCRs (organized crime rings),
24
online sales of pirated/counterfeit merchandise,
40-42
.
See also
e-fencing
Operation Blackbird,
60
Operation Greenquest,
60
Operation Polar Cap,
145
opium trade,
140
ORC (organized retail crime),
216
anti-American sentiment and,
15-17
boosters,
77-80
auto theft,
113-115
booster bags,
107
case study: June,
80
case study: Maria,
97-98
case study: Marin Moreno,
73
case study: Nick Jojola,
98-99
definition of,
97
deterring,
115-118
legal penalties for convictions,
101-103
Level 1 boosters,
98-99
Level 2 boosters,
104-108
Level 3 boosters,
108-115
tools and theft techniques,
107
cargo theft,
83-84
,
112-113
cargo theft rings,
84
case study: cargo theft of B. Rosen and Sons,
86-87
costs of,
64-67
,
93
as national security threat,
93
of over-the-counter drugs,
84-86
USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act,
93
costs of,
4
,
53-54
,
63
,
207-208
credit card fraud,
231-234
decrease in state tax revenues,
210-212
health costs,
212-215
labor costs,
208-210
per-employee theft case versus average shoplifter,
208
stored value card fraud,
230
counterfeit merchandise.
See
counterfeit merchandise
criminal penalties,
101-103
,
234
definition of,
216
e-fencing,
40-42
,
89-91
employee theft
costs of,
208
insider information,
54-56
scope of,
56-59
family crime networks.
See
family crime networks
fences
definition of,
97
deterring,
115-118
legal penalties for convictions,
101-103
Level 3 fences,
108-112
professional fences,
100
role of,
100-101
funding of terrorist organizations,
59-61
,
159-160
correlation between ORC and terrorism,
168
“homegrown terrorism,”
160-165
Somalian connection,
165-167
gray market,
94
growth of,
4-5
in Latin America,
151-152
legislation combating
Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2009,
95
E-fencing Enforcement Act of 2009,
95
USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act,
93