Black Market Billions: How Organized Retail Crime Funds Global Terrorists (Gal Zentner's Library) (45 page)

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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),
240

license plate recognition software,
202-203

Llorens, Gilbert,
187

Logan, Samuel,
23
,
152

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

Martel, William,
135
,
140

Masood, Talat,
171

Mastermind Tobacco Company,
190

material support,
239-241

matricula consulars,
22

Medellin drug cartel,
151

Mehdi, Samer,
111
,
126
,
133

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

Muscato, Frank,
92
,
103
,
214-215

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

Napolitano, Janet,
128
,
220

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

Oda, Kent,
64
,
70
,
213

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

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