If you’re ever in Portland Oregon around Halloween, be careful, you just might find yourself surrounded by a mob of brain hungry zombies. That’s right, zombies! On October 24th over a thousand zombies gathered outside of the Portland Art Museum to participate in the city’s 5th annual Zombie Walk. Much to the amusement of onlookers, flesh eating brides, cheerleaders, and even children, roamed the streets of downtown Portland on a predetermined route. Despite their overwhelming presence, the Zombies did face some resistance. Zombie killers dressed in gasmasks with Nurf guns and Policemen and even Umbrella Corporation agents did their part in keeping the Zombies under control.If you’re ever in Portland Oregon around Halloween, be careful, you just might find... more
Editor's Note: In an exclusive series this week on "Campbell Brown," the FBI has unveiled three additions to its list of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
NEWTOWN, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Semion Mogilevich may be the most powerful man you've never heard of.
The FBI says Mogilevich, a Russian mobster, has been involved in arms trafficking, prostitution, extortion and murder for hire.
"He has access to so much, including funding, including other criminal organizations, that he can, with a telephone call and order, affect the global economy," said FBI Supervisory Special Agent Peter Kowenhoven.
Mogilevich's alleged brutality, financial savvy and international influence have earned him a slot on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, though he has lived and operated from Moscow, Russia, for years. (Watch CNN report on Mogilevich »)
"He's a big man. He's a very powerful man," FBI Special Agent Mike Dixon said. "I think more powerful than a John Gotti would be, because he has the ability to influence nations. Gotti never reached that stature."
He is accused of swindling Canadian and U.S. investors out of $150 million in a complex international financial scheme. It centered on a firm called YBM, which purportedly made magnets at a factory in Hungary.
...More...Editor's Note: In an exclusive series this week on "Campbell Brown," the FBI has... more
This was shot with super 16mm film in 2005 and now has become an award-winning short film series on YouTube called 'Vengeance Rides a Train': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYo1GWcMgec
What do you think?This was shot with super 16mm film in 2005 and now has become an award-winning short... more
If there is no crime emergency you can make one. It's very interesting to see the data on real crimes committed in Italy and those on the television coverage that is given to them. The crime rate in Italy over the last twenty years is unchanged. Immigrants were half a million and now are 4 million, yet that hasn't created any actual increase in crime.If there is no crime emergency you can make one. It's very interesting to see the data... more
Mobsters continually chanted bumper sticker slogans like "Forty million illegals!", "Tyranny! Tyranny! Tyranny!", and "We don't want Barack" as U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa tried to hold a town hall meeting on health care.
"These groups are not concerned about Americans' access to quality heath care, but are extreme ideologues, only interested in 'breaking' the president and thwarting the change Americans voted for last November," said state Democratic chairwoman Karen Thurman.
Despite these Republican lead and funded protests, Democrats in Congress remain steadfast to a public option type of plan.
"The insurance industry and … Republican activists are manufacturing a lot of these phony protests,'' said Castor, who has been closely involved in the health care debate and said she won't support any bill lacking a government-run insurance option.Mobsters continually chanted bumper sticker slogans like "Forty million illegals!",... more
Reports indicate the rioters were "inspired by a conservative activist group promoted by Fox News host Glenn Beck and some received emails from the county Republican party."Reports indicate the rioters were "inspired by a conservative activist group promoted... more
Italy is the land of compromise, the country where no one ever follows upright conduct and transparency in anything. Italy is a vast gray area of complicity between institutions, economy and mafias. A morass of conflicts of interest. A labyrinth of power and unofficial powers where many people try to prevent citizens from understanding who did what and why he did so.Italy is the land of compromise, the country where no one ever follows upright conduct... more
Media news are by their nature deceptive. They tend to speak only of certain crimes and ignoring others, without logical reasons. In reality there is always a reason, only that we don't always understand it. Some crimes are ignored for political reasons, while others receive disproportionate attention for the same reason, especially in Italy. Some are ignored simply because that particular day, the media are working on something else.Media news are by their nature deceptive. They tend to speak only of certain crimes... more
Lexis-Nexis Breach Linked to Crime Family: One of the “old school” tactics that the organized crime figures use is going to the local watering holes and seducing young girls and finding out where they work. The mob’s tactic of dating new employees who work at companies that have access to customer data leads to Litan’s warning, “He’s not after your heart; he’s after your data.”Lexis-Nexis Breach Linked to Crime Family: One of the “old school” tactics that... more
Flat-out, rip yer guts out, splatter the gore against the lens horror is just fine with me. I dug HOSTEL, liked Carpenter’s THE THING and, of course, HALLOWEEN. (All those teen-stalker and NIGHTMARE ripoffs, though, don’t really do it for me — too much winking at the audience.)
PONTYPOOL takes a more subtle tack to freaking its audience out: Set mostly in a lonely, Canadian radio station, most of the horror is not in what you see, but what you hear, in panicked phone calls to the morning shock jock (Stephen McHattie) and in the growing thrum of an irrational, flesh-hungry mob outside. That the cause of the panic has everything to do with what is heard and what can be said only gives the setting a nice, meta feel.
I got to speak with director McDonald about building dread within a confined setting and on a limited budget.Flat-out, rip yer guts out, splatter the gore against the lens horror is just fine... more
A woman was burnt alive by a mob in southern Nepal after she was accused of trying to kidnap a toddler, Nepalese media reports said today.
The violence took place in Bharatpur village in Dhanusa district, about 250 kilometres south-east of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, on Sunday.
Last year, a female journalist, who wrote on violence against women, was stabbed to death in the same district.
The incident was seen as an attempt by organised groups and individuals to silence critics voicing their opposition to violence against women.A woman was burnt alive by a mob in southern Nepal after she was accused of trying to... more
Once known as a tireless bloodhound who tracked down fugitive gang leaders, deputy U.S. marshal John T. Ambrose now faces trial himself on charges alleging he betrayed his oath and leaked secrets to the mob.
Ambrose, 50, is due to go on trial Monday for allegedly telling organized crime figures seven years ago that a so-called made member of the Chicago mob had switched sides and was providing detailed information to federal prosecutors. Ambrose denies he ever broke the law in handling secret information.
"The feds are guaranteed to see this as the worst sort of treachery," says mob expert John Binder, author of "The Chicago Outfit." "I don't think I'm overblowing it. They're going to see him the way the military sees a Benedict Arnold."
If convicted, Ambrose could face years behind bars.
U.S. District Judge John F. Grady has ordered extraordinary security including screens in the courtroom to conceal the faces of key witnesses from spectators. Inspectors in the government's supersecret Witness Security Program operated by the U.S. Marshal's Service will testify behind the screens and use pseudonyms.Once known as a tireless bloodhound who tracked down fugitive gang leaders, deputy... more
Despite his reputation as a ruthless, acid-slinging mob assassin, Charles Carneglia came across as more of a self-pitying scaredy-cat in Brooklyn federal court yesterday.
Arrested for five murders last year by an FBI SWAT team, Carneglia asked with morbid hope if he was eligible for the death penalty, one cop, Detective Steven Kaplan, told jurors.
"Longevity runs in my family," the cop remembered the newly caged wise guy whiningHe worries; he whines; he pines for Mama.
Despite his reputation as a ruthless,... more
Frank Cullotta, the former “Hole in the Wall Gang” member, friend and bodyguard/muscle guy of Tony “The Ant” Spilotro and admitted double-murderer, thinks the proposed Mob Museum in Las Vegas is a “great idea.”
In a bizarre macabre account of divine intervention, Erik Larson amazingly encounters the All Mighty through a death proof hearse. Empowered to guide the lost, the Minister of Death mobs down the streets in his bequeathed vehicle of demise to enlighten the impressionable, the drug addicts, and the criminal element of the mortality that challenges them. Being scared straight may be the answer toward a future of sobriety.In a bizarre macabre account of divine intervention, Erik Larson amazingly encounters... more
Rod Blagojevich's criminal misdeeds may have started long before he became governor. ABC7 in Chicago reports that Robert Cooley, an attorney and former undercover informant for the FBI, alleges that in the Eighties Blagojevich was a bookie on the North Side of Chicago who regularly paid tribute to the Mob. "When I was working with government wearing wire, I reported, I observed Rod, the present governor, who was running a gambling operation out in the western suburbs. He was paying street tax to the Mob out there," Cooley said. Cooley's undercover work in the Eighties put away 24 mobsters. A spokesman for Blagojevich would not comment on the accusations.Rod Blagojevich's criminal misdeeds may have started long before he became governor.... more
A man thought to be a child sex offender was found hacked to death in his caravan.
The victim was 52-year-old Andrew Cunningham, according to the Sun. He died after suffering multiple stab wounds to the head, neck and chest.
Mr Cunningham was set upon by a baying mob who left him naked and covered in blood in his caravan, the paper reported.
His injuries included wounds to his genitals, the Sun added.
Police confirmed the victim, found at business premises in Wandsworth, south London, had suffered "non-fatal injuries" to parts of his body.
The Metropolitan Police said the gruesome discovery was made at 8am on Wednesday at the Windmill Business Centre in Riverside Road.
"The man, believed to be in his mid-50s, was pronounced dead at the scene. He had suffered injuries believed to be stab wounds," the force said.
"The post-mortem revealed non-fatal injuries to other parts of his body but we are not discussing these further for operational reasons."
Detective Chief Inspector Nick Scola, leading the investigation, said: "We're currently at an early stage in our inquiries and are keeping an open mind about the circumstances of this man's death."
The Sun said the victim had been targeted by vigilantes for some time.A man thought to be a child sex offender was found hacked to death in his caravan.... more
It was 1975, and Larry Gandy and I were scraping mold off last week’s sandwiches and pennies off the sidewalk, another way of saying we were private investigators. Those days it was a tough line...
We caught him once beating us on a score. Had it been someone else—well, Larry was crazy then, and those were the days I would trade a kiss on a doorstep for a fight in a parking lot.
Talk about Black Friday. This is truly disgusting. A mob of people so eager to buy discounted goods at Wal Mart actually kill a worker by knocking him down and trampling him.Talk about Black Friday. This is truly disgusting. A mob of people so eager to buy... more
Yesterday on NBC News, Brian Williams revealed that the McCain campaign quietly “steered” the media toward the story, now proven to be a hoax, about a young volunteer, Ashley Todd, being attacked by an Obama supporter.
TPM’s Greg Sargent also reported yesterday on the McCain campaign’s involvement in pushing the hoax, with a spokesman allegedly telling reporters that the attacker told the victim, “Oh you’re with McCain, you’re with the McCain campaign? I’m going to teach you a lesson.” Yesterday on NBC News, Brian Williams revealed that the McCain campaign quietly... more
