Richard Nixon - Richard Nixon was known as the Syndicate President. His early campaign manager was mob lawyer, Murray Chotiner, through whom he exchanged favors with major world figures. LA gangster (((Mickey Cohen))) is known to have made major contributions to Nixon's political campaigns. Nixon was known to be friends with gambling tycoon, James Crosby, chairman of a firm connected to major mob figures. In 1972, two members of the Nixon campaign administration admitted to plotting to kill journalist, Jack Anderson by poisoning, and that they were under orders from a top aide of the president. This plot was aborted when the two were arrested in relation to the Watergate scandal. After his death decades after this incident, the FBI went through Anderson's papers and confiscated anything that they deemed classified.
Ronald Reagan - Reagan was president of the Screen Actors Guild. (SAG) In 1952, Reagan engineered a blanket waiver exempting the Music Corporation of America (MCA) from SAG rules, prohibiting talent agencies from also engaging in film production, giving it an edge. In return, MCA gave him roles when his acting career started failing.
According to law enforcement authorities, when Reagan began his first run for governor, several of his campaign financiers were close associates of Hollywood mafia fixer, Sydney Korschack. Reagan's backers at MCA, Jules Stein and Taft Schreiber, as well as his attorney, William French Smith, made questionable financial transactions on Reagan's behalf, making him a multi-millionaire overnight. Over the course of Reagan's two decade political career, he'd refused to answer any in-depth questions about how he amassed his personal wealth—by 1986, estimated at more than $4M (almost $12M).
During his presidential campaign, Reagan met privately with known associates of organized crime and appointed others to his personal campaign staff. Several of these people were later given high positions in the Reagan administration after his election.
The Clintons - James Kallstrom, a former assistant director of the FBI, referred to the Clintons as an influence peddling crime family. In 2007, Hillary Clinton met with Giovani Gambino, a cousin of the former head of the Gambino crime family. Their Illegal activity is so extensive, it warrants its own post.
Barack Obama - His government provided guns to the Mexican drug cartels in an operation with the stated goal of tracking them to the higher-ups. These guns, including military grade weapons, were found at the scene of cartel crimes. This actually started in the late Bush years, but Obama has invoked executive privilege when it comes to certain documents in relation to such incidents.
In 2007 and 2008, Obama received over $150K in campaign contributions, seemingly coming from Tony Rezko. Rezko co founded Rezmar Corporation, which in 1990 offered Obama a job; in 1999, Obama would receive some of his first contributions from Rezko. In a high profile court case in 2008, Rezko was sent to prison on several charges, including fraud and soliciting corruption.
In 2007, Alexi Giannoulias arranged a fundraiser for Obama. Giannoulias has tons of reputed mob ties, including Michael Giorango who has been convicted of book making and encouraging prostitution.
Donald Trump - Trump's mentor was homosexual mob Lawyer, (((Roy Cohn))) who had represented Tony Salerno, Paul Castellano, Carmine Galante, and John Gotti; and is widely credited as being to one who blackmailed J. Edgar Hoover with pictures of him in a dress. Roger Stone asserted that even though, Cohn had sex with men, he wasn't gay, because that implies a submissive role, and Cohn was was very dominant. Cohn had a whole room full of frog knick-ckacks.
Before Trump Tower could be built, he had to demolish the Bonwit Teller department store in 1979, using underpaid illegal Polish immigrants, along side the House Wreckers Union Local 95, later found to be Genovese controlled. Federal Judge, Charles Stewart ruled that Trump had engaged in conspiracy to violate fiduciary duty and also fraud, setting damages at $325K. The case was settled by negotiation and the agreement was sealed.
Trump bought the property for his casino in Atlantic city through intermediaries from Salvator Testa, AKA the Crown Prince of the Phili mob. He tried to build a casino in Sydney Australia in the mid 80s, but his bid to do so was refused after police expressed concerns over his links with the Mafia.
Joe Biden - Burisma Holdings is a private natural gas production company in Ukraine. In 2012, Ukrainian prosecutor general, Viktor Pshonka began investigating Burisma's owner, on money laundering, tax evasion, and corruptly securing oil and gas drilling permits. Later in 2014, Hunter Biden served on the board of directors for Burisma Holdings, where he made $3.5M over 5 years.
Rudy Giuliani - Rudy Giuliani was mayor of New York from 1994 to 2001. His father, Harold, had associations with the Mafia, and had been convicted of felony assault and robbery. Harold worked as an enforcer for his brother in law, Leo D'Avanzo.
Jim Mason - Jim Mason, a member of the Tewkesbury Bureau Council, was revealed in pictures taken in 2009 to have been a full patched member of the Outlaws biker gang. The Outlaws are generally considered to be an organized crime group by police forces around the world, and they're known to have been in violent conflict with members of the Hell's Angels.
🇬🇧 UK
Lord Boothby - MP Lord Boothby was know to attend parties at his apartment full of young men with gay gangster, Ronnie Kray; MI5 documents described both of them as ''hunters of young men''.
Sadiq Khan - London mayor, Sadiq Khan is known to have been in circles with the likes of Yasser al-Siri, a militant who was given the death sentence in Egypt, but received asylum from the English government. Khan has also been seen talking to Babar Ahmad, who has been accused of providing materiel support to militant groups through a website that he set up in the UK, and has spent a total of 11 years in prison.
🇨🇦 Canada
Rob Ford - Former mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford has been linked to several organized crime groups. In one instance he posed in a picture with Hell's Angels, which they put up on their Toronto Website. Ford is more famous for a video of him smoking crack, the drama over which led to government employees resigning and at least one death. There was also a clip of him apparently speaking in Jamaican Patois about his counter surveillance measure, and another of him talking about how he needs 10 minutes to make sure somebodies dead.
Frank Zampino - Frank Zampino is the former chairman of the executive committee of the Montreal government. Zampino allegedly received $300K Canadian dollars from Paolo Catania in exchange for Catania being able to buy a parcel of city land valued at $31M Canadian dollars for just 4.4M. Catania is alleged to have given Zampino other favors, such as a $25K kitchen renovation for free, and that this exchange of favors was an ongoing thing. In 2012, Zampino was charged with fraud after the investigation based on these allegations.
Paolo Catania's father, Fransesco Catania, was close with former mob boss Nicolo Rizzuto, and Paolo is said to have used his close ties to the Sicilian Mafia to build his own personal fortune.
Gérald Tremblay - Former Montreal mayor, Gérald Tremblay resigned after allegations were made that he was receiving money from Mafia linked construction firms in exchange for municipal infrastructure contracts.
🇦🇺 Australia
Matthew Guy - In Australia, a member of the government named Matthew Guy met with an alleged mob boss named Tony Madafferi at a restaurant; according to transcripts of phone calls leading up to this meeting, it was meant to be kept confidential.
Members of the Australian Government are reportedly linked with and have exchanged favors with the Calabrian Mafia; (AKA the Ndrangheta) Mafia clans like the Sergi, Barnaro and Papalia are known to have been active in Australia through their affiliates for quite some time.
🇺🇦 Ukraine
(((Hennadiy Kernes))) - Former Mayor of Kharkiv, alleged to be an organized crime boss in the region. Former officer of the Ukrainian organized crime control, Yevgeny Zhilin was held in a detention center under suspicion of blowing up Kernes' car; Zhilin would later be gunned down by a hitman in an elite restaurant.
🇮🇹 Italy
Silvio Berlusconi - According to a Mafia informant, he was in contact with top mob boss, Stefano Bontade, a top Mafia boss. There's also the Graviano brothers, who were the bosses of the Palermo Mafia. They allegedly made deals with Berlusconi through a middle man. Vittorio Mangano was a Sicilian gangster and a stable keeper for Berlusconi in the 70s. During this time he was suspected of arranging the kidnapping of a friend of Berlusconi. According to one informant, both Mangano and Dell'Utri assisted in sending money to the Sicilian Mafia.
Marcello Dell'Utri - Forza Italia co-founder, Marcello Dell'Utri was sentenced to 9 years for associations with the mafia.
According to a mafia informant, both Dell'Ultri and Silvio Berlusconi were in direct contact with Salvatore Riina, head of the Sicilian Mafia in the 80s and 90s.
Nicola Cosentino - Nicola Cosentino was an under secretary in the Italian Economy Ministry from 2008-2010. In 2010, he was involved in a scandal related to wind energy systems. This was related to the disclosure of the new P2 Masonic lodge, of which Berlusconi was a member. Cosentino was also related to the boss of the Casalesi clan, and he was alleged by the boss of the Camorra to have permitted the illegal treatment of toxic waste in exchange for a fee.
Giulio Andreotti - According to an informant, Italian PM, Giulio Andreotti exchanged a kiss with Salvatore Riina, head of the Sicilian Mafia. He is also alleged to have arranged the assassination of an anti-mafia fighter and a journalist. He went to trial in 1993, accused of exchanging favors with the Sicilian Mafia, but he ended up being acquitted in 1999. After a retrial in 2001, he was sentenced to 24 years, only to be acquitted again by the Italian supreme court in 2003.
🇹🇷 Turkey
Recep Erdoğan - Under his government, the country is alleged to have received oil tankers from ISIS controlled territory, and the membership of Turkish parliament is said to include family members of organized crime groups. Furthermore, the only crimes not sanctioned by this greater family are prosecuted by the full force of the state. His son, Bilal, is suspected by judges in Italy of being involved in money laundering.
Susurluk Scandel - Back during the Turkish-Kurdish conflict in the mid 90s, a close relationship between the Turkish government and organized crime was revealed after a car crash in what's been called the Susurluk scandal.
🇩🇪 Germany
In Germany, the government in general has been criticized for not cracking down on Italian Mafia clans. These clans are said to have infiltrated the German construction industry. Germany is said to be a place for money laundering, and getting involved in white collar crime. According to investigators, the Sicilian Mafia is particularly active in the Rhineland. Back in the 80s in Berlin a network between organized crime figures and government officials was revealed in a big scandal.
🇭🇺 Hungary
Viktor Orbán - He has been connected with (((Semion Mogilevich))), having reportedly received bribes from him and the Russian mob in the 90s.
Sándor Pintér - Sándor Pintér was the Hungarian government's Minister of the Interior and a former top police official; he too is said to have received money from Mogilevich in the mid 90s.
🇫🇷 France
Marie-Jeanne Bozzi - Marie-Jeanne Bozzi was the mayor of the Corsican commune of Grosseto-Prugna-Porticcio from 2001-2002, when she was convicted of being the madam of a prostitution ring. She again became mayor in 2005, but resigned again after being convicted of fraud. She was assassinated in 2011 in what was suspected to be a score-settling between mafia factions.
Francois Hollande - Francois Hollande was alleged and all but confirmed to have been having an affair with actress, Julie Gayet; they would have ron-des-vous at a property connected to the Corsican Mafia.
Nicolas Sarkozy - Another former French prime minister, Nicolas Sarkozy has been accused of having ties with the Mafia; in particular, his government's interference with Corsica has been accused of serving mafia interests.
🇧🇪Belgium
Jean-Michel Nihoul - During the Dutroux sex slavery scandal, in a story in the Guardian, Belgian business magnate, Jean-Michel Nihoul told a reporter: ''I am the Monster of Belgium", going on to say that he would never come to trial, he would never show up if they put him on trial, and that evidence against him would never be heard by a jury, because the information he had on important people would bring the entire government down.
🇪🇸 Spain
Spanish Dirty War - In Spain in the late 90s, former interior minister, José Barrionuevo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his involvement in what's known as the Spanish Dirty War. The court found him and other members of the government guilty of misuse of public funds and kidnapping. The organisation of security forces and assassins they are said to have formed is alleged to have killed at least 28 people, with many of their targets having no connection to the vast separatists they were supposedly fighting.
José Ramón Barral - José Ramón Barral was for 18 years the mayor of Pontevedra City. He resigned in 2001 after being detained for smuggling tobacco, and allegedly laundering the proceeds through the British Virgin Islands.
Alberto Nunez Feijoo - Alberto Nunez Feijoo is the president of Xunta De Galicia, a position he was chosen for by King Juan Carlos I. He as admitted to traveling with convicted smuggler, Marcial Dorado in the mid 90s.
🇨🇭 Switzerland
According to a statement by Muammar Gaddafi, Switzerland is a Mafia State. He went on to say that the country is a haven for large scale money laundering, and that laws allowing for assisted suicide are used as a cover for the assassination of rich foreigners with Swiss bank accounts in order to get a hold of their money.
Hells Angels - In Zürich, despite accusations of racketeering and attempted kidnapping, the local Hell's Angels have been declared not to be a criminal organisation.
Calabrian Mafia - In 2014, a high level meeting of the Cambrian Mafia was recorded in a small town in Switzerland.
🇸🇪 Sweden
Carl XVI Gustaf - Carl XVI Gustaf was the King of Sweden. He is alleged in his younger years to have frequented mafia run clubs. Serbian gangster, Mille Marković, claimed this to be true before his death from gun shot wounds in 2014. Three suspects were arrested in connection with his death but were released, allegedly, as good sum of money was paid to another night club owner in order to get him to retract his claims about the king; money was also paid to other mafia figures to get them to silence Marković.
🇳🇱 The Netherlands
Hell's Angels - The government of Amsterdam has been criticized for employing Hell's Angels members, claiming it intended to weed them out after a city employee and Hell's Angels member were sentenced for 8 years for placing a live hand grenade underneath a car.
Johan Fisco - A Dutch prince, Johan Friso renounced his claim to the thrown after the government refused to support his marriage. The reason being, his bride was connected to the dead gangster Klaas Bruinsma. According to a former bodyguard of Bruinsma, the two were very close, and she was a regular guest to Bruinsma's yacht at night, although by her own account, the two were only slightly acquainted.
🇯🇵 Japan
Shinzo Abe - In this photo you can see Abe with Arkansas' Governor Mike Huckabee and Icchu Nakamoto of the Yamaguchi Gumi Yakuza clan.
Shin Kanemaru - Shin Kanemaru was a top Japanese politician who resigned from parliament due to a scandal exposing links between the Japanese government and organized crime.
🇰🇷 South Korea
Park Geun-hye - In Korea, former president, Park Geun-hye was forced out of office in 2007 after being accused of corruption. She was close with Choi Soon-Sil, the daughter of Choi Tae-min, who was the leader of a Christian sect in Korea, and who was known to be a mentor to Park, until his assassination in 1979.
Choi Soon-Sil was accused of receiving bribes in exchange for government favors given out by Park. The result of this was Choi-soon-Sil being given a prison sentence.
Errand Men - South Korea has a reputation for having so called errand men, who will do things for businessmen and government officials that the police won't, such as chasing away squatters and street vendors; they're linked to organized crime groups in South Korea.
🇻🇳 Vietnam
Năm Cam - Năm Cam, who was executed by firing squad in 2004 was known as the godfather of Vietnam. He was a former soldier and ship builder, and his operation was based out of Ho Chi Minh City. He ran gambling dens, hotels and restaurants that were fronts for brothels, and he was said to be so close with the local police that they had to bring in authorities from other regions just to arrest him. Before being executed, he was put on display in a large show trial in which 153 of the other people being charged along with him were high ranking members of the Communist Party.
🇹🇭 Thailand
Somchai Khunpluem - In Thailand, Somchai Khunpluem was the long-time mayor of Saen Suk. His son was the Minister of Culture under Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, and was Tourism Minister under Thaksin Shinawatra. Both of these prime ministers were effectively removed from their positions by a coup and charged with abuse of power. Somchai is recognized as an organized crime boss and is referred to as the godfather of the East by Thai media. He has been in smuggling during the Vietnam war and the Cambodian Civil war, and he is said to have made most of his fortune in construction and real estate.
Vatana Asavahame - Vatana Asavahame was once known as the godfather of Pak Nam and once had many connections with business and government. Vatana himself had been in many senior government positions such as the Interior Minister and the Prime Minister's Office Minister. In 2008, Vatana was sentenced to 10 years in jail in Absentia on charges related to corruption in relation to the Klong Dan wastewater treatment project, and he's said to have never been seen in Thailand since. His son has done jail time in relation to electoral fraud.
🇰🇭 Cambodia
Hun Sen - His birth name was Hun Bunal but he changed it, two years after joining the Khmer Rouge. Hun was a commander for the Khmer Rouge and later became a leader in the rebel army that defeated them, and has since then been in various senior positions in the Cambodian government. Hun Sen's government has leased out 45 percent of Cambodia's land mass, primarily to foreign investors, which has threatened an estimated 150,000 Cambodians with eviction.
Teng Bunma - Teng Bunma was one of Cambodia's wealthiest businessmen. He has been described as a significant figure in Cambodia's international drug smuggling trade. He's also been called a trigger happy tycoon because of his habit of brandishing handguns. In one incident, he shot out the tire of an airplane after complaining about the airline service.
Bunma has alleged ties with Hun Sen and other top government officials, and he is said to have provided members of the government with large funding.
🇲🇽 Mexico
Enrique Peña Nieto - Has alleged ties to the Juárez Cartel. Under his government, key Cartel figures have been suspiciously released from prison; after an investigation it was said that the Juárez Cartel helped to fund Nieto's party campaign, in part by using a company called Monex to fund thousands of cash cards.
Tomás Yarrington - Tomás Yarrington, a former member of Neito's Institutional Revolutionary Party has been accused of laundering money for the Gulf Cartel in Los Zetas.
🇻🇪 Venezuela
Tareck El Aissami - Tareck El Aissami was the vice president of the Venezuelan government. There's been allegations of him being involved in money laundering drug trafficking and corruption. According to the US government treasury department, Aissami has a history of drug trafficking throughout his previous positions in the Venezuelan government, having facilitated shipments of narcotics leaving Venezuela above air and sea, in particular shipments destined for the Los Zetas in Mexico. He's also alleged to have offered government protections to drug lords Walid Makled and Daniel Barrera Barrera.
🇵🇭 Philippines
Duterte Family - According to the claims of former self confessed assassin, Edgar Matobato, Former president of the Philippines and former mayor of Davao, Rodrigo Duterte ordered death squads to kill certain criminals and opponents of his in the government.
Rodrigo's son Paolo was vice mayor of Davao city, and has been since 2013 when Rodrigo was still mayor. Paolo is also alleged by Edgar to have ordered numerous extrajudicial killings, including the killing of businessman Richard King, who Rodrigo said was part of a drug front.
Paolo has been named during an inquiry about a large amount of money smuggled through the Philippine Bureau of customs from China, with Paolo being alleged to have been involved with the transactions of a certain Davao group. Paolo is alleged to have a Triad tattoo.
Rodrigo's daughter, Sara Duterte was the mayor of Davau City. In a Facebook post, she thanked tattoo artist, Edwin Miraflores for a Triad tattoo.
🇧🇷 Brazil
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was president of Brazil from 2011 to 2013. During this time, he granted refugee status to Cesare Battisti, who has been given a life sentence in Italy after being connected to four assassinations, two of which he allegedly carried out himself, and all of which were part of the activities of the Armed Proletarians for Communism. (PAC)
🇦🇷 Argentina
Mauricio Macri - In Argentina, President Mauricio Macri has stated that drug cartels operate with total impunity.
Jose Ramon Granero - Former drug chief, Jose Ramon Granero has been accused of facilitating the importation of massive quantities of ephedrine, which can be used for the production of methamphetamine, and the amounts imported were well above what official pharmaceutical operations required in the country.
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner - Former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner also has alleged ties to both Granero and the pharmaceutical companies that were also implicated in this.
Granero's Private Secretary, Miguel Zacarías, who is said to have managed these imports also reportedly has ties Kirchner's family and he has a brother named Maximo Zacarías, who has been accused of importing 1000kg of ephedrine for Mario Segovia, an associate of the Sinaloa Cartel.
🇿🇦 South Africa
Jacob Zuma - Zuma has been in countless scandals and is said to have been turning South Africa into a mafia state, mostly in reference to his connections with the Indian Gupta family, including business investments with the company Oakbay Investments, who have employed members of Zuma's family in some of their various companies in South Africa, all presumably in exchange for government favors. It's too the point that this family gets referred to as the shadow government of South Africa. The Gupta family has also been accused of running a criminal enterprise in South Africa and engaging in racketeering and money laundering with Jacob Zuma.
Vito Roberto Palazzolo - Vito Roberto Palazzolo has been given a sentence of 9 years for charges related to mafia association. He is alleged to be a mafia treasurer and linked to Sicilian mafia boss, Bernardo Provenzano, who has been given a life sentence along with his predecessor, Salvatore Riina. Vito Roberto Palazzolo has spent years living in South Africa, having arrived using a fake passport which he allegedly obtained from a fellow inmate at a prison in Switzerland. While in South Africa, he obtained a new name and passport; he was known as Robert von Palace Kolbatschenko, essentially claiming to be from a German nobility clan. According to investigations into this, he invested more than $25M into businesses in South Africa and Namibia. He was close with many members of Zuma's African National Congress party, and was allegedly linked with, among other companies, the Anglo-Cape Diamonds company.
By: Sassy and Opinionated
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