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Reputed Israeli Mobster Meir Abergil Returns Home

August 27, 2011
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Following his extradition by the US in January, alleged Tel Aviv organized crime figure Meir Abergil was released after agreeing to a plea bargain with the California district attorney. Abergil landed at Ben-Gurion Airport on Thursday as a free man. Last January Meir and brother Yitzhak were extradited with three others from Israel to...

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Tip Of The Iceberg In Israel?

August 21, 2011
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Israeli pop singer Margalit Tznaani was arrested last week with several suspected members of the Amir Mulner crime family for their alleged roles in extorting tens of thousands of shekels from her agent. Her arrest and alleged connections with convicted crime leader Amir Mullner’s gang and mob kingpin Shalom Domrani – is training a...

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Pop Star In Israel Arrested For Mob-Linked Extortion

August 17, 2011
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Israeli pop singer Margalit Tznaani has been arrested with several suspected members of the Amir Mulner crime family for their alleged roles in extorting tens of thousands of shekels from her agent.  According to the police’s suspicions, Tzanani, who is also a judge on the hit TV music contest series A Star is Born,...

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Alleged Israeli Mob Boss Abutbul Murdered

August 1, 2011
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Francois Abutbul, alleged to be one of Israel’s top organized crime bosses, was gunned down overnight by unknown assailants, Israeli police said on Sunday. Abutbul and his bodyguard pulled into a gas station in Netanya, Israel north of Tel Aviv where two assailants riding motorbikes, their faces covered by helmets, opened fire on Abutbul....

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Israel Releases 1977 Mafia Hearing Transcripts

April 28, 2011
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In 1977 former state prosecutor Erwin Shimron headed an Israeli government commission to investigate the extent to which organized crime pervaded the Holy Land, and testimony from the closed-door inquiry now has been released. Although five years earlier "another committee determined that Israel did not have organized crime," by 1977 the nation's police intelligence...

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5 Reputed Members of Israeli Crime Family Arraigned

January 16, 2011
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Five people reputedly involved in one of Israel’s most powerful organized crime families appeared in federal court in Los Angeles on Thursday to face drug trafficking and racketeering charges. Itzhak and Meir Abergil, along with three other defendants, pleaded not guilty to charges related to their alleged roles in a massive Los Angeles-based Ecstasy...

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Israel Begins Process of Handing Organized Crime Suspects Over to US

January 12, 2011
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Suspected organized crime figures Meir and Yitzhak Abergil were to be handed over to the United States on Wednesday, more than two years after the first request for their extradition. If convicted and sentenced to jail, however, under terms of agreement, the brothers will serve any jail sentence in Israel. The brothers are among...

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State Department Shows Concern For Israeli Organized Crime

December 5, 2010
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State Department cables by WikiLeaks reveals concern about the increasing power of organized crime in Israel and its export to the United States. Ambassador Cunningham's cable confirms that Israeli organized crime has "gained a foothold in America" given "the volume of travel and trade between the United States and Israel" Cunningham questioned Israel's ability...

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Mobsters Threaten Israel

November 3, 2010
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David Cohen, Israel's Police Inspector-General says that organized crime is a strategic threat to the country. "Serious and organized crime is a strategic threat against Israeli society. The organized and serious crime, combined with the decline in familiarity with legal norms are a threat to society. Our central goal is to fight organized crime...

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The Mafia In Vegas

May 28, 2010
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The Italian Mob still exists in Las Vegas, Nevada but it is sharing the turf with other ethnic organized crime groups.Special Agent Tracy Dockery, supervisor of the organized crime squad in the Las Vegas FBI, briefed the local Citizens' Academy folks on April 27 about mob activities in Las Vegas. She said mobsters from...

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