1. Glenny: Crime by Association There are places on earth/There are crimes in places/You can get from place to place “Israeli drug-trafficking organizations are the main source of distribution of [ecstasy] to groups in the United States,” according to a 2003 State Department report. For a country dependent on American...support, this was acutely embarrassing to Israel. The DEA implied in one report that the turf war in New York, Las Vegas, and Las Vegas over the ecstasy trade may be directly linked to the open warfare between families in Israel. It is perhaps appropriate that Israeli gangsters have such influence in Las Vegas, as this was the old stomping ground of one of America’s most notorious Jewish criminals, Meyer Lansky, and his protégé, Bugsy Siegel... But perhaps there’s something there: Israeli Mobsters Muscling Their Way Into Las Vegas Ecstasy Trade By Seamus McgrawSeamus Mcgraw Published July 09, 2004, issue of July 09, 2004.July 09, 2004 Read more: http://forward.com/articles/4961/israeli-mobsters-muscling-their-way-into- las-vegas/#ixzz2QeoDwQyIhttp://forward.com/articles/4961/israeli-mobsters-muscling-their-way-into- las-vegas/#ixzz2QeoDwQyI

2. Mc Mafia: A World Tour Israel Homegrown crime – Gambling: Palestinian casino in Jerrico/Floating casinos in Red Sea – Ecstasy: From Antwerp to US—parallels diamond trade Russian mob – Prostitution/Human trafficking Moldova – Odessa – Moscow – Cairo – Beer Sheba – Tel Aviv The Balkans Smuggling duty not paid (DNP) cigarettes US factory – Rotterdam or Zug free trade zone – Egypt or Uzbekistan Bar, Montenegro – Bari (into the EU) Cocaine processing and distribution: Colombian connection – Well-educated ChEs and well-established smuggling routes

3. Mc Mafia: A World Tour Kazakhstan Caspian caviar – overfished by successor states – Customs corruption for money substitute Russia – Gazprom – Ukraine - Hungary Pipeline scam – Putin – Kuchma participation – Journalist assassination Dubai: A perfect laundry 9/11  Arab money flees US to Dubai  Building boom – Gangsters from Balkans to Mumbai “invest” in Dubai property – Labor camp squalor/Prostitution/Domestic worker “imprisonment” The underside of Dubai prosperity Nigeria 419 scam: I go chop your dollar.