Albania
The streets of Tirana and the roots of Albanian-American organized crime
TIRANA—In June 2010, 17 men were arrested and charged by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan with a long list of federal RICO mob charges that included robbery, kidnapping, murder, drug dealing, weapons possession, conspiracy, extortion, arson, and obstruction of justice. They all came from Albania. More
(1)The big trial: An Albanian-American crime story, from 15 Mile Road to Pearl Street
To understand the story of Albanian organized crime in New York City, where the murder and drug-trafficking trial of the notoriously violent Krasniqi brothers and their associates got underway this week, I had to go to Michigan.
For five hours in a prison on the Canadian border, I sat across a table from Ketjol Manoku. He’s in for murder—ten felony sentences. His latest motion had been denied the day before I arrived. More
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