Black Market Billions: How Organized Retail Crime Funds Global Terrorists (Gal Zentner's Library) (43 page)

CNDP (Congress National Pour la Defence du Peuple),
190

Coach,
34-36
,
59

Coalition of Law Enforcement and Retail (CLEAR),
42

Coalition on Organized Retail Crime,
58
,
89
,
168

Coco USA,
33
,
62

Cogswell, Paul,
46
,
58

Cohen, Joey (Yousef al-Khattab),
161-163

Collette,
38

Collingsworth, Terry,
196

Colombia

cigarette smuggling in,
191

extortion by paramilitary groups,
192-197

Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism
,
229

Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2009,
95

Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT),
224

Commandant Jerome (FAPC),
190

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC),
227

Community Oriented Notification Network Enforcement Communication Technology (CONNECT),
74

Congo Tobacco Company,
190

Congress National Pour la Defence du Peuple (CNDP),
190

Congressional Research Service on Organized Retail Crime,
207

CONNECT (Community Oriented Notification Network Enforcement Communication Technology),
74

consumer demand for counterfeit/pirated merchandise,
38-39

Copaxone, theft of,
85

Cornerstone,
71

Costco,
210

costs of ORC (organized retail crime),
4
,
53-54
,
63
,
207-208

cigarette smuggling,
188-189

credit card fraud,
231-234

decrease in state tax revenues,
210-212

health costs,
212-215

labor costs,
208-210
per-employee theft case versus average shoplifter,
208
stored value card fraud,
230

Coughlin, Tom,
57

counterfeit merchandise

case study: Fendi,
31-32

Coach case study,
34-36

consumer demand for,
38-39

eBay response,
42-44

and funding of terrorist organizations,
48-51

handbags,
13-16

online sales of,
40-42

passports,
127-132

policing of,
39-40

sales by street vendors,
48-51

Couric, Katie,
219

Cox, Kenneth,
73-74

Craigslist,
89

CRAVED goods,
213

credit card fraud,
231-234

criminal penalties,
101-103
,
248
.
See also
legislation

for boosters,
101-103

for fences,
101-103

cross-border gangs

M-18,
22

MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha),
21-25

Zetas,
23

Cruz, Julian Rivera,
107

CTR (currency transaction report),
145

Cuomo, Gerardo,
187

Currency and Foreign Transaction Reporting Act (CFTRA),
148

currency transaction report (CTR),
145

cutouts,
187

CVS,
107

Cymbalta, theft of,
85

D

Dar-ul-Islah Mosque,
168-169

Deckers,
44

Del Monte, involvement with Colombian paramilitary groups,
195

Delahunt, William,
195

Denz, Martin,
187

Denz, Werner,
187

Department of Homeland Security (DHS),
71

DHS (Department of Homeland Security),
11
,
71

DigitalPersona,
207

discretionary versus nondiscretionary spending,
38

documents, forging of,
127-132

Dole Foods, involvement with Colombian paramilitary groups,
195-197

domestic terrorism,
17-19

anti-American sentiment among immigrant communities,
15-17

Islamberg compound (Hancock, New York),
19

Red Compound (Virginia),
19

drug cartels,
152-155

drugs, theft of,
84-86

Duyn, Donald Van,
21

E

eBay,
89

monitoring of illegal merchandise,
42-44

response to e-fencing,
44

e-fencing,
40-42
,
89-91

E-fencing Enforcement Act of 2009,
95
,
116-118

recognizing,
51-52

E-fencing Enforcement Act of 2009,
95
,
116-118

18th Street gang,
22

El Lasca,
154

electronic sensors,
206

Eli Lilly & Co.,
85

Elias, Samuel,
104-105

Elliot, Timothy,
56

El-Najjar, Hamze,
182

employee theft

costs of,
208

insider information,
54-56

scope of,
56-59

Epoch USA Trading Company,
39

Escobar, Pablo,
151

Essabar, Zakariya,
129

European Community v. RJR Corp,
185-188

Evans, Jeannie,
243

Evans, Robert E.,
243

Executive Order 13224,
133
,
173

extremism (Muslim).
See
Muslim extremism

F

fakeidsite.com,
132

family crime networks,
119-121

case study: Assad Muhammad Barakat,
123-127

Morel family,
119

in Tri-Border area of South America,
120-123

trust factor,
136
-

FAPC (Forces Armees du Peuple Congolais),
190

FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia),
11
,
60
,
151-152
,
191
,
194

FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas),
18

FATF (Financial Action Task Force),
26
,
147
,
221

Fayad, Sobhi Mahmoud,
125

FBI

Joint Terrorism Task Force,
60

and LAAORCA (Los Angeles Area Organized Retail Crimes Association),
71

Uniform Crime Reporting System,
67

Featherstone, James,
69-70

Federal Bureau of Investigations.
See
FBI

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council,
223

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA),
65

Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA),
18

Feey Town,
98

fences

deterring,
115-118

legal penalties for convictions,
101-103

Level 3 fences,
108-112

professional fences,
100

role of,
100-101

Fendi,
31-32

Fertig, Ralph,
240

Filene’s Basement,
34

Financial Action Task Force (FATF),
26
,
147
,
221

Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering,
170

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA),
222

financing.
See
banking systems

FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority),
219-221

Fischer, Karen,
72-74

flea markets,
91

FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration),
65

Forces Armees du Peuple Congolais (FAPC),
190

forged documents,
127-132

Forsaith, Chuck,
85

“44 Ways to Support Jihad” (Anwar al-Awlaki),
167

Friedheim, Cyrus Jr.,
193

Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC),
11
,
151-152
,
191
,
194

funding of terrorist organizations

fundraising activities of terrorist organizations,
134-135

Muslim charities

charitable donation loopholes,
173-175

foreign charities. See terrorist organizations

online solicitation of donations,
175

U.S. fundraising for,
172-173

USAID Antiterrorism Vetting Procedures,
175-177

fundraising activities of terrorist organizations,
134-135

Funes, Mauricio,
154

G

Galeria Page mall,
124
,
133
,
135
,
182

GameStop,
59
,
233

gangs

M-18,
22

MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha),
21-25

Zetas,
23

Garcia, Luis,
187

Gee, Jack,
42
,
44
,
50
,
51
,
58
,
168

ghost companies,
132-133