Black Market Billions: How Organized Retail Crime Funds Global Terrorists (Gal Zentner's Library) (39 page)

27.
NRF Organized Retail Crime survey.

28.
Author interview with Joe LaRocca, June 23, 2010.

29.
Wall Street Journal
, September 29, 2009.

30.
Maguire Woods LLP.

31.
California Civil code section 1797.8-1797.86 definition of “gray market goods” means the consumer goods bearing a trademark and normally accompanied by an express written warranty valid in the U.S. through channels other than the manufacturer’s authorized U.S. distributor and that are not accompanied by the manufacturer’s express written warranty valid in the U.S.

32.
From the
Journal of Technology Law & Policy
, section 1526 of the Tariff Act of 1930, controlling gray market goods.

33.
Retail Industry Leaders Association 2010 Organized Retail Crime Survey.

Chapter 5

1.
Interview with Harold Prudencio at Albuquerque Police Department headquarters, August 18, 2010.

2.
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
, “ROP-ing fences,” J. Trainum, N. Brown, and R. Smith, Jr., 60(6), 1991, p. 7.

3.
ASIS CRISP report: “Organized Retail Crime: Assessing the Risk and Developing Effective Strategies,” Walter E. Palmer, CPP, CFI, CFE, and Chris Richardson, CPP, 2009.

4.
Taken from an interview Paul Jones did with NBC.

5.
Phone interview with Frank Muscato, March 10, 2010.

6.
ASIS CRISP report: “Organized Retail Crime: Assessing the Risk and Developing Effective Strategies,” Walter E. Palmer, CPP, CFI, CFE, and Chris Richardson, CPP, 2009.

7.
Phone interview with Jerry Biggs, March 9, 2010.

8.
NRF report on Organized Retail Crime Survey 2009.

9.
Ibid.

10.
Palm Beach Post
, “4 Held in String of CVS Thefts,” Eliot Kleinberg, November 19, 2009.

11.
Author interview with Dr. Read Hayes on May 6, 2011, and Read Hayes and King Rogers, “Catch Them if You Can: This Study of Organized Retail Crime Looks at How These Criminal Groups Operate and What Measures Might Help Stores Fight Back,”
Security Management
, vol. 47, no. 10(2003), hereafter “Catch Them if You Can.”

12.
Interview with Detective Marc Zavala, August 11, 2010 in a Los Angeles Police Department warehouse for stolen items. The location was undisclosed.

13.
FreightWatch 2010 Bi-Annual Cargo Theft Report.

14.
Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Report, Crime in the United States, 2009.

15.
E-Fencing Enforcement Act of 2008, the Organized Retail Crime Act of 2008, and the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2008, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security of the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives.

16.
National Retail Crime survey 2010.

17.
Interview with Detective Guevara at Los Angeles Police Department Headquarters, August 10, 2010.

Chapter 6

1.
Terrorist and Organized Crime Groups in the Tri-Border Area (TBA) of South America: A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, under an Interagency Agreement with the U.S. government, July 2003.

2.
Ibid.

3.
Ibid.

4.
Ibid.

5.
Interview with Larry Johnson, co-owner and chief executive of BERG Associates, February 11, 2010.

6.
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, September 15, 2001.

7.
Ibid.

8.
Middle East Intelligence Bulletin
(a monthly publication of the United States Committee for a Free Lebanon), “Hezbollah’s Global Finance Network: The Triple Frontier,” Blanca Madani, 4 No. 1, January 2002.

9.
“Paraguay: Lack of Control System on the Border with Brazil Allows for Currency Flight,” BBC Monitoring Americas: Political (London), January 23, 2003. Citing ABC Color web site, January 22, 2003.

10.
Terrorist and Organized Crime Groups in the Tri-Border Area (TBA) of South America: A Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, under an Interagency Agreement with the U.S. government, July 2003.

11.
Ibid.

12.
CNN.com, “Sources: Terrorists Find Haven in South America,” November 7, 2001.

13.
http://paraguay.usembassy.gov/hizballah_fundraising_network_in_the_triple_frontier2.html
, Hezbollah Fundraising Network in the Triple Frontier, U.S. Treasury Department Office of Public Affairs, which specifically identifies active members of the terrorist organization.

14.
Interview with FBI source, August 23, 2010.

15.
United States District Court Southern District of Florida United States of America vs. Samer Mehdi, Khaled T. Safadi, Cedar Distributors, Inc., Ulises Talavera, Transamerica Express of Miami, Emilio Jacinto Gonzalez-Neira, and Jumbo Cargo, Inc., Case No. 09-20852, October 1, 2009.

16.
Homeland Security and Terrorism
, Russell D. Howard, James J.F. Forest, and Joanne C. Moore (McGraw-Hill, 2005).

17.
Interview with professor Ibrahim Werde, April 9, 2010.

18.
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice Spring 2008, Vol. 32, No. 1, “The Nexus of Organized Crime and Terrorism: The Case Studies in Cigarette Smuggling” Louise I. Shelly, and Sharon A. Melzer,

19.
Interview with Detective Amaury Guevara at LAPD headquarters, August 12, 2010.

20.
Foxnews.com, “Congresswoman Raises Red Flag on Hezbollah-Cartel Nexus on U.S. Border,” June 25, 2010.

21.
The
9/11 Commission Report

22.
Ibid.

23.
Ibid.

24.
Ibid.

25.
“The Nexus of Organized Crime and Terrorism: Two Case Studies in Cigarette Smuggling,” Louise Shelley and Sharon Meltzer.

26.
Ibid.

27.
Ibid.

28.
Homeland Security and Terrorism
, Russell D. Howard, James J.F. Forest, and Joanne C. Moore (McGraw-Hill, 2005).

29.
Quote taken from a document entitled “Al Qaeda en Argentina” on Horatio Calderon’s web site
www.horaciocalderon.com
.

30.
United States District Court of Florida Indictment, Safadi, Cedar Distributors, Ulises Talavera, Transamerica Express of Miami, Emilio Jacinto Gonzalez-Neira, Jumbo Cargo.

31.
SDGT entity pursuant to Executive Order 13224. “Seven Charged for Illegal Export of Electronics to U.S. Designated Terrorist Entity in Paraguay,” Department of Justice, February 19, 2010.

32.
The 9/11 Commission Report
.

33.
Ibid.

34.
AJB, “Terrorismo: Egípcio é capturado pela PF” (Terrorism: Egyptian Is Captured by PF), Correiro Braziliense (Brasília), April 16, 2002,
http://www2.correioweb.com.br/cw/EDICAO_20020416/pri_ult_160402_259.htm
.

35.
Interview with Professor William Martel, June 29, 2010.

36.
R.A. Merritt report, Statement of Detective Randy Merritt, Pasadena Police Department Community Defense Unit (C.D.U.) Multi-Agency Task Force Special Investigations Bureau.

37.
Ibid.

38.
Interview with Randy Merritt at the LAPD LEAPS conference, August 6, 2010.

39.
Quote from Robert C. Scott, Congressionl Representative from Virginia, taken from “Combating Organized Retail Crime-The Role of Federal Law Enforcement” hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, November 5, 2009.

Chapter 7

1.
Interview with attorney James Patton, May 5, 2010.

2.
Interview with a source close to the case outside of the Newark, NJ courthouse, June 17, 2010.

3.
Interview with Taliban commander Mullah Munibullah, August 2009, translated on the web site
www.islamicawakening.com
.

4.
Interview with professor William Martel, May 4, 2010.

5.
Hide & Seek: Intelligence, Law Enforcement, and the Stalled War on Terrorist Finance
, John Cassara (Potomac Books, Inc., 2007).

6.
Interview with William C. Martel, September 2011.

7.
Hide & Seek: Intelligence, Law Enforcement, and the Stalled War on Terrorist Finance
, John Cassara (Potomac Books, Inc., 2007).

8.
CBC Radio Canada, “Money-Transfer Systems, Hawala Style,” June 11, 2004.

9.
Interpol.

10.
9/11 Commission’s Monograph on Terrorist Financing.

11.
Ibid.

12.
“The Financial War Against Terrorism,” Reyko Huang, CDI (Center for Defense Information) research analyst, March 5, 2002.

13.
Evil Money: The Inside Story of Money Laundering & Corruption in Government, Banks & Business
. Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, (HarperCollins, 1992, 1994).

14.
Associated Press, “Farooque Ahmed Described as a Quiet Suburban Dad,” October 28, 2010.

15.
Interview with source in the Global Risk department at JP Morgan Chase, March 15, 2010.

16.
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, G.A. Res. 109.

17.
Financial Task Force on Money Laundering: Combating the Abuse of Alternative Remittance Systems: International Best Practices, June 20, 2003.

18.
Author interview with an anonymous source, April 1, 2011, Hyderabad, India.

19.
Statement of Secretary Paul O’Neill on signing the Executive Order Authorizing the Treasury Department to Block Funds of Terrorists and Their Associates, September 24, 2001, via
Terrorist Financing
, edited by Mary B. Erlande (Gazelle Distribution, 2006).

20.
International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, March 2005.

21.
“USA Patriot Act and Its Impact on Sound Anti-Money Laundering Programs,” presentation by the Comptroller of the Currency Administrator of National Banks.

22.
Testimony of John F. Moynihan and Larry C. Johnson before the House Committee on Finance Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on “Progress Since 9/11: The Effectiveness of U.S. Anti-Terrorist Financing Efforts.”

23.
Phone interview with Kevin Tyrrell, April 5, 2010.

24.
A non-federally regulated account has mandatory compliance with filing regulations contained within the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986, according to a spokesperson for FinCEN.

25.
Forbes
magazine, “Richest List,” July 10, 1989.

26.
“Prepared Remarks of Attorney General John Ashcroft DEA/Drug Enforcement Rollout,” March 19, 2002.

27.
Author interview with Samuel Logan, MS-13 expert and author of
This Is for the Mara Salvatrucha
(Hyperion, 2009), November 15, 2009.

28.
The Al Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime and the Coming Apocalypse
, Williams, Paul L., Prometheus Books, 2005.

29.
Larry C. Johnson, former analyst for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. In 1989 he moved to the U.S. Department of State and served four years as the deputy director for transportation security, anti-terrorism, assistance training, and special ops in the State Department’s Office of Counterterrorism.