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MOB TACTICS: Strategic Planning 101
“Gotta Move the Goods”
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1. Organized Crime is just that. Organized...
“Gotta Move the Goods”
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1. Organized Crime is just that. Organized...
2. It’s a business. A very, very profitable business.
First: DEFINITIONS. Let’s call Organized Crime what it is: The MOB. MOBSTERS. Got it?
First: DEFINITIONS. Let’s call Organized Crime what it is: The MOB. MOBSTERS. Got it?
3. To run their rackets, Mobsters have TACTICS: business strategies they perfect & deploy to make a profit.
There are many industry silos,
There are many industry silos,
4. where the Mob uses tactics 2 make a profit. A maj. of their biz involves ILLEGAL GOODS: drugs, guns, human beings, even nuclear material.
5. https://www.ipsaintl.com/2013/01/22/bratva-semion-mogilevich-a-case-study/
These are their goods 4 trade – 4 profits, & they must be MOVED in order to be sold. This is TRAFFICKING. Got it?
These are their goods 4 trade – 4 profits, & they must be MOVED in order to be sold. This is TRAFFICKING. Got it?
6. Most trafficking is btwn nations. For ex., historically, much of cocaine comes from Columbia. Yet, cocaine is found in every Continent...
7. How did it get there? (Hint: not magic).
We can ask the same about Heroin. How did it get from Central Asia to Ohio?
We can ask the same about Heroin. How did it get from Central Asia to Ohio?
8. Or arms from former Soviet block nations into the hands of terrorists. How did it get there? http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/03/19/married-to-the-ukrainian-mob/
9. Answer: Organized Crime. The Mob. An extra-national, global crime syndicate to be precise.
Let’s break down that title...
Let’s break down that title...
10. “Extra-national” = beyond national borders or a single nation’s jurisdiction...
11. “Global Crime Syndicate” = the Mob must have people on either end of the route, AND all the way through it, to traffic their goods.
12. An EXTRA- NATIONAL, GLOBAL CRIME SYNDICATE.
That’s the mob we’re hunting.
That’s our enemy.
Got it? https://twitter.com/ninaandtito/status/883185666934231040
That’s the mob we’re hunting.
That’s our enemy.
Got it? https://twitter.com/ninaandtito/status/883185666934231040
13. Now, these mobsters have a shit ton of money. Billions. Reaching towards a trillion possibly, if you add them all up...
14. Because that is the scale.
And that money is DIRTY. Covered in the blood of the crimes from which it was derived...
And that money is DIRTY. Covered in the blood of the crimes from which it was derived...
15. Mob profits are illegal gains. This means Mobsters cannot use their money, UNTIL it’s made “clean”...
16. To do this, they push it thru legal biz, which turn profits into legitimate funds. This is MONEY-LAUNDERING. https://twitter.com/LincolnsBible/status/884257076901322752
18. Got it?
Are we all together at this point?
Good.
Let’s roll…
Are we all together at this point?
Good.
Let’s roll…
19. Second: GOALS
With the Mob, the agenda is singular:
More specifically: unchecked, limitless, eternal wealth. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/31/financier-bill-browder-says-vladimir-putin-is-worth-200-billion.html
With the Mob, the agenda is singular:
More specifically: unchecked, limitless, eternal wealth. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/31/financier-bill-browder-says-vladimir-putin-is-worth-200-billion.html
20. That’s it. Not complicated.
HOW does a global crime syndicate achieve unchecked, limitless, eternal wealth? That’s the complex part...
HOW does a global crime syndicate achieve unchecked, limitless, eternal wealth? That’s the complex part...
21. But only in # of parts to it & its history. The big picture is easy to get. Let me give it in 2 parts:
A. Limitless, eternal wealth...
A. Limitless, eternal wealth...
22. requires a dismantling of all 
on wealth accumulation.
The dismantle starts w/corrupting LE. Mob Tactics 101: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/nyregion/detectives-used-badges-to-kill-for-the-mob-indictments-say.html?_r=0
on wealth accumulation. The dismantle starts w/corrupting LE. Mob Tactics 101: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/nyregion/detectives-used-badges-to-kill-for-the-mob-indictments-say.html?_r=0
23. With the global syndicate we’re up against, it means advanced tactics of corruption. It means attacking IC & Justice Departments...
24. These are Graduate-level tactics, in which the Russian mafia-state is well-versed. http://www.newsweek.com/putin-welcomes-return-russian-mafia-484083
26. PHD-level means reaching highest levels of oversight by corrupting a national discourse 2 get your man elected. https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/26/facebook-russia-trump-sanders-stein-243172?lo=ap_a1
27. Part B: Once authorities are compromised/disabled, you have freedom as a mobster. And you need it. Because your empire is built...
28. on that one very important thing: the MOVEMENT OF ILLEGAL GOODS.
When you’re a global mob, what do you need to move them?
When you’re a global mob, what do you need to move them?
29. Sometimes planes (ex. see "Mena").
Trucks? Sure.
But for the big money – the big payloads, you need ships. https://www.thenation.com/article/mitch-mcconnells-freighted-ties-shadowy-shipping-company/
Trucks? Sure.
But for the big money – the big payloads, you need ships. https://www.thenation.com/article/mitch-mcconnells-freighted-ties-shadowy-shipping-company/
30. & HOW can U get your goods off ships & into a buyer's hands?
U have to control the PORTS. Ports are everything. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/02/mob_infiltration_persists_at_n.html
U have to control the PORTS. Ports are everything. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/02/mob_infiltration_persists_at_n.html
31. Sometimes, it’s the port that “makes” the mob boss. https://www.quora.com/What-was-Vladimir-Putins-role-in-the-privatization-of-the-seaport-at-Saint-Petersburg
32. Moving on...
Third: ROUTES
So, U have your goods. U’ve moved them from where they were acquired to where they will be sold. Now what?
Third: ROUTES
So, U have your goods. U’ve moved them from where they were acquired to where they will be sold. Now what?
33. You're a badass, global mobster. But it’s not like all your customers will show up at the port.
You gotta DISTRIBUTE your goods.
You gotta DISTRIBUTE your goods.
34. You need your henchmen in the territories where you aim to sell. These are your ROUTES for distribution...
35. Here is a tried & true cocaine route that the heroin epidemic followed. You’ll “get it” from here. https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-drug-trafficker-donald-trump-risked-his-casino-empire-to-protect
36.
37. Fourth: EMPIRE
Back to the profits. We get how the goods are moved. We know how the money is made. Now, all that’s left is the launder.
Back to the profits. We get how the goods are moved. We know how the money is made. Now, all that’s left is the launder.
38. What do you need to wash your blood money clean?
2 things:
A. You have to hide it 1st. Obscure it.
If you’re a great mobster...
2 things:
A. You have to hide it 1st. Obscure it.
If you’re a great mobster...
39. You route it - just like your goods. This is done through shadow LLCs, in offshore bank accounts. This is a great way to hide it...
40. unless there’s a leak (Oops. 
). https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/panama-papers-money-hidden-offshore
). https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/panama-papers-money-hidden-offshore
41. Part B: U need BUSINESSMEN, who take from offshore accounts & push it through legitimate transactions &/or entities that they control.
from offshore accounts & push it through legitimate transactions &/or entities that they control.
42. For example: blood- can be washed thru financial markets, high-end real estate, hedge funds, law suits, & even political super PACS.
can be washed thru financial markets, high-end real estate, hedge funds, law suits, & even political super PACS.
43. Eventually, if you’re a very successful mobster, you end up controlling their business outright & keep these men (& women) on as FRONTS.
44. How do you get them in the first place? Leverage. https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/04/jeffrey-epstein-trump-lawsuit-sex-trafficking-237983
46. How many bizmen/entities R involved 2 pull this off at level of a global crime syndicate? Almost 2 many 2 count. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/20/the-global-laundromat-how-did-it-work-and-who-benefited
48. That’s it. The scope of our Mob’s tactics. There’s so much more to it, but these are the basics I need you to grasp. Because...
49. There’s more to come.
Despite the operations – despite the formidable brilliance & execution their tactics...
Despite the operations – despite the formidable brilliance & execution their tactics...
50. We’re not going 2 let these assholes get away w/ this.
It's corruption. It's corrupting US. & it must be stopped.
I say that knowing..
It's corruption. It's corrupting US. & it must be stopped.
I say that knowing..
51. Our Mob has a tactic for it too. Murder.
They take out the hunters – the officers, the lawyers, the reporters, the civilians...
They take out the hunters – the officers, the lawyers, the reporters, the civilians...
52. ANYONE who speaks out. ANYONE who hunts for the truth. ANYONE who brings daylight to their operations. https://twitter.com/JamesFourM/status/905097665129713665
55. Here’s where it gets real 4 us. We are hunters now as well. Several of us on here. Some of us have taken that hunt to a new platform...
56. So that we can bring it to you. https://twitter.com/CitJourno/status/920799169152815104
57. At the heart of our work is a story. THE story. One that echoed through time – into the moment we’re all living through now...
58. It’s the story of the hunters who came before us.
It is the story of how this all came to be. https://twitter.com/LincolnsBible/status/922443978716385280
It is the story of how this all came to be. https://twitter.com/LincolnsBible/status/922443978716385280
60. READ.
http://www.citjourno.org/page-1
http://www.citjourno.org/page-1
