Image: “The Conjurer,” by Workshop of Hieronymus Bosch, between 1496 and 1520, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hieronymus_Bosch_051.jpg … public domain
Image: “The Conjurer,” by Workshop of Hieronymus Bosch, between 1496 and 1520, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hieronymus_Bosch_051.jpg … public domain
Dear Ones,
Here is a law enforcement ‘what if’ for grassroots neighborhood watch nationwide, and also for law enforcement in our towns and cities …
Let’s say a crime gang … such as one of the United States ‘mobs’ or mafias, or a street gang, or an outlaw gang, or a flimflam group of con artists … were to be in the habit of cultivating patsies (fat ‘pigeons’ they could pluck).
You may have heard of ‘keeping double books’? This next move is a little like that, but instead they might keep ‘double organizations’.
Here would be the move: They might put up a socially suave ‘yuppie’ front, named ‘such-and-such’. This would be a respect-worthy non-profit organization, a 501(c), and lure the mark into the front organization.
At the same time they might put up a ‘back’ corporation by the same name. The advantage of the ‘back’ corporation might be that it would be harder to track who has the money. For instance, the members of the ‘back’ organization, might be corporate entities rather than people, and so the ‘back’ corporation might represent a tax ‘maze’ for the IRS. Thus it might be a money laundering vehicle, I feel. The idea might be to grab some of the mark’s money as a ‘donation’ to a nonprofit, then launder it through the ‘shell’ corporations which operate a little like the famous flimflam ‘shell games’. That way they might avoid taxation by the IRS.
Then the crime gang spends time gaining the confidence of their ‘pigeon’.
Let’s say the gang has a favored ‘take-down’, that has been working like clockwork for years. For instance, they might have on tap …
- a consigliere (a mob lawyer),
- a medical doctor, a medical therapist ‘angel of death’, a psychiatrist and a psychologist,
- and a law enforcement officer,
- all working under a mob boss posing as or having ‘under his finger’ a financial advisor.
The MO (modus operandi) might be to first to capture the pigeon’s finances through the financial adviser, then misdiagnose the pigeon with a terminal physical illness or a mental illness, then when the pigeon is in a health care facility, to send in the medical therapist ‘angel of death’ for the kill.
Put yourself in the shoes of the ‘pigeon’: A take-down has just been attempted. By God’s grace (and His alone) you have escaped unscathed. The mob has your number, and they know you know their game.
What will they do, you wonder? They will pursue you and kill you, so as to prevent knowledge of their crime gang and their MO (modus operandi) from leaking out to law enforcement and the AARP Bulletin’s crime prevention column. They will do what it takes to silence you for good.
Recognizing the deck is stacked and the odds are not in your favor, you the ‘pigeon’ make a run for it back to your home town.
But they know where you live! Through their carefully picked false authorities, and through weight of numbers and collusionary agreement amongst themselves, they present a fraudulent report to your local law enforcement agency to the effect that you have committed the very crimes that are the bread-and-butter of their own crime gang.
An example might be like this: The mob consigliere or his local law enforcement ‘bird in the hand’ tips your local law enforcement precinct that you are a drug trafficker with a drug habit and a street walker.
So your local law enforcement, at considerable expense, stakes out your home to discern your activities. Weeks go by. Your own precinct figures it must have gotten a false lead, and puts a mental question mark by the name of the consigliere or sheriff who provided the false lead.
But they still have a question mark by your own name. So when you go down to your precinct to explain about the crime gang, and offer what you can in the way of names and photos, they decline to accept what you have to offer.
Let’s say your precinct suggests you the ‘pigeon’ go to the Secret Service. That would make sense for a multi-state crime gang. Our local law enforcement agencies, I feel, are set up to preserve law and order in our local communities, not fight crime nationwide.
Let’s say you go online and make a lengthy report about the crime family … names and addresses, photos, whatever you may have.
Weeks go by. You begin to wonder … Maybe the Secret Service is swamped with crime reports. Maybe they are understaffed, and can only work on the most ‘in your face’ instances of crime nationwide. Or maybe they just do not believe you. Let’s say … whatever the cause … you the ‘pigeon on the run’ do not hear back on your report. And you notice there is no way to contact them personally about it, what with COVID and all.
The crime gang is still hot on the tail of you, their mark who escaped the take-down. You have exhausted the usual crime prevention resources. What to do?
To preserve one’s own life is, I feel, a noteworthy accomplishment when the odds are this stacked. Here is my suggestion: Why not ‘Yelp’ what you have? Put it online, send copies to family, friends, and your Neighborhood Watch, and to any interested lawyers, free of charge. Make sure the crime family knows you have broadcast this information.
The more people who know what you know, the less important it will be to the crime family to end your life.
It seems to me possible that the low-down on crime gangs nationwide is at hand, and just under our noses. We the people of the United States can help mitigate the damage done by crime gangs in America.
Even if our local law enforcement’s hands are tied, even if no one responds to our plea, we can act on our own behalf, and for the sake of crime prevention in our local communities.
The means at hand, I feel, is grassroots communication. After all, knowledge is power. The pen is mightier than the sword. Let us take up our handhelds and provide that knowledge of the nefarious endeavors of crime mobs to everyone with an ear to hear it.
God bless each of you with courage to soldier on in these stressful times. May we stand together, in communities large and small, against crime and for peaceful, prosperous endeavor.
In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!
See also my blog categories: Confidence games – Con artists … Crime families – cults that kill – outlaw gangs – street gangs … False authority … Murder … Secret service … Take-down … and … Taxes
Written and published on 28 September 2020, by Alice B. Clagett; revised on 26 July 2024
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