The youngest rich criminals: to whom the law is not written. The most famous criminals in the world. The richest criminal in the world.

Henry Ford once said: “I am ready to report now for every cent I earned. But do not ask me where I got my first million. " In this post we would like to talk about people who were not limited to a dishonest million. About criminals who have made billions in financial fraud, illegal trade and gambling

10. Joseph Kennedy ($ 200-400 million) - head of the clan

Over the past century, the Kennedy Clan has been one of the most influential in the United States, both in the political arena and in the closely related business sector. And Joseph made a considerable contribution to this. He was the father of US President John F. Kennedy, United States Senator and Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Senator Edward Kennedy, Navy Officer Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.

The head of the family made his fortune thanks to the illegal trade in alcohol during Prohibition. Then, he bought and sold land and real estate, speculated on the stock exchange. At twenty-five, he already headed the bank, and at thirty-five he became a multimillionaire. At one time, Joseph also calculated to have married Rosa Fitzgerald, daughter of the mayor of Boston, but this did not prevent him from simultaneously maintaining several mistresses

9. Meir Lansky ($ 300-400 million) - Mafia accountant from Belarus

Meir Lansky was born into a Jewish family in the city of Grodno (on the territory of modern Belarus). At the age of 9, he and his parents migrated to the United States, where he changed his name from Sukhomlyansk to a more sonorous - Lansky.

Mayr is known as the “Mafia Accountant,” one of the leaders of American organized crime, along with his friend and partner Charles “Lucky” Luciano played an important role in creating the “National Crime Syndicate” in the United States. For decades, he was considered one of the most influential people in the country.

8. Grisedla Blanco ($ 500 million) - godmother

The “Godmother” from Miami Grisadla Blanco was perhaps America’s most merciless gangster in the 1970s and 80s. Equally known as a person with good business intuition and as a ruthless sociopath. At the age of 11, she took a small child hostage, demanded a ransom for him, and eventually killed him with a shot in the head. Blanco is also suspected of having taken the lives of her three husbands, sentenced to death more than 200 people, and at gunpoint forced the men to have sex with her.

In the mid-2000s, Grisadla was hiding, the last time she was seen in 2007, after which the trace disappeared

7. Anthony Salerno ($ 500 million) - a gangster in his pajamas

Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno stood out very well from the crowd with his signature hat and cigar. He began his journey to the top of the hierarchy of the Genovese family with gambling, usury and racketeering. And already in the 60s, his New York empire brought up to $ 50 million in profit.

Salerno is also well remembered for the way he sent business cards to business partners with his picture in pajamas for Christmas

In 1987, Tony received 100 years in prison, after which he died there soon.

6. Joaquin Loera ($ 1 billion) - number 1 criminal

Joaquin "Shorty" Loera was born April 4, 1957 in a family of poor people. As a child, his father drove him out of the house in view of his “disrespectful attitude to his parents,” so it is not surprising that the child did not receive any education and joined the ranks of drug dealers.

The power of the Sinaloa cartel led by Joaquin can only be judged by the fact that they use their own submarines to illegally transport drugs from Mexico to the United States.

Today, the Mexican billionaire takes 24th place in the ranking of the most influential people in the world, and after the assassination of Osama bin Laden by the US military, he also became the most wanted criminal in the world according to Forbes.

5. Al Capone (1.3 billion) - a face with a scar

Young Alfonso very early faced the need to earn his own money on his own: like his other peers, he could only apply for hard, low-paid work, devoid of any prospects. By the sixth grade, Alfonso had already become a full member of the gang and, along with everyone, patrolled the streets of his native district.

Capone who dropped out of school for two years tried many different professions, having managed to work as a bouncer, and in a bowling club, in a pharmacy, and even in a candy store, but he was more and more attracted to the nightlife. For example, addicted to playing billiards, during the year he won absolutely all the tournaments held in Brooklyn.

As a young man, Capone left New York and moved to Chicago. Here he soon exterminated the Irish gangs ruling at that time, killing more than 500 people in 1924-1929 alone. The well-known story of how on St. Valentine 1929 Capone gang members in the form of Chicago police broke into the garage, where the competitive Alfonso gang of Moran organized a smuggling whiskey warehouse. Moran's people, taken by surprise, raised their hands up, being convinced of the authenticity of the police. They obediently lined up against the wall, but shots rang out instead of the expected search.

Capone planted for tax evasion

4. Susumu Ishi (1.5 billion) - the idol of Japan

During the Second World War, the tattooed godfather of Yakuza, Susumu Ishi, was a member of the Kamikaze division, but when he returned from the front alive, he began his journey as a gangster. Susumu earned his initial capital on gambling scams, for which he soon sat down. Having been released, Ishi was waiting for a new opportunity. In 1984, the Japanese economy was influenced by the soap bubble, so the gangster quickly made $ 1.5 billion with the help of fraud in the banking sector, which he then invested in the United States and Korea.

The financial strength of the billionaire corporation is indicated by the fact that in 1989 she even hired Prescott Bush, the brother of George W. Bush

1991, Susumu Ishi died. Over 5,000 people gathered for his funeral

3. Carlos Lader ($ 2.7 billion) - King of the Bahamas

One of the founders of the Medellin cartel, Carlos Lader, is today the only officially living participant from our list (some are hiding, the death of others is doubtful). Currently, the drug lord is in an American prison, serving a life sentence without the right to release.

At one time, Leider led the whole island in the Bahamas, a liaison point between Colombian cocaine and the United States. At a distance of 200 kilometers from Florida were hotels, marinas and even the airport. Pretending to be a major tourism project, Carlos actually turned the island into a fortress. Around warning boards, a high watchtower, an alarm system and an electronic security system. In case someone still dares to get in - a kennel and bodyguards with machine guns.

2. Pablo Escobar ($ 25 billion) - almost president

At the beginning of his “career”, Pablo was engaged in racketeering, the theft of cars and people. But Escobar, of course, earned the main wealth on the drug trade, leading the largest Medellin cocaine cartel in history. In the late 1970s, the empire controlled 80% of all US drugs.

With such financial power, the billionaire built entire neighborhoods in his native Medellin, realizing that the support of the population would be able to protect him in the fight against the authorities. Once even a drug dealer ran for president of Colombia, and he could have been one of the 10 richest presidents of the world if he hadn’t lost the election due to criticism and accusations from the Justice Minister of “dirty cocaine money”. Soon, the minister was shot in his own car.

Killing politicians and deputies Escobar was not worried about the lives of other citizens. So once, while swinging at the then presidential candidate Luis Golan, the drug lord blew up a plane, which was 107 people. All passengers died

At one time, Pablo even offered to pay off Colombia’s entire external debt ($ 10 billion) if it legalized Coca. The US authorities threatened Colombia with a war against such a statement if it would accept the proposal.

Escobar was killed in 1993 by a sniper shot in the head during an operation by the authorities

1. Amado Fuentes ($ 25 billion) - sovereign of heaven

Amado Fuentes is currently the richest criminal in history. He led the Juarez cartel in the mid-1990s, accounting for 25% of the total US drug trafficking. At the disposal of the billionaire was 27 Boeing 727 aircraft intended for the transport of drugs, for which he was even called the sovereign of heaven

Amado died as a result of an unsuccessful 1997 appearance change operation. At a time when the Fuentes empire grew exponentially, increasing its momentum every day. It is this fact that haunts many analysts and journalists who claim that the operation went exactly the way it was intended

10. Joseph Kennedy ($ 200-400 million) - head of the clan

9. Meir Lansky ($ 300-400 million) - Mafia accountant from Belarus

8. Grisedla Blanco ($ 500 million) - godmother

In the mid-2000s, Grisadla was hiding, the last time she was seen in 2007, after which the trace disappeared

7. Anthony Salerno ($ 500 million) - a gangster in his pajamas

Salerno is also well remembered for the way he sent business cards to business partners with his picture in pajamas for Christmas

In 1987, Tony received 100 years in prison, after which he died there soon.

6. Joaquin Loera ($ 1 billion) - number 1 criminal

The power of the Sinaloa cartel led by Joaquin can only be judged by the fact that they use their own submarines to illegally transport drugs from Mexico to the United States.

5. Al Capone (1.3 billion) - a face with a scar

Capone planted for tax evasion

4. Susumu Ishi (1.5 billion) - the idol of Japan

The financial strength of the billionaire corporation is indicated by the fact that in 1989 she even hired Prescott Bush, the brother of George W. Bush

1991, Susumu Ishi died. Over 5,000 people gathered for his funeral

3. Carlos Lader ($ 2.7 billion) - King of the Bahamas

2. Pablo Escobar ($ 25 billion) - almost president

With such financial power, the billionaire built entire neighborhoods in his native Medellin, realizing that the support of the population would be able to protect him in the fight against the authorities. Once even a drug dealer ran for president of Colombia, and could well have entered the top 10 if, due to criticism and accusations of the Minister of Justice of "dirty cocaine money" did not lose the election. Soon, the minister was shot in his own car.

Escobar was killed in 1993 by a sniper shot in the head during an operation by the authorities

1. Amado Fuentes ($ 25 billion) - sovereign of heaven

He presented a list of underworld figures who made billions in drugs, racketeering and smuggling.

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Pablo Escobar

From 1981 to 1986, the Medellin cartel, led by Escobar, had revenues of $ 7 billion, while the drug lord took 40%. The cartel received the main wealth from cocaine smuggling in the United States - in the late 80s it owned 80% of the entire cocaine market in the world. According to Business Insider, Escobar earned $ 420 million a week.

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Joaquin Guzman

In 2009, Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman, nicknamed El Chapo (Shorty), was put on the list of the richest people on the Forbes planet with a fortune of $ 1 billion. The Sinaloa Cartel, led by Guzman, was responsible for 25% of drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States. Shorty was first arrested in 1993, but he escaped from prison in 2001. The last time Mexico's intelligence services captured Guzman in Sinaloa in January 2016.

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Brothers Ochoa and Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha

In 1987, along with Escobar, the co-founders of the Medellin cartel - Jorge Luis Ochoa-Vazquez with the brothers Juan David and Fabio, who received 30% of the cartel's revenue, were included in the list of the richest Forbes. The Ochoa brothers remained on the Forbes list for another six years, until they surrendered to the authorities. Drug lord Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, who worked both with the Medellin cartel and independently, was also a billionaire - in 1988, Forbes estimated his fortune at $ 1.3 billion.

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Rafael Caro Quintero and Amado Carrillo Fuentes

Before the star of El Chapo rose in Mexico, two names rattled there - Rafael Caro Quintero (pictured) and Carrillo Fuentes. The head of the Guadalajara cartel, Rafael Quintero, owned a marijuana plantation called Rancho Bufalo. The cartel earned $ 5 billion a year. Carrillo Fuentes led the cartel of Juarez. The Washington Post estimated its fortune at $ 25 billion. Fuentes earned the nickname Lord of Heaven for an extensive fleet to transport cocaine to the United States.

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Morris Dalitz

In the era of prohibition, this legendary gangster was engaged in bootlegging, and later - in gambling and real estate. In 1982, Dalitz was on the Forbes list of richest people along with artist Yoko Ono, actor Bob Hope and mafia accountant Meyer Lansky. The fortune of Dalitz was estimated at 110 million dollars, but how much he actually earned remains a question.

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Khun Sa

Born Chang Shifu, who later changed his name, led the Burmese army cultivating opium in the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia. In the 70–80s, the Sa army controlled the Thai-Burmese border and was responsible for 45% of pure heroin entering the United States. Business Insider estimated the status of the "Opium King" at $ 5 billion.

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Griselda Blanco

The Western press called the Colombian Griselda Blanco "The Godmother of Cocaine." Blanco was one of the key figures in the cocaine trade in Miami in the 70s and 80s. According to Business Insider, her fortune was approaching $ 2 billion.

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Al capone

At the time of his death in 1947, his fortune was estimated at $ 1.3 billion. In 1929, the American government declared him "Enemy No. 1." Prosecutors repeatedly sentenced Capone to imprisonment, but a few months later he was released. As a result, in 1931, Capone could only be convicted of tax evasion - for 11 years.

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Dawood Ibrahim

Business Insider estimated the income of India's most wanted criminal at $ 6.7 billion. His crime syndicate D-Company is accused of terrorist attacks in Mumbai in 1993 and 2008, and was also involved in the smuggling of drugs and weapons. According to one version, Cascar is hiding in Pakistan.

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Anthony Salerno

The gangster-led Genovese clan was engaged in racketeering and drugs in New York. According to The New York

Since the publication of the first list of the richest Forbes in 1982, the magazine includes drug lords and gangsters - once organized crime is part of the global economy, these revenues must be calculated. For example, according to The Guardian, the Calabrian mafia Ndrangheta in 2013 was enriched more than Deutsche Bank and McDonald's combined - by € 53 billion. The odious figures of the underworld who made millions and billions - Pablo Escobar, “Shorty ", Al Capone, Tony Salerno and others - in the Forbes photo gallery.

Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was the first criminal to end up on the Forbes list of “100 international billionaires” in 1987 with an income of $ 3 billion. He dropped out only after his death in 1993. The Medellin cartel headed by Escobar from 1981 to 1986 had revenue of $ 7 billion, the drug lord took 40%. The cartel received the main wealth from cocaine smuggling in the USA (about 15 tons daily), in the late 1980s it owned 80% of the entire cocaine market in the world. According to Business Insider, Escobar earned $ 420 million a week, according to other sources, his fortune totaled more than $ 30 billion.

Each year, the king of cocaine lost about $ 2.1 billion (10% of revenue), since the money was randomly stored in warehouses and abandoned farms, they were destroyed by mold and rodents. Each month, he spent $ 2,500 on gum, which fastened notes. Once Escobar burned $ 2 million to warm his daughter: the family was hiding in the mountains then, and there was nothing to light a fire from. In 1984, the cartel offered to pay for Colombia's national debt in exchange for immunity. For the head of Escobar, the Drug Enforcement Administration awarded a reward of $ 11 million. In 1991, the drug lord made a deal with the Colombian government to build his own La Catedral prison (with a football field and his chosen guards), to which the authorities could not get closer than 5 km

The life of the drug lord was so bright that Netflix in 2015 released the series Narco dedicated to him.

Joaquin Guzman Loera

Joaquin Guzman Loera
Photo Pedro Mera / Xinhua / ZUMAPRESS / TASS

In 2009, Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman Loera, nicknamed “Shorty,” was put on the list of the richest people in the Forbes planet with a fortune of $ 1 billion. In 2012 and 2013, he ranked 63 and 67 among the most influential people in the world. Strategic Forecasting Inc. and at all estimated his wealth at $ 12 billion. The Sinaloa cartel, led by Loehr, was responsible for 25% of drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States and received $ 3 billion in revenue. The New York Times, citing drug enforcement administration, writes that the cartel sold more cocaine more than Escobar at the peak of his career.

Shorty started his business in the early 1990s, transporting cocaine, including in cans of chili peppers (in 1993, Mexican authorities confiscated such a 7-ton load). He was declared the “most wanted person in Mexico” with a reward for the capture of $ 7 million: $ 5 million from the United States and another $ 2 million from Mexico.

He was first arrested in 1993, but he escaped from prison in 2001. The next time he was caught in 2014, however, less than a year later Guzman fled again, breaking through a 1.5-kilometer tunnel under his camera. At the zenith of fame, Guzman (or someone on his behalf) in 2015 began to send death threats to Donald Trump. In the same year, Guzman threatened to kill the leader of the Islamic terrorist organization Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi for destroying a shipment of drugs and interfering in the affairs of his drug cartel.

The last time the Mexican intelligence services captured Loera in Sinaloa in January 2016. The drug lord destroyed vanity. He was going to make a biographical film about himself and conducted a casting. In addition, actor Sean Penn flew to the Shorty to meet for an interview. It is believed that the authorities were able to track the movement of the offender, including due to this. Now he is being tried in the USA, and the drug lord is facing life imprisonment.

Brothers Ochoa and Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha

In 1987, along with Escobar, the co-founders of the Medellin cartel, Jorge Luis Ochoa-Vazquez (with an income of $ 2 billion), with their brothers Juan David and Fabio, who received 30% of the cartel’s revenue, were included in the list of the richest Forbes. The Ochoa brothers remained on the Forbes list for another 6 years until they surrendered to the authorities.

The drug lord Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, who lived at the same time, worked both with the Medellin cartel and independently: (for example, transporting cocaine disguised as flower deliveries to the USA from Bogotá) was also a billionaire. In 1988, Forbes estimated his fortune at $ 1.3 billion. Gacha stayed on the list for two years until he was shot dead by Colombian police.

Rafael Caro Quintero and Amado Carrillo Fuentes

Before the Mexican star of the drug shortcut “Shorties” ascended, two names rattled there - Rafael Caro Quintero (pictured) and Carrillo Fuentes. The head of the Guadalajara cartel, Rafael Quintero, owned a marijuana plantation called Rancho Bufalo. During the 1984 police raid, about 6,000 tons of marijuana were seized at the ranch, which, according to The Wall Street Journal, cost Quintero from $ 3.2 to $ 8 billion. The Guadalajara cartel earned $ 5 billion a year. There were rumors in the Mexican press that Quintero, following Escobar, was offering to pay Mexico's foreign debt in exchange for his freedom. The drug lord was arrested in 1985, and in 1989 was sentenced to 40 years in a Mexican prison (by then he had already served 4 years). But 28 years later he was released.

The second Mexican drug lord is Carrillo Fuentes, head of the Juarez cartel. The Washington Post estimated his fortune at $ 25 billion. It is believed that wealth allowed him to escape justice for many years. Fuentes earned the nickname Lord of Heaven for an extensive fleet (22 aircraft) for transporting cocaine to the United States. Fuentes died in 1997 during a plastic surgery to change the appearance.

Moritz (Mo) Dalitz was one of such legendary gangsters as Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel. In the era of prohibition, he was engaged in bootlegging, and later - in gambling and real estate. In 1982, Dalitz was on the first list of the richest Forbes along with artist Yoko Ono, actor Bob Hope and mafia accountant Meyer Lansky. Dalitz’s fortune was estimated at $ 110 million, but how much he actually earned remains a question.

Dalitz received a substantial share of the wealth from the first Las Vegas casinos. In 1949, he co-founded the Desert Inn Casino and Stardust Hotel. In the 1950s, he took part in the emergence of the Paradise Development Company, which built a university and conference center in Las Vegas. In the 1960s, he invested in the $ 100 millionth La Costa Resort complex near San Diego, after which he sued $ 640 million with Penthouse magazine, who wrote that the construction was funded by the mafia. Unlike many colleagues in the criminal past, Dalitz has lived to old age, in recent years he has been engaged in charity work.

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The fortune of Khun Sa, the "Opium King", Business Insider was estimated at $ 5 billion. Native Chang Shifu, the son of a Chinese woman and a Shan woman, in the 1960s changed his name to the pseudonym Khun Sa, which means "Prince is prosperous." During these years, he led the Burmese army, engaged in the cultivation of opium in the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia, which included 20,000 men. In the 1970s and 80s, the Sa army controlled the Thai-Burmese border and was responsible for 45% of pure heroin entering the United States, for which the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) called it “the best in business” (The Economist data).

For the head of the "Opium King" the US government has appointed a reward of $ 2 million. By the 1990s, the DEA was able to destroy the trading chain of Sa, he moved to Yangon and retired. Currently, opium production in the Golden Triangle has fallen to 5% of the global figure (in 1975 it was 70%).

There are various versions of whether the drug lord saved billions before his death in 2007, from “lived in luxury” to “was content with a modest pension”.

The Western press called the Colombian Griselda Blanco the “Godmother of Cocaine”. Blanco was one of the key figures in the cocaine trade in Miami in the 1970s and 1980s. Even in the male drug business, she had a reputation as a ruthless businessman. According to Business Insider, her fortune was approaching $ 2 billion, however, she was far from the income of Exobar.

Three times a widow, whose spouses died, according to rumors, from her hands, one of the sons she named Michael Corleone. According to The Guardian, its distribution network made tens of millions of dollars and transported about 1,500 kg of cocaine per month. Before his arrest in 1985 in California, The Godmother was on the list of the most dangerous drug dealers along with Escobar and the Ochoa brothers. She was charged with 40 to 200 murders in Florida, but the woman was avoided due to a technical error in court: the officer who testified against her was discredited because she had a sex conversation on the phone with the secretary in the prosecutor’s office, Guardian wrote. Blanco was imprisoned in federal prison, deported to Colombia in 2004, where 8 years later she was shot dead by a killer on a motorcycle.

Capone is the most famous American gangster. A character named Al Capone appears in 77 Mafia films.

At the time of his death in 1947, his fortune was estimated at $ 1.3 billion. Capone acted in various criminal areas - bootlegging, racketeering, murder. In 1929, the American government declared him "Enemy No. 1." Prosecutors repeatedly sentenced Capone to imprisonment, but a few months later he was released. As a result, in 1931, Capone could only be convicted of tax evasion - for 11 years. Most of the term he was supposed to spend in Alcatraz.

In 1939, Capone came out, but his health was undermined - he suffered from syphilis and dementia.

In 2012, Forbes reviewed the former Capone property. The Chicago four-bedroom house, which he bought for his first earnings, was valued at $ 450,000, and the mansion in Miami Beach, where he died in 1947, at $ 9.95 million.

Dawood (Daoud) Ibrahim Cascar

The income of India’s most wanted criminal was estimated by Business Insider at $ 6.7 billion. Forbes included Cascara on the list of the most influential people in the world in 2009, 2010 and 2011 (50th, 63rd and 57th, respectively). His crime syndicate D-Company is accused of terrorist attacks in Mumbai in 1993 and 2008, and was also involved in the smuggling of drugs and weapons. The US government believes that Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar is associated with al-Qaida and the Taliban.

Daud Ibrahim is famous not only in India, but also in almost the entire Islamic world. It is believed that he controls the so-called Hawalu is an informal settlement system in the world of Islamic brokers and financiers. In other words, Ibrahim with his group imposed a tribute to thousands of Islamic financiers around the world, thanks to which they managed to make a multi-million state.

Ibrahim is one of the most dangerous criminals on the planet. In the official list of those (compiled by Forbes), he takes third place out of ten. This does not stop Daoud for many years to remain at large and continue to live a luxurious life. It is believed that most of the time he spends in Pakistan, where he has about a dozen of his own residences and as many as three personal airports.

In 1986, Fortune magazine published a list of "The 50 Most Influential Mafia Bosses." The editor-in-chief explained the appearance of the material by the fact that "organized crime is a powerful economic factor." Anthony Salerno, nicknamed "Fat Tony", was also on the list. Genovese clan led by a gangster (300 people) was engaged in racketeering and drugs in New York. According to The New York Times, the clan’s influence extended to Cleveland, Nevada, and Miami, and the areas of interest included construction, usury, and casinos. Since the 1960s, the clan has earned $ 50 million per year. Between 1981 and 1985, Salerno introduced a two percent Mafia tax in New York for all concrete pouring contractors for buildings worth more than $ 2 million. Salerno’s real estate could be $ 1 billion.

In 1988, a gangster was sentenced to 70 years for racketeering and concealing illegal proceeds of $ 10 million per year (only $ 40,000 per year was indicated in the declaration). Four years later, at the age of 80, he died in prison.

In the Fortune list of “The 50 Most Influential Mafia Bosses,” Michael Franzeze was 18th. Franzese, nicknamed Don Yuppie, is the son of a bank robber who made a cartel who was involved in the production of Category B films, the illegal sale of gasoline, car repair and sale scams, and fraudulent loans.

In a week Michael Franzeze received from $ 1 to $ 2 million of income. In 1985, the US government accused him of fraud, stripped $ 4.8 million of assets and ordered $ 10 million to be reimbursed for the illegal sale of gasoline through one-day firms. After eight years in prison and paying $ 15 million, Frances moved to California and decided to make money on his criminal past. He wrote two books - an autobiography, Blood Covenant, and a book with business tips, “I'll Make You an Offer You Can’t Refuse” (I'll Make You An Offer You Can’t Refuse), and sold CBS rights to a miniseries about his life. Now the former gangster lives in a house for $ 2.7 million, drives a Porsche, gives an interview to Vanity Fair and gives lectures at universities.

Shinobu Tsukasa, 74, runs the Yakuza clan called Yamaguchi-gumi. Fortune included Yamaguchi-gumi in the list of the five most powerful mafia groups in the world with an annual profit of $ 6.6 billion. Yamaguchi was founded in the port city of Kobe more than 100 years ago, with 23,400 people. Most of the income comes from the sale of drugs, as well as gambling and extortion.

Shinobu Tsukasa is the sixth clan leader in history. In the 1970s, he was sentenced to 13 years for killing with a samurai sword. In 2005, he was imprisoned for 6 years for possession of a firearm. In 2015, a split occurred in Yamaguchi-gumi. According to Tokyo Reporter, most of the group remained with Tsukas, and 3,000 members formed a new clan led by Kunio Inoue.

Gambino New York boss John Gotti received two nicknames from the press. “Teflon Don” - because it has been invulnerable to justice for a long time. And also Don Don Goldfinch - for expensive custom-made costumes (Brioni for $ 2000 and hand-painted silk scarves for $ 400), a thorough hairstyle, black Mercedes 450 SL and magnificent parties.

Growing up in the South Bronx, Gotti joined the Gambino clan in the 1950s, one of the most powerful syndicates that traded in gambling, extortion, usury, and drugs. The US government suspected that on the way to the post of head of the Gambino, Gotti in 1985 eliminated his predecessor, Paul Castelano. The FBI agent who worked on the Gotti case said that "he was the first donor for the media, never tried to hide that he was a superboss." And his wide lifestyle and external gloss always gave food for articles in tabloids.

According to the New York Times, Gotti received between $ 10 and $ 12 million in revenue annually, and the Gambino clan earned more than $ 500 million a year in the 1980s. Justice got to Gotti only in 1992, 10 years later he died in prison.

Matteo Denaro: the most dangerous of the Italian mafia

One of the pillars of the modern Italian mafia, Matteo Denaro, is not casual, even in Cosa Nostra itself, bears the nickname of the devil. According to him, he personally killed so many people that he would be enough for a small cemetery, and, apparently, there is a lot of truth in these words. He began his criminal path, like many other eminent Italian criminals, in Sicily, where he was born and spent his youth. Quite early on, he had already become a hit man, working for one of D’Ali's Sicilian families.

Subsequently, members of this family were able to fly up very high in the Italian criminal hierarchy, thanks to which Matteo's weight in the criminal world grew day by day. And in 2006-2007. followed by the arrests of the largest mafiosi in the Cosa Nostra, as a result of which Diabolic managed to become the "godfather" of the entire Sicilian mafia. Matteo has been hiding from the police for more than 25 years, and despite the fact that he is a large figure in the criminal world, and also lives a very luxurious life, no one is going to catch and imprison him. Perhaps that is why today he is the idol of all the young Italian mafiosi.

Young people who easily manage millions of dollars just as easily come into conflict with the law. It seems to many of them that the rules are not written for them, but light speeding, drug use or violent behavior are just small pranks that they will “forgive” in court. Who are these majors who attracted the attention of the public and were punished with real fines, prison sentences and correctional labor?

Paris Hilton

The heiress of the founder of a huge hotel empire knows how to be a bad girl not only in reality shows and in films, but also in life. Fame did not benefit her reputation and even led to jail, where Paris spent 45 days. The reason for this was her driving without a license, which had previously been selected for drunk driving.

For the first time, father's millions allowed Paris Hilton to remain at large. She paid a fine of $ 1,500 and served 36 months of probation. And a few years later, Hilton was again arrested in South Africa: this time for marijuana, which she brought to the Brazil-Holland football match. Not very far-sighted on her part!

Martin Shkreli

Martin is a famous American businessman of Albanian descent. Despite his young age, he managed to get two outstanding status at once: a rich man (who became him thanks to the construction of financial pyramids) and the most despised person in the world.

The editors of the site said that the case was in his speculations on the cost of drugs, for which he went straight to court. In addition, he was charged with securities fraud, and a little later, Shkreli was arrested for posts on Facebook’s, where he unsuccessfully joked about Hillary Clinton during her struggle for the presidency.

Raffaello Follieri

Charming, young and dangerous - this is how Rafaello Folieri can be described, who managed to get the heart of actress Anne Hathaway in due time. The girl fell in love recklessly, and Raffaello used her feelings for selfish purposes. Far from being a poor Italian, he threw dust into his eyes and strove to seem like a good-natured rich man, buying jewelry and organizing luxury cruises.

Pretending to be a Vatican expert on real estate, he attracted investment on non-existent objects and fraudulently seized several hundred million dollars. For which he paid - he ended up in jail for 4.5 years. Hathaway, who did not know anything about the "dark" affairs of her boyfriend, was shocked by what was happening and could not move away from the shock for a long time. Later, she met a worthy man and gave birth to a daughter from him.

Yorgos Vakakis

The son and main heir to the Greek millionaire - the owner of the Jumbo supermarket chain - became famous thanks to the sad event that took the life of a young woman with a child. Yogors, driving his expensive Porsche on the Athens-Lamia motorway, was racing at a tremendous speed.

Having lost control, he crashed into a car parked in a parking lot, and then broke through the wall of a nearby building. Young people - and Yogors was in a car with a friend - died on the spot, as did their victims. But everything could have ended differently if Wakakis had obeyed the rules of the road!

Kazimbek Batyrov

Kazimbek Batyrov is a street racer with the experience and part-time son of the millionaire Ashtar Batyrov, who is the owner of the Batyr chicken breeding company, one of the largest in the Russian Federation. According to unofficial data, the major owns at least five luxury cars.

On one of them - the chic “Ferrari” - Batyrov Jr. staged a race through the streets of Moscow, sometimes accelerating to 288 km / h. Over the past few years, he has been issued more than 80 fines, including for drunk driving. For two years he was deprived of a driver’s license, but this did not stop him from further rage at the wheel, threatening the lives of other road users.

Jaycee chan

Jackie Chan is one of the twenty highest paid actors in the world according to Forbes rating. He owns a fortune of 350 million US dollars. It is not surprising that his son leads a luxurious and not always legal way of life. Jaycee Chan was caught storing and using marijuana - at home he found about 10 grams of this prohibited substance.

At first they wanted to convict the young man for three years, but the final sentence turned out to be milder. Jaycey paid a heavy fine and spent only six months behind bars. The father did not try to "buy off" his son, since he considered the punishment to be well deserved.

Adam Jones

Football fans know Adam Jones as a young and promising athlete who played for Sunderland and England. His contracts featured figures of several million pounds, but the young man wanted more thrills that had nothing to do with big money. The editors know.rf notes that Jones could well get into the ranking of famous athletes who had trouble with the law.

Johnson was detained, and then sentenced to 6 years for communication with a minor girl - his fan. Numerous appeals yielded nothing, and the position of the football player in prison is further aggravated by the fact that cellmates regularly threaten his life and health. Once he was even wounded with a knife in the shower.

Nick Hogan

Nick Hogan is known as the son of a wrestling star and film actor Hulk Hogan. Nick is happy to spend his father's money on a very expensive hobby - participation in professional drift competitions. Each next expensive car he buys with only one purpose: to break it in the forbidden street races.

He receives fines for speeding regularly from the age of 16. However, Nick is not upset and even tells in an interview that sometimes he exceeded the permissible speed threshold by three times. Once, careless driving while driving caused a serious accident.

Both the culprit and the victim survived, but the first had to go to court. As a result, Nick spent 500 hours on community service, lost his driver’s license for 3 years, and spent only 166 days in prison (the major was released for exemplary behavior).

Legal troubles more often occur in men than in women - such is the statistics. However, even among the fair half of humanity there are many who are ready for a crime. We suggest you read about famous women who have had problems with the law.
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