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How a Chinese American Gangster Transformed Money Laundering

for Drug Cartels

Xizhi Li pioneered a new method

that enriched Latin American drug lords and China’s elite.

A DEA investigation found

the Chinese government may have been involved.

ProPublica

Oct. 11, 2022    5 a.m. EDT

https://www.propublica.org/article/china-cartels-xizhi-li-money-laundering

Gang member Mark with his mother in Venice Beach, 1988.

Mark’s killing four years later

resulted in a major gang race war in west Los Angeles

Tales from the hood: LA’s street gang culture – in pictures

Merrick Morton has been documenting gangs in Los Angeles

for more than 20 years.

Collected in Clique: West Coast Portraits from the Hood,

and published by Hat and Beard Press,

his distinctive style provides an understanding of marginalised communities,

often ignored or shown in crude stereotypes

G

Fri 24 Nov 2023    10.00 CET

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2023/nov/24/
tales-from-the-hood-las-street-gang-culture-in-pictures

Mumbles from the Rollin 60s gang

being arrested on a search warrant,

Los Angeles, mid-1980s

Tales from the hood: LA’s street gang culture – in pictures

Merrick Morton has been documenting gangs in Los Angeles

for more than 20 years.

Collected in Clique: West Coast Portraits from the Hood,

and published by Hat and Beard Press,

his distinctive style provides

an understanding of marginalised communities,

often ignored or shown in crude stereotypes

G

Fri 24 Nov 2023    10.00 CET

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2023/nov/24/
tales-from-the-hood-las-street-gang-culture-in-pictures

How a Gang Hunted and Killed a 15 Year Old

in the Bronx

NYT    10 September 2018

How a Gang Hunted and Killed a 15 Year Old in the Bronx

Video    NYT - Visual Investigations    10 September 2018

The murder of 15-year-old Lesandro Guzman-Feliz,

known as “Junior,”

drew outrage from across the city.

Our investigation retraces his last steps

— and reveals how a recent wave of violence in the Bronx

took the life of a boy just two blocks from his home.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2lQAYj6ucg

USA > gang        UK / USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/
nyregion/venezuelan-gang-aragua-crimes.html

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/06/
1091324194/the-sacramento-mass-killing-involved-at-least-5-shooters-police-say

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/
us/mississippi-prisons.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/
nyregion/ms-13-long-island.html

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=k2lQAYj6ucg

- How a Gang Hunted and Killed a 15 Year Old in the Bronx

Visual Investigations - NYT - 10 September 2018

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/27/
581103921/activists-gang-database-disproportionately-targets-young-men-of-color

http://interactive.wbez.org/everyotherhour/girls-and-guns/ - Sep. 08, 2017

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/
scarred-by-the-past-an-ex-gang-member-aims-for-revival/

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/16/
543830343/ms-13-creates-fear-from-central-america-to-the-u-s

http://www.npr.org/2017/07/28/
539744533/long-island-officials-concerned-with-trump-s-ms-13-crackdown-tactics

http://www.npr.org/2017/07/28/
540077618/president-vows-to-eradicate-ms-13-gang

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/may/17/
dana-lixenberg-imperial-courts-la-project-deutsche-borse

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/apr/11/
thee-almighty-and-insane-chicago-gang-business-cards-in-pictures

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/
opinion/sunday/the-gangs-of-la.html

https://www.npr.org/2017/02/26/
517305270/the-hate-u-give-explores-racism-and-police-violence

MS-13 gang

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/
nyregion/ms-13-long-island.html

http://www.npr.org/2017/07/28/
539744533/long-island-officials-concerned-with-trump-s-ms-13-crackdown-tactics

http://www.npr.org/2017/07/28/
540077618/president-vows-to-eradicate-ms-13-gang

gang > Tren de Aragua        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/
nyregion/venezuelan-gang-aragua-crimes.html

UK > Tales from the hood:

LA’s street gang culture – in pictures        USA

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2023/nov/24/
tales-from-the-hood-las-street-gang-culture-in-pictures

gangland        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/
books/review/
the-talented-mrs-mandelbaum-margalit-fox-incorruptibles-dan-slater.html

gangster

https://www.propublica.org/article/
china-cartels-xizhi-li-money-laundering - October 11, 2022

USA > gangster >

Alphonse Gabriel Capone / Scarface    1899 -1947        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2021/oct/06/
al-capone-at-auction-in-pictures

New York City gang > Nine Trey Gangstas Bloods

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/20/
669652099/rapper-tekashi-6ix9ine-
indicted-for-armed-robbery-racketeering-drug-trafficking

NYC > Bronx > 2Fly YGz street gang

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/nyregion/bronx-
gang-arrests.html

NYC > Bronx > Big Money Bosses gang

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/nyregion/bronx-
gang-arrests.html

gang member

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/
magazine/how-do-you-define-a-gang-member.html

gang kingpin

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/21/
nyregion/kingpin-leads-brick-squad-gang-from-prison.html

USA > gang violence        UK / USA

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/video/2017/jul/10/
chicago-south-side-gang-violence-video

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/10/07/
446300514/when-social-media-fuels-gang-violence

gang warfare

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/
us/mississippi-prisons.html

gang takedown

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/nyregion/
bronx-gang-arrests.html

money laundering

https://www.propublica.org/article/
china-cartels-xizhi-li-money-laundering - October 11, 2022

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