WickerMan asked this question on 5/10/2000:
What with law enforcement being budget restricted, and appathy in the general citizenry, are the few remaining crime syndiactes pretty much free to do as they please?
1uglyhombre gave this response on 5/11/2000:
Hi. Yes, money is certainly a factor in law enforcement. My "specialty" (field of knowledge) is the international crime syndicate that calls itself "The Church of Scientology." For one example of why money is a proble, consider that just *ONE* case prosecuted by the Grand Jury against the Scientology crime syndicate costs millions of dollars and produced over 44,000 pages of documents--- and there have been a very great many such cases prosecuting them in the USA, Canada, Creece, Germany, Austrailia, England, and elsewhere. They suck up money best spent on other things, and the people convicted get two or three years in prison.
In 1999 I talked with three different FBI agents in charge of [a crime I will not discuss here]. Each one told me that prosecuting the crime syndicate's [type of crime] would cost more money than what they would be fined. They have enough conclusive evidence to put at least three Scientogists behind prison bars, but it would take ten years and cost millions of dollars. Just look at how long it has taken the state of Florida to convict the crime syndicate of practicing medicine without a liscence!
If you are the kind of person who enjoys reading about sinister, Nazi-like crime syndicates like Scientology, check out the text file at:
http://holysmoke.org/cos/stipul.txt
It makes for some chilling reading when one realizes that they are still doing these things.
If you are not up for some 300 pages of reading, you can view a filmed confession of one member of the crime syndicate who couldn't take the crimes any more and "turned good." See:
http://holysmoke.org/mm/mm.htm
Not my web site, but I like it enough to share it with folks interested in such stuff.
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WickerMan rated this answer a 5.
I'll go take a look.