"The Torn-Up Credit Card Application – I get a heck of a lot of credit card applications in the mail. I almost always tear credit card applications in half and throw them away. Is that good enough? Could a determined and dexterous criminal gather all the bits, tape them together and apply for a credit card in my name?"

Three years ago detectives and a social worker arrived at a dilapidated house in Plant City and made a heartbreaking discovery: A tiny girl living in a dark closet.

Very good advice.

The “pump-n-dump” spam was taking advantage of “penny” stocks and was going after small companies. If “short-n-distort” is a new trend in stock manipulation spam, then it will target big, well-known companies.

Organized crime appears to have a hand in trash collection all over the world, from Naples to Tony Soprano's northern New Jersey. Why are gangsters always hauling garbage?

By Ed Burns, Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon
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