Criminal Enterprise

A criminal enterprise is a group or organization that engages in illegal activities for financial gain. These activities may include drug trafficking, money laundering, human trafficking, prostitution, or other forms of organized crime. Criminal enterprises can be highly structured and well-organized, with a hierarchy of leaders, members, and associates, and can operate across national borders.

 

Raising awareness of regional task force | News, Sports, Jobs – The Mining Gazette
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Raising awareness of regional task force | News, Sports, Jobs – The Mining Gazette

HOUGHTON — The goal of National Human Trafficking month is to raise public awareness of its prevalence. However, Michigan is not immune. According to the Upper Peninsula Human Trafficking Task Force (UPHTTF) website, human trafficking affects individuals across the world and right here in Michigan. It is commonly regarded as the second largest criminal enterprise…

AG Rokita asks Hoosiers to watch for signs of human trafficking & report suspicions
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AG Rokita asks Hoosiers to watch for signs of human trafficking & report suspicions

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is asking Hoosiers to stay alert for signs of human trafficking in communities across Indiana and to report any suspicious activities to authorities. People in certain job roles – such as medical professionals, restaurant workers, teachers, and truck drivers – are particularly likely to come into contact with trafficking victims….

WV Legislative Interims: Human trafficking and foster care discussed, said major problems
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WV Legislative Interims: Human trafficking and foster care discussed, said major problems

CHARLESTON (WVDN) – Human trafficking and foster care were on the agenda this week as the Joint Committee on Children and Families met during the second day of January’s Interim Legislative Session. The meeting’s first presenter, West Virginia House of Delegates Counsel Robert Leslie, began by providing committee members with “some background” on the risks of…

AG Knudsen, MTDOJ support stronger penalties and increased prosecutions on Human Trafficking
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AG Knudsen, MTDOJ support stronger penalties and increased prosecutions on Human Trafficking

January 11, 2023 Press Release HELENA – Today, on Human Trafficking Awareness Day, Attorney General Austin Knudsen, Attorney General’s Office prosecutors, Department of Justice human trafficking agents, and other advocates testified in House Judiciary Committee in support of House Bill 112. Sponsored by Rep. Jodee Etchert the legislation will strengthen Montana’s human trafficking laws by…

On Human Trafficking Awareness Day, AG Nessel Announces New Arrest
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On Human Trafficking Awareness Day, AG Nessel Announces New Arrest

LANSING – Today, on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the arrest of Alexzonder Rodriguez, 32, of Detroit, for conducting a criminal enterprise comprised of sex trafficking and prostitution of numerous women in Detroit, Kimball and Port Huron. Rodriguez was arraigned January 7, 2023, in 36th District Court in Detroit…

Detroit man charged with sex trafficking, prostitution on Human Trafficking Awareness Day
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Detroit man charged with sex trafficking, prostitution on Human Trafficking Awareness Day

DETROIT – A Detroit man has been charged with conducting a criminal enterprise comprised of sex trafficking and prostitution of numerous women on Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Alexzonder Rodriguez, 32, was arraigned Saturday (Jan. 7) in the 36th District Court in Detroit on the following counts: Three counts of Forced Labor/Commercial Sex (Sex Trafficking), a…

Verbatim: Human Trafficking Awareness Day
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Verbatim: Human Trafficking Awareness Day

Attorney General Todd Rokita’s office issued the following Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023: January 11 is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day Attorney General Todd Rokita today asked Hoosiers to stay alert for signs of human trafficking in communities across Indiana and to report any suspicious activities to authorities. People in certain job roles – such as…

Epstein’s sex trafficking was aided by JPMorgan, a U.S. Virgin Islands lawsuit says
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Epstein’s sex trafficking was aided by JPMorgan, a U.S. Virgin Islands lawsuit says

The government of the U.S. Virgin Islands alleges in a lawsuit filed this week that JPMorgan Chase “turned a blind eye” to evidence that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein used the bank to facilitate sex-trafficking activities on Little St. James, the private island he owned in the territory until his 2019 suicide. In a more than…

JP Morgan chase lawsuit: US Virgin Islands accuses the bank of aiding Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes
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JP Morgan chase lawsuit: US Virgin Islands accuses the bank of aiding Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes

JP Morgan benefitted from Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes, as per a lawsuit filed by the attorney general of the US Virgin Islands earlier this week. The charges levelled against the bank also mention that it helped Epstein conceal the sexual abuse of underage girls at his property on Little St. James. JP Morgan failed to…

US Virgin Islands suing JPMorgan Chase over Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking
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US Virgin Islands suing JPMorgan Chase over Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking

Documents accuse bank of ‘turning a blind eye’ to illegal activities committed by their client The US Virgin Islands is suing the bank JPMorgan Chase, accusing it of helping Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking of women and girls, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in New York. The documents submitted by the US Virgin…