"from police. On July 22, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois, Dillinger was cornered by FBI agents in an alley outside a movie theater, where he was shot and killed by multiple agents. George ""Baby Face"" Nelson, (December 6, 1908 – November 27, 1934) was a bank robber and former associate of John Dillinger. He is notable for having killed more FBI agents in the line of duty than any other person. He was killed in a shootout known as The Battle of Barrington, outside Chicago. Edwin Alonzo Boyd, (April 2, 1914 – May 17, 2002) was a Canadian bank robber and"
"Frank Nash Frank Nash (February 6, 1887 - June 17, 1933) has been called ""the most successful bank robber in U.S. history,"" but he is most noted for his violent death in the Kansas City Massacre. Nash spent part of his childhood in Paragould, Arkansas (Greene County) and was arrested in Hot Springs, Arkansas (Garland County) the day before his death. Frank ""Jelly"" Nash was born on February 6, 1887, in Birdseye, Indiana. His father, John ""Pappy"" Nash, started hotels in several southern towns, including Paragould and Jonesboro (Craighead County) Arkansas, and Hobart, Oklahoma. Nash's mother, Alta, was the second"
"for at least ten separate bank robberies according to the FBI. In addition, the FBI's major case hotline cites a number of initial options to a caller, one of which is for those seeking to provide information to the FBI on the Loan Ranger Bandit. Swicegood is currently incarcerated. http://www.wdrb.com/story/22219426/suspect-sought-in-bank-robbery-on-brownsboro-road Loan Ranger Bandit The Loan Ranger Bandit is an American bank robber that has committed a series of bank robberies throughout the states of Texas, Mississippi, Kentucky and Arkansas, since 2009. The Loan Ranger Bandit has been positively identified as 37-year-old Richard Swicegood of Waxahachie, Texas following a traffic stop"
"pose a threat after all and cancelled the murder contract. By the mid-90s, Palermo was the ""de facto"" boss of the DeCavalcante family, with Riggi reigning as boss ""in absentia"" from jail. In 1998, DeCavalcante associate Ralph Guarino was arrested for stealing $3 million from a Bank of America inside the World Trade Center. To avoid 20 years in prison, Guarino agreed to work as an informant for the FBI, giving the agency information on the actions of DeCavalcante members. The agency gave him cell phones rigged with surveillance equipment to distribute to other family members. In October 1998, Palermo's"
"and credit information of millions of customers. The same ring of hackers also committed intrusions on BJ's Wholesale Club, Boston Market, Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority, Forever 21, DSW, OfficeMax, and Dave & Buster's, and reportedly made a millionaire out of the group's ringleader, Albert Gonzalez. Though he denied having done anything, James—who was friends with some of the hackers involved—was investigated by the Secret Service, who raided James', his brother's, and his girlfriend's houses. Although they apparently discovered no connection to the intrusion, they did discover a legally registered firearm, which they did not take, and notes indicating he"
"tipped off by someone who saw Rogge's photo on the FBI website. While on the run, he spent time in Antigua, Guatemala, where he went by the name Bill Young. Rogge stole more than $2 million and robbed approximately 30 banks in all, and is currently serving a 65-year sentence at Federal Correctional Institution, Sheridan in Sheridan, Oregon. He cannot be released until 2048, when he will be 108. Leslie Isben Rogge Leslie Isben Rogge (born March 8, 1940) is a Canadian bank robber. He is the first FBI Top Ten criminal to be apprehended due to the internet. Rogge"
"Fleagle Gang The Fleagle Gang was a group of early 20th century American bank robbers and murderers. They were found and executed or killed after robbing the First National Bank in Lamar, Colorado. Their cases were the first in which the FBI used a single fingerprint as part of the evidence leading to a conviction. They were also suspected to have committed a series of previous bank robberies over a 10-year period. On May 23, 1928, Ralph Fleagle, his brother Jake Fleagle, George J. Abshier, (a.k.a. Bill Messick), and Howard ""Heavy"" Royston, came in to Lamar, Colorado. They planned to"
"""Bro, I'm Going Rogue: The Wall Street Informant Who Double-Crossed the FBI"" on March 23rd, 2017 covering his work as an FBI informant. Guy Gentile Guy Gentile (born July 3, 1976) is an American business executive, entrepreneur, and high-frequency trading expert. He is the current CEO of Swiss America Securities, Ltd and is best known for founding two prominent high-frequency trading firms. In 1999 Gentile founded ""SpeedTrader"", currently owned by ""Stock USA Investments, Inc"", (formerly ""Speed Trader"", Inc,). Then in 2011 Gentile founded ""SureTrader"", a division of ""Swiss Americas Securities, Ltd"". In less than a year in operation, SureTrader reported"
"is Nick ""The Cat"" Sacco, who is currently in the Federal Witness Protection Program for an unrelated matter. Sacco is collaborating with the author, Daniel Simone, on developing a book about the Pierre Robbery. Pierre Hotel robbery The Pierre endured a $3 million (worth $27million today) hotel robbery on January 2, 1972, by Samuel Nalo and Robert Comfort ""Bobby Comfort"" an associate of the Lucchese Crime Family, Christie 'the Tic' Furnari, and carried out by several of his Gang burglars. This robbery would later be listed in the ""Guinness Book of World Records"" as the largest, most successful hotel robbery"
"Loan Ranger Bandit The Loan Ranger Bandit is an American bank robber that has committed a series of bank robberies throughout the states of Texas, Mississippi, Kentucky and Arkansas, since 2009. The Loan Ranger Bandit has been positively identified as 37-year-old Richard Swicegood of Waxahachie, Texas following a traffic stop by Arkansas State Police in early July, 2014 thanks to his trademark mask, gun and bag with a dollar sign on it. The traffic stop followed a robbery of the Sumit Bank in Benton, Arkansas on July 1, 2014 believed to have been committed by Swicegood. The robber is responsible"
"Leslie Isben Rogge Leslie Isben Rogge (born March 8, 1940) is a Canadian bank robber. He is the first FBI Top Ten criminal to be apprehended due to the internet. Rogge was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia. Rogge was imprisoned at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, in the 1970s for car theft and grand larceny. He was later convicted and sentenced to 25 years for a 1984 bank robbery in Key Largo, Florida. In September 1985, he bribed a corrections officer and escaped from prison in Moscow, Idaho. Following his escape, he went on to commit additional bank"
"Massacre, they kidnapped William Hamm, a millionaire Minnesota brewer. His ransom netted them $100,000. Shortly after this, they abducted St. Paul banker Edward Bremer, whose ransom brought them $200,000. The kidnappings, however, led to the gang's end. The father of the kidnapped Edward Bremer was a friend of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt had even mentioned the kidnapping in one of his fireside chats, and fueled also by the Lindbergh kidnapping, the FBI and local police bureaus greatly stepped up their pursuit of those engaged in these types of crimes. The FBI had by this time organized a group of"
"the Drake Hotel, the Carlyle Hotel and the St. Regis. Nalo was the main planner behind all the heists but Comfort was also a major organizer. It was not until December 30 in the back room of Nalo's night club, the Port Said, that Nalo brought the team together and informed them of their intended target. The team consisted of Lucchese crime family associate Robert ""Bobby"" Germaine, whose job would consist of prying open lock boxes maintained for guests in an open vault; Ali-Ben, a contract killer who worked primarily for the Albanian Mafia; Al Green, the brother-in-law of Ali"
"Jimmy Logue James E. Logue (1837 – October 4, 1899) was a Philadelphia based burglar who is thought to have stolen an accumulative of more than $300,000 over the course of his criminal career. He mostly targeted homes and shops but also occasionally banks and spent time in and out of jail. In brief announcements of his death in 1899, he was referred to as ""the notorious bank robber"". He is perhaps better known for the disappearance of his third wife, Joanna, who was later discovered to have been murdered by her nephew, Alphonso Cutaiar. ""Jimmy"" Logue was born in"
"rob the First National Bank. They met at a ranch near Marienthal, Kansas shortly before the robbery, but Jake Fleagle had planned on robbing the Lamar bank for some time. Like many professional robbers of that time, the Fleagles, together with Abshier, had carefully scouted the bank on several occasions before they decided to commit the crime The gang had maps of the roads of Prowers County, Colorado, and the brothers had been inside the bank building and knew its layout. Abshier said they had weighed the ""possibilities"" and decided that it was a job for no less than four"
"and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment. Burke died in prison in 1940. On January 8, 1935, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents surrounded a Chicago apartment building at 3920 North Pine Grove, looking for the remaining members of the Barker Gang. A brief shootout erupted, resulting in the death of bank robber Russell Gibson. Taken into custody were Doc Barker, Byron Bolton, and two women. While interrogating agents got nothing out of Barker, Bolton (a hitherto obscure criminal) proved to be a ""geyser of information"", as one crime historian called him. Bolton, a former Navy machine-gunner and associate of Egan's"
"bills. He also knew where the recording devices for the security cameras were located and took these. The police immediately realized it was an inside job and closely examined Pace, but could find nothing. The gang worked hard to conceal their new wealth, laundering it through property deals and phony businesses. Eventually, one of the gang members, Eugene Lamar Hill, erred when he gave a real estate broker friend a stack of cash bound together with the original currency straps; Hill's friend went to the police. Arrested, Hill soon confessed and named his co-conspirators. Allen Pace was arrested and sentenced"
"Albert Gonzalez Albert Gonzalez (born 1981) is an American computer hacker and computer criminal who is accused of masterminding the combined credit card theft and subsequent reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 to 2007: the biggest such fraud in history. Gonzalez and his accomplices used SQL injection to deploy backdoors on several corporate systems in order to launch packet sniffing (specifically, ARP Spoofing) attacks which allowed him to steal computer data from internal corporate networks. During his spree, he was said to have thrown himself a $75,000 birthday party and complained about having to"
"criminal and a suspect in the famous Lufthansa heist. He was the older brother of Jesse James Burke, born circa 1960, and Catherine, who was wed to the mobster Anthony Indelicato in 1992. (Another daughter remains unidentified.) As of 2006 Catherine is still living in Howard Beach, Queens, New York. Frank James was said to have a striking physical resemblance to his father. His father named him after the famous American outlaw Frank James; his brother was named for Jesse James. When Bonanno soldier and enforcer Frankie Saggio years later asked Frank's brother, Jesse James Burke, why their father named"
"two sisters, Dolores and Phyllis, and two brothers, Robert and Anthony. Both of DeSimone's brothers were associates of the Gambino crime family; Anthony was murdered by mobster Thomas Agro in 1979. Phyllis was James Burke's mistress from the time she turned 16. DeSimone was the brother-in-law of mobster Joseph ""The Barber"" Spion, who was slain for refusing to help kill DeSimone in the late 1970s. DeSimone was also the ex-son-in-law of Gambino associate Salvatore DeVita. DeSimone's father owned a printing shop, which he lost due to a compulsive gambling addiction. Both his paternal grandfather, Rosario DeSimone, and uncle, Frank DeSimone,"
"ideas of how to get rid of the money but ultimately was unable to follow through on any plans before FBI agents came to arrest him at his Staten Island home. Following his arrest, Guarino agreed to become an FBI informant on the DeCavalcante mafia family. 1998 Bank of America robbery The 1998 Bank of America robbery was a robbery of $1.6 million in cash at the Bank of America in 1 World Trade Center, in New York City, on January 14, 1998. The robbery was plotted and executed by an actor and petty criminal named Ralph Guarino. Guarino received"
"September 11 in the World Trade Center. Windows on the World executive chef Michael Lomonaco and owner-operator David Emil were among the founders of that fund. It has been speculated that ""The Falling Man"", a famous photograph of a man dressed in white falling headfirst on September 11, was an employee at Windows on the World. Although his identity has never been conclusively established, he was believed to be Jonathan Briley, an audio technician at the restaurant. On March 30, 2005, the novel ""Windows on the World"", by Frédéric Beigbeder, was released. The novel focuses on two brothers, aged 7"
"a series of interviews, Diehl-Armstrong admitted to providing the kitchen timers used for the bomb, and said that Rothstein was the mastermind of the plot and that Wells had been directly involved in the plan. An FBI affidavit reported that two witnesses confirmed that Wells had conversations about the robbery about a month before it occurred. In late 2005, Kenneth Barnes, an ex-television repairman in jail on unrelated drug charges and friend of Diehl-Armstrong, was turned in by his brother-in-law after revealing details of the crime to him. Barnes told investigators that he would tell them the whole story in"
"recipient Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer (intelligence officer). In Lance's book ""Triple Cross"", Lance writes of Lt. Col. Shaffer's involvement in Operation Able Danger, a secret data-mining operation run from 1998-1999 that uncovered evidence that Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker in the 9/11 plot, had been on the DOD's radar months prior to when the 9/11 Commission claimed he'd entered the U.S. Lance's research into the FBI and its close relations with Mafia informants began at ABC News ""Nightline,"" and was further informed by the nonfiction bestseller, ""Murder, Inc. The Story of the Syndicate"" by Brooklyn Assistant D.A. Burton Turkus and"
"2025. Albert Gonzalez Albert Gonzalez (born 1981) is an American computer hacker and computer criminal who is accused of masterminding the combined credit card theft and subsequent reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 to 2007: the biggest such fraud in history. Gonzalez and his accomplices used SQL injection to deploy backdoors on several corporate systems in order to launch packet sniffing (specifically, ARP Spoofing) attacks which allowed him to steal computer data from internal corporate networks. During his spree, he was said to have thrown himself a $75,000 birthday party and complained about having"
"John Paul Chase John Paul Chase (December 26, 1901 – October 5, 1973) was an American bank robber and Depression-era outlaw. He was a longtime criminal associate of the Karpis-Barker Gang and most notably Baby Face Nelson who later brought him into the John Dillinger gang. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover once referred to Chase as ""a rat with a patriotic-sounding name"". Chase and Nelson continued to rob banks with John Dillinger until Dillinger's death in July 1934. After the death of Nelson in November 1934, Chase fled back to California where he was arrested a month later on December"
"Frank Calabrese Sr. Frank Calabrese Sr. (March 17, 1937 – December 25, 2012), also known as ""Frankie Breeze"", was a made man and a caporegime who ran major loansharking and illegal gambling operations for the Chicago Outfit. He is best known as a central figure in Operation Family Secrets and the subsequent Federal trial. Calabrese, who was battling myriad ailments, died on Christmas Day 2012 at the Federal Medical Center, Butner, in North Carolina. Frank Calabrese Sr. was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 17, 1937 to James and Sophie Calabrese. Calabrese grew up on the West Side of Chicago,"
"in Missouri. Eventually traced to Kansas City, Lewing was arrested by FBI agents on February 6, 1967 and later convicted of several federal bank robbery charges. Robert Van Lewing Robert Van Lewing (March 27, 1921 - December 17, 1983) was an American bank robber and listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list from 1966-1967. A long time career criminal, Lewing's criminal record included prior arrests and convictions on a number of armed robbery charges before being officially added as the 226th fugitive to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list on January 12, 1966. In March 1966, entered a St."
"to police after both were wounded in a second gunfight. George Kimes was sentenced to 25 years for bank robbery and sent to McAlester state penitentiary while Matthew was given 30 years for the death of police officer Perry Chuculate. On November 21, 1926, Terrill led a raid on the Sallisaw jail with Herman Barker and Elmer Inman and broke out their newest recruit, Matthew Kimes. The gang's first robbery occurred on January 10, 1927, when Kimes, Terrill and Barker stole $42,950 from a bank in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. A week later, the three men were caught by police burglarizing a"
"Granddad Bandit The Granddad Bandit is a serial bank robber, notable for both his age and proficiency at robbing banks. From 2008 to 2010, he robbed at least 21 banks in the Eastern and Central United States. He was nicknamed the ""Granddad Bandit"" because of his age, appearance, and manner of dress. He robs bank by handing a note demanding cash to the teller. He did not use a disguise during the robberies other than sometimes wearing a hat. He was wanted in 12 states and by the FBI. He surrendered peacefully on August 13, 2010 after a 6-hour standoff"
"Luke Elliott Sommer Luke Elliott Sommer (born June 26, 1986, in Peachland, British Columbia) is a former United States Army Ranger and bank robber. After almost two years under house arrest in Canada, he pleaded guilty on May 27, 2008 to the August 7, 2006 robbery of a branch of the Bank of America in Tacoma, Washington. On August 7, 2006, four men brandishing weapons robbed the Bank of America branch in South Tacoma of $54,011. While two robbers with automatic rifles covered the bank's entrances, the other two, with handguns, moved swiftly to confront the tellers. The gang's leader"
"Johnny Madison Williams Jr. Johnny Madison ""The Shootist"" Williams Jr. (born January 19, 1951) is one of the most successful bank robbers in American history. After his arrest on July 9, 1994, Williams confessed to robbing 56 banks across the states of California, Texas, and Washington over an eight-year period, often with the help of his wife, Carolyn. Williams kept a meticulous record of his heists, reporting his career total as $879,357. By the time of his apprehension, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were not even aware of 8 of his robberies. The FBI, in the course of tracking"
"Leo Vincent Brothers Leo Vincent Brothers a.k.a. """"Vincent Bader"""" (1899 – 1950) was an early 20th-century gangster who gained notoriety throughout the underworld after being convicted of the 1930 murder of Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle. Starting out as a low-level member of the St. Louis gang known as the Egan's Rats, Brothers was once the manager and a bouncer at The Green Mill in Chicago. Brothers soon graduated into labor racketeering and contract murder. Dodging a 1929 murder indictment, Brothers fled to Chicago, where he found work in the Chicago Outfit, under the notorious crime boss, Al Capone. Leo"