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Interactions between the Mafia and Yakuza #992740
06/15/20 04:54 PM
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Was wondering if there were any high-level interactions between the American Mafia and the Yakuza.

Also, what do both criminal gangs think of each other?

Re: Interactions between the Mafia and Yakuza [Re: Njein] #992759
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In 95 and 96, the US mafia allegedly got in touch with three Yakuza leaders : Yoshi Teriyaka (Boryokudan clan), Kasuo Taopka (Yamaguchi Gumi Clan) and Masao Ori (Sumiyoshi Kai clan) in order to develop a pornography business with them.

In 97 and 98, it is also alleged that Yakuza henchmen were involved in the Killing of Marvin Jarv, the leader of the Jamaican posse in NYC who tried to move on the Mob territory in the Bronx.

Apparently Bonanno capo Mickey Zaffarino was the main point of contact between the Mob and the Yakuza.

To be honest, this is all single source and it has never been confirmed.

Re: Interactions between the Mafia and Yakuza [Re: Njein] #992768
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Allen Dorfman was under surveillance at a golf tournament in Nevada also attended by senior yakuza. There have been several meetings in the casino business in the 70s/80s.

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Re: Interactions between the Mafia and Yakuza [Re: Hollander] #992769
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I'm sure I read somewhere once that members of the outfit were involved in some sort of white slavery ring sending blonde girls to Japan. Also, I think they have had a base in Vegas and Hawaii. I found this article about Yakuza associates and operatives running a drug ring in Chicago.

ASIAN RACKETS TIED TO DRUG KILLINGS
John O`Brien and Ronald Koziol
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
ALas Vegas drug operation with ties to the centuries-old Japanese criminal underworld known as Yakuza has been linked to at least six unsolved murders in Chicago, according to police and federal agents.

Authorities also suspect the Yakuza of smuggling large quanities of cocaine and amphetamines into the city from Honolulu, through an operation headed by Richard and George Kaneshiro, of Las Vegas, 51-year-old cousins and frequent travelers to the West Coast and Hawaii.

Police describe the Kaneshiro cousins as ''frontline organizers'' in this country for Asian racketeers with ties to members of the Yakuza in Hawaii.

Law enforcement sources say the Kaneshiros, both naturalized U.S. citizens, are associates of John Sayin Kim, 56, a reputed boss of organized crime in Hawaii.

Federal agents and police in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Chicago are investigating the possibility that 20 murders, six of them here since 1982, have been committed by people associated with the Kaneshiros.

The six unsolved Chicago murders have been linked by detectives to a West Side crime ring that was supplied with smuggled drugs from Las Vegas. Authorities say they have identified a former Chicago police officer as a suspect in the killings, but no charges have yet been filed. The victims include:

-- Talbert Anderson, 35, one-time welterweight boxing champ and reputed head of the West Side drug business before he and his girlfriend, Karen McGee, 31, were found shot to death in the trunk of a car in 1985. Anderson, a suspect in several murders, lived at 229 N. Long Ave., but frequented Milwaukee, driving there in his luxury Excalibur car valued at $55,000.

-- Ralph Dixon, 39, a reputed drug dealer and former Cook County deputy sheriff, and Crystal Knight, 25, a hairdresser, found with their throats cut in a condominium in Park Forest on Aug. 21, 1983.

-- Earl Williams, 38, a reputed drug dealer, whose frozen body was found in the trunk of stolen car in a police auto pound on March 8, 1983. He had been shot in the head. Police believe he was killed sometime the previous January, when he was reported missing, before the car with his body inside was towed to the pound on Feb. 24 from 158 N. Pine Ave.

-- Ramsey T. Booker, 36, another member of the ring, was found slain in the trunk of a car in Chicago on Jan. 16, 1985. He, too, had been shot in the head.

Las Vegas Metro Police sources say George Kaneshiro, who owns condominiums in California and Honolulu, is known to them as ''the ghost''

because he is rarely seen. Richard Kaneshiro was convicted in 1972 in Hawaii for gun smuggling, according to a government source.

Anderson, the 1969 Chicago Golden Gloves welterweight champ, headed the Kaneshiro operation here before he was slain, according to police homicide officials, who said he ''had delusions of creating a gigantic crime synicate based on the West Side.''

Investigators say that Anderson and another man once schemed to rip off and kill Richard Kaneshiro in Las Vegas. Instead, Anderson shot his unidentified partner to death as the two confronted Kaneshiro at gunpoint.

The grateful Kaneshiro is said to have vowed on the spot to put Anderson in his will and gave him the name Musoko, the Japanese word for son, informants have told police.

Chicago police determined that the Park Forest condo where Dixon and Knight were slain had been rented by a man who identified himself as Musaki Kaneshiro. The suspect, who drove an Excalibur, matched the description of Talbert Anderson. If the man was indeed Anderson, he may have misspelled the Japanese word for son.

A connection between Dixon and Anderson was established in 1977 when they were charged with assaulting a man with a metal pipe. Police at the time described Anderson as ''one of the biggest narcotics dealers on the West Side.''

Investigators said the prime suspect in the Chicago killings is a 39-year-old former Chicago police officer who resigned while under investigation for associating with drug dealers several years ago.

The former officer lists an address in Chicago and claims to work in city real estate sales, yet has been traced by investigators to a home in west suburban Bellwood. They described him as a flashy dresser, who prefers suede jackets and rented luxury cars and has been seen meeting in Las Vegas with the Kaneshiros.

Investigators said he functioned as an enforcer for the drug business until he succeeded Anderson as the local boss when Anderson was murdered.

Police in Hawaii said the ex-lawman was traced to the Bellwood home through telephone records, which established that he had made numerous calls to Hawaii, some to a women`s prison at Kailua. Police said the calls were to a Chicago woman, now serving a five-year sentence for theft in Hawaii. The woman has a lengthy police record here for various crimes and has used 31 aliases.

Police believe the motive for one of the Chicago murders--that of Earl Williams--was a suspicion he was skimming drugs off loads of cocaine and amphetamines shipped to Chicago. Williams, who armed himself with cross-draw revolvers carried in holsters under his armpits, had an arrest record for assault and armed robbery dating from 1962.

They also believe that Booker, a former Chicago firefighter, was killed for becoming an informant following his arrest by police in Las Vegas in 1983 in a raid at the home of Richard Kaneshiro. Booker was alone in the home at the time police reported confiscating 27 guns there.

Las Vegas police have been advised of two additional murders there, but have found neither body.

One of purported victims was the accomplice Anderson is reputed to have shot late in 1982 or early 1983, in order to gain Richard Kaneshiro`s favor.

Chicago police, in their joint investigation of the murders with Las Vegas authorties, were advised earlier this year that insurance magnate Allen Dorfman, an associate of Chicago mobsters, was seen with members of the Yakuza on a local golf course ''a few weeks before he was killed'' in 1983.

The Yakuza claims to trace its origins to the fierce samurai warriors of the 1600s, whose members would protect serfs from feudal warlords.

The name Yakuza comes from a worthless hand in an ancient Japanese card game. When a Yakuza warrior runs afoul of his Oyabun (godfather) he must cut off the tip of one of his own fingers and present it to the Oyabun as penance.

Re: Interactions between the Mafia and Yakuza [Re: Njein] #992773
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I think the Japanese are now mostly restricted to Hawaii.


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