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Since the new century, there are two academic books focusing on Chinese organized crime. Based on rich empirical work, these books offer how Chinese criminal organizations survive in the changing socio-economic and political environment. Y. K. Chu's Triads as Business [2] looks at the role of Hong Kong Triads in legal, illegal and international ...
In the early 1980s, a struggle existed amongst the Flying Dragons' leadership with Chen holding the position that the gang should stick to traditional racketeering with the crimes of extortion and gambling. Chen's rival was his underling Johnny "Machine Gun" Eng. Eng wanted to expand into more lucrative crimes such as heroin trafficking. A ...
The Flying Dragons (traditional Chinese: 飛龍幫; simplified Chinese: 飞龙帮; Jyutping: Fei1lung4bong1), also known as FDS, was a Chinese American street gang that was prominent in New York City's Chinatown from the 1970s to the early 1990s.
Revenge of the Green Dragons is a 2014 crime drama film directed by Andrew Lau and Andrew Loo, written by Michael Di Jiacomo and Andrew Loo, with Martin Scorsese as an executive producer. The film stars Justin Chon , Kevin Wu , Harry Shum Jr. , Eugenia Yuan , Geoff Pierson and Ray Liotta .
Another survey said that, like smaller gangs like the Green Dragons, Taiwan Brotherhood and Golden Star appear to have a maximum of 20 core members and 50 peripheral members. Elizabeth Glazer, the chief of the organized crime unit in the United States Attorney's office for the Southern District, described the White Tigers as a relatively ...
The Black Dragons (Chinese: 黑龍; Jyutping: Haak 1 Lung 4) was a Chinese-American criminal organization and street gang that was formed in 1980 by Chinese immigrants in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, California. It was started by a group of young men who banded together to protect themselves from other Asian and Latino gangs.
Johnny Eng (born ca. 1958) (Chinese: 伍少衡; Jyutping: ng5 siu3 hang4), also known as Onionhead (Chinese: 蔥頭; Jyutping: cung1 tau4) or Machinegun Johnny, [1] is a Hong Kong-born American gang leader and drug trafficker. Eng was the former head (dai-lo) of the Flying Dragons gang in New York City.
The Golden Dragon Massacre led to the establishment of the SFPD's Chinatown (later Asian) Gang Task Force, [48] [79] credited with ending gang-related violence in Chinatown by 1983. [80] The Task Force's first credited arrest was for Michael Louie, the reputed 21-year-old leader of the Wah Ching who was one of the targets in the Golden Dragon ...