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NEWS ABOUT: illegal activity

illegal activity stories: 5 news summaries

 In Legal Gray Zone, 
 Europeans Harvest 
 Body Parts for US 

Ukrainian company accused of gutting bodies illegally

Aug 30, 09 6:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - A billion-dollar business of shipping body parts from Germany to the US is booming and may be illegal, Der Spiegel reports. The body harvesting is done in the Ukraine, where authorities are investigating allegations that a company has used coercion and fraud to obtain family permission to harvest bodies. The... More »

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organ harvesting • Germany • illegal activity • Ukraine • organ selling

(Newser) - Minnesota wants Internet providers who serve customers in the state to block access to Internet gambling sites, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Officials say the practice is illegal in the state, but how prevalent it is is unclear. “It's hard to know that," a gambling regulator said.... More »

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casino • Minnesota • illegal activity • Internet service providers • online gaming • Internet gambling • state governments

Cheap, Deadly Beauty Fix
On the Rise

Doctors report spike
in illegal injections
of silicone

Apr 17, 09 7:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Illegal and potentially fatal silicone injections—a cheaper way to plump up the body than cosmetic surgery—are on the rise, the New York Times reports. The underground treatment, usually administered at home or at "pumping parties," has spread among Latinas and transgender women attracted by the... More »

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plastic surgery • New York • illegal activity • blood poisoning • medical ethics • silicone injection • pumping party • Fiordaliza Pichardo

Trucks Pack on Illegal Pounds

Light penalties, costly gas make cheating attractive; roads and bridges take beating

Nov 15, 07 1:17 PM CST
(Newser) - More American truckers are carrying illegally heavy loads, looking to offset diminished manpower and skyrocketing fuel prices—and light fines encourage cheating, the Christian Science Monitor reports. With road damage at issue following August's Minnesota bridge collapse, 30% of trucks are reportedly overloaded—and each of the 8 million tractor-trailers... More »

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roadways • Minnesota • illegal activity • damage • trucks

CIA Set to Let Skeletons
Out of Closet

Agency prepares to declassify docs showing decades of abuses

Jun 22, 07 2:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - The CIA is about to release secret records of its illegal activities from the '50s to the '70s, reports the Washington Post. Known as the "family jewels," the long-sought documents detail assassination attempts, kidnappings, wiretaps, drug tests on civilians, monitoring of journalists (including muckraking columnist Jack Anderson), and... More »

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CIA • Jane Fonda • Michael Hayden • family jewels • illegal activity • James Schlesinger • National Security Archive

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