Officials said the Black-Top gang was able to maintain its Old Broadway stronghold despite what they called "consistent enforcement efforts".
Nevertheless, the gang was able to get away with raping, abusing and selling them for sex over an eight-year period.
Mr. Bulger's gang was able to take over the rackets in Boston, sell drugs and even commit murder while the F.B.I. looked the other way.
The fake was embossed and, using a hologram stamp imported from Russia, the gang were able to produce near-perfect replicas of Visa, Amex and MasterCard.
The fact that the gang was able to continue its brutal sexual abuse despite the concerns of social workers and reports to police officers at a relatively early stage will now be the subject of an independent investigation.
Other new arrivals were joining MS-13 after they came to the U.S. Their isolation at school and at home — many hadn't seen their parents since they were toddlers — created a void that the gang was able to fill.
The motorcycle gang was able to set up a network that extends from coast to coast, gradually establishing chapters in each province.
In some cases, Chinese and South Korean Internet gangs were able to get away with paying as little as $3,000.
But separate from that, part of the reason that these gangs are able to take over communities is because they supplant the state," he says.
The rapid explosion of South Africa's poaching crisis shows how quickly criminal gangs are able to scale up operations once they set up in a country.
