The indictment charges that the gang, whose full name is the United Blood Nation, was involved in crimes that included drug trafficking, credit card fraud, robbery and murder, and had set up crews, known as sets, in several states, including Maryland, Florida and North Carolina.
In a cable to the embassy in Sofia last June, five months before Clinton hosted Bulgaria's foreign minister in Washington, the first request was about government corruption and the links between organised crime groups and "government and foreign entities, drug and human trafficking, credit card fraud, and computer-related crimes, including child pornography".
In addition to terrorism and human trafficking, credit card fraud has been tied to organized crime rings, gang activity and even rogue state-sponsored extremist groups such as Hezbollah.
Now the $8 yellow decal that served as a get-out-of-traffic-free card is about to become meaningless: the privilege, originally set to expire in 2008, was legislatively extended twice, and now ends July 1.
Besides publishing sex trafficking progress cards on various countries, the company is selling a $10 tube of Soft Hands Kind Heart hand cream, $6 of which is being donated to Ecpat.
Merchants pay a monthly subscription for unlimited Belly cards to hand out to customers, in-store marketing materials and secure access to customer data that reveals sales, points and redemption data, as well as insights into foot traffic and card usage patterns.
Merchants pay a monthly subscription unlimited Belly cards to hand out to customers, in-store marketing materials and secure access to customer data that reveals sales, points and redemption data, as well as insights into foot traffic and card usage patterns.
According to Europol, Bulgarian criminal networks were active in 15 E.U. member states, specializing in human trafficking and credit card fraud.
Ms. Carpenter's volume doesn't shrink from New York's present and past bummers, and doesn't traffic in Hallmark card uplift.
It doesn't help that the two sides are unlikely to add to the volume of Christmas card traffic by sending them to each other.
Ms. Darr said establishments like antiques stores and high-end restaurants that had very little smart card traffic had decided to leave the program.
