American criminals

Abdul Rahman Al-Amoudi, born in Eritrea and raised in Yemen, is the founder of the American Muslim Council and was involved with the selection of Muslim chaplains for the U.S. military. He once publicly expressed his support of Hamas and Hezbollah, and was convicted of illegal business dealings with Libya. al-Amoudi, who became a U.S. citizen in 1996, was arrested at Dulles International Airport; he is currently serving a 20 year sentence. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi"

Adam Blue Galli was one of a group of criminals known as the "Preppie Bandits" (due to their cleancut appearance, a propensity for dressing like "preppies", and their habit of hanging out in Salt Lake City's most upscale coffeeshops). They operated in and around Salt Lake City, Utah in 1992. The other members were his brother Aaron Galli and his cousins Nathan and Christopher. He fled the state after being charged with murder and robbery, and was recaptured after being featured on America's Most Wanted. In an odd twist, patrons and employees at the restaurant where the murder occurred were watching the program, and alerted police to the presence of another person featured on the same episode, who was currently working at the same restaurant. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adam Blue Galli"

Adam Kidan is a former business associate of indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, having partnered with Abramoff in the purchase of SunCruz Casinos. On December 15, 2005, Kidan plead guilty to conspiracy and fraud in connection with these business dealings. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adam Kidan"

Adam Rich (born in Brooklyn, New York City, on October 12 1968) is an United States actor.. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adam Rich"

Adeline Miller, alias Adeline Furman, was an American madam and prostitute. According to her contemporary George Templeton Strong, Miller had been active in New York City prostitution since the late 1810s.Gilfoyle 70-1. By 1821, she was running a bordello on Church Street, where she had accumulated personal effects worth at least $500.Gilfoyle 71. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adeline Miller"

Adrian Lamo (born 1981, in Boston, Massachusetts), is an infamous gray hat hacker best known, despite having no formal education in programming or computer security, for breaking into The New York Times computer network and his subsequent arrest. He is also known for attempting to identify security flaws in computer networks of Fortune 500 companies and then notifying them of any found; while still illegal in most places without permission, this can be seen as a form of unsolicited penetration testing. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adrian Lamo"

Albert Bacon Fall ( November 26, 1861– November 30, 1944) Senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding, notorious for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert B. Fall"

Allen West was one of the conspirators who took part in the preparation and planning of the 1962 escape from Alcatraz prison. The escape was planned by West, Frank Morris, and brothers John and Clarence Anglin. West was the only conspirator who did not actually participate in the escape. The other three were never seen again and were presumed drowned. ...more on Wikipedia about "Allen West"

Arthur "Butchy" Doe Jr. was an Irish-American mobster from Charlestown, Massachusetts. He is remembered for his harrowing escapes. His father was Arthur Doe, Sr. who was killed in the late 1960's in Boston. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur "Butchy" Doe"

Arthur Herman Bremer (born August 21 1950), the son of a Milwaukee truck driver, shot US Democratic presidential candidate George Wallace on 15 May 1972 in Laurel, Maryland, leaving him paralyzed for life. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur Bremer"

Bernard L. Barker, former member of the Cuban secret police under the Batista regime and subsequently one of the " Plumbers", the Nixon White House's so-called "Special Investigations Unit", was one of the five burglars paid by the Committee to Re-elect the President, Nixon's re-election campaign fundraising committee, and convicted in the Watergate scandal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bernard Barker"

William "Bill" Doolin ( 1858–August 1896) was an American bandit and founder of the Wild Bunch, an outlaw gang that specialized in robbing banks, trains and stagecoaches in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas during the 1890s. Doolin, born near Clarksville, Arkansas, was originally a member of the Dalton Gang, until forming his own in 1893. The Wild Bunch were the most powerful outlaw group in the West until Doolin was captured in a Eureka Springs bathhouse in early 1896; Doolin escaped on July 5 of that year, but was killed by deputy U.S. Marshall Heck Thomas in an ambush in the next month. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bill Doolin"

William John "Bill" Janklow (born September 13, 1939), American politician with the Republican Party, was a four-term Governor of South Dakota and briefly a member of the United States House of Representatives. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bill Janklow"

Robert Alphonso Taft II (born January 8, 1942) has been the Republican governor of the U.S. state of Ohio since 1999. He's best known beyond the state's boundaries for the recent corruption scandal(s) under his administration, particularly Coingate. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bob Taft"

William Marcy Tweed ( April 3, 1823– April 12, 1878), commonly known as Boss Tweed, was an American politician and political boss of Tammany Hall who became an icon of urban political machines. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boss Tweed"

Brad Barron Renfro (born 25 July, 1982 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA) is an American actor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brad Renfro"

When former President of the United States Bill Clinton left office he granted 140 pardons. One of the pardons was given to Carlos Vignali, who was serving the 6th of 15 years in prison for organized cocaine trafficking. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carlos Vignali"

Caryl Whittier Chessman ( May 27, 1921 – May 2, 1960) was the man convicted in an American court for supposedly being the "Red Light Bandit", who was known for robbing women in their cars and sometimes forcing them out of the car to perform sex acts. Chessman was given the death penalty in 1948 and executed in 1960, but he claimed his innocence, and argued this convincingly, until the end. His case attracted world-wide attention and as a result he became a cause célèbre of the movement to ban capital punishment. ...more on Wikipedia about "Caryl Chessman"

Charles Wendell "Chuck" Colson (born October, 1931) was the chief counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973. His later life has been spent working with his nonprofit organization devoted to prison ministry called Prison Fellowship. Colson is also a public speaker and author. He is the chairman of the Wilberforce Forum, a conservative Christian political and social think tank and action group active in the promotion of intelligent design in education and in biotechnology and bioethics issues, such as human cloning and stem cell research. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Colson"

Charles A. Graner, Jr., (born 1968) is a U.S. Army reservist and one of several soldiers charged by the Army in connection with the 2003–2004 Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal during the invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq. Graner, with other soldiers, is accused of allowing and inflicting sexual, physical, and psychological abuse of Iraqi prisoners of war in Abu Ghraib, a notorious prison in Baghdad. Due to his acts, Graner has been accused of being a torturer, sadist, and war criminal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Graner"

Charles H. Keating Jr. (born 1923 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a U.S. American lawyer and banker convicted of fraud in the Savings and Loan scandal of 1989. A conservative Catholic active in the Republican Party, he was formerly involved in anti- pornography efforts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Keating" shortopedia - Xtending Info.

Chris Harn (b. 1973) was a computer programmer and Autotote employee in Newark, Delaware who pled guilty in 2002 and was sentenced on February 19, 2003 for the " Breeders' Cup Scandal", along with accomplices Derrick Davis and Glen DaSilva. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chris Harn"

Clyde Apperson (born 1955) was arrested in 2000 for allegedly running the largest illicit LSD manufacturing operation in United States history with partner William Leonard Pickard. In 2003 Apperson was sentenced to 30 years of imprisonment without the possibility of parole. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clyde Apperson"

D. B. Cooper was a notorious airplane hijacker who, after receiving a ransom payout of $200,000, leapt from the back of a Boeing 727 as it was flying over the Pacific Northwest. No conclusive evidence has ever surfaced regarding Cooper's whereabouts, and several theories offer competing explanations of what happened after his famed jump. The only clues to have turned up in the case are ambiguous: around $5,000 that washed up on the banks of the Columbia River, and part of a sign believed to be from the rear stairway of the plane from which Cooper jumped. The nature of Cooper's escape and the uncertainty of his fate continue to intrigue people. Today, the Cooper case remains the world's only unsolved skyjacking. ...more on Wikipedia about "D. B. Cooper"

Dan Rostenkowski served in the U.S. Congress as a U.S. Representative for Illinois from 1959 to 1995. He is a Polish- American member of the United States Democratic Party. A product of the Cook County machine and the son of a "ward boss", Rostenkowski was for many years Democratic Committeeman of Chicago's 32nd Ward, retaining this position even while serving in Congress. In Washington he rose by virtue of seniority to the rank of Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee in 1981. As Chairman of Ways and Means, he played an important role in tax and trade policy for more than a decade. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dan Rostenkowski" shortopedia, just the best.

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