12 celebrities with shocking ties to organized crime (With Pictures)

Celebrities with shocking ties to organized crime – Celebrities make the same stupid choices and mistakes the rest of us do. A lot of celebrities have committed crimes like drinking while driving, soliciting prostitutes, and doing illegal drugs. And some celebrities have committed really serious offenses such as murder or (allegedly) raping dozens of women in the United States.

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These crimes, though, are generally the product of terrible or ill-informed choices made by the celebrity in question. Some celebrities link themselves to an entirely different type of criminal element however.

Organized crime is, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a $1 trillion a year enterprise. Criminal empires encompass much of the globe, entangling the United States and every other country with their machinations. The FBI classifies organized crime as not only the stereotypical Mafia, made famous in the United States by crime bosses like Al Capone and Carlo Gambino, but also Asian criminal groups like the Triad, Russian gangs who emigrated when their countries economy shifted after the Cold War, and drug and slave traffickers from African nations like Nigeria. I am defining organized crime as any group of people who commit crimes for a planned reason, usually with a boss figure pulling the strings.

Celebrities get wrapped up in organized crimes due to the amount of money they are surrounded by and all the temptations that amount of money can bring. In this list we will look at 12 celebrities who have actively (as in of their own volition) or passively (as in they have been victimized) been involved with organized crime. This does not make the celebrity a bad person necessarily, but in some cases a victim of circumstance. Here are twelve celebrities involved in twelve different types of organized criminal enterprises.

12. Woodrow Wilson – Ku Klux Krazy

Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, and his policies involving World War I made him an international celebrity, as he not only engaged the United States into action during the war but also helped end the war by pushing for the creation of the League of Nations. Wilson won the Nobel peace prize, and made a lot of positive changes for the country’s citizens, especially Jewish and female citizens.

But he was also allegedly involved in the organized, white supremacist criminal group known as the Ku Klux Klan. I’m sure Wilson did not consider the Klan’s violence and terror toward African Americans criminal, but it’s hard to understand how such blatant violation of American legal freedoms could not be classified as such. Wilson’s involvement with the Klan proves that even the best people can suffer from the disease of ignorance.

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