ROME (AP) — Police in Rome say they have dismantled a brutal loansharking ring just as many shopkeepers are desperate for liquidity after being closed for weeks during COVID-19 lockdown.

The reputed underboss of Philadelphia's mafia crime family was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for various organized crime schemes, including loansharking that kept borrowers in debt ...

The schemes generated millions of dollars through illegal loansharking, gambling and money laundering. Most of the revenue was collected and laundered through licensed and unlicensed check-cashing ...

NEW YORK (CNN) --The underboss and seven other reputed members of the Luchese and Genovese mob families were indicted Thursday on charges of extortion, loansharking, drug trafficking and ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Federal Judge Carol Amon Monday sentenced four out of five Staten Island mobsters convicted of loansharking, a violent money making staple of the Bonanno crime family.

SINGAPORE — A total of 114 suspects, aged between 17 and 67, were nabbed for their alleged involvement in loansharking activities, the Singapore Police Force said in a news release on Thursday ...

The New York State Attorney General's Office unsealed an indictment Wednesday charging 17 individuals in connection with "lucrative" illegal gambling and loansharking operations controlled by ...

The defendants listed in an 84-count indictment include 17 individuals accused in a sports-betting scheme that led to loansharking; one of those defendants also was accused with three additional ...

State investigators busted a mob-backed sports gambling operation in Staten Island that doubled as a lucrative loansharking scheme, officials said Wednesday. Seventeen suspects with alleged ties ...

Last November when I first wrote about student loans for Boston Review, the Department of Education estimated it would be pulling in around $25 billion in revenue from its higher education lending ...