Learn the key differences between loan sharks and legal payday lenders. Discover how these high-interest loans work and what ...

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A Canadian company, one of the biggest bankrollers of a ballot initiative to expand gambling in Washington, is using Canada's stringent libel laws to fight B.C. news reports that it allowed loan ...

NEW YORK -- Fourteen Staten Islanders are among 37 people arrested in an alleged major mob bust in New York and New Jersey, officials announced today. The reputed organized crime takedown involved an ...

Criminal groups in Colombia are using apps in "gota a gota" loansharking schemes The longtime loan sharking tactic in Colombia known as “gota a gota” has entered the digital age — as mafias are now ...

A Bethel man who authorities say served as an associate of the Lucchese organized crime family was one of 10 people indicted this week in New York’s largest loan sharking investigation. Steve Murray, ...

Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance in the UK has produced an excellent essay dismantling the British government’s announced plans to cap the interest rates on personal loans. “Loan sharking” ...

All this week on Refinery29 we are looking at the ongoing problem of sexual assault at UK universities and giving a platform to the students calling for change, once and for all. I vividly remember ...

Employees and associates dealt drugs and engaged in racketeering and loan-sharking at the two Bay Area casinos that were raided this week by law enforcement officials, authorities said Thursday. Loan ...