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Fodder Scam (चारा घोटाला)
The Fodder Scam, known in Hindi as चारा घोटाला, was a fraud on Bihar's treasuries through fake fodder bills, from 1977 to 1996, investigated in connection with chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav.
Forced prostitution
Forced prostitution, also called involuntary prostitution, occurs when a person is made to engage in prostitution through coercion, violence, or deception that removes genuine consent.
Forgery
Forgery: the false making or alteration of a writing with intent to defraud, rooted in Roman crimen falsi and English common law; covers document, art, and digital forgery with varying penalties worldwide.
Forum spam
Forum spam: unsolicited commercial or link-bearing posts on discussion forums, mostly automated and aimed at building search-ranking backlinks. Key stats: 96% of registrations rejected, 85% of blocks from reputation lists.
Frank Abagnale
Frank William Abagnale Jr. (born 1948, Bronx), American security consultant and subject of Catch Me If You Can (1980 memoir with Stan Redding; 2002 Spielberg film). Court, bank, and prison records contradict most claimed exploits, including the $2.5 million check fraud and FBI employment.
Franklin child prostitution ring allegations
Franklin child prostitution ring allegations: claims from 1988 Omaha, Nebraska that credit union manager Lawrence King Jr. ran a child sex trafficking ring; two 1990 grand juries called them a hoax, King was convicted of $39 million fraud.
Franklin Delano Floyd
Franklin Delano Floyd, also known as Clarence Hughes and Brandon C. Williams, is an American death-row inmate convicted of murdering Cheryl Commesso; he kidnapped his stepdaughter Suzanne Sevakis as a child, married her, and killed 6-year-old Michael Hughes in 1994.
Fratricide
Fratricide (Latin fratricida, killer of a brother) is the killing of one's brother or sister, also called siblicide or sororicide; it spans myth (Cain and Abel), Ottoman dynastic law, and modern forensic criminology.
Fraud
Fraud: deliberate deception for gain, prosecuted as crime and civil wrong. Covers legal definitions, securities fraud under Rule 10b-5, imposter scams ($3.5B US reported losses 2025), and AI-enabled fraud trends.
Frédéric Bourdin
Frédéric Bourdin (Le Caméléon), French serial impostor born 1974, posed as missing Texas teen Nicholas Barclay in 1997 at age 23, served six years in US prison, and repeated impersonations in France.
French Connection
The French Connection, also called La French, was a Corsican-run heroin trafficking network based in Marseille that supplied the United States until the early 1970s.
Fritzl case
Fritzl case: Amstetten, Austria, 2008 discovery that Josef Fritzl held daughter Elisabeth captive 24 years in a windowless cellar, fathering seven children; 2009 life sentence.
Frotteurism
Frotteurism, also called frotteuristic disorder (ICD-11 6D34), is a paraphilic disorder involving sexual arousal from rubbing against non-consenting people in crowded public places; classified since DSM-III-R 1987, prevalence roughly 8-10% of males.
Gambino crime family
The Gambino crime family is one of New York's five La Cosa Nostra families, formed in 1931 from the Mangano family, named for boss Carlo Gambino, and led later by John Gotti; known for gambling, loansharking, labor racketeering, and construction extortion.
Gambling in China
Gambling in China: banned on the mainland under Article 303 of the Criminal Law except the state Welfare and Sports lotteries, while casino gambling is legal only in Macau, the world's largest gaming hub under one country, two systems.
Gang
Gang: a durable association of three or more people with shared identity, symbols, and elevated criminal activity, usually meaning US street gangs; loosely structured, distinct from organized crime, historically tied to immigration and migration waves.
Gang rape
Gang rape is rape of a person by two or more perpetrators, also called multiple perpetrator rape. Key facts: paired offenders commit about half of group offences; South Africa mandates life imprisonment; ICTY Foča convictions defined rape as torture.
Gangs in Australia
Gangs in Australia covers outlaw motorcycle gangs (bikies), other organised crime groups, and youth gangs; roughly 5,669 known OMCG members in 39 gangs, with anti-association laws and police strategies shaping state responses.
Gangs in Canada
Gangs in Canada cover street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs, and mafia groups; no single definition exists. About 4% of firearm-related violent crime was gang-related in 2024, and gang homicides fell to 119 in 2025.
Gangs in Chicago
Gangs in Chicago: street groups from antebellum fire-company gangs to Irish outfits like the Dukies, mid-century Blackstone Rangers, Vice Lords, Latin Kings, and Gangster Disciples, then post-1990s cliques, with policing, gang database scrutiny, and prevention programs.
Gangs in New Zealand
Gangs in New Zealand, notably the Mongrel Mob, Black Power, King Cobras and Hell's Angels, are post-war organised groups, largely Māori and Pacific, now regulated under the 2024 gang insignia ban.
Gangs in the United States
Gangs in the United States: durable, street-oriented, criminally active youth groups with no single accepted definition; traced to about 1783 on the East Coast, measured at 1.4 million members in 33,000 gangs (2011), countered by the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model and focused deterrence.
Gangster
A gangster (also mobster) is a member of an organized group of violent criminals. Distinguished from ordinary gang members by membership in continuing criminal enterprises such as mafias, triads, and yakuza.
Gangster Disciples
The Gangster Disciples, also called the Black Gangster Disciples, are an African-American street gang founded in Chicago in the mid-1960s by Larry Hoover and David Barksdale.
Gary McKinnon
Gary McKinnon, Scottish hacker known as Solo, accessed 97 US military and NASA computers from London in 2001-2002; his decade-long UK extradition fight ended in 2012 when Theresa May blocked removal on suicide-risk human rights grounds.
Gary Plauché
Gary Plauché, Baton Rouge father who in 1984 shot and killed Jeffrey Doucet, his son Jody's kidnapper and abuser, on live TV; he pleaded no contest to manslaughter and got a suspended sentence.
Geeta and Sanjay Chopra kidnapping case
The Geeta and Sanjay Chopra kidnapping case, also known as the Ranga-Singh case, was a 1978 murder in New Delhi where two siblings were abducted. (22 words)
Genovese crime family
The Genovese crime family is one of New York's Five Families of La Cosa Nostra, founded as the Luciano family and renamed for Vito Genovese in 1957; known for secrecy, labor racketeering, and relative freedom from informants.
Ghislaine Maxwell
Ghislaine Maxwell is a British former socialite convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking and related offenses involving Jeffrey Epstein. Sentenced to 20 years, she unsuccessfully challenged the conviction on appeal.
Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela
Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela (El Ajedrecista), with brother Miguel, led Colombia's Cali Cartel, which trafficked about 80% of world cocaine by the early 1990s; arrested 1995, extradited 2004, pled guilty 2006, sentenced 30 years, died in U.S. prison 2022.