it turns out crime does pay see last
being a gangsta a lot of money welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
real life career criminal
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’ll
be looking at the most charismatic
disturbed and ruthless people ever to
make a living by breaking the law number
10 landed minute originally born in the
Ukraine Leonid mannan made a name for
himself in the underworld as an
international arms dealer selling
dangerous weapons to dangerous people
his most notorious clients included
Charles Taylor the controversial
ex-president of Liberia and several
revolutionary groups across West Africa
while men and business fueled the fires
of war the man was fuelling himself with
drugs alcohol and ladies of the night he
was discovered among the company of all
three of those things as well as around
half a million dollars worth of blood
diamonds when he was finally arrested in
Italy in 2000 number 9 Charles Ponzi you
don’t always need a gun to rob people
blind he was arrested Charles Ponzi it
was a swindle and start to finish
styling himself as a businessman Charles
Ponzi swindled millions of dollars from
his investors with a plan that involves
redeeming total reply coupons from other
countries or postage stamps in the
United States which could then be sold
to make a profit if it sounds too good
to be true that’s because it was and the
only person who profited from the
so-called business plan was Ponzi
himself who ended up pocketing most of
the money
Ponzi was a pioneer among white-collar
criminals and his legacy lives on today
in what is now called a Ponzi scheme
every 84 gauzy is Halabi if it was easy
number 8
Jesse James what’s your name James
that’s James one of the most legendary
figures in the American Old West Jesse
James was also a notorious train robber
and he and the other members of the
james-younger gang war
above murdering anybody who gotten their
way over their career James and his gang
are believed to have stolen
approximately two hundred thousand
dollars but were nevertheless admired in
their home state of Missouri mostly
because of their support for the
Confederacy during the American Civil
War
James status as a folk hero was finally
cemented when fellow gang member Robert
Ford shot him in the back yes the town
wasn’t big enough for the both of them
number 7 Amado Carrillo Fuentes for a
while there was no bringing down this
Lord of the skies Amado Carrillo Fuentes
was the leader of Mexico’s Juarez cartel
a position he obtained by assassinating
the group’s previous boss Rafael Aguilar
guajardo when des was known as el Senor
de los cielos thanks to the giant fleet
of planes he use to transport cocaine
around the world he was also one of the
wealthiest criminals in history with a
net worth estimated at over 25 billion
u.s. dollars
when tez died in 1997 from complications
during the plastic surgery he was
getting to hide from authorities number
six
james whitey’ bulger he is a predator in
every sense of the word you got to be
wicked smart to evade the authorities
for as long as this Southeast born in
Boston James Bulger quickly made a name
for himself as a young mare – well known
for stealing and getting into fights
nicknamed whitey by the local
constabulary because of his light blonde
hair
Bulger eventually moved up in the
underworld becoming the boss of Boston’s
Winter Hill Gang where he was
responsible for crimes that ranged from
extortion to arms trafficking bottom
line is Bulger has to be caught and the
sooner the better that has gone on long
enough
in 1994 Walter went into hiding and
wasn’t apprehended until 2011 at the
ripe old age of 81 number 5 Jean owl as
know sometimes the biggest criminals can
be hiding in plain sight
originally born in France Novell now
Leszno was a wanted man in several
European countries during the 1980s and
90s due to his arms trafficking which
broke several international trade
embargoes you traffic arms trade as no
went on the run to avoid capture and
eventually resurfaced in Florida where
he brazenly continued conducting his
illegal business from the comfort of his
extravagant condo he even had his own
publicly accessible website where anyone
could buy a fighter jet or a machine gun
as long as they had the cash and the
proper papers after disappearing in 2002
Laszlo was finally arrested in
Switzerland that same year number four
Meyer Harris Mickey Cohen
come on give them a family you don’t
have to act in a movie to be a Hollywood
stunt just ask Nicky Cohen one of the
most infamous mob bosses Los Angeles has
ever seen a scrappy fella who originally
worked as muscle for the Mafia during
Prohibition Cohen worked his way up the
organization’s ladder until he reached
the top always a snappy dresser
Cohen was as good a publicist as he was
a gangster he knew how to play the media
and even his most heinous actions a
positive spin it’s no wonder then that
Cohen was only ever arrested for tax
evasion despite having been guilty of
far worse climb going you’re under
arrest
non-payment of federal income tax number
three John Dillinger
yet another bad guy with good publicity
John Dillinger was a depression-era bank
robber whose penchant for breaking the
law was complemented by his love of the
spotlight what is it exactly media for
anything
John Dillinger website Dillinger was
very fond of playing Robin Hood stealing
from the rich banks and giving his
spoils back to the people the whole
country thinks you’re a goddamn hero
while these claims are still disputed
today Dillinger was painted as a kind of
folk hero an image that was only helped
by his multiple daring escapes from jail
when he was shot and killed outside a
movie theater in 1934 a surprising
amount of people appeared to mourn for
the so called public enemy number 1
number 2 Pablo Escobar formerly the main
purveyor of Columbia’s other addictive
substance Pablo Escobar wore many hats
during a tenure in the Colombian based
Medellin Cartel including drug lord and
terrorist yo soy Pablo and me to Escobar
Iberia he’s all the Sun in Stars Hollow
Escobar’s massive drug empire allowed
him to become not only one of the most
powerful people in his native country
but also one of the wealthiest men in
the world according to Forbes magazine
Escobar was able to keep his wealth
thanks to his ruthless pragmatism and he
was always willing to bribe bump off or
bomb anyone that got in his way
the violent man met a violent end in
1993 when he was shot during a rooftop
chase before we unveil our number-one
six
here are some honorable mentions
[Music]
number one Al Capone he’s the man who
put the organized in organized crime
during the Prohibition era
Al Capone sees the opportunity to make
boatloads of cash off he at the time
illegal liquor business that’s all I’m
talking a sale because you got nothing
you got nothing caught you don’t got the
bookkeeper you’ve got nothing nothing
and if you’re a man you would have done
it now
Capone’s violent methods of expanding
his bootlegging operation across the
United States including the bloody st.
Valentine’s Day Massacre went mostly
unchallenged thanks to the unsurprising
fact that people enjoy their booze the
phone was also a bit of a celebrity and
was even known to donate his ill-gotten
gains to charity too bad he forgot to
donate some of his fortune to the
federal government however as he was put
away for tax evasion in 1932
[Music]
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and subscribe for new videos every day
[Music]
being a gangsta a lot of money welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
real life career criminal
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’ll
be looking at the most charismatic
disturbed and ruthless people ever to
make a living by breaking the law number
10 landed minute originally born in the
Ukraine Leonid mannan made a name for
himself in the underworld as an
international arms dealer selling
dangerous weapons to dangerous people
his most notorious clients included
Charles Taylor the controversial
ex-president of Liberia and several
revolutionary groups across West Africa
while men and business fueled the fires
of war the man was fuelling himself with
drugs alcohol and ladies of the night he
was discovered among the company of all
three of those things as well as around
half a million dollars worth of blood
diamonds when he was finally arrested in
Italy in 2000 number 9 Charles Ponzi you
don’t always need a gun to rob people
blind he was arrested Charles Ponzi it
was a swindle and start to finish
styling himself as a businessman Charles
Ponzi swindled millions of dollars from
his investors with a plan that involves
redeeming total reply coupons from other
countries or postage stamps in the
United States which could then be sold
to make a profit if it sounds too good
to be true that’s because it was and the
only person who profited from the
so-called business plan was Ponzi
himself who ended up pocketing most of
the money
Ponzi was a pioneer among white-collar
criminals and his legacy lives on today
in what is now called a Ponzi scheme
every 84 gauzy is Halabi if it was easy
number 8
Jesse James what’s your name James
that’s James one of the most legendary
figures in the American Old West Jesse
James was also a notorious train robber
and he and the other members of the
james-younger gang war
above murdering anybody who gotten their
way over their career James and his gang
are believed to have stolen
approximately two hundred thousand
dollars but were nevertheless admired in
their home state of Missouri mostly
because of their support for the
Confederacy during the American Civil
War
James status as a folk hero was finally
cemented when fellow gang member Robert
Ford shot him in the back yes the town
wasn’t big enough for the both of them
number 7 Amado Carrillo Fuentes for a
while there was no bringing down this
Lord of the skies Amado Carrillo Fuentes
was the leader of Mexico’s Juarez cartel
a position he obtained by assassinating
the group’s previous boss Rafael Aguilar
guajardo when des was known as el Senor
de los cielos thanks to the giant fleet
of planes he use to transport cocaine
around the world he was also one of the
wealthiest criminals in history with a
net worth estimated at over 25 billion
u.s. dollars
when tez died in 1997 from complications
during the plastic surgery he was
getting to hide from authorities number
six
james whitey’ bulger he is a predator in
every sense of the word you got to be
wicked smart to evade the authorities
for as long as this Southeast born in
Boston James Bulger quickly made a name
for himself as a young mare – well known
for stealing and getting into fights
nicknamed whitey by the local
constabulary because of his light blonde
hair
Bulger eventually moved up in the
underworld becoming the boss of Boston’s
Winter Hill Gang where he was
responsible for crimes that ranged from
extortion to arms trafficking bottom
line is Bulger has to be caught and the
sooner the better that has gone on long
enough
in 1994 Walter went into hiding and
wasn’t apprehended until 2011 at the
ripe old age of 81 number 5 Jean owl as
know sometimes the biggest criminals can
be hiding in plain sight
originally born in France Novell now
Leszno was a wanted man in several
European countries during the 1980s and
90s due to his arms trafficking which
broke several international trade
embargoes you traffic arms trade as no
went on the run to avoid capture and
eventually resurfaced in Florida where
he brazenly continued conducting his
illegal business from the comfort of his
extravagant condo he even had his own
publicly accessible website where anyone
could buy a fighter jet or a machine gun
as long as they had the cash and the
proper papers after disappearing in 2002
Laszlo was finally arrested in
Switzerland that same year number four
Meyer Harris Mickey Cohen
come on give them a family you don’t
have to act in a movie to be a Hollywood
stunt just ask Nicky Cohen one of the
most infamous mob bosses Los Angeles has
ever seen a scrappy fella who originally
worked as muscle for the Mafia during
Prohibition Cohen worked his way up the
organization’s ladder until he reached
the top always a snappy dresser
Cohen was as good a publicist as he was
a gangster he knew how to play the media
and even his most heinous actions a
positive spin it’s no wonder then that
Cohen was only ever arrested for tax
evasion despite having been guilty of
far worse climb going you’re under
arrest
non-payment of federal income tax number
three John Dillinger
yet another bad guy with good publicity
John Dillinger was a depression-era bank
robber whose penchant for breaking the
law was complemented by his love of the
spotlight what is it exactly media for
anything
John Dillinger website Dillinger was
very fond of playing Robin Hood stealing
from the rich banks and giving his
spoils back to the people the whole
country thinks you’re a goddamn hero
while these claims are still disputed
today Dillinger was painted as a kind of
folk hero an image that was only helped
by his multiple daring escapes from jail
when he was shot and killed outside a
movie theater in 1934 a surprising
amount of people appeared to mourn for
the so called public enemy number 1
number 2 Pablo Escobar formerly the main
purveyor of Columbia’s other addictive
substance Pablo Escobar wore many hats
during a tenure in the Colombian based
Medellin Cartel including drug lord and
terrorist yo soy Pablo and me to Escobar
Iberia he’s all the Sun in Stars Hollow
Escobar’s massive drug empire allowed
him to become not only one of the most
powerful people in his native country
but also one of the wealthiest men in
the world according to Forbes magazine
Escobar was able to keep his wealth
thanks to his ruthless pragmatism and he
was always willing to bribe bump off or
bomb anyone that got in his way
the violent man met a violent end in
1993 when he was shot during a rooftop
chase before we unveil our number-one
six
here are some honorable mentions
[Music]
number one Al Capone he’s the man who
put the organized in organized crime
during the Prohibition era
Al Capone sees the opportunity to make
boatloads of cash off he at the time
illegal liquor business that’s all I’m
talking a sale because you got nothing
you got nothing caught you don’t got the
bookkeeper you’ve got nothing nothing
and if you’re a man you would have done
it now
Capone’s violent methods of expanding
his bootlegging operation across the
United States including the bloody st.
Valentine’s Day Massacre went mostly
unchallenged thanks to the unsurprising
fact that people enjoy their booze the
phone was also a bit of a celebrity and
was even known to donate his ill-gotten
gains to charity too bad he forgot to
donate some of his fortune to the
federal government however as he was put
away for tax evasion in 1932
[Music]
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from watch mojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
[Music]
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