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Lenny McPherson

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Leonard Arthur "Lenny" McPherson (born Balmain, New South Wales 19 May 1921; died Cessnock, New South Wales, 28 August 1996) also Lennie, was one of the most notorious and powerful Australian career criminals of the late 20th century. [1]

63 relations: Abe Saffron, Al Capone, Attempted murder, Baccarat, Bally Manufacturing, Balmain, New South Wales, Birchgrove, New South Wales, Brothel, Burglary, Central Coast (New South Wales), Cessnock Correctional Centre, Cessnock, New South Wales, Chicago Outfit, Contract killing, Extortion, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Fred Krahe, George Freeman (bookmaker), Gladesville, New South Wales, Glen Innes, New South Wales, Grafton Correctional Centre, Gunner Kelly, Heroin, HM Prison Pentridge, Illegal drug trade, Inner city, Inspector, John 'Chow' Hayes, John McNeill (actor), Leichhardt, New South Wales, Long Bay Correctional Centre, Moffitt Royal Commission, Neddy Smith, New South Wales Police Force, News Corp Australia, Newtown, New South Wales, Omertà, Organized crime, Owen Gun, OZ (magazine), Parking lot, Parramatta River, Possession of stolen goods, Prison farm, Reg Downing, Richard Neville (writer), Roger Rogerson, Ronald Ryan, Rozelle, Ryde, New South Wales, ..., Safe house, Sly-grog shop, Southeast Asia, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Stan Smith (criminal), Surry Hills, New South Wales, The Australian, Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, William 'Joey' Hollebone, Woollahra, New South Wales, Woolloomooloo, World War II, Youth detention center. Expand index (13 more) »

Abe Saffron

Abraham Gilbert "Abe" Saffron (6 October 1919 – 15 September 2006) was an Australian hotelier, nightclub owner and property developer who was reputed to have been one of the major figures in organised crime in Australia in the latter half of the 20th century.

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Al Capone

Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit.

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Attempted murder

Attempted murder is a crime of attempt in various jurisdictions.

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Baccarat

Baccarat (Burgambach) is a French commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France.

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Bally Manufacturing

Bally Manufacturing, later renamed Bally Entertainment, was an American company that began as a pinball and slot machine manufacturer, and later expanded into casinos, video games, health clubs, and theme parks.

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Balmain, New South Wales

Balmain, New South Wales is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Birchgrove, New South Wales

Birchgrove is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Brothel

A brothel or bordello is a place where people engage in sexual activity with prostitutes, who are sometimes referred to as sex workers.

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Burglary

Burglary (also called breaking and entering and sometimes housebreaking) is an unlawful entry into a building or other location for the purposes of committing an offence.

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Central Coast (New South Wales)

The Central Coast is a peri-urban region in the Australian state of New South Wales, located on the Tasman Sea coast north of Sydney and south of Lake Macquarie.

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Cessnock Correctional Centre

Cessnock Correctional Centre, an Australian minimum and maximum security prison for males, is located in Cessnock, New South Wales.

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Cessnock, New South Wales

Cessnock is a city in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, about by road west of Newcastle.

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Chicago Outfit

The Chicago Outfit (also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, or The Organization) is an Italian-American organized crime syndicate based in Chicago, Illinois, which dates back to the 1910s.

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Contract killing

Contract killing is a form of murder in which one party hires another party to kill a target individual or group of people.

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Extortion

Extortion (also called shakedown, outwrestling and exaction) is a criminal offense of obtaining money, property, or services from an individual or institution, through coercion.

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Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Fort Lauderdale (frequently abbreviated as Ft. Lauderdale) is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, north of Miami.

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Fred Krahe

Frederick Claude "Fred" Krahe (6 November 1919 – 6 December 1981 in Sydney, New South Wales) was an Australian New South Wales police officer and detective.

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George Freeman (bookmaker)

George David Freeman (22 January 193520 March 1990) was a Sydney organised crime figure and illegal casino operator.

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Gladesville, New South Wales

Gladesville is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Glen Innes, New South Wales

Glen Innes is a parish and town on the Northern Tablelands, in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Grafton Correctional Centre

The Grafton Intake and Transient Centre, formerly the Grafton Correctional Centre and the Grafton Gaol, an Australian medium security prison for males and females, is located in, New South Wales.

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Gunner Kelly

Ray "Gunner" Kelly, MBE, (1906 in Broken Hill, New South Wales – 11 August 1977 in Sydney) was an Australian police officer who became famous during his career owing to his high-profile cases and results, but who was later alleged to have been deeply involved in corruption and organised crime.

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Heroin

Heroin, also known as diamorphine among other names, is an opioid most commonly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects.

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HM Prison Pentridge

Her Majesty's Prison Pentridge was an Australian prison that was first established in 1851 in Coburg, Victoria.

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Illegal drug trade

The illegal drug trade or drug trafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs that are subject to drug prohibition laws.

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Inner city

The inner city or inner town is the central area of a major city or metropolis.

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Inspector

Inspector is both a police rank and an administrative position, both used in a number of contexts.

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John 'Chow' Hayes

John Frederick 'Chow' Hayes (7 September 19117 May 1993) was a violent Australian criminal who became known as Australia's first gangster.

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John McNeill (actor)

John McNeill is an Australian actor, voice over artist and writer.

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Leichhardt, New South Wales

Leichhardt is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Long Bay Correctional Centre

The Long Bay Correctional Complex, officially known as Her Majesty's Australian Prison Long Bay, and commonly called just Long Bay for short, (nicknamed "Long Bay Hilton") is an Australian maximum and minimum security prison for males and females, is located at Malabar, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Moffitt Royal Commission

The Moffitt Royal Commission (1973–74) was one of the first Australian Royal commissions to specifically investigate the extent and activities of organised crime in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Neddy Smith

Arthur Stanley Smith (born 27 November 1944), known also as Neddy Smith, is an Australian criminal and crime writer who has been convicted of drug trafficking, theft, rape, armed robbery, and murder.

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New South Wales Police Force

The New South Wales Police Force (NSW Police Force; previously the New South Wales Police Service and New South Wales Police) is the primary law enforcement agency of the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is a servant of the Crown, independent of Government, although a minister of the Crown has administration. Divided into seventy six local area commands (LAC),. Graduate Careers Australia. the NSW Police Force consists of more than 500 local police stations and covers an area of 801,600 square kilometres in a state of some seven million people. Under the Police Regulation Act, 1862, the organisation of the NSW Police Force was formally established in 1862 with the unification of all existing independent police units in the state. The authority and responsibility of the entire police force was given to the inspector general of police. The 1990s were a turbulent period in NSW police history. The Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service was held between 1995 and 1997. The Royal Commission uncovered hundreds of instances of bribery, money laundering, drug trafficking, and falsifying of evidence by police. The police commissioner, Tony Lauer, resigned as the level of corruption in the service became clear and his own position untenable. Peter James Ryan was recruited from the UK. Wide-ranging reforms occurred as a result of the recommendations of the Royal Commission, including the establishment of a permanent Police Integrity Commission. The current commissioner of the NSW Police Force is Mick Fuller, who replaced Andrew Scipione, on 31 March 2017, with Deputy Commissioner Dave Hudson, Deputy Commissioner Nick Kaldas, and deputy commissioner Catherine Burn. The minister for justice and police, Troy Grant, is responsible to the NSW parliament for the police portfolio. Grant is a former NSW police officer who served 22 years before entering politics. As of 30 June 2016, the police force consists of some 16,627 officers.

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News Corp Australia

News Corp Australia (formerly News Limited) is one of Australia's largest media companies, employing more than 8,000 staff nationwide and approximately 3,000 journalists.

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Newtown, New South Wales

Newtown, a suburb of Sydney's inner west, is located approximately four kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, straddling the local government areas of the City of Sydney and Inner West Council in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Omertà

Omertà is a code of honor that places importance on silence, non-cooperation with authorities, and non-interference in the illegal actions of others.

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Organized crime

Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals who intend to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for money and profit.

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Owen Gun

The Owen Gun, which was known officially as the Owen Machine Carbine, was an Australian submachine gun designed by Evelyn (Evo) Owen in 1939.

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OZ (magazine)

OZ was an underground alternative magazine.

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Parking lot

A parking lot (American English) or car park (British English), also known as a car lot, is a cleared area that is intended for parking vehicles.

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Parramatta River

The Parramatta River is an intermediate tide dominated, drowned valley estuary located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Possession of stolen goods

Possession of stolen goods is a crime in which an individual has bought, been given, or acquired stolen goods anyway.

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Prison farm

A prison farm is a large correctional facility where penal labor convicts are put to economical use in a farm (in the wide sense of a productive unit), usually for manual labor, largely in open air, such as in agriculture, logging, quarrying, and mining.

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Reg Downing

Robert Reginald Downing, AC QC (6 November 1904 – 9 September 1994) was an Australian lawyer, textile worker, union organiser and politician.

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Richard Neville (writer)

Richard Clive Neville (16 December 1941 – 4 September 2016) was an Australian writer and social commentator who came to fame as an editor of the counterculture magazine OZ in Australia and the United Kingdom in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Roger Rogerson

Roger Caleb Rogerson (born 3 January 1941) is a former detective-sergeant of the New South Wales Police Force and a convicted murderer.

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Ronald Ryan

Ronald Joseph Ryan (21 February 1925 – 3 February 1967) was the last person to be legally executed in Australia.

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Rozelle

Rozelle is a suburb in the inner west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Ryde, New South Wales

Ryde is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Safe house

A safe house is, in a generic sense, a secret place for sanctuary or suitable to hide persons from the law, hostile actors or actions, or from retribution, threats or perceived danger.

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Sly-grog shop

A sly grog shop (or shanty) is an Australian term for an unlicensed hotel or liquor-store, often with the added suggestion of selling poor-quality liquor; a place where alcoholic beverages are sold by an unlicensed vendor.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia.

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St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney

St Vincent's Hospital is located in Darlinghurst, New South Wales, an inner suburb of Sydney.

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Stan Smith (criminal)

Stanley John Smith (3 January 1937 – 13 January 2010) was an Australian criminal who was a hit man and partners with two major Australian crime lords George Freeman and Lenny McPherson.

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Surry Hills, New South Wales

Surry Hills is an inner city, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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The Australian

The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964.

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Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities

Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, the second series of the Nine Network crime drama series Underbelly, originally aired from 9 February 2009 to 4 May 2009.

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William 'Joey' Hollebone

William Joseph 'Joey' Hollebone (1917 – 28 September 1960) was a violent Australian criminal and gangster.

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Woollahra, New South Wales

Woollahra is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Woolloomooloo

Woolloomooloo is a harbourside, inner-city eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Youth detention center

In American criminal justice systems a youth detention center, also known as a juvenile detention center (JDC),Stahl, Dean, Karen Kerchelich, and Ralph De Sola.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_McPherson

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