1.   Authorities arrested three executives and a former executive of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank Ltd. on suspicion they lent millions of dollars to a reputed gangster without collateral.

2.   Federal prosecutors say that Tuito supplied Ecstasy to another reputed Israeli gangster, a man named Jacob Orgad.

3.   Japanese authorities last night arrested three executives and a former managing director of DKB on suspicion they lent millions of dollars to a reputed gangster without collateral.

4.   Libel laws made it risky to name the reputed gangsters, so she referred to them by their colorful nicknames.

5.   Yesterday, prosecutors arrested three executives of Dai-Ichi Kangyo on suspicion they lent millions of dollars to a reputed gangster without collateral.

6.   Gunmen ambushed and fatally shot a reputed gangster on Wednesday amid a raging mob turf war over lucrative casino profits in the Portuguese gambling enclave of Macau.

7.   In September, a reputed Russian gangster, Alexander Petrov, was acquitted in southern France on a charge of passport fraud.

8.   Sapienza allegedly lied about whether she had kept a reputed Genovese gangster, Thomas Cestaro, informed about her contact with investigators.