A Guatemalan smuggling ring was charging people between $1,200 to $3,700 to smuggle them into the United States. The organization was smuggling up to 100 people to Los Angeles each week.

Source:  “Vast immigrant smuggling ring smashed in L.A.,” Reuters,February 28, 2008.

Source:  Mark Henderson, “Taste for fins puts shark on danger list,” Times, February 18, 2008.

A reported by ABC News stated that dead Chinese bodies, which may have included executed prisoners, were sold for $200 to $300 on the black market.

Source:  Brian Ross, “N.Y., China Investigating Black Market in Bodies,” ABC News, February 15, 2008.

The Senior Director for Anti-Piracy at Nintendo stated that the company and its publishers lose $975 Million a year to video game piracy.

Source:  “Piracy costs Nintendo and its game developers, publishers $1B a year, Nintendo says,” Business Review, February 14, 2008.