Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Cops reveal 5,000 Italian mafia criminals are 'pulling the strings' of gangs Down Under
dailystar.co.ukItalian mafia are operating 9,000 miles away in Australia.Until recently the mob had gone undetected while `pulling the strings’ of other criminal gangs, police said.Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner Nigel Ryan said members of notorious Calabrian mafiosi the `Ndrangeheta had hidden themselves within the community for decades.The mob work with other organised crime groups including biker and Asian or Middle Eastern gangs on drug importation, money laundering and violence.Headed by senior figures with authority over their clans they keep a low profile and run businesses with legitimate fronts.Over decades illegitimate wealth gained from organised crime has been cleaned via those businesses.Ryan said: "It’s entirely possible that people will be living next door to members of the ‘Ndrangheta without knowing."They’ve been able to stay under the radar while living modest lives in modest homes."They funnelled the illegitimate wealth into their legitimate construction, agricultural and catering businesses."In many ways I would say that the ‘Ndrangheta are actually the ones pulling the strings of other organised crime groups, particularly the more violent groups, such as outlaw motorcycle gangs.’’For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.The revelation comes four years after the setting up of a covert police investigation into organised crime syndicates trafficking illicit drugs and weapons called Operation Ironside.At the heart was an encrypted communications device called ANoM which officers cracked to learn how syndicates operate and communicate.Australian police are now targeting the Italian organised crime syndicates.Ryan.
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