Corruption (Police & Gang Stories With Former NYPD Deputy Inspector Mike Lau Interview 2) - PART 1
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- Please welcome back Mike Lau! In this segment, he clears the air on several comments/questions made by viewers while going into depth on how gang members are able to testify against others in court (proffer agreement) without being prosecuted. Lau and Moy reflect on how the actions of several crooked Asian officers created a lot of challenges for them while on the force and how one particular officer loosely inspired the 1999 film (The Corruptor) which starred Chow Fun Fat and Mark Wahlberg.
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so great to see Mike Lau back on the channel! thank you so much for sharing, can’t wait to see more!
Fabulous stories, thank you for sharing.
Thanks DI Mike for being the role of Batman during his term for our community and thanks all the officers who had protect our community as well .
He seems like a really nice guy, respect for coming in and talking on the channel.
We as civilians in a community are very grateful for the courage and commitment of police officers just like you for upholding the law with integrity, to stand up for wrongdoings that happening around us. Thank you!
He’s a role model who was passionate about his job and as a result climbed the ladder in law enforcement when there were very few Asians. Well done DI Lau!!
And he lost $20 on The Jets game.
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As before, from the way Mike talks, I feel he really took the job for the right reasons. I thank you for your service.
Thank you for sharing !
it's a shame ppl be talking shit about this man when he's taking time outta his day to share his stories just to entertain yall.
They got no cred or rep, hiding behind the monitor.
It was very dangerous growing up in NYC as an Asian-American in the 80s, but thankfully there were people like Mike Lau who stepped up to make a difference. Now future generations can have a safe environment to call home. We appreciate everything that you have done!
Now the new generation getting beat up by other races
Finally! Mike Lau changed his shirt. He was wearing that same t-shirt, in every video!
Now let's get back to talking about that cop running down the block with a head full of shampoo.
He served and protect, then share his story….enough said
Would love to talk to Mike Lau about police corruption. I investigated and was undercover to arrest corrupt cops and i seen nypd cover it uo first hand.
I wish i can meet you guys someday cause you guys are famous to me. You guys probably know joe fong from sf chinatown too
I was an extra in the Corruptor, but unfortunately they used random people to play the background gangsters
Nice to see Michael again. Sorry that the trolls got to you. You sound like you were an upstanding cop. Do NYPD cops get discretionary promotions much if they were involved in big cases?
He was on the payroll for sure.
Almost half of 5 police precinct under the Tong payroll. Just go lookout other way. The police knew where exactly the basement gambling house are. But couldn’t be bothered. Unless from higher up authority.
Really? Mahjong games in social clubs? Seniors on Social Security playing for nickels? That's the least of their concerns. You don't need to be a detective, to hear the clacking sound of mahjong tiles being shuffled. No cop is taking a free meal at a restaurant, to look the other way, when a bunch of retirees are playing cards in the back room.
The Public Morals Division of the NYPD has jurisdiction over illegal gambling. It was not policy for uniformed Precinct officers to enforce gambling laws and only to report suspicions.
@@neilmauriello8935 Neil, thanks for that. Most people do not understand the process. They think that beat cops are on the take, and turn their heads to poker games in the church basement.
Did Det John Gaw have a supervisor that came under scrutiny for not knowing what Gaw was doing? Did Gaw have a connection to the gangs before becoming a Police Officer?
No wonder chinatown felt untouchable. Is this why David Shaffer came to 117mottstreet to tell mom "the chan Brothers are a big help" which hurt mom so much. It wasn't worth it to kill my clean dad.
Nothing changed. They just learned to be white and flaunt it now.
NY Daily news:
An indictment filed in Brooklyn Federal Court said Lee, 30, began taking graft from the Tung On gang less than a year after joining the police force in 1990.
He soon moved into corrupt dealings with the Flying Dragons through his partner in the public morals division, John Gaw, the indictment said. Gaw was arrested last September.
In the wake of these arrests, several other Asian-American cops have been transferred out of public morals and a joint NYPD-FBI task force on Asian gangs while the investigation continues, sources said.
Law enforcement officials said that Lee learned from Tung On hoods that Gaw was taking money from the Flying Dragons and approached Gaw looking to cut himself in on Gaw’s action.
Gaw agreed, law enforcement sources said, and gave Lee some words of advice that proved to be very true.
“Get away from the Tung On guys, they’ll tape you and give you up. They’re not honorable,” Gaw warned, sources said.
Lee heeded the advice, but it came too late. Officials said some of the evidence the feds used to nab Lee came from Tung On gang members who had been convicted in earlier trials and are cooperating.
After pleading innocent, Lee was released on $50,000 bond under an agreement between Assistant U.
S. Attorney Brian Moriarty and Lee’s lawyer, Nicholas DeFeis
Omg. Mike lau is wrong and Mike Moy is CORRECT:
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By Seth Faison
Sept. 10, 1994

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Detective John Gaw accompanied Federal investigators in a raid on a Chinatown gambling den on Super Bowl Sunday in 1993, and acted as surprised as everyone else when they found an abandoned room. Detective Gaw had helped plan the raid -- but, prosecutors said yesterday, he also tipped off the Chinatown crime boss who ran the place.
Detective Gaw was indicted yesterday on corruption charges, but Federal prosecutors said his case was only part of a far larger one, involving a complex criminal enterprise based in Chinatown but reaching as far as San Francisco and Hong Kong.
In three overlapping indictments, prosecutors charged two leading Chinatown businessmen with racketeering and murder, charged 18 youths with gang-related street crimes and charged a man they described as a major heroin trafficker with multiple drug offenses over eight years.
"This is the biggest case ever to hit Chinatown," said Catherine E. Palmer, a Federal prosecutor who led a two-year investigation. The indictments will cause a major shake-up of the criminal power structure in Chinatown, she added, saying, "A lot of people will go nuts when they understand the scope of this." Accused of Giving Orders
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Ms. Palmer called the two businessmen power brokers of the Chinatown underworld: Chan Wing Yeung, 49, known to his gang members as Big Head and leader of the nation's largest Chinese tong, and Moy Bong Shun, 52, known as the Inspector because it was often whispered he once held such a rank in the Royal Hong Kong Police.
Mr. Chan and Mr. Moy are accused of ordering members of a street gang to extort, rob and murder to protect their businesses and their reputations. Mr. Chan is also charged with masterminding a commodities scam that bilked unsuspecting investors of several million dollars in New York's Chinatown, San Francisco and Hong Kong.
William Gavin, who heads the Federal Bureau of Investigation's New York office, said many investors were reluctant to report the fraud because they believed that Mr. Chan was not just the head of a business association on Mott Street but was also the de-facto leader of the Ghost Shadows gang.
Before 1993, prosecutors had never been able to pin racketeering charges on the leader of a tong, or fraternal association, even though the tongs were long suspected of directing street crime. Mr. Chan and Mr. Moy now join Ms. Palmer's list of indicted tong leaders, including Clifford Wong and Paul Lai, whom she charged with racketeering in December. 'Caught Him Red-Handed'
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Ms. Palmer seemed most pleased yesterday with the arrest of Paul Mah, who she said had imported hundreds of kilos of heroin from Southeast Asia into New York, distributing his merchandise through the Ghost Shadows and also through Dominican and Italian-American syndicates.
"We actually caught him red-handed," Ms. Palmer said, explaining that Mr. Mah was arrested Thursday night as he received a delivery of two kilos of heroin on a street in Queens.
Detective Gaw, 32, who immigrated from Hong Kong as a small boy, joined the police force four years ago, and was working for the public morals division in January 1993, when F.B.I agents investigating the Ghost Shadows asked him to help prepare a raid on a gambling den at 1 Catherine Street, a few doors away from the Fifth Precinct Station House.
A few days later, prosecutors said, agents listening to an electronic bug placed in Mr. Chan's Mott Street office were surprised to hear Mr. Moy say that he had been told by a police source that the raid was planned, that an F.B.I. informant had infiltrated his gang and that the F.B.I. had a wiretap on a gang member's phone. Laughing at Charges
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"As a result, the Ghost Shadows gang shut down the gambling parlor, stopped using the wiretapped phone and targeted the informant for murder," the indictment said.
The agents were not sure who had betrayed them, a prosecutor said, but they suspected Detective Gaw, and went ahead with the raid, even though they knew it was fruitless. They soon collected evidence, prosecutors said, that Detective Gaw was being paid in cash, was being forgiven gambling debts and provided information to Mr. Moy and others about how to avoid police scrutiny.
Ms. Palmer said Detective Gaw laughed at the charges when he was arrested as he arrived home in lower Manhattan Thursday night. But at his arraignment in Federal District Court in Brooklyn last night, he was ordered held without bail until a hearing next week.
Neither Ms. Palmer nor Chief David Scott of the New York Police Department would discuss whether other officers were also suspected of leaking information. But Ms. Palmer said that only 8 of the 19 suspected Ghost Shadows were arrested, the others apparently fleeing because of rumors about impending arrests. 'A Debilitating Blow'
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The suspected gang members are mostly Asian-born men in their 20's. But one is a Caucasian youth, Robert Ross, a college student at the Binghamton campus of the State University of New York, where he was arrested. He is known to other gang members as White Boy Ross, Ms. Palmer said.
At a news conference, Ms. Palmer said she felt the arrests had "dealt a debilitating blow" to the Asian underworld in the United States. But for other criminal leaders still at large, Ms. Palmer, who is leaving the Government next month for a private law firm, had a parting message: "We know who you are, we know where you operate and we're not going to go away."
A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 10, 1994, Section 1, Page 23 of the National edition with the headline: U.S. Indicts 2 Businessmen As Chinatown Gang Lords. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
This book better be impeccable. I have no idea what is going on but I know dad was never an informant bcuz he told me so. What a mess. Paranoid drug dealers ruined my whole family and they are still doing this.
Bullies are narcissists and society and PARENTS have FAILED by not addressing cuckoos. Those nature videos about cuckoo babies and their BEAKS are hard to watch. This city is NOT run like a classroom with a Sicilian nun. That is the only way to run the world.
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13:30 what's the detective name Jack what? I wanted to Google it.
John Gaw NYPD
@@chinatowngangstories thank you sir. I just found your channel and I really sincerely enjoy your videos.
is corruotor movie based on true story?
He was meant to be a cop