kingpin

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The Mexican authorities and the US reported that US intelligence was involved in bringing down the kingpin, lending the operation a sense of cross-border cooperation which could benefit both governments.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

Hundreds of people dragged away suitcases, computer monitors, pets and furniture as they fled a suspected Cambodian cyberfraud centre, after the country's most wanted alleged scam kingpin was arrested and deported.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

Hence the relative ease with which the regime gave up its kingpin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

It also made him a kingpin and punched his ticket to serve as co-leader of the free world for several months.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2025

Well, when he got through figgerin’ he showed it to some other fellers and there it was, plain as anything—the earth wasn’t the big kingpin at all.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt