Golly, now that I've outed the scoundrels, they'll have to kill me (sniffle). (Yawn) I'm so scared (snore-zzzzz). No problem, fellow posters, I notified the US DOJ, FBI, the CIA, Interpol, Scotland Yard, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Carbinieri, and Mossad. And I named names.
The Russains were really big in the gasoline tax scam too.
REFERENCE——EXECUTIVE SUMMARY THE TRI-STATE JOINT SOVIET-EMIGRE ORGANIZED CRIME PROJECT. RUSSIAN-EMIGRE CRIME IN THE TRI-STATE AREA.
Gangsters from the former Soviet Union have established a strong and abiding presence in the New York/New Jersey/Pennsylvania region, engaging in a wide array of crimes that range from sophisticated financial frauds to narcotics trafficking to murder. Evidence also shows that members of disparate Russian-emigre crime groups here have the potential to develop into one of the most formidable organized crime challenges to law enforcement since the advent of La Cosa Nostra.
These are among the key findings of the Tri-State JointSoviet-Emigre Organized Crime Project, a cooperative research andinvestigative effort launched four years ago by four agencies in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania - the New York Organized Crime Task Force, the New York State Commission of Investigation,the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation and the Pennsylvania Crime Commission. Investigative agents and staff from these agencies conducted the project in conjunction with criminal justice experts from Rutgers University.
The Project’s report presents the first comprehensive publicassessment of the threat posed to this region by criminal elements emanating from within the former Soviet Union. The report catalogues the history and growth of Russian-emigre crime networks, from their core base in the Brighton Beachsection of Brooklyn to their current reach well beyond the New York metropolitan area into the counties of central New Jersey and the suburbs of Philadelphia. One of the most troubling aspects is evidence of links between individuals here and criminal elements in the former Soviet Union, a phenomenon that lends a disturbing and complex international dimension to this emerging domestic law enforcement problem.The range of criminal and illicit activities linked to these groups is impressive.
The Project report details Russian-emigre involvement in a variety of highly sophisticated frauds and confidence schemes, financial crimes, including money laundering, counterfeiting and securities fraud, narcotics trafficking and an assortment of vice crimes.Russian-emigre criminals are no strangers to violence either.
THE NATURE OF RUSSIAN-EMIGRE CRIME
Crimes of Deception
Motor Fuel Tax Fraud
Insurance and Entitlement Fraud
Confidence Schemes
Counterfeiting
Violent Crimes
Homicide/Attempted Homicide
Extortion and Kidnapping
Drug Trafficking
Money Laundering
Vice Crimes (Regpay, a Florida credit card processing company operated by Byelorussians, was nailed for processing online child porn payments; Minx, Belarus, once a constituent republic of the Soviet Union (independent since 1991) is the origin of many of these predators on US soil.
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PDF LONG READ http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:Ahm0dOHcKHEJ:www.state.nj.us/sci/pdf/russian.pdf
No one in government cares.
And perhaps if these banks had done a bit more due diligence before lending money to these crooks, then most of this fraud could have been prevented. Of course, now that the Wall Street Welfare Queen Act of 2008 is law, there is once again no incentive for banks to lend in a responsible manner.
Is great country!
Not to worry. The Bush Administration, Paulson and our Congress have promised that we’ll make money off the bail-out. I can “feel” the dollars flowing in even now.
The Soviet underground was an excellent criminal training ground for getting around any system.
Joe Scarborough will call this article another example of “blaming poor people.”
the Gambinos used to 'control' this sort of thing but since the break up/down the Russians have filled in many voids .... the chi-coms are in cartage in North Jersey
LOL that's just un-American
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My only question is how many others were involved in the same nefarious activity. This group certainly weren’t the only ones cashing in. I’m sure this was being done by both immigrants and native born. However illegal immigrants would seem to be especially prone to this behavior because of a lack of ties to America, a shown propensity for breaking the law, and a built in support network in the country from which they came.
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