RUSSIAN JAILED IN ID-THEFT SCAM VS. RICH AMERICANS (Bush campaign donor scammed online)

A Russian con man was sentenced to at least 3½ years for a daring ID scam that nearly cost a major backer of President Bush $7M. Operating online from Moscow, Igor Klopov, 24, found targets through Forbes 400 list..........then targeted states where property-deed info is available online. He would then forge and plunder their accounts. He assembled complete ID dossiers...driver's licenses, birth certificates, utility bills, blank checks and brokerage statements. Klopov was foiled as he tried to score $7M - from the home-equity credit account of Texas billionaire Charles Wyly Jr., a $2M Bush donor in 2000. Posing as Wyly, Klopov called the billionaire's bank and got a new home-equity line checkbook sent to an accomplice, who then tried to write a $7M check to a Westchester gold dealer. Klopov was busted after coming to NY to claim the gold.

Earlier news stories reported Russian con artists were involved in mortgage scams----Washington Mutual Bank was conned out of $842,500, Countrywide taken for $396,000...plus other banks and mortgage companies. Russians Zhigun and Lipkin bought condos for $8M and transferred ownership to Zhigun's mother, Galina Zhigun, the Brooklyn-based AGA Capital mortgage brokerage, which employed his wife, Maryann "Marina" Furman as office manager. Garri Zhigun lost his stockbroker's license in 2002 over fraud allegations. Mother Galina Zhigun, a civil engineer from Russia, pleaded guilty to bank fraud......she got $870,000 in mortgages from Flagstar Bank. Wife Furman pleaded guilty to wire fraud for faxing a phony loan application. She got $750,000 from New Century Mortgage Corp. records show.

PREDATORS RIDE US GRAVY TRAIN These predator "immigrants" get on the US gravy train as soon as they get off the boat and learn to say say "gimmee" in English. US taxpayers provides all kinds of federal, state and city handouts and job set-asides (jobs taken from born Americans)......soon as these illegals say the magic words: "political asylum." Pretending to be "victims" is a lucrative con game. The FBI has fingered the Russian mob in all kinds of frauds---billion-dollar staged auto accidents, billion-dollar Medicare/Aid fraud, billion-dollar insurance and securities fraud, ID theft, sex crimes, child porn......you name it.

Cable-TV's History Channel did an excellent expose of the depravity of Russian organized crime. The expose asserted that before they land here, Russian criminals stop off in Israel to get all the available freebies (some of the Russian rascals pretend to be Jewish to nake Jews look bad, and to fraudulently pocket free Israeli benefits). They come to the US whining about "political asylumm" pleading "religious persecution" and immediately get on the US gravy train, sucking up US tax dollars like it was going out of style. One TV report chronicled the lifestyle of an unemployed 30'ish Russian immigrant---a trained engineer----picking up US welfare checks while his wife was lolling around getting her hair and nails done courtesy of US taxpayers. Russian emigres arriving in the US are treated like royalty, with tax-subsidized government grants, tax-subsidized housing, and job set-asides waiting for them......jobs taken from taxpaying born-Americans.

Russian TV runs a nightly show outlining the US giveaway programs, how to fill out the forms etc, which US offices to apply to, etc. The sense of entitlement is outrageous. Preying off working class Americans must end.

Lord Jesus, and all the saints in heaven. Good 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, Mossad, and the Mobile Marine Tactical Sharpshooter Unit.

And I named names.

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 country of origin of many of these predators now thieving on US soil.

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