COCK AND BULL Russians? Against income redistribution? That's a laugh. The Ruskis first go to Israel (some pretend to be Jewish) to get all the govt freebies available there.
They then land here and get govt job set asides (taking jobs from born Americans). They board the US gravy train----collecting welfare/Medicaid/food stamps and just about any government program you can think of. All of them are feeding at the trough - including all those who robbed the city blind on the CityTime govt project----all Russian emigres.
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Here's the FBI report on Russian crime in the US. The first comprehensive public assessment of the threat posed to us by criminal elements emanating from within the former Soviet Union.
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 and investigative 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 report catalogues the history and growth of Russian-emigre crime networks, from their core base in the Brighton Beach section 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.
--SNIP--PDF LONG READ http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:Ahm0dOHcKHEJ:www.state.nj.us/sci/pdf/russian.pdf
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NOTE In California, Russian emigres are notorious for staged car accidents----some Americans have been killed by these organized rings of shady doctors, lawyers who cheat insurance companies.
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(Yawn) I guess they'll have to kill me, now that I've outed the scheme. Gosh, I'm so scared (snore). Not to worry. I've notified Scotland Yard, Interpol, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the DOJ, CIA, FBI, state, local and county law enforcement----and I named names.........just in case lurkers are taking notes (smirk).
His wife, Julia Yakovlev, 36, was not charged in the murders, but was accused of withdrawing more than $40,000 from the account and buying $16,200 in watches on the missing Brooklyn woman's credit cards. Malezhik's body has never been found. The Brooklyn federal court indictment also charges Dmitriy with the murder of Viktor Alekseyev, who vanished in December 2005. His partial remains were found in New Jersey in January 2006. SOURCE http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/id_thief_killer_feds_K2OqLSmSI9Esln8WcfcFVK
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FEDS TEAR UP B'KLYN HOUSE IN GAL HUNT
Feds yesterday tore apart the basement of a Brooklyn home searching for the body of a Russian court translator who vanished two years ago, after getting tipped off that she was buried there. FBI agents wielding jackhammers descended on the gated oceanfront community of Sea Gate at around 8 a.m. in an effort to find the remains of Irina Malezhik, 47.
The house belongs to Dmitriy and Julia Yakovlev, who are accused of stealing the missing woman's identity and using the proceeds to help fund a shopping spree. They allegedly forged Malezhik's name on checks worth $6,475 and deposited them into their accounts on the day she disappeared, according to a Brooklyn federal court complaint. Over the next week, they allegedly used her credit card to make $37,000 in cash withdrawals and purchases, including jewelry and his-and-hers Franck Muller watches.
The Yakovlevs are now the prime suspects in the murder of the translator, who handled sensitive federal cases in Brooklyn and Manhattan, including ones involving the Russian mob, authorities said. The warrant for the search, set to continue today, was based on the identity-theft claims and an informant's tip that Malezhik had been buried in the basement, sources said. One source said a search dog zeroed in on several spots in the basement of the home, where the Yakovlevs live with their 2-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter. "At this point, no evidence has been recovered,"
FBI supervisor David Shafer said. Just days before her Oct. 15, 2007, disappearance from her Brighton Beach home, Malezhik told friends she was expecting a call from a man she knew only as Dmitriy and was afraid. Dmitriy Yakovlev, 41, has been locked up since the couple's arrest last month. His wife, Julia, 35, is free on $500,000 bail, with a 7 p.m. curfew. http://www.nypost.com/seven/08182009/news/regionalnews/feds_tear_up_bklyn_house_in_gal_hunt_185158.htm
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Same Shirt, Different Heist (Ukrainians stole $800,000 from ATMs)
americanbanker.com | August 2008
Not exactly criminal masterminds, but the three Ukrainian nationals busted for stealing PINs and debits, creating false cards, and pocketing the cash did have a pretty good run. And reading the legal documents on the case in the U.S. Eastern District Court offers a handful of lessons about ATM fraud and pre-paid card fraud—including the value of rotating your wardrobe.
First, some of the facts in the case: three Ukrainians are charged with using fraudulent debit cards they used to withdraw hundreds of thousands of dollars from Citibank, WaMu and other bank ATMs in New York City. The thefts appear to begin in the fall of 2007, and ended in early 2008 when law enforcement pulled the plug on the ring. Sometimes, your lucky shirt is not so lucky. On October, 1, 2007, a man later identified as Yuri Ryabinin is caught on surveillance video making 12 ATM withdrawals totalling just under $10k at a WaMu branch in Brooklyn, NY, wearing a tan sweatshirt with a dark blue or black front panel and dark trim at the zipper and collar.
Same individual, same clothes, is also seen on other neighborhood bank videos making large withdrawals that night. About five months later, same guy is spotted making more suspect withdrawals at a Citibank branch, wearing the same sweatshirt. Ryabinin was also traced via his ICQ ID number to a Website for ham radio enthusiasts, where there’s a picture of him—taken five years earlier—wearing the same sweatshirt. The thought of Ryabinin wearing the same aged sweatshirt for all his exploits, and being identified thanks in part to its familiarity, is only more amusing when you learn that the FBI seized more than $800k in cash and his paid-for Mercedes when they arrested him and his wife at their Brooklyn home this spring.
ATM servers remain a serious vulnerability. Ryabinin’s enterprise has been traced to a hack that stole card and PIN data as it traveled the connection between ATMs and third party processors. This weakness is widespread, says Jim Stickley of TraceSecurity, noting that his company has uncovered thousands of unpatched ATM processing servers during routine compliance inspections.
Finally, $5 million can disappear, overnight. On Oct. 3, 2007, First Bank of St. Louis notified the Secret Service that four iWire prepaid debit MasterCard accounts were compromised and fraudsters around the world—including Ryabinin in his lucky sweatshirt — made some 9,000 withdrawals or attempts netting approximately $5 million in ATM cash, all within a 24-hour period from Sept. 30 to Oct. 1, 2007. (c) 2008 Bank Technology News and SourceMedia, Inc. All Rights Reserved. http://www.banktechnews.com http://www.sourcemedia.com
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U.N. GUY IN 100G IMMIG FRAUD: FEDS (ruse let illegal aliens slip into US)
August 7, 2007 -- A United Nations translator and his pal pocketed more than $100,000 helping illegal aliens slip into the country through a ruse that made it appear they were attending UN-sponsored conferences, the feds charged yesterday.
Vyacheslav Manokhin, a Russian translator for the United Nations, and pal Vladimir Derevianko, Bloomfield, N.J, used official letterhead in drafting the bogus documents - often signing the names of fictional U.N. officials - for would-be immigrants around the world, the feds allege. Since April 2005, approximately 20 phony letters went out, according to a criminal complaint unsealed yesterday in Manhattan federal court. At least nine illegal immigrants from Uzbekistan snagged U.S. entry visas after paying $15,000 each to Manokhin and Derevianko.
To back up the aliens' entry visa applications, Manokhin, 45, allegedly listed his phone extension at the U.N.'s headquarters in Manhattan as a contact number and fielded calls posing as an assistant to the nonexistent U.N. officials. In some cases, Manokhin, who lives in a two-bedroom condo in Greenwich, Conn., signed his own name to the letters of request inviting the aliens to attend U.N. conferences in Manhattan - listing his title as U.N. "project coordinator."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Farbiarz said the pair duped officials around the world with their "sophisticated and audacious scheme" - going so far as to doctor fax lines on the documents to make it seem like they came from U.N. headquarters. "It is a network that is very good and very successful at what it does," Farbiarz told Federal Magistrate Judge Kevin Fox at an initial court appearance. The prosecutor said the scam was so polished that foreign officials verifying the applications abroad "flat-out fell for it." Derevianko, 44, who works translating immigration documents for a law firm, used his expertise to prepare the phony letters on stationery he got from Manokhin, according to Salvatore D'Alessandro, acting special agent in charge for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Derevianko, of Bloomfield, N.J., at times also posed as the head of a non-governmental organization involved in U.N.-sponsored conferences in correspondence and by phone, the feds alleged. U.N. investigators grew suspicious as early as 2005 and questioned Manokhin, who denied preparing the letters, but said he'd agreed to let Derevianko use his phone number and "to vouch for the visa applicants as legitimate [U.N.] conference attendees," court papers state. Manokhin's lawyer Alex Oh said the translator has been in the U.S. for 19 years, though his wife and two children are on an extended vacation in Russia. "He does not want to return to Russia. He will contest the allegations vigorously," Oh said.
The feds nabbed a third defendant, Kamiljan Tursunov, 44, in Florida for allegedly paying $15,000 to get a bogus invitation to a June 2005 United Nations Conference that he never planned to attend. Tursunov, a citizen of Uzbekistan who has lived illegally in the United States for two years, admitted to federal investigators that he shelled out cash to enter the U.S. under false pretenses, according to court papers. Derevianko, a former Soviet Union native, was granted political asylum by the United States in February 2005 and has a pending application for permanent-resident status.
Manokhin and Derevianko face Immigration-fraud conspiracy charges that could land them maximum prison sentences of 5 years and 10 years respectively. http://www.nypost.com/seven/08072007/news/regionalnews/u_n__guy_in_100g_immig_fraud__feds_regionalnews_kati_cornell_________and_c_j__sullivan.htm
And from what I've read the Russian Mafia is 104 times more ruthless than the 'Italian Mafia'. The Italians always tried to avoid any 'collateral damage' and only whacked other Wiseguys. The Russoans don't care who gets in their way.
Now this Fridman guy may be an honest Ruskie whose grateful for his new freedoms and does see the danger of the 'american' commieRATS and their *benevolent dictator policies and goals* and wants to band with other honest Russians in the Republican party. Or, it's all a front and a scam to game the system for freebies and he's still involved in some type of 'minor criminal enterprise'.
As to the Russian Jews who recently came over, it seems that unlike their 'European brethren' who came here long ago, they're Russians first and foremost, and being 'Jewish' only pertains to their religion: like Irish Catholics or German Lutherans. So in that respect the Russian Jews are not like the neo-cons whose 'nationality' is also their religion, i.e: what nationality or heritage does Richard Perle claim? Or for that matter -- our buddy, Rahm Emmanuel. [since he likes to dress like a girl and dance around, I say France :-)]
All that being said, the criminal element in the 'Russian communities' is definitely a problem when über liberal TV shows like Law & Order do multiple episodes on crime and the Russian immigrants.
I do know one thing for sure. A good portion of the younger Lithuanians who came to Chicago after Lithuania became a free country is that they do NOT like to work. They're so used to the gubmint 'giving them' everything they have a hard time understanding that now they're on their own if they want to live nice and not in a Black ghetto housing project.
The Soviets padded the Jewish emigre list with criminals to get rid of them. However, most Russians are hardworking citizens.