The Italians are now resigned to corner street dealing and hijacking. Small time stuff.
Russians are engaged in the more profitable crime rackets....
Fbi very worried about Russian Mob in NY
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/23/nyregion/influx-of-russian-gangsters-troubles-fbi-in-brooklyn.htmlRussian Mafiya Runns Cybercrime
http://www.fivefamiliesnyc.com/2011/07/russian-mob-runs-world-of-internet.htmlFederal agents arrested nine members of a Brooklyn-based Russian organized crime syndicate on Wednesday.
BY John Marzulli
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
November 9, 2016,
Federal agents arrested nine reputed members of a Brooklyn-based Russian organized crime syndicate Wednesday with close ties to an underworld group in Eastern Europe known as Thieves in Law, authorities said.
A 10-count indictment unsealed in Brooklyn Federal Court charges them with racketeering, extortion, loansharking, marijuana trafficking and illegal gambling.
"The defendants, all of whom are members of the transnational enterprise, report abroad to high-ranking organized crime members living in Eastern Europe," Assistant U.S. Attorneys Matthew Jacobs and Andrey Spektor stated in court papers.
The Thieves in Law helped the Brooklyn mobsters collect extortion debts from victims living outside the U.S., the prosecutors stated.
One victim who owed the Brooklyn mobsters $200,000 was tracked down in Israel and other family members were in Russia with the help of the Thieves.
The mobsters are expected to be arraigned in Brooklyn Federal Court on Wednesday afternoon.
The Brooklyn mobsters operated in Coney Island and Brighton Beach, sources said. High-stakes poker games were set up at a building on Coney Island Ave. which from the outside appeared to be an auto leasing and private security business.
One defendant, Aleksey Tsvetkov, was previously convicted of racketeering in 2005 and deported to the Ukraine. But Tsvetkov was allowed to return to the U.S. and granted asylum after claiming that he was tortured when he returned to his homeland.
Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, Internal Revenue Service, and the NYPD also busted Leonid Gershman, Renat Yusufov, Igor Krugly, Vyacheslav Malkeyev, Isok Aronov, Yusuf Pardilov, and Librado Rivera.
Russian mafia boss shot down in Moscow
The leader of the syndicate is indicted but remains a fugitive, officials said.
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New York Fed is in bed with Safra and the Russian mafia by Jeffrey Steinberg
Every day of the week, between $100 million and $1 billion in U.S. hundred-dollar bills, are flown from New York's Kennedy Airport to Moscow, where they are funnelled through a string of unregulated, sleazy banks, into the hands of Russia's leading mafiosi, helping to fuel the biggest orgaÂnized crime boom since U.S. Prohibition helped jump-start the late Meyer Lansky's National Crime Syndicate.
AccordÂing to a cover story in the Jan. 22, 1996 New York Magazine, these crisp, new "C-notes" are sold by the New York Federal Reserve Bank to Republic National Bank of New York. That bank's owner, Edmond Safra, has had more than one run Âin with U.S. federal narcotics authorities.
Back in1989, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Customs Service linked Republic and Safra to major money laundering schemes by the Medellin Cartel and by the Swiss Âbased Shakarchi Trading Company, a laundromat for Syrian and East bloc heroin profits.
New York Magazine writer Robert I. Friedman, (assassinated) who auÂthored the Jan. 22 story, is no stranger to cross-currents of big time politics, finance, and the underworld. He has written a very unauthorized biography of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the terrorist Jewish Defense League and Kach Movement, and he has catalogued the activities of the Jewish underground in the Israeli Occupied Territories.
https://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/pub...004-new_york_fed_is_in_bed_with_safr.pdf 
