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>Pretty sure anything short of a sentence that includes "smuggling nuclear weapons to ISIS" is not going to be any worse than I think...
Funny you should mention that. Let me introduce you to The Most Dangerous Mobster In The World: Semion Mogilevich He is the boss of the Russian mafia.
The Russian mafia should also not be confused with a mere crime syndicate. It is an organization comprised of state actors, oligarchs, and specific groups of individuals working collectively with the authority of the Russian government — a “mafia state.” At times, it is difficult to tell where the mob ends and the government begins.
According to the FBI Mogilevich's criminal activities including trafficking in nuclear materials, drugs, prostitutes, precious gems, and stolen art.
Mogilevich's second-in-command and business partner was Vyacheslav “Yaponchik” Ivankov. In March 1992 Ivankov became Godfather of the Russian mob in America.
Robert Friedman wrote a book in 2000 about the Russian Mafia called Red Mafiya. In it he wrote,
> Despite Ivankov's flagrant, multinational criminal activities, during his first years in America, the FBI had a hard time even locating him. "At first all we had was a name," says the FBI's James Moody. "We were looking around, looking around, looking around, and had to go out and really beat the bushes. And then we found out that he was in a luxury condo in Trump Towers" in Manhattan.
> But almost as soon as they found him, he disappeared again leaving nothing but vapor trails for the FBI to follow. "Ivankov," explained an FBI agent, "didn't come from a walk-and-talk culture," like Italian gangsters who take walks to discuss family business so they can't be bugged or overheard by the bureau. "As soon as he'd sniff out the feds, he'd go into hiding for days at a time," a trait that made him harder to keep tabs on than Italian mobsters.
> "He was like a ghost to the FBI," says Gregory Stasiuk, the New York State Organized Crime Task Force special investigator. Stasiuk picked up Ivankov's trail at the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, the Trump-owned casino that the real estate magnate boasted was the "eighth wonder of the world."
> The Taj Mahal had become the Russian mob's favorite East Coast destination. As with other high rollers, scores of Russian hoodlums received "comps" for up to $100,000 a visit for free food, rooms, champagne, cartons of cigarettes, entertainment,
Ivankov's personal phone book included a working number for the Trump Organization's Trump Tower Residence, and a Trump Organization office fax machine.
I will keep reposting this about Giuliani.
This is a passage from Robert Friedman's book: Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America(published May 2000)
By the dawn of the new millennium Russian mobsters were lavishing millions of dollars in contributions on Democratic and Republican politicians. In New York City, commodities mogul and alleged wiseguy Semyon (Sam) Kislin has been one of mayor Rudy Giuliani’s top campaign supporters. Kislin, various relatives, and his companies, raised or donated a total of $64,950 to Giuliani’s mayoral campaigns in 1993 and 1997. A Ukrainian immigrant well known among the Russian Jewish community in South Brooklyn, Kislin has also made generous donations to Democratic Senator Charles Schumer as well as other state politicians. According to a confidential December 1994 FBI report and underworld sources, Kislin is a member of the Ivankov organization. These sources say that Kislin’s New York commodities firm has been involved in laundering millions of dollars, and co-sponsored a U.S. visa for a man named Anton Malevsky, who is a contract killer and head of one of Russia’s most bloodthirsty Mafiya families. Kislin’s donations to charities and politicians bore fruit in 1996 when he was appointed to be a member of New York City’s Economic Board of Development Corporation. On December 2, 1999, Giuliani reappointed Kislin to the board, stating in a letter that his “service is deeply appreciated.” Kislin has denied any ties to the Russian mob, insisting at a December 1999 press conference that “I have done nothing evil.”
Read the FT links then.
A few points that are well known:
A few that are lesser known:
Mexican drug cartels- show me where any authority has gone after their banking, or al-Qaeda's banking. Provide some links please.
Israel is a passport mill too. I've got one, don't you? You don't have to be Jewish, you just have to say that you are - much like a Russian passport. Israel is the Red Mafiya's home away from home.
Source: http://www.amazon.com/Red-Mafiya-Russian-Invaded-America/dp/0316294748
read it online here: http://robert-friedman-red-mafiya.blogspot.ca/
European passports are more expensive than most. Bulgaria's are the cheapest, but that doesn't mean other countries can't undersell Sofia.
You're the crazy one if you've only got one passport in this age of globalism.