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In the 1990s, the Solntsevskaya dispatched Vyacheslav Ivankov to Brighton Beach, New York City, and Mikhail Odenussa to Atlanta, Georgia, to take control of the Russian mob activities there. The FBI was alerted to Ivankov's presence, however, and after a long investigation he was arrested and convicted of extortion, becoming the first thief-in ...
Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov (Russian: Вячесла́в Кири́ллович Иванько́в; 2 January 1940 – 9 October 2009) was a Russian mafia boss and thief in law who was believed to have connections with Russian state intelligence organizations and their organized crime partners. [1]
[47] [48] It is believed that 27 of the arrested are connected to the Russian mafia Shulaya clan which are largely based in New York. [49] On 26 September 2017, as part of a 4-year investigation, 100 Spanish Civil Guard officers carried out 18 searches in different areas of Málaga, Spain, related to Russian mafia large scale money laundering. [50]
Veadov is known for playing Russian mob drug lord and hitman Vadim Nezhinski in the film We Own the Night. [3] [4] [1] Veadov also played the role of Christo, a drug smuggler and terrorist seeking to attack the United States, in the 2012 movie Act of Valor. [5] [1] In 2014, Veadov played the role of Tevi in The Equalizer.
In The Sopranos, there were many references and interactions with the Russian mafia. In this case, the New Jersey branch of the Russian mafia is led by Slava Malevsky (played by Frank Ciornei). The Brighton Beach-based Yogorov crime family appears in the first three seasons of Person of Interest and is led by Ivan Yogorov (played by Olek Krupa).
The New York Tri-State area has a population of 1.6 million Russian-Americans and 600,000 of them live in New York City. [5] There are over 220,000 Russian-speaking Jews living in New York City. [6] Approximately 100,000 Russian Americans in the New York metropolitan area were born in Russia. [7]
The New York Times reported in June 2021 that in 2017 and 2018 Trump's Justice Department subpoenaed metadata from the iCloud accounts of at least a dozen people associated with the House Intelligence Committee, including that of Democratic ranking member Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, and family members, to investigate leaks to the press about ...
FBI surveillance photo in the 1980s of the Palma Boys Social Club. Salerno was a highly respected and feared gangster, and a well-known New York Mafia powerhouse who continued to rise through the ranks of the Genovese crime family becoming consigliere from 1972–75, underboss in 1975, and eventually the acting–front boss from 1981-86. In the ...