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Leonid "Tarzan" Fainberg also known as Ludwig Lyosha Fainberg [1] (born January 3, 1958) is a Ukrainian mobster. Born in Odesa , Fainberg left the Soviet Union in the early 1980s for Israel, and moved to the United States following the fall of the Soviet Union.
Gangsters: America's Most Evil is a documentary television series that airs on Reelz [1] which profiles notorious criminals whose crimes involve murder, drug trafficking, racketeering, and human trafficking. Most, if not all of, the criminals profiled in this series were either brought to justice by local, state, and federal law enforcement or ...
Alexander Yasevich, an associate of the Russian military contact and an undercover DEA agent, was sent to verify the illegal dealing, and in 1997, Fainberg was finally arrested in Miami. Facing the possibility of life imprisonment, the latter agreed to testify against Almeida in exchange for a shorter sentence, which ended up being 33 months ...
In 1991 she played the part of Addy Mathewson in the TV movie/pilot Plymouth, which at the time was considered to be one of the most expensive such movies ever made. Pickett portrayed the real-life Kay Stayner, the mother of a boy who was kidnapped for several years, in the dramatic TV movie I Know My First Name Is Steven .
Several of these had a gangster theme including The Big Bankroll and The George Raft Story. [7] [8] [9] Producers Sam Bischoff and David Diamond had previously made The Phenix City Story. [10] The producers could not get releases from the real-life people depicted in the film apart from Rothstein's wife Carolyn.
Kate Barker (born Arizona Donnie Clark; October 8, 1873 – January 16, 1935), better known as Ma Barker (and sometimes known as Arizona Barker and Arrie Barker), was the mother of several American criminals who ran the Barker–Karpis Gang during the "public enemy era" when the exploits of gangs of criminals in the Midwestern United States gripped the American people and press.
On playing Will Ferrell’s stepmom and birth mom, respectively, in Elf (2003) and Step Brothers (2008) — despite being only 15 years older. “Well, I was his stepmom on Elf and he called me at ...
Henry Hill Jr. (June 11, 1943 – June 12, 2012) was an American mobster who was associated with the Lucchese crime family of New York City from 1955 until 1980, when he was arrested on narcotics charges and became an FBI informant.