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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.
Ludwig Fainberg: February 9, 2016: Fainberg worked as a go-between with the Russian Mafia and the Medellin Cartel in Colombia. Convicted of federal drug charges, he cooperated with the government and received the minimum sentence for which he was eligible: three years imprisonment. He was released from federal custody in 1999 and deported to ...
Unfortunately for the two of them, federal agents had been keeping a close eye on Fainberg for months. 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 ...
Arnold Rothstein was born into a comfortable life in Manhattan, the son of an affluent Ashkenazi Jewish businessman, Abraham Rothstein, and his wife, Esther. His father was a man of upright character, who had acquired the nickname "Abe the Just". [4]
Siegel was influential within the Jewish Mob, along with his childhood friend and fellow gangster Meyer Lansky, and he also held significant influence within the Italian-American Mafia and the largely Italian-Jewish National Crime Syndicate. Described as "handsome" and "charismatic", Siegel became one of the first front-page celebrity gangsters.
Jason Carter, acquitted of murdering his mother in a highly publicized 2019 trail, has failed to show Iowa investigators were malicious or reckless in bringing the charge against him, a federal ...
She enjoyed hiking the mountains, which she had often done with her sons when they were young. Marie looked after her second son Otto, who was declared insane. She outlived her elder son, Ludwig II, by nearly three years; his unusual death occurring on 13 June 1886. Marie died in 1889 in Hohenschwangau.
A series of articles by Josef Ludwig Hecker in the Schrobenhausener Zeitung revived interest in the murders. [ 33 ] A documentary film, Hinterkaifeck – Symbol des Unheimlichen (1981), is based on the Leuschner book; Hans Fegert adapted the book, directed the film (shot on Super 8 , with sound), and was the cameraman. [ 33 ]