OH FFS!!! The night-club of Michael Cohen's uncle doubled as HQ for entire US-based russian mafia.

[DetlefK]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/good-grief-cohens-gets-mobbier-the-closer-i-look

TPM first reported last year that Cohen was actually a childhood friend of Felix Sater, whose father was himself a reputed capo in the Mogilevich organized crime syndicate, said to be Russia’s largest and most dangerous. Filling out this picture of how Cohen fell into this milieu we’ve always been focused on the fact that Cohen’s uncle, Morton Levine, owned and ran a Brooklyn social club, El Caribe, which was a well-known meeting spot for members of Italian and Russian organized crime families in the 1970s and 1980s.

...

What I didn’t realize until now is that both Agron and his successor Balagula ran their operations out of an office in the El Caribe social club. So the El Caribe wasn’t just a mob hangout. From the 70s through the 90s at least, the bosses of the Russian mafia in the U.S. literally ran their crime organization out of the El Caribe.

So Michael Cohen’s uncle Morton Levine’s social club was the headquarters of Russian organized crime in the U.S.

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According to Levine, who is apparently still alive, all his nieces and nephews owned shares of the El Caribe and still do. Levine told the AP that Michael Cohen owned his stake in the club until Donald Trump was elected President when he “gave up his stake.”



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1. Cohen is a childhood-friend with mobster and money-launderer Felix Sater. And Felix Sater just happened to be a senior adviser to Donald Trump at one time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Sater

2. The night-club of Michael Cohen's uncle was the HQ of the russian mob in the US. And Michael Cohen was co-owner.

[PaulX2]

1. FFS

Every time you peel away a layer of the onion.....

[Doodley]

2. No wonder Trump is quaking in his boots.

[tblue37]

5. And no wonder those cigar buddies were visiting Michael Five Angels--I mean *Cohen.* nt

[SunSeeker]

3. K & R for exposure.

[stuffmatters]

4. Holy shit

[eShirl]

6. It's Russians all the way down.

[uponit7771]

19. +1

[triron]

20. Money, money, money

[OneBro]

7. Cohen. More Fredo than Michael.

[Books_Tea_Alone]

8. And of course his wife is a model from the Ukraine n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Oh my.

[FarCenter]

10. I doubt that Trump was the only rich NY real estate guy involved with Russian criminals

There is a very large Russian emigre community in Brooklyn.

Maybe the Trump investigation will blow the lid off the whole thing.

[oasis]

11. Trump is up to his ears in Russians.

[Sancho]

12. Are there enough FBI agents to ever investigate all these crooks...

You know that a bunch of GOPers are involved all the way to McTurtle and many others.

[HAB911]

13. K&R

[Vinca]

14. I weep for the screenwriters of America. You can't make this shit up.

[DetlefK]

17. Any movie-script like this would be shredded as too farfetched.

[Achilleaze]

15. Sleazebag anti-American republicans & their russian mob buddies

should be locked up for betraying the USA

[dalton99a]

16. Kick

[Blue Owl]

18. The Bada-Bing!

n/t