Members And Associates Of Russian Crime Syndicate Arrested For Racketeering, Extortion, Robbery, Mur

[pnwmom]

Source: United States Attorneys Office SDNY

Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Leon Hayward, Acting Director of the New York Field Office of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and James P. ONeill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (NYPD), announced the unsealing of three Indictments and one Complaint charging 33 defendants with a variety of racketeering, fraud, narcotics, firearms, and stolen property offenses.

Of the charged defendants, 27 are associated with a nationwide racketeering enterprise led by RAZHDEN SHULAYA and ZURAB DZHANASHVILI and are charged in United States v. Razhden Shulaya, et al. (the Shulaya Indictment) and an accompanying superseding indictment, which has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Katherine B. Forrest. Of those defendants, 23 were taken into federal custody. 18 will be presented before U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein today. One defendant will be presented in the District of Nevada. Three defendants will be presented in the Southern District of Florida. DENIS SAVGIR, EREKLE KERESELIDZE, GIORGI LOMISHVILI, MAMUKA CHAGANAVA, and SEMYON SARAIDAROV remain at large. One defendant, TIMUR SUYUNOV, is currently detained in federal custody and will be brought to Manhattan federal court on a writ.

Two additional defendants are charged in United States v. Nikoloz Jikia, et al. (the Marat-Uulu Complaint), with conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and with additional firearms offenses. Of those defendants, one of whom is also charged in the Shulaya Indictment, both were taken into federal custody last evening and will be presented before Judge Gorenstein today.

Three additional defendants are charged in United States v. Alex Fishman, et al. (the Fishman Indictment), which has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Richard J. Sullivan. Each of those three defendants was taken into federal custody today and will be presented before Judge Gorenstein this afternoon.

Read more: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/members-and-associates-russian-crime-syndicate-arrested-racketeering-extortion-robbery

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WONDER IF ANY OF THESE MOBSTERS ARE PALS OF DT OR HANG OUT IN THE TOWER?



And here is an NBC piece:

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Russian-Mob-Bust-Chocolate-Pounds-FBI-Racketeering-New-York-City-Indict-427024801.html

More than 30 members and associates of a New York City-based Russian organized crime group are named in federal court papers charging them with racketeering, murder for hire and other crimes, including trafficking tens of thousands of pounds of stolen chocolate, law enforcement sources familiar with the case tell NBC 4 New York.

The FBIs Joint Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force arrested more than two dozen members of the group, called the Shulaya Enterprise, in the NYC area and elsewhere early Wednesday, law enforcement sources said. The seven other suspects remain at large.
The group is accused of trafficking stolen goods -- including large quantities of cigarettes and 10,000 pounds of chocolate confections, court papers say.

The suspects also face charges of extortion, gambling, narcotics trafficking, wire fraud, credit card fraud, and identity theft, according to law enforcement sources. Some of the charges carry a maximum penalty of decades in prison.

SNIP

Among a long list of crimes, the complaint says the enterprise tried to operate an illegal poker business in Brighton Beach, defraud casinos in Atlantic City, and steal shipments from cargo ships.

[lark]

1. Inquiring minds definitely want to know that!

[musette_sf]

2. "Wonder if any of these mobsters are pals of DT or hang out in the Tower?"

[Phoenix61]

3. I'm betting Rachel will be looking into this. nt

[mhw]

4. Thank You Louise Mensch. Apologies for all the mockery & attempts at discrediting you've had lately

Louise Mensch @LouiseMensch
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1h

I told you arrests were coming. They happened when I said they would. .


SEE!!!

[elleng]

5. Thanks.

[progressoid]

6. Just because she was correct about a couple things does NOT mean she deserves apologies.

Here is an incomplete list of outlandish claims made by Mensch over the past six months:

- ProPublica and Democracy Now! are “Russian shills” (1/28/17).
- Putin may have killed Andrew Breitbart (2/24/17).
- Russia is secretly operating the public wifi networks in her neighborhood (3/3/17).
- Anthony Weiner wasn’t sexting with a 15-year-old but was set up by a Russian hacker (Patribotics, 2/24/17).
- It was probably a Russian Twitter account that sent a strobe gif to Newsweek journalist Kurt Eichenwald, causing a seizure (12/16/16).
- Putin had his own ambassador killed in Turkey in a false-flag operation (3/23/17).
- Putin played a role in the March 22 London attack (3/23/17).
- “Russian partisans were out in the street” after London attack blaming illegal immigrants (3/24/17).

[fountainofyouth]

9. Beyond absurd

Thank you for compiling that list

[mhw]

10. Bye. Maybe check in with Tabbi.

[mhw]

13. And you have proof these weren't so?

Bet not.

Bye..ignore list is ever growing..

Carry on the good fight Louise Mensch!!

[progressoid]

28. Oh Boy. Argumentum ad ignorantiam.

So you've been here for just over three weeks and already have a growing ignore list and a hidden post.

[sheshe2]

35. Hey progressoid?

Weren't we all new here once? Give it a break please.

[progressoid]

36. Well, since it's my first (and apparently last) interaction with this poster,

I guess I'll have no option but to "give it a break" with him/her.

But I don't think I'll give Louise - the Tory Conspiracy Theorist - Mensch a break.

[sheshe2]

37. I have no strong opinion about Louise.

I just stay away from those posts.

I do believe newbies should be given a chance, as I said we were all new once.

I know I had a hard time when I first got here...bet you did too.

Best~ sheshe

[snooper2]

32. Mensch is a troll LOL

[mhw]

33. So is Matt "i hate democrats" Tabbi.

See how that works.

Bye. Your pointless taunting drival is forever gonevfrom my DU pages.

Been lovely, but I have more interesting people to talk to.
Comey's on. Enjoy your day.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. None of those re Trump-Russia. Outlandish claims, yes, but may yet be proven out. Unlikely, perhaps.

She is worth following partly because she does tie together interesting threads and does have good contact with members of the Intelligence Community.

With regard to Trump-Russia, she is careful to say what is supported only by undisclosed sources and what is supported by other evidence.

[progressoid]

29. The National Enquirer scooped the story about John Edwards' affair.

Does that mean we should take seriously their other claims...?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

30. The National Enquirer's ratio is much worse & they don't qualify their statements appropriately. .nt

[progressoid]

31. I'd wager that Louise's accuracy ratio is about the same as Fox News.

And with Fox, she shares the distinction of being a conservative as well.

[sheshe2]

8. Boom!

[MGKrebs]

34. I am curious about the context of that.

When did she predict this? Did she say who she thought was going to get arrested? Or where? Or what for?

[elleng]

7. And Preet was dismissed!

Sorry, guy(s,) it didn't work!

[elleng]

16. 'Sorry' was sarcastic,

sorry you didn't catch it. Guess I'll have to be more 'clear' for those who don't understand.

I'll us it.

I've NEVER mocked or called her a liar. You may be confusing me with someone else. NO sarcasm here, TRUTH.

[mhw]

19. Yes elleng. I misread your post and deleted my reply.

And I have no problem saying apologies to you.

Later

[elleng]

20. Thanks very much, mhw.

[orangecrush]

11. Which russian canary will sing first

Might be a better question.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. Foot soldiers

[mhw]

15. Sounds like Trump's kind of crowd..

"...the Shulaya Enterprise, in the NYC area and elsewhere early Wednesday, law enforcement sources said. The seven other suspects remain at large.
The group is accused of trafficking stolen goods -- including large quantities of cigarettes and 10,000 pounds of chocolate confections, court papers say.

The suspects also face charges of extortion, gambling, narcotics trafficking, wire fraud, credit card fraud, and identity theft, according to law enforcement sources. Some of the charges carry a maximum penalty of decades in prison.

SNIP

Among a long list of crimes, the complaint says the enterprise tried to operate an illegal poker business in Brighton Beach, defraud casinos in Atlantic City, and steal shipments from cargo ships."

[orangecrush]

17. ...

[DK504]

22. Nice.

[orangecrush]

24. ...

[DeminPennswoods]

21. Hmmm, exactly the kind of people Trump

would associate with. I wonder if NYC DAs will coordinate with Mueller? I'll bet these bit players will be happy to give up bigger fish upstream.

[DK504]

23. How long will it take for them to flip on Twitler?

[George II]

25. I didn't see Epshtyn's or Gorka's names.

[Princess Turandot]

26. The characters involved in this indictment appear to be garden-variety hoodlums...

of the kind that NYC has had for over a century, and often in abundance. It appears that much of what this bunch did was fence stolen merchandise, stolen by either themselves or some other hoodlums. Cases of cigarettes. 10,000 pounds of chocolate confections from a stolen shipping container. There was a murder-for-higher gambit, but from reading the website, that appears to have been some kind of sting. And a bunch of other street level crimes for which they will hopefully all go to prison.

But....Folks seem to think that every single Russian criminal arrested here in NYC has something to do with Trump. They don't. The US Attorney and the FBI do a lot of racketeering investigations here: much of this case goes back to 2015.

If there is anything going on between Russian organized crime and the potemkin president, the most likely activity is money-laundering, probably in the neighborhood of seven figures. The millionaire/billionaire mobsters who would be involved in something like that spend their summers on the Russian Riviera (aka the Black Sea), not hijacking trucks in New Jersey to steal their cargo and sunning themselves on Brighton Beach.

[pnwmom]

27. What isn't "garden variety" is Evegny Freidman's arrest.

He manages a fleet of taxis for Michael Cohen, DT's personal lawyer.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029174218

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141793883