Posted on 12/01/2011 3:54:45 AM PST by AtlasStalled
Mobsters and strippers go together like a horse and carriage.
Seven reputed mobsters -- four Gambinos and three Bonannos -- are among the twenty suspects arrested by ICE agents in New York City for their alleged roles in trafficking women from Russia and Eastern Europe on fraudulent visas to work in area strip clubs as reported by the Daily News: "visa rules would have barred them from adult entertainment, though, so the suspects arranged bogus offers for summer waitressing jobs and then had the women apply for seasonal visas, prosecutors said." Once stateside the defendants allegedly arranged up to 150 sham marriages to provide the buxom beauties with U.S. citizenship, and their supposed husbands were paid up to $5,000 to say "I do."
The alleged mobsters are further charged with controlling "four strip clubs in Queens and Long Island" as reported by The Associated Press: "their owners were forced to make payments in exchange for protection, which included the resolution of disputes among strip clubs over which dancers work where and over ownership interests in certain clubs."
The "women — who worked at places including Cheetahs in Midtown Manhattan; Rouge in Maspeth, Queens; and the Scene in Commack, Suffolk County — became 'personal profit centers' for the defendants, according to Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan."
The alleged Gambino defendants are capo Alphonse Trucchio, soldier William "Old Man Willy" or "The Grandfather" Pazienza Sr., and associates Christopher Colon and Richard Gutkowski, and the alleged Bonanno defendants are capo Anthony "The Walker" or "Perry Como" Frascone and associates Paul Casella and Lawrence Zaino.
But notwithstanding its fondness for the flesh trade remember that the Mafia really does respect family, women and children; I know this because the Mafia tells us so.
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First time I wouldn’t mind being caught in traffic.
Why?
They weren’t trafficking strippers, they were trafficking women and forcing them into prostitution.
In the old days they called it slavery....
They should have brought them up through the southern border.....then nothing would have been said about it.
Human trafficking is too big of a problem now a days for a nation that paid such a high price to end slavery.
My first real relationship was with a Russian girl, so this story hits a sore spot for me.
I hope these clowns never again see the light of day.
Their “families” will make the right payoffs and they’ll get out relatively soon.
Might we worth looking into the Long Island Serial Killer mystery.
Taking out the free-lancers i.e. competition?
If they can’t avoid being busted what did the Sicilian mob bring to party for the Russian mob? Somebody is in way bigger trouble than legal issues.
“Bah-Da-Bing” Ping!
Doing jobs American girls are unwilling to do, nyet?
How much of it was being "forced" and how much was the decision that life as a stripper in the US was better than how they were living in Eastern Europe?
I would approve of our granting easy visas to cute Eastern European women with work skills.
What is wrong with you people, anyway?
Watch the movie “Eastern Promises” with Viggo Mortensen and
Naomi Watts. It is all about how Russian women are lured to come to the west with the promise of a better life.
The women are then kept in brothels where they are forced into prostitution and addicted to drugs like heroin.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765443/
It is actually a very well done movie with a surprise ending.
“Why?”
You ask “Why?”
Don’t tell me you expected the pimp to ~not~ pimp a thread about pimps.
Really!
How much blog could a blog pimp pimp, if a blog pimp could pimp blog?
According to our illustrious Secretary of State, these are sex workers who deserve our support, facilitation and respect for their brave choice of occupation.
I can’t even get into the minds of people like her. They may as well be extraterrestrials.
They are enticed to come to the US under the auspices of real jobs and opportunity. When they get here they are usually told they owe a large sum for the transport and expected to pay for it. Through intimidation, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and drugs they are pushed into becoming sex slaves.
Sure they could walk away and check into a police station for help. However they are dealing with the Russian mob and know they will be found. Its an age old formula.
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