"The Brainy Don"
Added to the FBI's 10 most wanted list in 2009.
Posted on 04/26/2013 8:31:16 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
Billionaire Marc Lasry who runs a Manhattan hedge fund was slated to become the next French ambassador but apparently he's declined the post over his alleged friendship with Illya Trincher whom federal prosecutors accuse of heading a gambling and money laundering ring with ties to the Russian Mafia as reported by the New York Post: "'it's not that he committed a crime, but it opens a can of worms,' a source said."
Trincher and co-defendant Hillel "Helly" Nahmad, an art dealer and spoiled playboy, allegedly headed a racketeering enterprise which operated poker games in New York for the fabulous set, and they were among dozens arrested by the FBI earlier this month.
At a bail hearing on Wednesday for Anatoly Golubchik federal prosecutors sought to dissuade the public from a misperception that the ring was just harmless fun and games for the rich and famous as reported by the New York Post:
"Golubchik, whom the feds claim helped run a multimillion-dollar illegal-gambling operation out of Nahmad's $5 million Trump Tower condo, answered directly to reputed Russian crime boss Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, the prosecutor said. 'This is the top of the top of the top in organized crime in Russia,' he noted, in arguing against Golubchik's bid to maintain bail."
Tokhtakhounov is charged in the indictment for allegedly heading a separate racketeering enterprise with Illya Trincher's father Vadim, and Tokhtakhounov remains a fugitive as reported by Richard Behar for Forbes:
"The feds call him a 'major figure in international Eurasian Organized Crime' who has been involved in 'drug distribution, illegal arms sales and trafficking in stolen vehicles.' In the current gambling case, he's accused of using his status as a thief-in-law (or vory v zakone) -- a select group of the highest-level criminals in Russia -- to resolve disputes with gambling clients with threats of violence."
In the past Tokhtakhunov allegedly has been linked to Semion "The Brainy Don" Mogilevich, the supposed "boss of bosses" over Russia's organized crime networks, who is under federal indictment for allegedly "swindling Canadian and U.S. investors out of $150 million in a complex international financial scheme" as previously reported by Jeanne Meserve for CNN.
It's unlikely that the feds ever will bring Tokhtakhunov or Mogilevich to justice given that the United States has no extradition treaty with Russia where both men are living.
“The feds call him a ‘major figure in international Eurasian Organized Crime’ who has been involved in ‘drug distribution, illegal arms sales and trafficking in stolen vehicles.’ In the current gambling case, he’s accused of using his status as a thief-in-law (or vory v zakone) — a select group of the highest-level criminals in Russia — to resolve disputes with gambling clients with threats of violence
Makes you say HUMM, This guy may know the two russian fellas who poped into the suspects apt last week.
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After all this I’m sure Obama still owes him, I wonder how he will repay now.
"The Brainy Don"
Added to the FBI's 10 most wanted list in 2009.
Very interesting!
Our gov’t is a bunch of Bond villains.
More here
Connected to Hillel Nahmad, the son of Monaco’s second richest individual,
Well, that’s just too bad. Apparently, he didn’t have the weight of entire liberaldom and the media and other powers that be to hide his past history...that is only reserved for the much higher ups.
Very interesting indeed!!
Wonder how much of this money found it’s way into the coffers of Obama’s election campaign??
Chicago Way!
Government doesn't like competition. Turf war. A shakedown racket vs a protection racket.
The only way to tell the difference is the snappy uniforms and the civil service.
/johnny
typical obama picking those evil .00000001%
Strange how the dems are willing to advance organized crime members.Oh wait Chicago folks in WH move on.
This guy is bad news, he is tied to two aircraft companies one in Miami Suncoast Air Cargo, LLC and one in guess where Kyrgystan called Trast-Aero owned with another man .
I will keep digging.
Ton$!
WHAT? WHAT?
Are you actually saying that Zero picked this man to be an ambassador to Russia? Good grief! With choices like that the next thing you know he’ll do something really stupid such as choosing John Kerry to be Secretary of State.
Pardon me, I was in such shock that I said Russia when I meant France.
Includes his photo!
LOL.
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