While at the HAM Fest in Dayton Ohio, a group of young Russians were selling a bunch of electronic test equipment in the flea market. They did not look like the types you would have gone up to and cracked jokes about wanting to see their purchase receipts for everything.
The History Channel's excellent expose of the Russian crooks pulled no punches. How they emigrate from Russia, go to Israel to pick up all the freebies, then come to the USA settling in Little Odessa, Brooklyn, the center of their crime activties. They are greeted here in the US with all kinds of tax-paid goodies b/c they claim asylum from persecution. And some use fake passports claiming to be Russian emigres seeking asylum.
They are into all kinds of frauds---staged auto accidents, Medicare/Aid fraud, insurance fraud, ID theft, securities fraud......you name it.
INSURANCEFRAUD.COM CHRONICLED THE RUSSIAN FRAUDS Russians kings of staged crashes in NYC. Russian gangs are the kingpins of staged accidents in New York City, investigators say.
Russians have amassed a monopoly that has cost auto insurers up to $500 million. Eight large Russian rings have been busted over the last three years. The kingpins paid cocaine-addled drivers as little as $200 each to crash cars into hundreds of innocent drivers on busy roads.
The Russians also created as many as 1,000 phony medical clinics to treat fake injuries of passengers who rode with the crashers. Russian and Italian mobsters forced some passengers for months to get treatment they didn’t need.
One Russian-operated law firm in Brooklyn signed up 3,000 clients from staged accidents, generating up to $30 million in bogus claims. Often the crooked drivers targeted elderly motorists, or drivers who were distracted while using cell phones. The Russians removed the bulbs from their rear brake lights, darted in front of the target car, put the cars in neutral and then slammed on the brakes, according to an FBI investigation dubbed
Operation Allcons.
Not to mentionm the fact that Medicare was ripped off to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, which we pay for, and that the rest of us
have to pay more for insurance b/c of these scams.
Ask your Congressman or US Senator to give you the informaton from GAO reports, Congressional Record articles and the like, that have statistics on Russian immigration, and lists the benefits allotted under so-called "political asylum" laws. And tell them the Russian gravy train must be stopped, once and for all.