Marxist Democrat Cringes As Russian Immigrants Compare Communism to…Democrats!

Red State ^ | 16 January 2011

[Liz]

ID thief a killer
A Brooklyn man who was part of a husband-wife ID-theft ring was charged yesterday with murdering two of their victims -- a Russian court translator and a man whose dismembered body was found in a New Jersey park. Dmitriy Yakovlev, 42, has been suspected in the disappearance of Irina Malezhik, a Manhattan federal court translator, since the couple allegedly deposited checks drawn from the victim's account on the day she disappeared.

His wife, Julia Yakovlev, 36, was not charged in the murders, but was accused of withdrawing more than $40,000 from the account and buying $16,200 in watches on the missing Brooklyn woman's credit cards. Malezhik's body has never been found. The Brooklyn federal court indictment also charges Dmitriy with the murder of Viktor Alekseyev, who vanished in December 2005. His partial remains were found in New Jersey in January 2006. SOURCE http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/id_thief_killer_feds_K2OqLSmSI9Esln8WcfcFVK

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FEDS TEAR UP B'KLYN HOUSE IN GAL HUNT
Feds yesterday tore apart the basement of a Brooklyn home searching for the body of a Russian court translator who vanished two years ago, after getting tipped off that she was buried there. FBI agents wielding jackhammers descended on the gated oceanfront community of Sea Gate at around 8 a.m. in an effort to find the remains of Irina Malezhik, 47.

The house belongs to Dmitriy and Julia Yakovlev, who are accused of stealing the missing woman's identity and using the proceeds to help fund a shopping spree. They allegedly forged Malezhik's name on checks worth $6,475 and deposited them into their accounts on the day she disappeared, according to a Brooklyn federal court complaint. Over the next week, they allegedly used her credit card to make $37,000 in cash withdrawals and purchases, including jewelry and his-and-hers Franck Muller watches.

The Yakovlevs are now the prime suspects in the murder of the translator, who handled sensitive federal cases in Brooklyn and Manhattan, including ones involving the Russian mob, authorities said. The warrant for the search, set to continue today, was based on the identity-theft claims and an informant's tip that Malezhik had been buried in the basement, sources said. One source said a search dog zeroed in on several spots in the basement of the home, where the Yakovlevs live with their 2-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter. "At this point, no evidence has been recovered,"

FBI supervisor David Shafer said. Just days before her Oct. 15, 2007, disappearance from her Brighton Beach home, Malezhik told friends she was expecting a call from a man she knew only as Dmitriy and was afraid. Dmitriy Yakovlev, 41, has been locked up since the couple's arrest last month. His wife, Julia, 35, is free on $500,000 bail, with a 7 p.m. curfew. http://www.nypost.com/seven/08182009/news/regionalnews/feds_tear_up_bklyn_house_in_gal_hunt_185158.htm

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Same Shirt, Different Heist (Ukrainians stole $800,000 from ATMs)
americanbanker.com | August 2008
Not exactly criminal masterminds, but the three Ukrainian nationals busted for stealing PINs and debits, creating false cards, and pocketing the cash did have a pretty good run. And reading the legal documents on the case in the U.S. Eastern District Court offers a handful of lessons about ATM fraud and pre-paid card fraud—including the value of rotating your wardrobe.

First, some of the facts in the case: three Ukrainians are charged with using fraudulent debit cards they used to withdraw hundreds of thousands of dollars from Citibank, WaMu and other bank ATMs in New York City. The thefts appear to begin in the fall of 2007, and ended in early 2008 when law enforcement pulled the plug on the ring. Sometimes, your lucky shirt is not so lucky. On October, 1, 2007, a man later identified as Yuri Ryabinin is caught on surveillance video making 12 ATM withdrawals totalling just under $10k at a WaMu branch in Brooklyn, NY, wearing a tan sweatshirt with a dark blue or black front panel and dark trim at the zipper and collar.

Same individual, same clothes, is also seen on other neighborhood bank videos making large withdrawals that night. About five months later, same guy is spotted making more suspect withdrawals at a Citibank branch, wearing the same sweatshirt. Ryabinin was also traced via his ICQ ID number to a Website for ham radio enthusiasts, where there’s a picture of him—taken five years earlier—wearing the same sweatshirt. The thought of Ryabinin wearing the same aged sweatshirt for all his exploits, and being identified thanks in part to its familiarity, is only more amusing when you learn that the FBI seized more than $800k in cash and his paid-for Mercedes when they arrested him and his wife at their Brooklyn home this spring.

ATM servers remain a serious vulnerability. Ryabinin’s enterprise has been traced to a hack that stole card and PIN data as it traveled the connection between ATMs and third party processors. This weakness is widespread, says Jim Stickley of TraceSecurity, noting that his company has uncovered thousands of unpatched ATM processing servers during routine compliance inspections.

Finally, $5 million can disappear, overnight. On Oct. 3, 2007, First Bank of St. Louis notified the Secret Service that four iWire prepaid debit MasterCard accounts were compromised and fraudsters around the world—including Ryabinin in his lucky sweatshirt — made some 9,000 withdrawals or attempts netting approximately $5 million in ATM cash, all within a 24-hour period from Sept. 30 to Oct. 1, 2007. (c) 2008 Bank Technology News and SourceMedia, Inc. All Rights Reserved. http://www.banktechnews.com http://www.sourcemedia.com

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U.N. GUY IN 100G IMMIG FRAUD: FEDS (ruse let illegal aliens slip into US)
August 7, 2007 -- A United Nations translator and his pal pocketed more than $100,000 helping illegal aliens slip into the country through a ruse that made it appear they were attending UN-sponsored conferences, the feds charged yesterday.

Vyacheslav Manokhin, a Russian translator for the United Nations, and pal Vladimir Derevianko, Bloomfield, N.J, used official letterhead in drafting the bogus documents - often signing the names of fictional U.N. officials - for would-be immigrants around the world, the feds allege. Since April 2005, approximately 20 phony letters went out, according to a criminal complaint unsealed yesterday in Manhattan federal court. At least nine illegal immigrants from Uzbekistan snagged U.S. entry visas after paying $15,000 each to Manokhin and Derevianko.

To back up the aliens' entry visa applications, Manokhin, 45, allegedly listed his phone extension at the U.N.'s headquarters in Manhattan as a contact number and fielded calls posing as an assistant to the nonexistent U.N. officials. In some cases, Manokhin, who lives in a two-bedroom condo in Greenwich, Conn., signed his own name to the letters of request inviting the aliens to attend U.N. conferences in Manhattan - listing his title as U.N. "project coordinator."

Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Farbiarz said the pair duped officials around the world with their "sophisticated and audacious scheme" - going so far as to doctor fax lines on the documents to make it seem like they came from U.N. headquarters. "It is a network that is very good and very successful at what it does," Farbiarz told Federal Magistrate Judge Kevin Fox at an initial court appearance. The prosecutor said the scam was so polished that foreign officials verifying the applications abroad "flat-out fell for it." Derevianko, 44, who works translating immigration documents for a law firm, used his expertise to prepare the phony letters on stationery he got from Manokhin, according to Salvatore D'Alessandro, acting special agent in charge for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Derevianko, of Bloomfield, N.J., at times also posed as the head of a non-governmental organization involved in U.N.-sponsored conferences in correspondence and by phone, the feds alleged. U.N. investigators grew suspicious as early as 2005 and questioned Manokhin, who denied preparing the letters, but said he'd agreed to let Derevianko use his phone number and "to vouch for the visa applicants as legitimate [U.N.] conference attendees," court papers state. Manokhin's lawyer Alex Oh said the translator has been in the U.S. for 19 years, though his wife and two children are on an extended vacation in Russia. "He does not want to return to Russia. He will contest the allegations vigorously," Oh said.

The feds nabbed a third defendant, Kamiljan Tursunov, 44, in Florida for allegedly paying $15,000 to get a bogus invitation to a June 2005 United Nations Conference that he never planned to attend. Tursunov, a citizen of Uzbekistan who has lived illegally in the United States for two years, admitted to federal investigators that he shelled out cash to enter the U.S. under false pretenses, according to court papers. Derevianko, a former Soviet Union native, was granted political asylum by the United States in February 2005 and has a pending application for permanent-resident status.

Manokhin and Derevianko face Immigration-fraud conspiracy charges that could land them maximum prison sentences of 5 years and 10 years respectively. http://www.nypost.com/seven/08072007/news/regionalnews/u_n__guy_in_100g_immig_fraud__feds_regionalnews_kati_cornell_________and_c_j__sullivan.htm

[Darren McCarty]

I was playing around with the Dave's redistricting app and was able to create two swing districts won by McCain in New York City. One almost entirely in Brooklyn, and another Brooklyn/Staten Island district. That's about 1.6 million people. That's despite Wall Street influence.

I'm surprised at the difference in the GOP vote among whites in Brooklyn. It's much higher than most big cities in the Northeast, and even much of the Midwest. I think the white vote in Queens and Long Island also may be close to 50/50. That's a lot higher than the Philly Suburbs (Chester and Bucks County less so), Manhattan, Montgomery County Maryland, and Northern Virginia.

[Liz]

The Russians Are Coming!
By Robert I. Friedman / 296 pages, $25.95 (hardcover) / Published by Little, Brown
The New York Review of Books November 16, 2000
Review written By RAYMOND BONNER author of Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America /

Robert Friedman's book is the first to describe in detail the Russian mobsters who have established criminal enterprises throughout the world.

His prose sometimes makes it sound like a sequel to Pulp Fiction. A Russian killer in Brooklyn murders a boy, he writes, "by picking him up like a rag doll with one hand and plunging a knife into his heart with the other."

But more than any other reporter he reveals how sophisticated, ruthless, rich, and multinational Russian criminals have become.

Among other things, he writes, they have arranged the sale of military helicopters and a submarine for the Colombia drug barons, and they have acquired influence over the American National Hockey League by threatening players from Eastern Europe and Russia and extorting money from them.

The Russian have infiltrated the international financial system, rigging share prices and buying banks in Hungary, Israel, and California. Now they are expanding into Nigeria, South Africa, and Australia.

[justiceseeker93]

If New York redistricters would draw a single Jewish district in Brooklyn...

That's just not going to happen, since 'Rats largely control the redistricting process (although the Pubbies have now regained control of the NY Senate by a slim margin.) Aside from the mostly Staten Island seat, there hasn't been a GOP congressman elected from NYC in decades. And you can bet the 'Rats in Albany are teed off about that one seat that the GOP regained in November.

[Liz]

Russians in Brooklyn caught in $72 million Medicare fraud ($251 million nationwide Medicare mills' fraud)

Feds say this poster urged patients to keep mum about a $72 million Medicare scam. Pictured is Brooklyn resident Valentina Mushinskaya, who allegedly accepted a $1,500 kickback in exchange for allowing doctors to submit her Medicare account for 3,774 medical services over six years.

A Brooklyn medical office used a Soviet-era propaganda poster to tell Russian-immigrant patients to keep quiet about kickbacks they were getting for letting doctors submit thousands of bogus Medicare claims in their names, federal prosecutors revealed yesterday. "Don't gossip!" warned the Russian-language poster that prominently hung in the "kickback room" of the Bay Medical office on Bay Parkway -- where patients literally lined up for illegal payoffs of a couple of a hundred dollars or so each.

But not everyone kept their mouths shut. Federal authorities got several people to rat out the alleged scam and arrested dozens of doctors, employees and patients of Bay Medical and other Medicare "mills" elsewhere in Brooklyn and in Miami, Detroit, Houston and Baton Rouge, La.

It is the largest Medicare-fraud prosecution ever, totaling $251 million in funds swindled from the federal health-insurance program.

The poster's threats helped Bay Medical steal $72 million by submitting fraudulent claims, prosecutors said. Among those busted was 82-year-old Brooklyn resident Valentina Mushinskaya, who allegedly accepted a $1,500 kickback in exchange for allowing doctors to submit her Medicare account for 3,774 medical services over six years.

Prosecutors said Mushinskaya's doctors at Solstice Wellness Center in Rockaway Park fraudulently billed Medicare $259,902 and ended up being reimbursed $141,161 for those services, which the Ukrainian immigrant Mushinskaya never received.

After Mushinskaya was released on $35,000 bond, her nephew proclaimed she had no idea a scam was being perpetrated in her name. Seven other elderly patients of Solstice also were charged. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/hushin_russian_in_klyn_med_fraud_dwMigEMJQtPhYzWlvvIGpM

[justiceseeker93]

Yes, there is a new Russian Mafia, but just like the Italian Mafia doesn’t tarnish the vast majority of Italian Americans, the Russian Mafia doesn’t tarnish the vast majority of newly arrived Soviet emigres.

[listenhillary]

Before the collapse.

Campus unrest in the late 60’s? The anti-war movement? Kent-State shootings where the radicals shot first? The anti-nuclear (of any kind) movement?

Many reports that the communists funneled money into the hands of agitators to help bring down America and get them out of Vietnam. Designed to stop our economic progress, stop our peaceful nuclear programs. It was a very effective program.

[Liz]

Oh, please.....I could have predicted that response.

Must be posted allover Brighton Beach....maybe embroidered on pillow covers (/snix).

Read the reports.....get informed.

Americans don’t need another protection racket inflicted on them.

[Liz]

QUESTION What's the difference between Russian organized crime and the Mafia?

ANSWER The Mafia DOESN'T infiltrate political parties pretending Democrats are driving them to be Republicans.

This is rank opportunism at it's most crass.......their hidden agenda must be frightful.

With these corrupt, treasonous people in the Repub party, all other parties start looking good.

ENOUGH: "STAY THE HELL OUT OF MY PARTY, DIMITRI."

[sheik yerbouty]

You must have some burr under your saddle! ..Wonder who you work for..

[Condor51]

No doubt that many of the *new* Russian immigrants are a problem. Back in the 'good ole USSR' the only way many could survive was by turning to crime. Some of it 'minor crime' like dealing on the Black Market, and some major crime, like the 'Russian Mafia' who worked WITH the utterly corrupt Soviet government.

And from what I've read the Russian Mafia is 10⁴ times more ruthless than the 'Italian Mafia'. The Italians always tried to avoid any 'collateral damage' and only whacked other Wiseguys. The Russoans don't care who gets in their way.

Now this Fridman guy may be an honest Ruskie whose grateful for his new freedoms and does see the danger of the 'american' commieRATS and their *benevolent dictator policies and goals* and wants to band with other honest Russians in the Republican party. Or, it's all a front and a scam to game the system for freebies and he's still involved in some type of 'minor criminal enterprise'.

As to the Russian Jews who recently came over, it seems that unlike their 'European brethren' who came here long ago, they're Russians first and foremost, and being 'Jewish' only pertains to their religion: like Irish Catholics or German Lutherans. So in that respect the Russian Jews are not like the neo-cons whose 'nationality' is also their religion, i.e: what nationality or heritage does Richard Perle claim? Or for that matter -- our buddy, Rahm Emmanuel. [since he likes to dress like a girl and dance around, I say France :-)]

All that being said, the criminal element in the 'Russian communities' is definitely a problem when über liberal TV shows like Law & Order do multiple episodes on crime and the Russian immigrants.

I do know one thing for sure. A good portion of the younger Lithuanians who came to Chicago after Lithuania became a free country is that they do NOT like to work. They're so used to the gubmint 'giving them' everything they have a hard time understanding that now they're on their own if they want to live nice and not in a Black ghetto housing project.

[Liz]

I work for the truth.

[SeeSac]

http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/01/16/marxist-democrat-cringes-as-russian-immigrants-compare-communism-todemocrats/

[AuH2ORepublican]

How did you get 2008 election info for each precinct NY in Dave’s App? I just get population and race percentage.

[PA Engineer]

Hi--i read this a week or so ago, and do not know how to save/keep it. I have i-Mac Leopard. Can you tell me anything about how to do this?

You can save it as a PDF file. Hit print and on the bottom left side you will see a selection for PDF. Select PDF and you will get a menu that includes Save as PDF. Select save as PDF. You can rename it or save the default title. Later you can open it with preview. Hope that helps.

[brooklyn dave]

We need to get all those Russians living in Brooklyn and Queens on board as well.

[MrB]

Someone posted this profundity on another thread:

“The truth has no agenda”

[Darren McCarty]

Click on Use Test Data or Custom Data. New York, Texas, and California use that.

[Liz]

“The truth has no agenda”

Beautiful.

[MrB]

Beautiful indeed, but not mine.