Prior to his taking the US Senate seat, Sen Schumer represented:
<><> the Ninth Congressional District in Brooklyn and Queens for eighteen years.
<><> earlier Schumer represented the Forty-Fifth Assembly District in Brooklyn for six years.
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SEN SCHUMER MUST HAVE SPRUNG INTO ACTION TO DEFEND TAXPAYERS BEING RIPPED OFF BY HIS RUSSIAN CONSTITUENTS. RIGHT?
REFERENCE---A Medicaid Fraud Ring and the Brooklyn-based “Russian Mind-Set" (Sen Scuhumer's constituents)
By Julia Ioffe, NY Magazine, published March 2, 2012
In March 2012, thirty-six Russians---Soviet immigrants----were arrested in Brooklyn, New York for plotting to bilk US health-insurance companies out of a quarter of a billion tax dollars.
The plot, according to the NY Times, involved ten doctors, nine clinics, and a hundred and five corporations: “The ring falsified official US govt documennts demanding tax dollars----reimbursements for a mountain of excessive and unnecessary medical treatments that were never done.
The Russian fraudsters were so brazen that they already had in-place three separate billing-processing companies just to handle the paperwork.....to get the tax dollars into their greedy hands faster.
SOURCE: MEDICAID FRAUD IN BRIGHTON BEACH, BROOKLYN
https://www.bing.com/search?q=russian%20medicaid%20fraud%20in%20Brighton%20beach&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=russian%20medicaid%20fraud%20in%20brighton%20beach&sc=0-39&sk=&cvid=32789ED4D3D84A92BD6C37981C7C292F
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NOTES---What’s remarkable here is just how unremarkable the story is, coming, as it does, out of Sen Schumer's district-----the Russia-centric Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.
Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, is famous for its Russian delicacies, entertainment, a population of highly-inflected Russian dialects, but mostly for its concentration of insurance fraud.
The NY Times reports, “Brighton Beach has one of the highest rates of health care fraud in the nation, according to federal statistics.
An analysis from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (agency regulates those two programs), shows that more health care providers in the Brighton Beach ZIP code are currently barred from the programs for malfeasance than in almost any other ZIP code in the United States.
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BACKSTORY--Senator Schumer said his caucus has not yet decided on whether to withhold their votes on Pres Trump's FBI nominee. Sen Schumer wants to make sure there is a thorough investigation of alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
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QUESTIONS: Have there been any investigations of Russian interference in Sen Schumer's races?
Sen Schumer's Congressional District and his Assembly district saw great waves of Russian citizens move into the area.....and are represented by Sen Schumer and then Cong/Assemblyman Schume.
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LITTLE ODESSA---THE BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD THAT'S A MINITURE VERSION OF "LITTLE RUSSIA."
Russians in New York get a taste of the Motherland in Little Odessa (named after the Ukrainian city that was once part of Imperial Russia), an insular neighborhood just blocks from Brooklyn's Brighton Beach boardwalk A place that's a perfect microcosm of the former Soviet Union.
Once a summer getaway for wealthy New Yorkers, Brighton Beach saw an influx of Jewish immigrants escaping fascism and Nazism in Europe around the time of World War II. The 1970s brought a second wave of Ukrainian Jews from the time the Soviet Union relaxed its immigration policies, through its dissolution.
The neighborhood was filled with young families once again, and it became known as "Little Odessa," after the port city on the Black Sea.
Today, the culture thrives in its odd shops, food emporiums serving traditional delicacies, and colorful, Russian-speaking characters.
http://www.businessinsider.com/tour-new-york-little-russia-brighton-beach-2014-1
(HAT TIP WIKI) The collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent significant changes there led many Russian citizens to immigrate to the United States.
Many of the Soviet immigrants of the late 1980s and the 1990s primarily speak Russian......they live in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY.
So many Russian citizens immigrated to Brighton Beach that the area became known as "Little Odessa."
In the early 2000s," Oceana," a high-income ocean-front condominium complex, was constructed. Oceana has become the destination of wealthy businessmen, entertainers, and senior govt officials from the former Soviet Union.
A Russian-speaking theater near the waterfront,features performances by actors from Russia, and other countries.