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  • He Got $300,000 From Credit-Card Rewards. The IRS Said It Was Taxable Income.

    03/07/2021 3:41:19 PM PST · by DUMBGRUNT · 78 replies
    WSJ ^ | 7 Mar 2921 | Richard Ruben
    Konstantin Anikeev, an experimental physicist, assembled everything he needed for an inquiry far outside his field. His materials included American Express cards, the government’s view that credit-card rewards aren’t income, and his own willingness to spend time buying gift cards and money orders. He pulled the concept from personal-finance websites: Exploit the difference between unlimited 5% rewards and lower fees on gift cards and money orders. “If one has a theory, one can test it experimentally. Some are easier to test,” Mr. Anikeev said. “Others require a Large Hadron Collider or something like that. But this one was a bit...
  • Gold-digger: DirectTV Moll World's Strongest Woman?

    11/26/2010 8:02:48 AM PST · by governsleastgovernsbest · 10 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    Looks like an angel; strong as the devil . . . Hey, it's the Friday after Thanksgiving, a classically slow news day. So let's have some fun. For months I've been fascinated by the TV commercial for DirectTV. The focus is a man we instantly understand to be a Russian billionaire businessman/mobster. "I like the best. Opulence: I has it," he explains as the commercial opens. And sure enough, he's surrounded by the flashiest things—and women—that money can buy. With no Morning Joe to bust today, I was catching up on some House episodes I'd DVD'ed, and during an October...
  • CASH MACHINE (Brooklyn Russian immigrant in massive ID theft ripoff)

    02/19/2006 7:32:20 AM PST · by Liz · 158 replies · 3,042+ views
    NY POST ^ | February 19, 2006 | MURRAY WEISS, JOE McGURK and JOHN DOYLE
    Plainclothes transit cops eating lunch — agog as a dandily dressed Brooklyn man stuffed piles of cash from an ATM into a gym bag — ended up nabbing a key player in a $4 million international identity-theft ring. What began as a hankering for grilled chicken could be the coffin nail for the ring that has ripped off countless consumers and banks. Feds had been investigating the syndicate with little luck. They knew people were stealing the bank and credit-card account information and PIN numbers of consumers from all over the US........ But a blue-plate special of a big break...