This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchelor. I welcome my colleague Craig Unger,

the author of several books revealing a world that I lived in. We all lived in in the 20th century of the Cold War.

But this is fun because it connects it to today, to a man named Donald Trump.

We begin with David Bogotten. The year is 1984. David Bogotin is a mobster,

but a special kind, and he's really rich for a reason known as the Red Daisy Gas scam. If this

sounds like Hollywood, they're not this good. Craig, a very good evening to you.

Who was David Bogotten?

And where did he get all that money?

What was the Red Daisy scam of 1984 and before?

Good evening to you.

Good evening to you.

Well, David Bogotten was a member of the Russian mafia.

He was tied to Semyon Mogulavich, who is known as the Brainy Don, a multi-billionaire, who is considered a genius when it came to, especially when it came to laundering money.

And one of the scams they used in New York, there was a huge influx of the Russian mafia during the 80s.

And the Red Daisy gas tax scam was a scam by which the Russian mafia would buy up gas stations.

And, you know, if you go to the pump and buy gasoline, you are paying taxes every time you do that.

But the tax man didn't come along to collect taxes till the end of the year.

So the Russian mob set up a scam with dozens and dozens of phony companies where they

would transfer ownership just before the tax ban came.

And that way they didn't have to pay tax.

The new company would say, oh, that was the previous owner.

And they did this all over New York.

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