Part 2 - The Russian Mafia Comes to Brooklyn

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In part 2 of our episode on the Russian Mafia coming to Brooklyn, we are joined by journalist Michael Weiss to continue our story of how mostly Jewish refugees from the former Soviet Union set up shop in Brighton Beach and formed the 'Russian Mafia'. We talk about the war for Brighton Beach between Boris Nayfeld and Monya Elson, the arrival of the infamous and feared vor y zakone (allegedly!) Yaponchik, and how Russian gangsters in Brighton Beach bilk the US government out of billions of dollars through healthcare scams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.0	I am your host Danny Golds.
1:12.0	This is part two of the Russian sort of Jewish
1:15.7	mafia as of Brighton Beach from the 1970s onward and hopefully you're still
1:19.6	interested after part one. We had run through the arrivals in the 1970s and Out Brighton Beach
1:24.8	built up. The man viewed as the first Russian mob boss, Evseagrone, Marat Balagoula and the fuel
1:30.6	taxes and my man Boris Nefield was taken over just as the Russians, we're starting to make a name for themselves and get a lot of media and law enforcement attention.
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