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Part 1 - The Russian Mafia Comes to Brooklyn
Part 1 - The Russian Mafia Comes to Brooklyn
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Length:
44 minutes
Released:
Oct 19, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The Russian Mafia has been an object of fascination for decades in America, but it only really emerged in the 1980's after mostly Jewish immigrants were allowed to leave the Soviet Union and settled in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brighton Beach. And while they may have started off as small-time hoods extorting bakeries and defrauding jewelry stores, in no time they were dropping bodies all over Brooklyn and scamming their way to hundreds of millions of dollars.
Released:
Oct 19, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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