ROBERT FRIEDMAN’S 2000 book Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America provides extremely important and, though almost 20 years old, timely background to the underworld of organized crime figures currently in the news.

From the book’s introduction:

In North America alone there are now thirty Russian crime syndicates operating in at least seventeen U.S. cities, most notably New York, Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Denver. The Russians have already pulled off the largest jewelry heist and insurance Medicare frauds in American history, with a net haul exceeding $1 billion. They have invaded North America’s financial markets, orchestrating complex stock scams, allegedly laundering billions of dollars through the Bank of New York, and coolly infiltrating the business and real estate worlds.”The Russians didn’t come here to enjoy the American dream,” New York state tax agent Roger Berger says glumly. “They came here to steal it.

This book is must reading. I don’t know how else to put it: It will blow your mind.

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