Part 1 - The Russian Mafia Comes to Brooklyn
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audio
Podknife tags |
Society & Culture
True Crime
Categories Via RSS |
Documentary
History
Society & Culture
True Crime
Publication Date |
Oct 19, 2020
Episode Duration |
00:43:51
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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