Red Mafia Mass market paperback - 2002
by Robert I. Friedman
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This is the true story of the Russian mob's astonishing infiltration of American business, politics, finance, and professional sports. With a $100,000 contract on his life, investigative journalist Robert I. Friedman has dared to expose the best-kept secret in the world.
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- Title Red Mafia
- Author Robert I. Friedman
- Binding Mass Market Paperback
- Edition First Thus 1st P
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2002
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0425186873I4N00
- ISBN 9780425186879 / 0425186873
- Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 6.72 x 4.18 x 0.78 in (17.07 x 10.62 x 1.98 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Organized crime - United States, Organized crime - Russia (Federation)
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.106
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Summary
In the past decade, from Brighton Beach to Moscow, Toronto to Hong Kong, the Russian mob has become the world's fastest-growing criminal superpower. Trafficking in prostitutes, heroin, and missiles, the mafiya poses an enormous threat to global stability and safety. Today, the mafiya controls over 80 percent of Russia's banks and has siphoned off billions of dollars in Western loans and aid, almost certainly derailing the chance for a stable democracy there. But that is just the beginning, for the mafiya is now in every corner of the United States and has infiltrated some of the banks and brokerage firms that handle your money. And American law enforcement is just waking up to this staggering problem.-- No journalist in the world knows more about the mafiya than Friedman, who has covered the Russian mob for Details, Vanity Fair, and New York.-- At great peril to himself, Friedman interviewed many of the top mobsters, who were stunningly candid about their activities.-- In their depravity, ruthlessness, and brutality, Russian gangsters make the traditional Mafia look like choirboys. Red Mafiya will appeal to anyone interested in the Mob.
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On a spring day when warm sunshine flooded the narrow, potholed streets, I took a taxi to Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), an imposing collection of tomblike cinder block towers in lower Manhattan, to interview Monya Elson-one of the most dangerous Russian mobsters the feds ever netted.
