Israeli Organized Crime in LA, and abroad.

[Azure9920]

By the late 80s local Israeli mob shots were being called by Jacob "Koki" Orgad a 40 something Israeli emigre who authorities say "seemed to have a presence in every major U.S. city." Orgad arrived in the U.S., shortly after his wife and daughter in 1985. They settled in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where they appeared to live modestly. Orgad however was in the midst of setting up one of the nations largest drug trafficking networks specializing in the sale of Ectasy a popular party drug. Rumors on the streets of Los Angeles swirled abou the the new bigshot. Some said he was a former rabbinical student who had been a member of Mossad, Israel's elite intelligence organization. Others said he was a fraud, a fake and a poser.

What is known is Orgad hailed from a large Moroccan Jewish family and before moving to the U.S., had run a discount electronics store. Orgad became minor celebrity in Los Angeles thanks in part to the radio advertisements which ran constantly on various stations touting him as J.J., the king of beepers. Part of the Orgad legend has it that infamous Hollywood madame Heidi Fleiss showed up in his store oneday looking for a television. The opportunistic Orgad began ingratiating himself to Fleiss after learning that she lived in a $1.5 million Benedict Canyon home.

The story carries little semblance of truth as Orgad was already a major player in L.A., crime circles by this point and Fleiss as was the case with many of her prostitutes had a well known affinity for the products Orgad and his associates peddled. In fact Orgad and his rapidly growing army of associates were among the best known figures in the city. They frequented all the hottest night clubs and restaurants. Places like Cafe Maurice, The Gate, The Century Club and their personal favorite Bar One, a members only nightclub on the Sunset Strip.

Orgad or Tony Evans as the Bar One staff recalled him was known to dabble in a little cocaine, pimping and of course X. He knew all the club owners and party promoters. He knew celebrities, politicians and businessmen. His preferred group of associates included a curious mix of young suburban men of Middle Eastern extract. They consisted of a Coptic Christian, Hasidic Jews and Lebanese Moslems. Their common interest was women, fun and money.

Ushering in the era of Ecstasy as the L.A. drug of choice, Orgad made a trip to Amsterdam where he established a wholesale source through a network run by Oded Tuito. The Tuito group was a tight knit network composed of Israeli mobsters and former military officers giving some credence to Orgad's claims of contacts with Mossad. Tuito like Orgad maintained tight contacts in Jewish religous circles particularly New York's strict Hassidic community. Not to give the impression that Orgad's stature was anything close to Tuito's but the two served their purpose. The source of the contact between the two groups has never been revealed by may have come from Orgad's underworld contacts in Israel which included a brother Zohar the owner of an Israel criminal dossier.

Together the two would supply as much as 90% of the X sold in the U.S., between 1990 and 2001. Obviously the profits were enormous and Orgad "he became a naturalized citizen under the name Tony Evans," began to indulge in life's finer accoutriments. The 9 million or so pills he sold allowed him to purchase a fleet of luxury cars which included multiple Mercedeses and BMWs. He ditched his modest L.A., apartment in favor of a swanky high rise condo which he outfitted in modern fashion complete with the latest big screen televisions courtesy of J.J., electronics.

As mentioned earlier Evans enjoyed the nightlife and spent lavishly entertaining guests around town. One purchase Evans made to endulge his booming social status was a VIP table at the Key Club. An undisclosed sum went toward purchasing a piece of Bar One while thousands more was squandered on flashy Rolex watches and glitzy rings, chains and trinkets. Of course a man of his stature had to look the part and Evans began affecting an image which led some to call him the Israeli version of John Gotti. Evans stocked his closets with Armani suits many of which he would never wear. Business and life was good, but all good times must end.

L.A., investigators learned Evans had once been an enforcer for producer Ivan Nagy also the paramour of Heidi Fleiss. As Evans business boomed he and Nagy had a parting which was less than cordial over a documentary he produced on Fleiss. Nagy began to supply information on Fleiss and her new associate Evans after the later reportedly shot up his apartment in protest of the documentary.

A break came when a key Evan's courier was apprehended and charged with drug smuggling. Kevin McLoughlin provided the details which filled in the holes in the investigation into Evans operation. Soon authorities began making significant busts. One case led to the seizure of Woodland Hills resident Gilad Gadasi who was charged with conspiracy to distribute more than 118,000 Estasy tablets.

Tying Evans to Tuito, the trail went out of the country and back where authorities closed down the Brooklyn based operation headed by Ian Zarger a Tuito lieutenant. Zarger's Brooklyn Terror Squad was notorious for its beating of New York club patrons. The gang was glorified by New York rapper Fat Joe who named his clique after the Israeli crew. Law enforcement took note of the irony and began investigating the ties to the rap community. Their were just to many coincidental crossings between rap, drugs and Israeli networks. Particularly those which repeatedly crossed paths in New York, Miami and Los Angeles.

The New York connection included David Roash and Israel Ashenazi held for possession of 450 lbs of X seized from eight duffel bags and a suit case. Next to Zarger Sean Irez was the most important New York target. It was Erez who arranged for Chassidic Jews to act as couriers who imported more than 1 million tablets into the country between 1998 and 1999. From his Europe base Erez sold Zarger prouct which was then shipped to a customer base in Miami Beach, Florida an area considered to be Tuito territory. Erez dealt extensively with couriers like Richard Harris Berman aka Tiny. His network setup looked like this;

Sean Erez - Canadian national who organized shipments to the U.S., on behalf of Oded Tuito. Based his operation from Europe.


Diana Reicherter - Erez girlfriend passed on product from Erez to the courieres.


Shimon Levita - Known as Shimy, recruited Hassidic couriers who smuggled the drugs from Europe into the U.S.


Simcha Roth - Shared recruiting duties with Levita. Also known as Moshe Katz and Mutty Katz.


Giacamo Pampinella - New York based wholesaler known as Goombah and Jimmy.


Richard Harris Berman - Miami Beach wholesaler received shipments from Pampinella and distributed them to local dealer known as GQ.


Cesar Vandenbranden - Miami dealer known as GQ. Sold product supplied by Tiny Harris.



The rings product could be readily found in such Miami Beach hotspots as the Mix, Fabric and Kit Kat Club. Erez's operation was eventually taken down and he settled his case entering a guilty plea in an lengthy indictment handed down in 2000. Erez fought extradition to the U.S., but soon after loosing his appeal entered a guilty plea and received a 20 year sentence.

The Zarger end of the operation was notorious for its connections to Sammy "the Bull" Gravano in Arizona. Setting himself up in Arizona under the alias Jimmy Moran, Gravano began purchasing X from Zarger via Andre Wegner. Wegner known as Whiteboy was another San Fernando Valley schemer with ties to Tony Evans. Moran had financed a group of young wannabe's operating from Gilbert Arizona under the monikor Devil Dogs. The gang headed by Michael Pappa said to have been a white supremist operation but no explanation was given for the involvement of at least one African American and Jewish member in the press. Moran financed the operation and Pappa purchased the product from Wegner who in turn got his supply from the Los Angeles area.

Wegner who was caught by the FBI in a heated exchange with Jimmy Moran over money secured his stash of X from L.A. area rave promoter Robert "Bobby Shortstop" Stewart. Stewart promoted his rave parties via a company he owned called Euphoric Empire. Euphoric Empire hosted massive rave parties such as those he threw at San Bernardino's old wrestling rink which spilled over into the newly constructed Stampede Stadium parking lot. 60 something city Mayor Judith Valles was in attendence on what she called a fact finding mission. Stewart's rave empire extended into the Phoenix area where he hosted off-campus rave parties for ASU students. Stewart and his people were said to have moved some 300,000 hits per month.

Stewart's ability to move such large amounts of X allowed him to acquire large consignment shipments not only from Wegner but Wegner's immediate superior in the ring Mounir Deiri. Deiri was an experienced criminal with a rap sheet filled with arrests for counterfeiting and fraud schemes. Deiri in addition to supplying the Arizona crowd, worked up false identification and business fronts like Exotic Fantasy and Triumph Church of God and Eastman Kodack Inc to launder cash. The dark eyed Syrian was at least a dozen years older than many of those he came in contact with and the level of sophistication in his criminal dealings exhibited that. Deiri's contacts were not limited to the X trade. He was also known to move kilos of cocaine, the only associate or member of the organization outside of Orgad/Evans to dabble in powder.

Stewart's success in moving X led Deiri to front Bobby Shortstop in a venture which saw he move bricks of cocaine across the Atlantic where they were sold in Europe. Each kilo sold represented an $8,000 profit which was laundered via Zarger's European contacts. By October of 1999 the operation was moving 30 kilos a week via mules to Europe. Overall the crew would move an estimated $30 million worth of powdered cocaine.

Deiri's operation came to a crashing hault in November 1999 when courier Kucuk-Beyaz was arrested in Frankfurt Germany with the equivalent of 5 kilos of X. The next month members of the Inland Regional Narcotics Team (IRNET) seized Sonja McDaniel and Amenah Jackson with 1 million X tablets. Both quickly began co-operating with the task force and a raid of Deiri's apartment turned up a volume of evidence. When the raid took place Deiri wasn't home but the ensuing search produced more than enough evidence to secure a life sentence for their target. Agents found 18 neatly stashed kilos of Ecstasy near a shrink wrapping machine. Boxes of fake credit cards and several shoe boxes containing a total of $765,000 were also uncovered. The raid led to a break in Deiri's operation when his supplier Louis Ziskin insisted that he leave the country. When Deiri refused Ziskin offered him $250,000 as an incentive only to be rebuffed once more. This time Ziskin decided to cut his losses and broke off ties with Deiri.

Unconcerned by the heat on his operation, Deiri continued working his magic with a seperate L.A. area crew under Tony Evans.

The true nature of the Deiri/Ziskin relationship is best described as two seperate entities coming together to maximize their operations. Collectively the collaboration of Deiri with Ziskin and Deiri-Ziskin with Jerusalem network never truely panned out as tension between Ziskin and Deiri boiled to the surface. Ziskin's ability to secure large quantities of X from sources in the Netherlands by way of Europe provided fantastic sums of cash for the likes of Tamer Ibrahim and Alex Maimon. The trio entered into transactions as equal partners beggining in 1999 as Ibrahim "a Coptic Christian born in Egypt," and Maimon began accompanying Zisking to Europe on buying trips. The trio often carried suitcases filled with cash and arranged for (MDMA) shipments to the addresses provided by Mounir Deiri.

Ziskin and Ibrahim were the undisputed leaders in the scheme from an importation standpoint. The two couldn't have been more different as Ziskin's strong confrontational stances often rubbed people the wrong way. Ibrahim was a natural conciliator who smoothed the ruffled feathers Ziskin's heavy-handedness raised. With the arrival of each Federal Express package from Europe came 50,000 tablets of ecstasy which was quickly distributed through the vast network of sellers around the country. Deeply involved in the scam Deiri occassionaly moved product himself along with his growing cocaine business. Tamer Ibrahim enlisted his cousin John to assist Deiri in shipping cocaine to his customers as well as monitoring the performance of the legion of couriers Deiri employed. As a thank you Ziskin gave Deiri a $60,000 Cartier watch but drug seizures had strained the relationship to the point of no return. Deiri would insist Ziskin owed him $1.2 million for lost product. The trouble began as authorities caught up with three members of the distribution network as they secured a shipment of ecstasy from France. As was the case with Deiri, Tamer Ibrahim's patience had thinned inregard to Ziskin and the two agreed to part ways.


The chronology of trouble went as such. By October 1999, a new network had been established based in Amsterdam with Ziskin, Ibrahim and Deiri in control. Success was short lived as federal authorities seized a shipment of (MDMA) from France bound for Los Angeles. Instead of seizing the packages they waited until the networks couriers picked them up. In short order Lori Lynne Johnson, Amenah Jackson and Sonya McDaniel all picked them up and were arrested. Anxious to settle their legal issues all agreed to deliver the packages as customary to John Ibrahim who was promptly seized. The ensuing investigation turned up two storage units containing more than 700 lbs of ecstasy and more than $1 million in cash on December 22, 1999. The seizure provided the excuse Ibrahim and Deiri needed to sever the Ziskin business tie.

The network was reborn with new suppliers including a brand new Deiri powder source in Jose Antonion Cortes. Ziskin became suspicious and began to ask questions as to the source of their income. For some reason Ibrahim lied and told Ziskin that he and Deiri were out of the drug business when they had actually dispatched two couriers in Joseph Yavetz and Michael Helo to the Netherlands to secure a fresh load. When the two were arrested in Germany, Ziskin realized he had been duped and tensions arose all the more. Instead of getting out of the business altogether, Deiri and Ibrahim continued to expand their operation employing a method suggested by David Reziniano which allowed the network to import millions of ecstasy tablets to be shipped at once instead of the paltry 50,000 which had marked the peak of their collaboration with Ziskin.

Instead of using Federal Express to ship small qauntities via Europe, the duo began moving millions of tablets threw South Korea hidden in shipments of clothing. Bribing customs officials proved to be no problem and soon the pair was rolling in cash. "Steve" Ryu Jihaand Min Sung Jin were the Korean importers who made the expansion possible. Yet and still their product was secured in France, shipped to South Korea and on to Los Angeles where it was received and protected by a corrupt customs agent. The pair was making more money than ever but they continued to press Ziskin for payment of the shipment lost in December 1999. At some point the trio agreed to conduct a run in early 2000 which would allow Ziskin to repay Deiri the disputed sum. The deal which would have brought 2.1 million tablets into the country was seized as it arrived at Los Angeles International Airport July 22, 2000. With the second seizure sure to bring heat, Deiri and John Ibrahim began supplying information to the feds on Louis Ziskin who was arrested in December 2000.

The case ended in April 2001 with Louis Ziskin, Dewayne Sanker and Alex Maimon all found guilty at trial. John Ibrahim, Mounir Deiri, Sonja McDaniel and Amenah Jackson all pled guilty prior to trial.

The Jerusalem Network (The Jew Crew)

As if the entire network wasn't confusing enough, enter a new cast of characters. Led by Hai Waknine , the Jerusalem Group faction known as the Jew Crew were a notorious clique of fun loving, gun slingin Valley Boys. They associated with members of Russian organized crime and unbeknown to the LAPD were actually an offshoot of Israel's powerful Abergil crime syndicate. Hai made his first million using a credit card scheme which would have done Mounir Deiri proud. Along with his good friend Tamer Ibrahim, Waknine and his brother Assaf, began cruising Ventura Blvd., in a jet black Ferrari frequenting all the hottest night spots. Fun and First class was how the Jew Crew did things as evidenced by a celebration thrown to mark Ibrahim's 21st birthday. The crew rented a helicopter after a bash at the ultra chic Chateau Marmont on the Sunset Strip. Donning Tuxedo's for the evening the crew and their dates borded the helicopter and flew around aimlessly for hours over downtown L.A.

Though fun was a primary aim the crew which consisted of;

Hai Waknine - Undisputed leader of the Jew crew and a suspect in the death of one of his high school instructors. Recently sentenced to prison for organized crime related activities. Reportedly involved with former Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett.



Assaf Waknine - Hai's younger brother connected to a scheme which saw him obtain private pager numbers for LAPD detectives from Anthony Pellicano.



Tamer Ibrahim - A naturalized Egyptian who grew up in Woodland Hills.



Adrian Kucuk-Beyaz - An Armenian X trafficker who grew up with Ibrahim in Woodland Hills.



Eyal "Alex" Maimon - Israeli of North African descent. A known X trafficker with ties to the Jew Crew and Alex Ziskin.



The Jew crew was about serious business. One of their primary contacts was wealthy Los Angeles investor Judah Hertz.

[Azure9920]

The first acknowledgement that an Israeli crime syndicate was known to be operating in Los Angeles came as early as the mid-70s. By 1980 the LAPD, California State investigators and the FBI all had files open on selected targets. All began to work in concert with key members of Israel's parliament exchanging intelligence which gave the first intimation that something big was in the works. One of those working the operation from the Israeli side was current Israeli President Ehud Olmert.

Olmert noted in a document sent to the U.S., known as the "Eleven report," that Israel noted a sizeable number of crooks fleeing Israeli starting about 1975. Olmert noted the criminals began to fan out to every major European city some to the U.S., on the order of 11 biggies who called the shots from Israel. It was noted that one of the biggies or 11 made several trips to Los Angeles between 1975 and 1979. The California State Department of Justice produced a report detailing the origins of the Israeli mob and its ties to its U.S., Italian counterpart.

The Israeli Mob in Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles chapter of the Israeli mafia first became active in 1975, in the border town of Calexico. Members set up a number of import houses there, which were used as a cover for smuggling a variety of things, including hashish and cocaine. The group also engaged in false bankruptcies and arson for profit. The expansion of the group saw them expand there operation across the border into Los Angeles where from a building on South Broadway in the Fairfax district they began operating a legitimate front business which sold high tech electronic goods.
This remains a staple of the Los Angeles Israeli group.

In addition to drug smuggling, several reports surfaced charging the Israeli's with smuggling millions of dollars worth of sophisticated military style weaponry into Mexico, South America and Lebanon. On the surface the group engaged in traditional organized crime activities such as extortion, arson, prostitution and murder but underneath many investigators suspected far more complex dealings.

Very little headway was made cracking the inner-sanctum of the Israeli network until the gruesome dismemberment killings of Esther and Eli Ruven. The Egyptian born Sephardic Jewish couple were well known among the close knit jews from Bantyam, Israel who settled in North Hollywood. Eli Ruven reportedly had ties to the Israeli mob dating back several years and counted Joseph Zakaria a known Israeli mobster, as his benefactor.

The Ruvens borrowed significant amounts of money from Zakaria and began selling cocaine. The operation proved very profitable until Eli developed a $40,000 a month habit. Soon the pair began to break away from Zakaria a fatal mistake for certain. Zakaria angered an suspicious of the Ruvens arranged a meeting at the Bonventure Hotel in room 2419. The meeting quickly turned sour and six shots rang out killing the Ruvens instantly. Zakaria assisted by Yehuda Avital and Eliahu Komerchero "both criminals with records in Israeli," dismembered the Ruvens and dumped them in a dumpster.

The resulting firestorm led to shocking revelations the first being that the Israeli network in Los Angeles numbered a many as 250 people. Second there were few people interested in investigating their operation. The Los Angeles went so far as to deny the existance of an Israeli crime syndicate in Los Angeles. Instead the paper boldly attributed the findings of the FBI to several independent operators. From Israel Knesset member and resident organized crime specialist Elhud Olmert promised to devulge information prevalent to the operation but never followed through.

Investigations holding promise simply died as it became clear both U.S., and Israeli officials wished to keep the lid on. "Don't embarrass our friend Israel because of a few bad apples." The policy resulted in a relatively quiet trial which two years after the Ruven murders delivered a guilty verdict against Zakaria and Avital the accussed triggerman and butcher. Zakaria "2nd degree murder in the case of Esther Ruven," and Avital were convicted and sentenced to 21 years 4 months and 4 years in prison. As for Komerchero, he pled guilty to charges in relation to the Ruven's murders, testified on behalf of the prosecution, was depported only to return to Los Angeles where he was caught in the mid 80s trafficking drugs.

Ties with local Palestinian operation.

Conventional wisdom says Jews and Palestinians are mortal enemies. By and large this is true except when applied to criminal dealings. As noted above, investigators noted the Israeli criminals headquartered in Calexico were involved in buying a selling records to a number of groups around the globe. The most curious of their dealings just might have been the transfers of military weaponry to Lebanese groups. The acknowledged leader of a Palestinian operation in Los Angeles was a clean shaven tough known as Joe McClean. McClean was in reality Hovsep Mikaelian who coincidentally made his home in North Hollywood. Mikaelian and his brother Hrant, involved themselves in a number of criminal ventures including drug smuggling, porn, tax fraud, extortion, murder and illicit fuel sales.

They are best remembered for their role in the Wonderland murders and their ties to Abdel Gharib Nasrallah aka Eddie Nash. Nasrallah immigrated to the U.S., in the 1950s and landed in Los Angeles where he opened several tony restaurants and clubs in the Hollywood area. Nasrallah became a household name when his drug operation orchastrated the murders of four people in a Laurel Canyon drug house on Wonderland Avenue. Remarkable for its ties to Hollywood's semi-elite and porns reigning king John Holmes, and the lengthy unsuccessful attempts to prosecute those involved.

Nash ditched and dodged the efforts of local and federal prosecutors for years his understudy or associate Mikaelian wasn't quite as lucky. Mikaelian was convicted of fuel excise tax evasion, narcotics trafficking and wire fraud. The legal cocktail earned him a 14 year prison term handed down in 1998. Nash himself entered a guilty plea in connection with Laurel Canyon murders in 2001 and received 34 months in prison. Little effort was expended in stating the obvious ties between Nash's Palestinian operation and the Israeli mob.

Ties that bind. Russian, Palestinian and Armenian

Almost in passing, the ties between the Israeli and Palestinian operations were revealed. In November 1991, Russian jew Oleg (Alex) Yasko the acknowledged architect of the Los Angeles gas tax scam was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay $ 1.3 million in restitution to the government. What Yasko and five co-defendants did was accomplish the same feat Michael Franzese and his Russian co-conspirators did in New York and Florida before landing in Los Angeles. At the time of the Yasko case, Franzese was serving time on fuel charges lodged against him which will be detailed in another section.

The enuring investigation led to the breakup of Mikaelian's Armenian ring and its ties to Nasrallah's Palestinian group and the Keroles Morrocan operation. Mikaelian tore a page from the Iorizzo/Franzese book evading the taxes on 750,000 bbls of jet fuel. With the federal tax of 42 cents per gallon pockted, Mikaelian profited to the tune of $350,000. Not a tremendous amount when compared to the Franzese operation and falling far short of the estimated $1.3 million the Yasko operation netted.

Youssef Kamel Keroles the owner of a San Pedro restaurant was ordered to pay the IRS $2 million in federal and state funds he pilfered through a cocktailing operation involving diesel fuel. In a move detailed extensively in the Franzese post, Mikaelian and Keroles established a burn or breakout company most commonly referred to as a shell company to purchase fuel. Over a three month period First and Last Distributors Inc., was used to purchase $ 8 million worth of fuel. The company later changed its name to Hiway Enterprises and stole another $ 5 million worth of fuel in a joint venture with Dana P. Brewer's Petroglobe Inc.

In both cases Keroles was instrumental in all facets of the caper. He was later sentenced to serve 27 months in prison with three years supervised release and ordered to pay a $ 45,000 fine and $864,315 in restitution. A third defendant in the Petroglobe case Peter Nudo was also sentenced on charges of obstructing justice and impeding the Internal Revenue Service.

Those from the Mikaelian operation indicted were;

Hovsop "Mike or Joe" Mikaelian - The then 49 year old self-described Godfather of the Armenian Mafia.

James Injijan

Sarkis Artin Parseghian

Nariman Smbatian aka Eliseo Guevara

Grigoriy Kusnetsov

Sedrak Amalyan

Hampartsoum Hgop Kouroumlian


Artak Ter Oganesian


Ronald Gerald Rushing - A 300 lb enforcer

Sergey Merangulyan

Vargarshak Nalbandian

Vahram Shakarian

Aram Gevorkyan



Those charged as part of the Keroles ring were;

Youssef Kamel Keroles - The ring leader and mastermind.

Magdi Sabry Youssef

Edward Adim Henein

Mohsen Sayed Mohammed

Larry Nadeen Tabbaa

Manouk Isahak Nalchian

Akop Hakopian

Miguel Angel Ochoa

Emadeldin Mohamed Abdelraouf

Andranik Dzhrdzhyan



The conviction of such bigshots led to a brief period of strife which saw an increase in brazen crimes such as the murder of a Glendale travel agent. Garen Zakarian and his sister Anait were charged with conspiracy in the murder of Benita Mikaelian who ran a firm which competed with the Zakarian's business. Garen Zakarian ties to the Armenian mafia surfaced during a trial which concluded with his being sentenced to 85 years in prison.

The Armenian mafia kept pace with the Carole Little crimes and the murder of Hakop Antonyan. Karapet Demirdzhyan was convicted in the crimes which were part of a takeover plot aimed at the $20 billion Southern California garmet industry.

In a bold move Arshak Kazarian, Sahak Mazmanyan, Rafael Kazaryants and Panos Zhamkochyan were charged with conspiring to kill a federal agent in connection with the pending fraud trial of Armenian mafia bigshot Robert Kazarian in 1997.

[razbojnik]

I always knew you were a Jewish kid. The cap fits you perfectly.

[VostokSila]

I always knew you were a Jewish kid. The cap fits you perfectly.

Actualy.. from what I know them.. you fit more to the type than he is.

I heard about this guy called Johnny Atias.. in NY.. I heard he was crazy as fuck.. Italians didn't want anything to do with him, that was back in 1988-1990.

[CheGuevara]

I heard about this guy called Johnny Atias.. in NY.. I heard he was crazy as fu--.. Italians didn't want anything to do with him, that was back in 1988-1990.

yeah, sure bitch. shut the hell up, italians would have buried you, your mother, father, sister and johnny atias together.

[razbojnik]

I heard about this guy called Johnny Atias.. in NY.. I heard he was crazy as fu--.. Italians didn't want anything to do with him, that was back in 1988-1990.

yeah, sure bitch. shut the hell up, italians would have buried you, your mother, father, sister and johnny atias together.

SHPARU -->

[VostokSila]

yeah, sure bitch. shut the hell up, italians would have buried you, your mother, father, sister and johnny atias together.

I'm just saying what I heard.. I'm not saying if its true or not.

What's the matter John? Someone is heard to be more crazy than Albanians so you get jelous? lol youre pathetic.. I just know you have a pussy instead of a cock and balls.

[CheGuevara]

What's the matter John? Someone is heard to be more crazy than Albanians so you get jelous? lol youre pathetic.. I just know you have a pussy instead of a cock and balls.

lol! if i rememebr correctly, your people get taxed like spineless dogs by the italians. albanians never have been taxed by the mafia nor will they ever be taxed. xhevedet lika was crazier then any russian you can name me.

[VostokSila]

lol! if i rememebr correctly, your people get taxed like spineless dogs by the italians. albanians never have been taxed by the mafia nor will they ever be taxed. xhevedet lika was crazier then any russian you can name me.

My people were not the guys who came there in the 90's man. Ivankov is crazier than xhuyna lika.


ALBANIAN PEACOCK FAGGOTS lmao.

[CheGuevara]

My people were not the guys who came there in the 90's man. Ivankov is crazier than xhuyna lika.

no he wasen't. ivakov was run out of russia and came and tried to extort a russian business man (one of his own, PTUUU) for $4mn. he got caught and was sent back to garbageland.

ALBANIAN PEACOCK FAGGOTS lmao.

:S

[VostokSila]

no he wasen't. ivakov was run out of russia

lol yes he was.. its known that Rudaj pissed his pants when he saw Ivankov.. what r u talking about
Ivankov was not run out of Russia.. stop making shit up fag.

he got caught and was sent back to garbageland.

That's a lie and you know it.. Ivankov was never sent to Albania.

:S

FAGGOOOTTTTT

[CheGuevara]

lol yes he was.. its known that Rudaj pissed his pants when he saw Ivankov.. what r u talking about
Ivankov was not run out of Russia.. stop making shit up fag.

actually, he was. ivankov would have never come to america if he wasen't run out of russia. if he planned a move to america, he would have at least known english or something would have at least happened to signal a move there. instead, the guy got out of jail when russia was in ruins and fled the country fast fearing he would be put back into jail.

That's a lie and you know it.. Ivankov was never sent to Albania.

i said garbageland aka russia not paradise.

FAGGOOOTTTTT

[VostokSila]

actually, he was. ivankov would have never come to america if he wasen't run out of russia. if he planned a move to america, he would have at least known english or something would have at least happened to signal a move there. instead, the guy got out of jail when russia was in ruins and fled the country fast fearing he would be put back into jail.

lol he was shooting shit up all over.. he killed them 3 turks in that restaurant also. He was put to work in america.. he was never "run out".

i said garbageland aka russia not paradise.

whatever.

[CheGuevara]

lol he was shooting shit up all over.. he killed them 3 turks in that restaurant also. He was put to work in america.. he was never "run out".

which is precisely why he was run out. he was brought out of jail during russia's collapse and feared he would be put back if he stayed in russia and continued his crazy ways.

he wase't put into work in america. he went there to calm things down for a bit. while he was there, old habits obviously kicked in. the most he acheived is almost extorting a fellow russian for i think $4mn dollars.

[VostokSila]

You should know one thing... before you talk of "brotherhood" and "united" and all...

The national groups that are smaller usualy stay together more than the larger groups, and are usualy more patriotic and shit. Albanians are a realy small group... and CHechens are even smaller, both are patriotic (I dunno about albanians realy..) but u can see this in so many other nations.. its no surprise.

Ivankov was sent there.. ppl in russia knew that america is something that would not realy make ivankov sweat so it was easy to send him there... they knew that the italians, even if they run shit there, are not realy something that Ivankov cannot handle if he wants to.. I dunno if they even knew of albanians there.

[Azure9920]

This thread has nothing to do with Albanians, Chechens, Italians or Russians.

[VostokSila]

I will shut up now in all the 3 threads that I replied to John... I hate off topic shit and this isnt realy helping anyone, I know that he sure doesnt listen to me when I try to explain him his mistakes so why do I try?

[Azure9920]

I will shut up now in all the 3 threads that I replied to John... I hate off topic shit and this isnt realy helping anyone, I know that he sure doesnt listen to me when I try to explain him his mistakes so why do I try?

I don't care anymore, the thread's already been ruined. Of course, it was to be expected that Albanians would be mentioned in a thread about Israeli OC, right?

[CheGuevara]

and CHechens are even smaller, both are patriotic (I dunno about albanians realy..) but u can see this in so many other nations.. its no surprise.

they knew that the italians, even if they run shit there, are not realy something that Ivankov cannot handle if he wants to.. I dunno if they even knew of albanians there.

this is where you start to sound stupid. you don't know if albanians are patriotic? oh wow. yes, i am sure russians didn't know albanians. that's why every russian aged 30 and up starts giving me facts about albania that i didn't even know about. but i'm sure ivankov didn't even know what albanians were.

[CheGuevara]

also, ivankov could not handle the italians if he wanted to. the guy had not muscle man. he had some contacts from the old country and that's all. he had no real power. if the italian wanted to or if ivankov started taking mafia businesses of drug routes or anything, the lcn would have killed him simple as that. ivankov was nothing but a man with some criminal contacts.


azure, it's not like anybody is talking about israelis. get over it. i mean you provided your information and what? nobody even cared. so it's not like we're ruining a good thread with alot of posts. nobody is going to engage in conversation in this thread.

[razbojnik]

This thread has nothing to do with Albanians, Chechens, Italians or Russians.

LOL @ an Albanian calling Russia a shithole.

[VostokSila]

azure, it's not like anybody is talking about israelis. get over it. i mean you provided your information and what? nobody even cared. so it's not like we're ruining a good thread with alot of posts. nobody is going to engage in conversation in this thread.

I was going to until u said what u did.

[Azure9920]

By Jerry Capeci
Tax Man Grabs Gangster On
16-Year-Old Gas Tax Case


A mob-connected Israeli gangster who fled the U.S. to beat murder charges in a 20-year-old Brooklyn rubout will soon be back on American soil to stand trial, Gang Land has learned. It’s not the murder, however, that Joseph (Yosi) Reisch is charged with: It’s the $34 million he allegedly skimmed in a decades-old gasoline bootlegging scam.

Like many New York wiseguys and transplanted Russian and Eastern European gangsters who combined to cheat the IRS out of more than a billion dollars in federal excise taxes in so-called “daisy chain” schemes in the 1980s and 1990s, Reisch has his date with the tax man. It’s just slightly delayed.

Reisch, now 63, is expected to be flown here next week from Germany where he’s been cooling his heels for the past year. He faces tax evasion charges stemming from an IRS-FBI sting operation that snared Reisch and 18 other members and associates of the Colombo and Luchese crime families back in 1993. Reisch is slated to be arraigned before Central Islip Federal Judge Leonard Wexler, who has handled the case from the beginning.

Over the years, scores of defendants have been convicted of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars in motor fuel taxes in the New York metropolitan area alone, said IRS spokesman Joe Foy.

A Romanian-born naturalized citizen who lived in Brooklyn and owned an oil terminal on Long Island, Reisch fled to Israel – where he was also a naturalized citizen – before he was charged with keeping excise taxes he collected at the pump instead of turning them over to the IRS. At the time, gasoline wholesalers were responsible for paying the taxes, but the schemers kept them by selling the gasoline “on paper” so many times to shell companies that the owners would disappear before the IRS could locate them.

Before fleeing, Reisch allegedly heeded a Colombo family directive to whack a multimillionaire countryman, Michael Markowitz, who had fingered his former cohorts. Markowitz, 42, was shot to death in Brooklyn after leaving a poker game at Reisch’s Mill Basin home at about 1 AM on May 2, 1989. (Paramedics in losing fight to keep Markowitz alive. NY Daily News Photo by Ken Murray).

Shot three times, the burly gangster staggered out of his Rolls Royce and banged on the door of a nearby home for help. Markowitz (right) uttered a few incomprehensive words about his assailant to responding paramedics before he died.

In addition to Reisch, the alleged triggerman in the slaying, Israel Mizrahi, also fled to Israel before he was indicted for the Markowitz slaying, according to court papers filed by assistant U.S. attorney Burton Ryan.

Both men were prosecuted for the slaying in Tel Aviv because at the time, Israeli law did not allow the “extradition of Israeli nationals for offenses committed after they became nationals,” said Ryan.

The case featured New York defense lawyers as well as state and federal prosecutors in unusual roles – as assistants to Tel Aviv prosecutors and defense attorneys during the trial, which was prosecuted under more strict Israeli rules of evidence.

Before the verdict, however, the unusual trial also featured the testimony of Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso, (left) the turncoat Luchese underboss who never took the witness stand in a criminal case in a U.S. trial. In his testimony – videotaped in Manhattan Federal Court in 1995 before the feds breached his cooperation agreement for committing crimes while a member of Team America – Gaspipe stated that the Colombo family had ordered the hit on Markowitz.

Casso testified that then-Colombo boss Victor (Little Vic) Orena – whose son Victor (Vic Junior) Orena was a Reisch codefendant in the tax evasion indictment – ordered the hit and that another codefendant, mobster Frank (Frankie the Bug) Sciortino, had fingered Reisch for it during a meeting in Casso’s Mill Basin home.

Gaspipe was annoyed that the murder had occurred so close to his own home. He complained about that to Sciortino, (right) who explained that he had given the contract to Reisch, who also lived in Mill Basin. “It’s his fault,” said Sciortino, testified Casso.

In Tel Aviv, Israeli judges convicted Mizrahi of heroin trafficking and sentenced him to 12 years, but in February, 1996, they acquitted him and Reisch, who took the stand and denied any role in the slaying, of the Markowitz murder.

For the next 11 years, “Reisch lived pretty well in Israel,” said one source, who noted that the gangster “knew that so long as he remained in Israel, he could not be extradited.”

But that changed in 2007, when the U.S. and Israel rewrote their extradition treaty and each agreed to permit its citizens to be extradited for crimes that carry a sentence of at least one year behind bars.

As the U.S. “began to prepare extradition documents” last year, Reisch left Israel and was arrested in German by Berlin police on June 10, said Ryan.

Because of the huge amounts of money involved, Reisch could spend the rest of his life behind bars if convicted of all 12 counts in the indictment, which technically carry up to 55 years in penalties.

His lawyer, James Druker, told Gang Land that he will seek to bar the feds from bringing his client to trial on two technical speedy trial violations. But if his pre-trial motions fail, said Druker, he expects the outcome “will be the same” as the verdict at Reisch’s trial in Israel – “an acquittal.”

But no matter what, Reisch is better off than his codefendant in the Markowitz slaying. While on a furlough from his sentence for drug dealing on August 6, 2003, Mizrahi (left) was killed by a remote-controlled car bomb as he drove along a street in Tel Aviv.