NCJ Number
174068
Date Published
1996
Length
79 pages
Annotation
This report analyzes the threat to the New York/New Jersey/Pennsylvania area posed by criminal elements emanating from the former Soviet Union.
Abstract
Gangsters from the former Soviet Union have established a strong and abiding presence in the New York/New Jersey/Pennsylvania region, engaging in a wide array of crimes ranging from sophisticated financial frauds to narcotics trafficking to murder. Members of disparate Russian-emigre crime groups here have the potential to develop into one of the most formidable organized crime challenges to law enforcement since the advent of La Cosa Nostra. The report catalogs the history and growth of Russian-emigre crime networks, from their core base in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn to counties of central New Jersey and suburbs of Philadelphia. Some individuals here appear to be linked to criminal elements in the former Soviet Union, lending a disturbing and complex international dimension to this emerging domestic law enforcement problem. Appendixes, notes