NCJ Number
184001
Date Published
2000
Length
309 pages
Annotation
This volume examines the growth of Russian organized crime in recent years, its increasing power in the United States, and the implications of these developments for the rest of the world.
Abstract
The discussion notes that Russian mobsters now operate in more than 50 countries around the world. Their background in a totalitarian country with widespread corruption has resulted in their development of a unique business acumen. Thirty Russian crime syndicates operate in at least 17 cities in the United States. The Red Mafiya is the most brilliant and savage Russian mob organization in the world; the Russian mob virtually controls Russia. In addition, both the Bush and the Clinton Administrations have unwittingly facilitated the Russian mob and the untrammeled corruption of Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union. The Russian Mafiya’s invasion of politics in the United States is still in its early stages, but it already poses a huge threat to United States national security interests abroad. One prediction is that the Russian mob will be larger than La Cosa Nostra and perhaps major corporations in the United States. Index