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world, le d by the A nti-D efamat ion Lea gue, are t he ben e

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ciaries of largesse coming from organized crime, and that the organi- zations in question are aware of it. In other words, Jewish organ- ized crime is considered an acceptable part of Jewish life, and that Jewish organizations have actually lobbied law enforcement to stop investigations into this phenomenon, almost always with success. The con

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rmation of Zionist Michael Chertoff, to the post as chief of Homeland Security guarantees that Jewish organized crime in America will not be at the receiving end of the many stings that have targeted the Italian Ma

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a. The roots of Jewish organized crime, it is said, go far back into tsarist times. Organized crime syndicates assisted Lenin

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s gangs in bank robberies and the creation of general mayhem. During the so-called revolution, it was dif

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cult, sometimes impossible, to distinguish between Bolshevik ideologues and Jewish organiz ed cr ime s yndica tes. They acted in n early an id en- tical m anner . However, in more modern times, they seem to have had their roots in the waning days of the stagnant USSR under Leonid Brezhnev. By the late 1970s, the Russian economy was driven by the black market, and the early stages of the Jewish ma

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a were involved in this black underground. In fact, the Russian socialist economy would have col- lapsed much sooner if it had not been propped up by the extensive black econ- omy. Soon, the rulers of the black market became so powerful they were able to form their own

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which dispensed

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completely apart from the Soviet state, and away from i ts control. Many of these black marketeers had been recently released from the gulag system of prison camps in an earlier era for their black market activities, and the toughness that was required to survive these dun- geons served this new criminal elite very well (Frie dman, 9). The black market acted as a safety valve for the Soviet state for decades, making all estimations of the strength of the Soviet economy subject to speculation. The black market provided many goods and services the overextended Soviet system could not provide. In the gulag, they had formed brotherhoods, much like blacks and Hispanics currently do today in prison. They formed Jewish bunds that, upon release, served to create deep bonds that exist today, maintaining a highly secretive organiza- tion almost impossible to deal with or penetrate. Sen. Henry

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s famous bill, the Jackson- V anick law , linked Soviet trade privile ges to the treatme nt of Soviet Jews. It was a bill lobbied heavily for by American Jewish organizations. And while non-Jews could not emigrate from Russia, Jews could. Quickly, the KGB took this opportunity to dump its hardcore criminals into the United States, many who were Jewish , as conse rvatives c heered , be lievin g, n aively as u sual, to have scored a major victory against the USSR. Much of the Jewish ma

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s penetration into the United States came as a result of these Soviet

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which were partially

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nanced by groups such as the ADL or the Hebrew Aid Society. Given the substantial nature of the black market and the Soviet criminal underground, and its exclusively Jewish character, it is dif

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cult to believe that the Jewish groups who were

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nancing the immi- gration of Russian Jews to America were unaware of the con- nections of many of the new arrivals. Regardless, much of the money earmarked for immigration to Israel was pocketed by the ma

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a and redirected to settling Jews in New York

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the New Promised Land. Marat Balagula was one of these. A major Jewish crime

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g- ure, he bought a restaurant in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, named it the Odessa (a major port city in Ukraine), and quick- ly converted it into a central recruiting base for mobsters. It was also closely linked with Zionist agencies in the area, including the women

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s group Hadassah, who used the establishment for meetings and fund raising dinners (Friedman, 17). This restau- rant also became the seat of real political power in Brooklyn, for in the upstairs part of the establishment, Balagula and other Jewish mobsters would convene the

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and their word was (and is) law. Ordinary courts in the area could not hope to compete with the mobsters, well protected by pow- erful Jewish groups within the city and the municipal govern- ment itself. These courts, controlled by the Jewish mob, were more powerful and acted more quickly than the regular municipal courts of New York City. Balagula had cre- ated a state within a state. The Italian gangs in New York didn

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t know what hit them. Public executions and torturings were common in Brookl yn, and in broad daylight. Often, public murders would happen for the tiniest offenses, or to prove one

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s toughness. While the Italians were very cautio us and delibe rate, the Jewish mob was

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amboyant and gratu- itously violent. Yuri Brok hin, anot her Jewis h mobste r who had alread y made a name for himse lf in Americ a, and Balagula were heavily into stealing diamonds from jewelry stores and replacing them with cheap fakes. At one incident, narrated by Friedman, the pair pulled such a scam in Chicago, and was caught at the airport with $175,000. As it turns out, the duo was seen by a Jewish security guard in Chicago

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Hare Airport wearin g their phony Hassidic garb on the eve of Yom Kippur , when Jews are strict ly forbidd en to travel. This sloppi ness got them caught. The duo was convicted, but as proof of the power of the Jewish ma

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a, they both got off without a jail sentence, having committed major grand lar ceny , among other crimes. Of course, Friedman does not speculate as to why this would be, since a major felony such as this often carried sentences over 20 years. Both Brokhin and Balagula were criminal s in the USSR, and were able to transfer their wealth to America via Zionist and

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organizations of Jewry. A major con necti on betw een the halls of America n politi cal power and the Jewish ma

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a is the rabbi Ronald Greenwald. He knowingly did business with con artists and ma

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gures, and used his major political connections to shield them. Greenwald

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These courts, controlled by the Jewish mob, were more powerfu l and acte d more quickly than the regular municipal courts of New York City. Balagula had created a state within a state.