LUDWIG 'TARZAN' FAINBERG

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LUDWIG 'TARZAN' FAINBERG

Profile written by: David Amoruso

Ludwig 'Tarzan' Fainberg (on the picture, Tarzan is the man on the right, with the long full hair.) was the Russian Mafia leader of South Florida. He started like every other Russian gangster with extortion and fraud and made it to the big time when he began shipping cocaine for the Colombian Drug Cartels. Tarzan wasn't a real tough gangster, he wasn't even really working with the backing of a major Family but he cornered the market just a bit faster than the rest and used his cocaine money well, supplying the Colombians with Russian helicopters and one time even trying to get them a nice Russian army submarine.....

Tarzan was born in Russia, Odessa, in 1958. At age 3 his family moved to Tsjernovich where he grew up. Here he sang in a national boys choir and trained as a boxer for the Russian army untill in 1972 at age 13 the family moved again, this time to their homeland (they were Russian Jews) Israel. In Israel Tarzan got his nickname when he jumped from a building to get some attention. Eventually he joined the Israeli Marines and tried to become a Navy Seal but didn't get through basic training. He then wanted to become an army officer but failed the examn.

In 1980 Tarzan moved to East Berlin where he joined up with some of his Russian friends and joined a crew which was involved in creditcard fraud and extortion. The crew was heade by the notorious Efim Laskin (a guy who sold weapons to the Red Brigade). From him Tarzan got thew assignment to shake down a Berliner banker. Tarzan and 2 others went to the bank and pushed the guy in the trunk of their car and threatened him with death if he wouldn't pay, the guy told them he couldn't get the money now but would have it at closing time, Tarzan and the others 2 men waited in the car. After a while Tarzan stepped out to take a walk and smoke a cigarette when all of a sudden 4 Mercedes Benzes pulled up beside the car (which now only held the 2 other guys). A bunch of other Russian gangsters stepped out of the car and gave the 2 men a hell of a beating, the banker was off limits just like so much else in Eastern Europe. Fearing for his life and wanting some more free workspace Tarzan decided to go to America.

Tarzan settled in Brighton Beach. It wasn't the paradise he had hoped for. According to him it was like the wild west and he carried a gun at all times. Pretty soon Tarzan had it made, not by doing any crimes but by marrying a Russian Mafia princess who's grandfather, ex husband and brother in law all were Russian gangsters and all went by the same nickname: psycho. Eventhough all these men were doing crime Tarzan didn't, he wasn't allowed to by his wife. She wanted him home and live off the money from her ex husband who was doing 7 years in a German prison for extortion. His wife bought him expensive suits, took him out to diner and watched soap operas with him.

He felt like a pussy and decided that her Family wasn't gonna do anything if he would also do some crime and so Tarzan joined another Russian gangster named Grecia Roizes, their families had close ties and they were born in the same place. Roizes had done a 3 year prison term in a Siberian prison because he had hit a man so hard the guys belly fell open through a recent operation scar. Now Roizes was the head of the most feared crew in Brighton Beach. He had furniture stores in New York, Italy and Russia that were fronts for a heroine ring used by the Russian Mafia, the Gambino Crime Family and the Genovese Crime Family. Tarzan started to work in one of these stores. One day an old lady was treated rude by one of the young thugs who worked their and Tarzan stepped in and offered the old woman free furniture. The next day a muscular Italian man walked into the store, he introduced himself as Frankie and he said that the old lady from the day before was his mother and that if Tarzan ever needed anything he should call him. Frankie said he owed him and Tarzan just had to call and Frankie would take care of it. And Tarzan did, Tarzan was impressed by the power the guy showed. Later in 1987 Tarzan read the newspaper and finally learned the full name of the guy who was now dead, Frank Santora a made member of the Colombo Crime Family.

In 1990 Tarzan moved to Florida. Florida attracted many Russians who either had money to spend or money to make. Ex KGB agents and other ex government officials settled and bought entire buildings with money taken when the Sovjet Union collapsed. In South Florida Tarzan opened his club 'Porky's', 'Porky's' became a meetingplace for Russian gangsters. Tarzan also was in the drugs business by this time, he had hennep fields in the everglades with an landingstrip for airplanes included. Soon the hennep wasn't big enough and Tarzan moved on to cocaine setting up links with Colombian drug cartels. Business was booming and the money came flowing in, Tarzan was top dog in Florida.

Tarzan's favorite thing was extortion but right there in 2nd place was humiliating women. Tarzan would beat them, sexually assault them and on one occasion he chased a stripper down the street, beat her up and made her eat stones.

It didn't matter, Tarzan made so much money he could get away with anything. His Russian connections also served him well. In 1993 Tarzan and his Colombian friends bought 6 M18 Russian Helicopters for $1 million dollars a piece. The Colombians would tear out the seats so they had more room for the drugs. Later they were beginning negotiations to buy a Russian army submarine. They bought the whole thing including crew, the submarine cost them $5,5 million dollars but before the deal went through.....he was arrested in Florida.

When business went good for Tarzan the F.B.I. noticed and they started looking into his past and his friends. They didn't really have anything on him and he wasn't a guy who was easy to follow traveling to Colombia and Russia a lot of the time. But then the feds got a break. Tarzans friend Roizes (who by this time went by the nickname 'The Cannibal' because he bit off someones nose when the guy insulted him) decided to flip and help the F.B.I. so he could get some time out of prison. Tarzan trusted Roizes to the fullest and told him much about his business, Tarzan liked to talk about his business it made him feel big and tough. It made him feel real tough untill the feds arrested him and on October 17 1999 Tarzan was convicted on RICO charges and deported back to Israel. But Tarzan had nothing bad to say about America: "I love America, it's so easy to steal something here, I think I'm going to Cuba now, a few of my Russian friends have hotels there I'm gonna get rich.....".

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The Global Reach of the Judeo-Russian Mafia


Its been about 10 years since the Jerusalem Post admitted that the Israeli underworld had been taken over by Russian-Jewish mob bosses. But it remains the case despite official Mossad condemnations, that little has been done to interfere with the drug and slave trade the Russian-Jewish bosses have brought to Israel. Recently, even Amnesty International has slammed Israel for refusing to do much about the Jewish mob's white slave traffic worldwide, based in Israel. Several years ago, Amnesty wrote this:


The Israeli government has failed to take adequate measures to prevent, investigate, prosecute and punish human rights abuses committed against trafficked women. In general, trafficked women are effectively treated as criminals by the various Israeli agencies with whom they come in contact, rather than as victims of human rights abuses. This is so even though many of them have been subjected to human rights abuses such as enslavement or torture, including rape and other forms of sexual abuse, by traffickers, pimps or others involved in Israel's sex industry. . . .Trafficking of women to Israel is not illegal. (AI, "Israel's Sex Industry" 2000.)
Making matters more complex, the Jewish mafia is deep into gun running, and the Islamic "terrorist groups" in the Middle East and Central Asia are their best customers. Given this, one would think that the IDF would have taken a bite out of their operations, but, to the contrary, the Jewish mob continues to function out of Israel with little interference.

Israeli estimates place the investment of the Jewish bosses in the Israeli economy at about $20 billion US dollars since the late 1970s. This might speak a little to the refusal of Israeli law enforcement to do anything about this. Further, the boss' financing of the Chechen rebels throughout the 1990s protected the western owned pipelines the Russian government had its eye on. Significantly, mafia bosses have been involved in running less expensive weapons to the Georgian government, a government who harbors drug gangs throughout its mountainous and only semi-accessible Panskii Gorge.

According to the respected Stratfor.com research and intelligence organization, the Israeli government estimates that roughly 10% of all Jewish immigration to Israel is criminal, yet, little is done to stem this tide other than pious denunciations. Even more, the Israeli government has admitted that mafia money went to finance much of Benjamin Netanyahu's campaign for the Prime Ministership in 1996.

Back in 1995, the then-head of the FBI Louis Freeh claimed that the Russian-Jewish mafia was the "greatest threat the American security" in the world, though, several days later, he was forced to retract his statements according to the BBC. The Israelis might have several good reasons for not only harboring, but encouraging mafia activity within its borders.

First, the substantial Jewish investment in the global arms trade permits Israel to support rebel groups worldwide through mafia channels that otherwise would be credited to Israeli government policy. For example, Russian-Jewish mafia figures are financing the Darfur separatists in Sudan (though the agency of Ukrainian-Jewish boss Viktor Bout), and the Colombian communist FARC rebels through the agency of the greatest boss of them all, the Israeli Simon Mogilevich, who bought the Hungarian anti-aircraft factories in the early 1990s, as well as a chunk of the famous Sukhoi combat jet firm in Russia. Such red-handed deals with as Miami-based Ludwig "Tarzan" Fainberg's attempt to supply the Cali cartel with Russian submarines some time ago might suggest a heavy hand in global arms sales.

The fact that the Israeli underworld could finance some of Georgia's arms supplies permitted the Israeli's plausible denial once the shooting started last Summer. Further more, the mob, in suppling weapons and even training to Central Asian Islamic groups might permit the Israeli's a modicum of control over these groups. The Mossad itself admitted in the early 1990s that Mogilevich was deep within the IDF and the Israeli state, and by 1994, this master murderer and gangster was able to get an internationally recognized licence to sell and buy weapons on the open market. Apparently, Mogilevich was (and is) very important to the IDF as a subsidiary arms supplier.

As far as Israel itself is concerned, there are now hundreds of (legal) brothels in Israel featuring Slavic girls that, according to Fainberg, go for about $10,000 to $15,000 a piece. They are bought and sold by Russian-Jewish mafia figures and sent to Israel, America and Britain to work. As of this writing, no substantial effort from Tel Aviv has sought to stem this tide.

"Tarzan" Fainberg's drug, weapons and slave trade with Tel Aviv, Kiev and St. Petersburg, in recent years, began using the comparatively free US-Canadian border for his transactions, financing the relatively new Toronto marijuana and cocaine fad. He was recently arrested by Canadian police and, without explanation, deported to Israel where he will continue his operations without interference. He apparently travels from Miami to Tel Aviv unhindered, and he brags that he has "ties" with the American FBI.

Hence, the Russian Jewish mafia is a "smoking gun" case linking American intelligence to international drugs and slavery, along with the Israeli government. At the same time, it also links these entities to the "Arab terror" groups operating throughout the world, who are the Israeli mafia's top arms clients. In other words, it is not out of the question that the mafia ties the entire Anglo-Israeli complex together, linking the sexual revolution, pornography, weapons, slaves and drugs together with the apparent cooperation of the American FBI and the Israeli police services.

Since the ever-struggling Israeli economy has received investments by mob figures of a substantial percentage of GDP, it is unlikely that such figures will be brought to justice in any more than a symbolic way.

Hence, as of this writing, at least two of the big three Israeli-Russian crime figures have their base in Israel, the famed Sergei Mikhailov (who the media claims is not Jewish, but had no trouble gaining and keeping Israeli citizenship) and Ludwig "Tarzan" Fainberg. Mogilevich prefers the relative calm of Hungary, but also retains Israeli citizenship.

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An older article but just a telling sample of Jew Corruption:
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On The Dark Side: The Hidden Costs
Crime, Exploitation, Disease, Victimization Ampng Industry's Failings
November 14, 1997|By JOSE LAMBIET Staff Writer

Adult entertainment's easy money buys as much misery as happiness.

For each tall blonde who eases out of a sequined dress and collects a stack of $5 bills from ogling men at a strip club, there's a teen-age mother turning tricks in the dark corner of another.

For each suburban couple browsing the X-rated aisle of a video store, there's a runaway whose quest for survival leads to the set of a pornographic movie.
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And for each high-class hooker who meets clients at a posh hotel, there's a heterosexual man who sells himself to gay men in the back seat of a Cadillac.

Crime. Exploitation. Violence against women. Disease. Immorality. All are integral parts of an industry where people are considered commodities and money a deity. All are hidden costs in a state where sex is a $1.5 billion business _ the same amount as this year's federal spending on AIDS research.

``The fact that Florida has so many adult businesses is nothing to be proud of,'' said John Dowless, executive director of the Christian Coalition of Florida. ``I'd much rather have people think about Universal Studios and Disney World when they think about Florida. This type of business clearly fosters crime-inviting behavior.''

Just ask Michael Peter, the businessman who built an empire of upscale nude bars from his Fort Lauderdale headquarters.

When he bought his first strip club in the mid-1970s, Peter, 50, was so obsessive about running a clean business that he routinely had police run drug-sniffing dogs through the dancers' locker rooms.

But by the mid-1980s, police said, he was associating with known mobsters and ex-convicts. Investors complained to authorities that Peter never repaid hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans. Police started investigating his businesses. Eventually, he pleaded guilty to mail fraud and is now serving a two-year sentence in a federal detention camp.

``I guess it is hard to run that kind of business totally cleanly,'' he said in a jail interview. ``I'm through with it.''

No matter how glittery and sophisticated the business, or how mainstream the clientele, it remains a magnet for trouble.

Consider the following incidents in the past 18 months:

* State authorities have refused to issue a liquor license for the buyer of Peter's Pure Platinum and Solid Gold clubs in Broward County, and another Solid Gold in North Miami Beach. Authorities say Sergey Skobeltsyn, 27, a multimillionaire from Russia, lied about his employment and wealth on the license application. Federal immigration authorities also said he lied about his marital status on his visa application.

For the time being, he still owns the clubs while his attorneys appeal the state's denial of his license.

* In February, federal and local police arrested the owner of Porky's, a Hialeah strip club. Russian mobsters, they said, ran it as a crime clearinghouse. As illegal immigrant strippers entertained the patrons, police said, criminals met in a back room to plot other money-making schemes _ prostitution, drug smuggling and the theft of shipments of cigarettes, liquor and gas from Port Everglades.

The owner, Ludwig ``Tarzan'' Fainberg, 39, is awaiting trial on 30 counts of racketeering and smuggling. Among other charges, he will have to answer to accusations that he tried to buy a Russian submarine and helicopters in order to smuggle dope safely from Colombia into the United States.


* During 1996, federal authorities indicted six reputed members of the Colombo crime family for secretly owning three area strip clubs, cheating the state out of sales-tax revenues and laundering drug money through the clubs. The clubs included Goldfinger in Sunrise, Club Pink Pussycat near Miami International Airport and Club Diamonds in Palm Beach County _ all of which the government wants to seize.

Among those arrested was Thomas ``Mr. T.'' Farese, 54, an alleged Colombo capo. Authorities, including Drug Enforcement Agency undercover agents who laundered $1.1 million of control money through the clubs, called him the highest-ranking mobster in Florida.

Then-U.S. Attorney Kendall Coffey said the group used the clubs as ``cash factories for the laundering of dirty money.'' The case is winding its way through the court system. (Incidentally, Coffey resigned in May 1996 after partying at the all-nude Lipstik in South Miami, where he bought a $900 magnum of champagne and bit a dancer on the arm.)

* Stripper Nicole Cox, 21, was shot dead in the middle of the Stir Crazy Lounge in the south Dade town of Pinecrest on Sept. 6, 1996. Metro-Dade police arrested her estranged husband, Cameron Cox, 25, after a five-hour standoff at his apartment. Police said Cameron also shot Jarrett McNeal, the patron for whom his wife was dancing when he burst into the bar. McNeal, now 23, survived. Cameron Cox is awaiting trial in a Dade County jail, charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder.

* Eighty-one people were arrested Sept. 18 when Broward Sheriff's Office deputies raided four unincorporated Broward County strip bars: Crazy Horse Too and Quarterbacks Lounge near Pompano Beach; Booby Trap II near Pembroke Pines; and Club Ecstasy just outside Fort Lauderdale.


The all-night raid _ which netted dancers, patrons and club managers _ was to enforce for the first time a 1993 ordinance tightening the county government's control on the adult industry. In addition to stricter licensing, the ordinance includes a ban on touching between strippers and patrons, and orders clubs that offer peep shows to remove the doors from their private booths. The arrests, usually for violations of the ``touching'' portion of the ordinance, came only a week after the state Supreme Court refused to hear the adult industry attorneys' argument on why it should not be enforced.

Invitation to crime

Most adult establishments in South Florida are far from being the headquarters of criminal organizations, police say, but even classy clubs are often riddled with petty crime: lewdness, prostitution and violations of local zoning and licensing ordinances.

The five-member Pompano Beach Police Tactical Enforcement Unit recently took a break from its usual job of chasing drug dealers to investigate allegations of lewdness at The Body Shop, a strip bar on Powerline Road.

An informant reported that dancers at the blue-collar club were breaking city ordinances by baring their genitals, penetrating themselves and rubbing against patrons.

Two women did just that for four undercover officers who spent $160 drinking and tipping dancers while pretending to be customers. When the money ran out, the undercover officers left, only to be replaced by uniformed officers who arrested Nicole Couch, 32, and Marcia James, 25. Minutes after police left, the DJ cranked up the music and the club was hopping again, with other women performing the same acts that got their colleagues arrested.

Couch and James were charged with indecent behavior, a violation of a municipal ordinance. They pleaded no contest and, in July, a Broward County judge withheld findings of guilt but fined each $250, over objections from Pompano Beach city attorneys who had requested jail time and fines of $500.

Fight against lewdness

Was the raid worth the trouble?

``Of course,'' said tactical unit leader Sgt. John Page. ``People in the city want to know we're doing something to fight lewdness.''

Still, some people see prostitution and lewdness as victimless crimes, a waste of valuable police time.

``There is so much violence on the streets, why should cops spend time on lewdness in strip bars?'' said James Benjamin, a First Amendment lawyer in Fort Lauderdale who has made a career defending sex businesses. ``In some neighborhoods, people are selling drugs every single night. Meanwhile, you have cops in a strip bar checking on whether girls have enough latex [covering) their nipples. It's ludicrous.''

Police, however, insist that it's important to enforce the law, even if the offenses _ such as two consenting adults having sex for money or women exposing their genitals in a bar _ seem harmless.

``It's not just sex. On the street, you may have prostitutes who'll rob johns, maybe grabbing their wallet or rifling through the glove compartment of their cars,'' said Fort Lauderdale Police Capt. Alan Roberts, who oversees anti-prostitution sweeps that sometimes net 500 arrests.

``Escorts are dangerous, too. Any man who'll meet an escort at his house is a fool. The escort may be casing his house and two days later, he's burglarized. Who would call police and say: `I was having a hooker over and she sent people over to rob me?' ''

`I felt so empty inside'

Exploitation is another cost of the sex industry. Real people have paid the price for fast money.

Kimberly, 33, who asked that her last name not be used, stripped at Pure Platinum in Oakland Park, and in Michael Peter's clubs in Hawaii, Manhattan, the Carolinas and Texas.

She was known as Tiffany then, a 19-year-old, 6-foot bombshell. She danced for more than a decade, making up to $1,000 a night.

Now, she's a receptionist for a Pompano Beach insurance company, earning a fourth of what she made as a stripper.

``I felt so empty inside that I wanted to kill myself,'' said Kimberly, who turned to religion for solace and quit dancing 21/2 years ago. ``It's a cruel business. It's all about self. It's all about using people. There's no love in it. It's like selling your soul.

``And it's humiliating. It starts with your search for money, and later you end up seeking only approval from men. Then that's not enough, and you need [plastic) surgery and new cars and fancy clothes. All this selling something you should keep for your husband.''

Job danger, even death

As the bulk of the sex industry's workers, women often become the targets of violence. By the nature of their trade, strippers, prostitutes, escorts and massage parlor attendants often deal with out-of-control customers or pimps.

Melanie Panchula, owner of Wendy's Escorts, said she anticipates at least one call-girl killing in the area every year.

``That sort of thing is expected,'' she said.

Since January, two prostitutes and one escort from Broward County have been found dead in separate incidents. These occurred in the wake of 11 prostitute murders in Dade by two serial killers in 1994 and 1995.

And on Sept. 9 this year, West Palm Beach police arrested Kevin Johnson, 25, and charged him with the killings of two prostitutes and the severe beating of another _ all since January.

Pimps can do damage, too.

When Tanya Gilday, 22, a Sebring mother of two, turned to prostitution in Fort Lauderdale last year, she was allegedly tortured _ burned with a hot machete _ by two suspected pimps and three accused prostitutes. She spent two weeks at Broward General Medical Center and underwent two skin grafts.

When asked to explain why the incident took place, Leonard Scott, 25, of Fort Lauderdale, told police in a taped statement: ``The only thing I ask is respect for what I'm spending my money, buying you clothes and feeding you and, clothin' and, umm, keeping a roof over you head. She [Gilday) didn't give me no respect.''

Scott was found not guilty of kidnapping and assaulting Gilday.

Those in the sex industry dismiss the dark side, just as a corporate executive might dismiss comments that his company is too bureaucratic.

``Money is money,'' Andrew Thom said. ``It's a job.''

Thom spends days and nights at the counter of Johnny's, a gay strip bar on West Broward Boulevard, waiting for men to offer him money for sex. He's not gay and has a girlfriend, he says, describing himself as ``gay for pay.''

There are an estimated 400 male prostitutes in Fort Lauderdale, most gay, some not, say bar owners and several male hookers.

Thom, 25, ran away more than 10 years ago from his Wayne, N.J., home with a girlfriend. He took $3,000 from his mother, hopped on a plane to South Florida and lived in a hotel until his money ran out. Then he met a man who took him to a party.

``We watched a pornographic video and one of the people there performed oral sex on me. He gave me $150. So I said to myself, `I can do this.' ''

Generally, he charges $50 for oral sex and $100 for intercourse.

On a good night, he makes $300, which he spends on clothes and furniture for his rented Victoria Park cottage: a new 64-inch television, a Kenwood sound system, king-size water bed. Most of his money once went to supporting a crack habit, he said. He's clean now, he said, but still drinks heavily.

Effect on family

Those buying sex in its many forms could end up with problems they never bargained for _ in one way or another hurting themselves, their spouses and children.

Take some of the men recently arrested as part of a Hollywood prostitution sting. Police had a big surprise in store for the men: telephoning their wives to come and pick up their spouses' cars.

One woman drove up, rolled down her window and said, ``Tell you what. You can keep the car, and you can keep him.''

And in West Palm Beach in 1992, Mayor Nancy Graham bought quarter-page ads carrying the names of johns in hopes of curbing prostitution and drug crimes associated with it.

Some problems are less obvious. For some men, sex addiction is a verified illness, said Dr. John Spencer, a psychologist in a Davie practice that treats sexual offenders.

``Some individuals are extremely susceptible to constant sexual reinforcement,'' he said. ``I had a patient once who sometimes would go to a massage parlor several times a night.''

As for the wives, Plantation psychologist Dr. Michael Brannon said, some may find themselves playing second fiddle to strippers. Brannon said a man who frequently buys the services of adult entertainers may start finding his regular partner ``a little dull-looking.''

And what about the kids? With television, movies and computers, children can easily be raised on an unhealthy dose of sex. Spencer said the increasing acceptance of sex entertainment is producing a generation of children who ``believe that a lap dance is courtship.''

And, with sex everywhere, it generates an acceptance of all things sexual _ whether healthy or not.

``The industry cheapens sex,'' Spencer said. ``If this burgeoning industry is going to be here, we should spend resources teaching our children the appropriate sexual behaviors. Kids today are watching so much sex, cybersex or anything else, that they are growing up believing they should attach more importance to it than it's worth.''

The spread of sexually transmitted diseases may be the most visible social cost of the adult business.

Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties are ranked second, fifth and sixth respectively in the nation for the highest rates of HIV/AIDS cases.

``There is an awful lot of high-risk behavior in this part of the state,'' said Dr. Robert Self, the medical executive director of the Broward County Health Department. ``As a doctor I wish that if adult entertainment is to exist, that there could be some way to prevent the sort of activities that occur in or around such facilities.''

The proliferation of sex-related businesses _ and the crime and exploitation that often come with it _ has given South Florida the image of a community where anything goes. It isn't something we should be proud of, some say.

``Even [police) are confused; we don't know anymore what our community's standards are,'' said Fort Lauderdale Police Detective Vincent Rizzitello, an 18-year veteran of sex-related enforcement.

His job includes monitoring the content of X-rated tapes sold or rented locally. Even he is surprised at how shocking material has to be _ bestiality or child pornography _ before police will act.

``We used to seize hundreds of tapes. In 1996, we seized just six,'' he said.

So if sex is everywhere, despite the problems it brings, should we just legalize it and reap some benefits?

State Rep. Shirley Brown, D-Sarasota, thinks so.

``That type of business is one of the oldest,'' Brown said. ``There's always been sex for sale, so we should tax it instead of ignoring it.''

During the last two legislative sessions, Brown floated a proposal to put a 6 percent tax on admissions to adult businesses. The tax would have raised $8 million to $12.3 million a year, Department of Revenue estimates show.

The idea failed, mostly because legislators see the tax as legitimizing a seedy, immoral industry.

``We do not believe the government should build a dependency on the vice of people,'' said the Christian Coalition's Dowless. ``We would have agreed with a tax proposal to tax them out of business, but 6 percent doesn't do that. We applaud the representative's efforts, but not the method.''

And such a move could come at the expense of some communities.

Dorothy Sykes, 43, is embarrassed. When her prayer group meets at her home, she has to explain to her friends why men in business suits constantly walk in and out of Pure Pleasure. The massage parlor opened across the street, in a building that once was the neighborhood convenience store.

``I'm kind of ashamed when I have people over,'' she said from her working-class Lake Forest neighborhood in Pembroke Park. ``How do I explain to them that it's a whorehouse? Even the kids in the neighborhood know what that place is.''

Across the county, in unincorporated areas north of Pompano Beach, Ginger Alvarez and her North Broward Citizens' Action Group picketed sex businesses every Friday night for years. In 1993, they pressured the county into passing its first ordinance regulating strip bars and sex shops in unincorporated areas. The ordinance bans, among other things, touching between the dancers and customers.

The law was bogged down in courts for years, then finally enforced for the first time in September. Sheriff's deputies raided four strip clubs and arrested 81 customers, strippers and club managers.

``I was ecstatic,'' Alvarez said. ``Strip bars draw other sex businesses such as massage parlors, bookstores and prostitutes, and transform nice neighborhoods into sleazy ones.

``I was born and raised here. North Broward used to be a family-oriented, wholesome place to live. Now, people think of it as a trashy part of town. As a community, we should be ashamed we let that happen.''

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Notable Russian mafiosi

* Evsei Agron (regarded as the first "Don" or "Godfather" of New York's Russian mafia. Agron was a Vor and immigrated to the U.S. in 1975 and quickly set-up a base of operations in the mostly Jewish-Russian community of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. He was highly feared for his violent tendencies and eagerness to use violence in order to enforce his authority within New York's Russian underworld. By aligning himself with New York's powerful, influential and feared Gambino crime family, his position as New York's reigning Russian Godfather was enhanced. He was assassinated in May 1985. His title and operations were taken over by his top advisor, Marat Balagula and his former driver and bodyguard Boris Nayfeld.
* Marat Balagula (Ukrainian-Jewish crime boss and former top advisor to Brighton Beach Godfather Evsei Agron, whose mantle and operations he took over after Agron was murdered in 1985. Balagula was suspected of ordering the hit on his former boss. Balagula was the originator of a billion-dollar gasoline tax racket and a close associate of Lucchese crime family, who protected his interests in the gasoline tax rackets. Released from American prison in 2004.

* Yuri Brokhin (Famed expatriate Russian dissident/international drug dealer and jewel thief; murdered 1982.)
* Vitali Dyomochka (Russian mobster who produced a TV series chronicling his own activities.)
* Vadim Safronov (Vor v Zakone, controls criminal activities in Tver, Russia; since 1992-2012 jailed in Siberia.)
* Nikolai Radev (Minor Australian crime boss. Murdered outside his home in 2003 during the infamous Melbourne Gangland War.)
* Ludwig "Tarzan" Fainberg (Ukrainian-Jewish, Southern Florida intermediary between the Medellin drug cartel and the Russian Mafia; deported to Israel.)
* Vyacheslav "Yaponchik" Ivankov (America's most powerful vor v zakone; deported to Russia.)[21] On June 8, 1995, Ivankov was arrested on Extortion in the United States by the FBI, convicted, and jailed. In 2004, was released from prison and extradited to Russia. On July 13, 2004 Ivankov was deported to Russia to face murder charges over two Turkish nationals who were shot in a Moscow restaurant following a heated argument in 1992. On July 28, 2009, at around 19:20 Moscow time (1520 GMT), Ivankov was shot while leaving a restaurant on Khoroshevskoye Road in Moscow. A sniper rifle was found abandoned in a nearby parked vehicle.Having died from his injuries seventy-three days later, on October 9, 2009,[26] Ivankov was buried in Moscow on October 13, 2009.
* Zakhar "Shakro" Kalashov (ethnically Georgian International vor v zakone boss; jailed in Spain.)
* Anzor Kikalishvili (owner of the Twenty First Century Association)
* Vladimir Kumarin (Saint Petersburg-based boss of Tambov Gang crime group.)
* Otar "Otarik" Kvantrishvili (ethnically Georgian Moscow extortionist; murdered in 1994.)
* Ruslan Labazanov (Chechen crime boss; murdered in 1996.)
* Sergei Mikhailov (Moscow-based head of Solntsevskaya bratva crime group.)
* Semion Mogilevich - Billionaire Ukrainian Jewish capo di tutti capi of Russian mafias. Known as the "OLO Kemo", " he is considered by the FBI to be the most dangerous gangster in the world " and the "boss of all bosses" with in the Russian Mafia. Mogilevich is nicknamed "The Brainy Don" because of his business acumen and the college degree in economics from the Lviv University that he holds. In 2003 the FBI put Mogilevich on their Wanted List for participation in the scheme to defraud investors in Canadian company YBM Magnex International Inc. Frustrated in their previous efforts unsuccessfully to charge him for arms trafficking and prostitution, they had now settled on the large-scale fraud charges as their best hope of running him to ground. He was arrested in Moscow on January 24, 2008, for suspected tax evasion. His bail was placed on July 24, 2008 by Taylor Piercefield. On October 22, 2009 he was named by the FBI as the 494th fugitive to be placed on the Ten Most Wanted list.
* Boris Nayfeld, known as "Beeba", was an Orthodox Jewish gang leader, former driver and bodyguard for Brighton Beach Godfather Evsei Agron. After Agron's murder in 1985 he rose through the ranks of the Russian criminal underworld and became an international drug kingpin.
* Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev, Chechen crime boss; missing and believed dead.
* Mikhail Rabo, formerly respected member of the Berlin Jewish community who was arrested for secretly heading one of Russia's largest and most powerful organized crime groups.
* Alexander Solonik, notorious professional ethnical greek assassin, who was murdered in Athens in 1997 by the Orekhovskaya banda.[37]
* Nikolay "Hoza" Suleimanov, Chechen head of Obshina crime group; murdered in 1994.
* Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, ethnically Uzbek Arms dealer and accused Olympic fixer.
* Movladi Atlangeriyev, Chechen crime boss, kidnapped in 2008.

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Semion Mogilevich: the Russian Al Capone
Saturday, 12 June 2010

Semion MogilevichSemion Mogilevich was born on June 30, 1946 in Kiev. Documental evidences of his biography are found in the archives of law machinery. According to this data, in the early 70s of the previous century Mogilevich was involved in currency transactions. He was engaged in gangster groups and had legal proceedings with the fraud twice.

Semion Mogilevich is the native of Russia, the Ukraine, Israeli and Hungary. He is married with four children. Some people affirm that he is married to many wives and his wives know each other and they settle al issues and problems on a friendly basis without scandals.

Though Mogilevich has never been claimed for polygamy and it is hopeless to prove that. There are many talks and gossips about Mogilevich of various natures and nothing has been proved.

Newsweek and New York Times referring to unknown sources in the FBI published the article in August 1999 that Mogilevich is engaged with $10 billion laundering scheme of «Russian mafia» through the Bank of New York (BoNY). In 2001 the mass media informed that Mogilevich tried to sell the enriched uranium at one of the Spanish resorts to representatives of Osama Bin Laden stolen at the territory of the former USSR. Referring to the American special service, Mogilevich was accused of laundering money received for transactions in Afghani drugs. In 2003 Mogilevich was said to be related to the former Ministry of Nuclear Energy Evgeniy Adamov.

He is said to establish the offshore company RosUkrEnergo (RUE) in 2004 registered in the Swiss canton Zug and in January 2006 he participated in signing the agreement between NJSC «Naftogaz of the Ukraine», «Gazprom» and RUE.

The case was believed to open for Semion Mogilevich in the Ukraine in 1993 and by 2005 his case was about 3000 pages. Though, his case was believed to be destroyed during change of Security Service of Ukraine management in September 2005.

Yulia Timoshenko when talking about the energy of the Ukraine announced that «one should go to meet Mogilevich not to Moscow but to Iran and Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan» and this phrase proves the influence of Mogilevich upon the power industry of the Ukraine. Though, Mogilevich refuses his influence.

The American Special Services call Mogilevich the leader of the Russian International mafia. The Israeli Special Service considers Mogilevich the greatest threat to the security of Israeli and countries of Eastern Europe. On the whole, he is believed to be the real Mafioso.

He was accused of being a murderer, a pimp, a fraud and then Mogilevich used to go to the law and he took apologies. He was rejected to enter into many countries. He takes the case to the court and wins and he is free to travel anywhere.

Interpol and FBI searched him. He was put on the wanted list in Great Britain and USA on suspicion on laundering Russian money and other crimes. And the wanted criminal was living in Moscow that time, no hiding, no fear and everybody knew his place.

Biography of Mogilevich is like that of Al Capone, not in the core and details but in the nature and idea. A person who is known to everyone but no one can prove anything, this is the image created about Mogilevich. However, the association with Al Capone was not because of the word «mafia» so frequently appeared in the case of his but because of the small nuance happened with Mogilevich recently.

The point is that on January 24, 2008 Mogilevich was arrested along with the owner to the network of the perfumer's stores «Arbat Prestige» like Al Capone accused of non-payment of taxes. On the top of it, the lawyers were refused to set free the arrested for the huge amount of pledge.

The story ended in the other way than that of Al Capone's. The famous criminal was imprisoned for the long period of time but Mogilevich and Nekrasov were set free on July 27, 2009 under a written undertaking not to leave.

His case was repeatedly detached to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. Thus, nothing ended yet and Semion Mogilevich will make his admirers enjoy his detective stories.

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