The Most Dangerous Russian Mobster America Has Ever Known: Boris Nayfeld
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鲍里斯·奈费尔德的生活就像电影中的情节；他在前苏联成为孤儿，在一个残酷的监狱殖民地服刑，之后成为顶级街头罪犯，最终逃往美国。他与暴力并不陌生，在1980年代，他参与了布鲁克林布莱顿海滩兴起的俄罗斯黑手党派系。但他远不止是一个二流的黑帮分子。他参与了从敖德萨到泰国再到安特卫普的有组织犯罪，经历了五次暗杀未遂，在美国和前苏联都曾入狱，并参与了钻石抢劫、海洛因贩运、敲诈、枪战，与俄罗斯法律盗贼纠缠……他的名字分量十足。在这一切中，他奇迹般地存活下来，而几乎所有与他一起成长的人都没有。了解更多关于您的广告选择。访问 megaphone.fm/adchoices</context> <raw_text>0 ButcherBox, you guys have heard me talk about it before. It is a service that I used even before they were an advertiser because I like getting high-quality meat and seafood that I can trust online.

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And Podix got just the right guy for the job, Boris Neyfeld. Neyfeld's a hulking, heavily tattooed Russian-Jewish mafioso who made his name in the bloody Russian mafia wars of Brighton Beach in the 1980s and 1990s. But he's way more than just a two-bit gangster.

He's been involved in organized crime from Odessa to Thailand to Moscow to Antwerp, survived five assassination attempts, done prison in the U.S. and the former Soviet Union, and been involved in diamond heists, heroin trafficking, extortion, shootouts. He's tangled with Russian thieving laws. The guy's name carries weight. And Podik had hired him before to help provide protection in Russia during the chaotic and insane '90s free-for-all there.

But his son-in-law is no slouch either. He's a fabulously rich shipping magnate with enough wealth that the messy divorce and custody battle he's in with his soon-to-be ex-wife is the talk of New York's Tony Upper East Side. And that son-in-law, he has some friends too. One of those sort of friends is an older businessman who happens to meet Neifeld at a fancy Brooklyn bar and grill that caters to wealthy and scary Russian lobsters.

The two get the idea that instead of Boris killing this guy, why not have him pay a bit more than the contract offered, $125,000, to cancel the contract. Nobody has to die, and these guys still make some money. It's a win-win. Except the son-in-law goes right to the police when he hears about the contract for his murder. And then there's a series of meetings with Boris where he wears a wire.

After the conclusion of their third meeting, FBI agents swarmed Boris just as he's about to leave the Italian restaurant where the meeting had been. And here's the kicker. The whole thing was kind of a sham. There was never a real murder-for-hire thing going on. The older businessman and Boris were just going to use Boris' reputation for violence to get money both here and in Russia for some people who had allegedly stolen $20 million from the older businessman.

It's one more arrest and one more crazy story in the life of the most powerful and famous and dangerous Russian mobster America has ever known. This is The Underworld Podcast. Welcome back to The Underworld Podcast, a weekly program and occasional how-to guide on organized crime here, there, and everywhere around the world, hosted by two journalists who have reported on these kinds of things for a long time. I'm

I'm one of your hosts, Danny Gold. I am joined by another one of your hosts, Sean Williams, who plans on making a bunch of nonsensical jokes with the British flavor that only he can provide. Sean, do you want to start us off by referencing some like obscure cricket player that only seven people listening will know of?

Well, I mean, I'm recording this in beautiful Melbourne, home of the King of Spin himself. So, yeah, that's a cricket player for you. But cricket's kind of used to these news. I'm all about Aussie rules football now. I'm heading to my first game tomorrow. It's going to be pretty crazy, like 100,000 people. Is that niche enough? I mean, that's a pretty big amount, honestly. Good for them. But...

Yeah, every time I get into a lot of those arguments with people, Australians about how like Aussie rules football players are so tough because they don't wear pads, but it's like you would they would die like in an NFL game to get hit by the equivalent of like Ray Lewis, like someone would die without pads. Yeah, but yeah, moving on.

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This episode came about actually because I had gotten reached out to, I think, by an anonymous Instagram account first, then an anonymous WhatsApp number. A guy I kept talking to who had heard our previous two-part episode on how the Russian mafia came to Brooklyn, Brighton Beach. That was one of our, I think, first 10 episodes.

And he said that he had a connection to Boris Neifeld, who is now back in Russia, but was in the States at the time. And he could connect me to him. And this guy's great. We had dinner eventually afterwards. And he actually did connect me to Boris's son, who handles these things for him. We had some talks and it was going to happen, like an interview. But unfortunately, things fell through. It did not, which is a real bummer because he is a fascinating guy. And he's the real deal, man. Like he's not a pretender.

But I figured we could just do an episode on him anyway, based almost entirely on the book I was using for research. It's called The Last Boss of Brighton Beach by Douglas Century. Definitely pick that up. I can't sort of emphasize enough that this entire episode, nearly 90% of it is based off of that book. So buy that book from Douglas Century and support him for making my life easier.

But the book actually came about because I think they were looking to tell Boris a story like his family or his people in the hopes of having it turn into a movie, which it very well should be.

They reached out to the author, Douglas Century, who had written a bunch of great books and one actually about my neighborhood, a gang on my block called, I think, Street Kingdom, The Franklin F. Posse, which was one of the first books I read when I moved here years ago. Anyway, Boris agreed to do hours and hours and hours of interviews about his whole life. And that's where you get the book. And it's actually really interesting to compare this episode to those Russian mafia episodes we did earlier.

Because I think a lot of this stuff, a lot of our sources for that, and I mentioned it in the episode, is this guy Robert Freeman's work. And other press stuff, which I think was at best really exaggerated. And I mentioned that throughout the episode that I was skeptical of a lot of what he'd written. And he's also the main source for the Frontline doc in our episode on the Russian mafia NHL bribery controversy.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, if you really want to do us a favor as well, you find those old shows and you listen to them over and over again because, you know, they're great. They're great. And they're well-researched, despite what Danny just said. And it sweetens the deal for advertisers, which is going to help us out, right? No, they are. They are well-researched for sure. And I think we pointed out during those episodes about how this lore was created. Yeah.

about these guys and everything else and we were skeptical initially of his research so when we referenced it we also expressed our opinion sounded like it was a lot of hyperbolic stuff about you know the Russian mafia which is very scary in general but exaggerated anyway

Here is how Douglas Century describes Boris and the new class of Russian mobster in the U.S. that came there from the early 80s on. Quote, they were cosmopolitan, sophisticated, often university educated men who'd survived for years in the Soviet Union by applying their ingenuity and daring to build the corrupted state.

They settled in the decaying South Brooklyn neighborhood of Brighton Beach for generations a haven for immigrant Jews and refashioned it as their own little Odessa. Almost immediately, criminals like Boris Nafel distinguished themselves for their fearlessness. They partnered with, but were never cowed by, the Italian-American mafia. They joked about how easy it was to steal in America. They scoffed at the cushiness of U.S. penitentiaries in comparison to the starvation conditions in the forced labor camps they'd experienced in the Soviet Union.

They displayed a ruthlessness and casual use of violence that shocked even jaded members of U.S. law enforcement. So, yeah, that is a solid, solid intro right there to Boris Neyfeld. He is a gangster. Like, if you looked at a photo of him, he's just a huge, imposing dude, shaved head, big Russian mafia-style tattoos all over his chest, including God Forgive Me in Hebrew on his stomach.

And surprisingly, he actually got them in, not in Russia, but in prison in Colorado, which we'll get to. He's born though and grew up in the Soviet Union in what's now known as Belarusia. And he grew up in Gomel. Gomel? A backwater in the Soviet days in 1947. Now, you know, I think I know something about

gommel gommel i don't know yeah it's like a huge you probably say better than i do i don't know but i think it's big on tractors that's the only thing i know and they stopped me from going there on a train when i went to minsk a few years ago which is actually a really really cool city uh shame about the dictator lukashenka we could definitely do an episode on him as well he's absolutely mental yeah i mean people people love that stuff

But back in 1947, it was mental as well. The Soviet Union, it's a brutal place then. They've got food shortages, famines, recovering from World War II. There's all these orphans. And Boris's dad, when he's born, is in a gulag thousands of miles away, sentenced for being a black marketeer.

His mother abandons him with his dad's parents only a few years later, him and his brother. His dad's parents were just, you know, simple people. His granddad worked in a factory and they kept the Jewish home, which wasn't easy to do in the Soviet Union at that time. His dad shows up and Boris is about five after being released from the Gulag.

but he clashes with his grandfather and promptly disappears from his life again. Soon after, his grandfather gets sick with cancer and dies, leaving only his grandmother to care for him and his brother. And it kind of, you know, this feels almost like a movie, right? About a Russian gangster's background story, you know? Yeah, it's nuts. Without his grandfather or dad keeping watch,

Boris starts getting into trouble, stealing, fighting. I mean, nothing crazy, but the kind of stuff they didn't put up with back then, especially from poor families in the USSR. And since it seemed like his grandma couldn't keep tabs on him, she was convinced to send him to these boarding school orphanages.

At nine years old in 1957, he shipped off to one of those schools for all the orphans or neglected kids after World War II. And these are just tough, brutal places. And he's fighting bigger, older kids right away. And it's exactly what you imagine, like really rough conditions, everything getting stolen, food hard to come by, communist indoctrination. Boris takes some beatings, you know, as we all do at one time or another.

But he also learns how to fight. And by the time he's in grade seven, he's kicked out because they can't handle him. This is like, it's so filmic, this back story of this guy. I mean, a kind of communist...

boarding school orphanage does make my own upbringing look pretty urbane by comparison. I don't know. Do kids still fight in school? I used to love fighting. It was like really fun. Do kids still do that? Wow. Your Britishness is coming out. Who would have thought this gentleman right here

was out there getting scraps with the other firms in grade four over Man City or whatever the fuck you guys fight over. Oh my God. Around the back of the bakery, that was where it all went down with Sovereign Rings. Oh my God. It's so like comic book.

Yeah, so Boris goes back home. He probably was just as good as a fighter as Sean was behind the bakery. He gets into wrestling, which was huge in the former USSR and after the fall of the Soviet Union too. I mean, those wrestling gyms basically became breeding grounds for gangs and mafias. I think we've talked about that before in other episodes about the Russian mobs that come in the 90s and other places, I think Albania. Wrestling, these sports gymnasiums kind of become where you recruit your hooligans.

By 14, Boris, or Biba as they call him, he's a menace. He's tough, he can fight, and he likes to gamble. You know, all that stuff. He's what's referred to as a hooligan, but maybe it's hooligan, it's spelled K-H-U-L-I-G-A-N in Russian. That's so cool. Hooligan. Yeah, that's way better. It comes from Irish, apparently. It's some guy called Houlihan who was really into fighting in the Victorian age, so...

there's a little fact for you. But yeah, this guy, I mean, Boris is awesome. It sounds amazing. That's interesting that it comes from that because, you know, thug comes from, right, the Indian thuggies. The Indian thuggies. Yeah, yeah. I think we talked about, I mean, I don't remember exactly what it was, but they were some group that, you know, did thug-like things.

Always, always, always great research on this podcast. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, we were, I remember things. I just don't remember the exact details when we're going over it and it pops in my head. Boris gets, he gets caught up stealing for something he actually didn't do and threatened to be sent to a juvenile penal colony. But his family kind of finesses it. I think his mother had connections and him and his mom, who is now back in his life and stepdad end up in Norilsk, Norilsk, Norilsk.

The northernmost city in Russia, which is cold, unforgiving, and full of criminals. Boris gets in trouble again. He gets sent to a different city. He eventually gets back to Gomel, where he becomes a full-on hooligan. These were the gangs of neglected or abandoned kids who started up their own juvenile gangs. It was a big thing in Russia in the 50s and 60s. Vladimir Putin was apparently part of one.

Boris, at this point, he's getting known now, right? He's getting into knife fights. He's getting a rep, doing petty crimes but elevated from before, graduating to robberies of kiosks, but also still wrestling and doing sports. I think he won some awards. Soon he's busted, though, for hooliganism, thrown in jail, and then he's shipped out to a penal colony, which is, interestingly enough, the name of a club that Sean used to spend every weekend in during his wild Berlin days. Yeah.

But this one, it's not a flashy techno club where everyone wears tons of leather. It's grim, hard labor, the stuff that would later have Boris say that American prisons were a cakewalk compared. He's hungry all the time. It's unsanitary. It's basically hell. Yeah, was that one of your school reports?

What does that mean? Oh, never mind. Like a report card? Yeah. Oh, I'm hungry all the time. Unsanitary. Okay. No, that was good. That's on me. That's on me for not picking it up. That was decent. Yeah.

Boris is 18, and right when he gets there, he has to fight someone to lay down who he is, and he gets sent to solitary. And he says, quote, to compare the conditions in a Soviet zone, zone is how they refer to these, I don't even know if you call them penitentiary, penal colonies, whatever it was, in the 1960s to an American prison where I later did many years. Well, how can I put this? It's hell versus paradise.

When you're there, you have to follow the thieves and law codes. I think, what was it? Vor-E-Zakon? Is that how you pronounce it, Sean? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. We've talked about them a lot. I think we even did an episode on them way back. It might be like the strictest criminal code ever. It came out of Stalin's gulags, maybe even before then. It's just, it's brutal. You basically have to forsake everything from civilized society, any and all authority, and everything is basically punishable by death. But it was also a great education. Yeah.

And Boris learned the ways of being a criminal. It's funny. I wrote that. I didn't make it sound funny. Yeah. And Boris learned the ways of being a criminal so that when he got out after three years, he had some ideas and dude was just hardened, you know, and what does a hardened Russian gangster in waiting do?

Probably chain smoke cigarettes while drinking vodka and getting tattooed in a sauna. Certainly not get a real job. Something that me, Sean and Boris have in common. Well, you get your tattoos done in saunas. That's I mean, that's more Berlin than the penal colony, to be honest.

Boris Boris dodges mandatory Russian military service. He has a kid. He gets a construction job where he basically serves as an enforcer to make people work in Siberia where there's a construction boom. Actually, he makes decent money for the USSR. He's hustling now. He's getting his own state contracts for the construction. He's making bank the Soviet way, which involves skimming, embezzling and, you know, basically having all these no show jobs.

Everything there is corruption, state-sponsored corruption, and Boris is embezzling from the state, which is a very dangerous thing to do in the former Soviet Union. By his late 20s, he is making bank, though, and spending it underground. Fur jackets, a giant gold star of David, which is a ballsy thing to do in the Soviet Union. He buys a car, designer shirts. Again, all this is very ballsy to do under an authoritarian communist regime, displaying any wealth like that.

He's starting to get harassed by the authorities, but he's paying off these bribes until the threats get more serious, like firing squad serious. And Boris is starting to get a little scared. Yeah, I mean, I guess you're going to go into this a little bit, but where are we on sort of Soviet anti-Semitism in the 70s? Because they look like the really grim stuff happened in the 50s, right? Under Stalin and they there was exiles and they created that autonomous oblast thing and.

But like, I'm guessing even running around in the 70s dressed like some Jewish Derek Trotter is probably not doing Boris much good with the authorities still. I don't know. Like, was it really bad then? Yeah, it had picked up again in the 70s with Brezhnev. He was pretty anti-Semitic and so were his advisors. And it was kind of like institutionalized anti-Semitism, right? They weren't allowed to get, Jews weren't allowed to get certain jobs. A lot of Jewish cultural stuff was shut down. There were crackdowns.

They were repackaging a lot of Nazi conspiracies. It kicked up mostly, I think, after the Six-Day War because the Soviets were...

They were originally trying to lure Israel under their sphere because it was a socialist country when it first emerged, and there wasn't this alliance with the West and the US. But then the sort of Arab countries fell under the Soviet sphere of influence. The Israelis turned towards the West. This is all post-67. So that's when the Soviets really kicked up or the Soviet regime really kicked up the sort of anti-Semitic stuff.

you know, started making movies that borrowed from Nazi imagery and Nazi stereotypes and all that sort of stuff. And it started to get really bad. And that's when you had a lot of groups in the West, a lot of Jewish groups in the West,

campaigning for the release of the uh of soviet jews allowing them to leave because that was another thing too they were restricted forbidden from leaving uh so that that really kicked up i think in the 70s but i'm not sure but yeah we have the jackson vanik amendment in the mid 70s the soviet system had made it extremely hard to leave nobody was supposed to want to leave the workers paradise nixon starts pushing for detente and putting some pressure on the soviets especially after he went to moscow in 72

And, uh, Jews were being persecuted. Then, uh, the first wave of Jews were allowed to leave and they came in 73. The Soviets had relented a bit, uh, and more start to leave. Most of them ended up in Brighton beach. And then I think the Jackson Vanik amendment is passed in, uh, in 1974, which applies pressure to communist countries to let people emigrate by restricting international trade otherwise. And Boris, uh,

was able to take advantage of this. Boris still needs to smuggle out his money though. Otherwise the Soviets would, would steal it. So he buys some stamps and diamonds to transport, which is going to come back in a, in a, in a minute. Diamonds are really an old standby for smuggling out money or just transporting. They're easy to hide. They're small, all that sort of stuff. So,

He heads to Austria, then Italy, and then finally makes his way to America, where he arrives at JFK in 1979. And his family gets placed in Albany, where they get housing, clothing, living expenses from a local Jewish community. And he has the usual epiphany when he sees an American supermarket. Yeah, when you go to the diabetic aisle and it's like...

bigger than your local supermarket that that pretty much did me into no i mean who was it was it gorbachev or yeltsin who who realized that communism was going to fail when he went to an american supermarket in like indiana or something oh yeah but i have that that i have that moment too when you go into like a wegmans you know or like a suburban whole foods and you're like this is this is incredible like what what an amazing thing

Really, I mean, have you been to a Wegmans? Was there a Wegmans in Oklahoma or wherever the hell you lived? You been to a Wegmans? Oh, what was it? Sprouts or something like this? This was like the big fantasy supermarket. Whatever that sounds like, it's a gas station. Go to Wegmans, dude. It'll change your life.

The only job Boris can get in Albany is as a janitor. And it doesn't take long before he says, screw this. And he makes for Brighton Beach. By the end of the 70s, there were like 40,000 Soviet immigrants that settled in Brighton Beach. And they set up around 20 square blocks. For those of you guys who don't know it, it's way over at the end of Brooklyn. It's on the Atlantic Ocean next to Coney Island.

It's not what you would consider a fancy neighborhood even now, but it had cheap rents back then. It was affordable. It was, you know, kind of a garbage dump. Definitely not the American dream at first, but it was the typical New York story of an ethnic group creating their own little universe, which is still like that. And it was by the sea, like the famed Odessa, where many of the immigrants came from.

Boris starts doing what else? Driving a cab and trying to get the run of the place. Remember, this is a guy who figured out how to finesse the Soviet Union. So he knows how to hustle. He knows. And comparatively speaking, America is just wide open. Like I'm not going to reference that Scarface line, but you guys get it.

He takes the lay of the land. He sees there's two major criminal factions in Brighton. And right away, he buys himself a 38 special for $350. The Russian mob, or what's referred to as the Russian mob, it's only really just getting started in New York at that point. And it's not... Though I guess, you know, in the early 1900s, you had a Russian mob. They weren't Russian mobsters. They were just like the Lower East Side and, you know, Brownsville guys, who a lot of them were...

鲍里斯·奈费尔德的生活就像电影中的情节；在前苏联成为孤儿，他在一个残酷的监狱中服刑，之后成为顶级街头罪犯，然后逃往美国。他对暴力并不陌生，在1980年代，他参与了布鲁克林布莱顿海滩兴起的俄罗斯黑手党派系。但他远不止是一个二流的黑帮分子。他参与了从敖德萨到泰国再到安特卫普的有组织犯罪，经历了五次暗杀未遂，在美国和前苏联都曾入狱，并参与了钻石抢劫、海洛因贩运、敲诈、枪战，与俄罗斯法律盗贼纠缠……他的名字分量十足。在这一切中，他奇迹般地存活下来，而几乎所有与他一起成长的人都没有。了解更多关于您的广告选择。访问 megaphone.fm/adchoices</context> <raw_text>0 我不知道这会变成什么，可能在苏联之前，很多人也许是在之后，但你有很多东欧犹太人参与黑手党，还有意大利人和爱尔兰人。所以这很奇怪。是的，我的意思是，显然你不会称那些家伙为俄罗斯黑帮，但无论如何。

这是我们所知的俄罗斯黑帮，现代版本。它并不是真正的黑手党。它实际上只是有组织的罪犯在不同时间聚集在一起。没有像意大利裔美国黑手党那样的等级制度。到那时，他和其他几个俄罗斯流氓已经与针对俄罗斯移民的波多黎各和黑人帮派打斗了。鲍里斯对此的引用如下。

我们中的一些人被刺了。他们中的一些人被刺了。但一点一点地，我们把他们赶出了布莱顿海滩。我的意思是，这太好了。这就像是我们要为这个家伙写的斯科塞斯史诗的开场旁白。我是说，我对他着迷。这个家伙的生活真是疯狂。他过了大约十种不同的生活。此外，斯普劳茨农贸市场总部位于亚利桑那州的凤凰城。所以你看，我说对了。我相信那里很美好。

现在，记得鲍里斯走私进来的那些钻石吗？某个二流的小混混说服他这些钻石不值那么多，给了他一点现金，结果骗了他，他很快发现那家伙在撒谎，拿出枪来，打了他一顿，最终拿回了全部钱，消息传开，鲍里斯不是个好惹的家伙。他收到了与当时布莱顿的顶头上司会面的邀请，那位是名叫埃夫西·阿格龙的前法律盗贼。

阿格龙将成为鲍里斯的导师。他出生于1932年。在战争期间，他在列宁格勒生活，经历了围城。一家俄罗斯报纸说他被传闻为谋杀犯，并在俄罗斯入狱服刑七年。但也有传言说他因扒窃和金融欺诈入狱，但也像...

他是最好的扒手之一。你会发现这些家伙的很多事情。没人真的知道他在家乡是否是个凶残的谋杀犯，或者只是个普通人。很多他们的传记都是完全悬而未决的。但根据鲍里斯的说法，他首先是个扒手，但还是个传奇的扒手。他确实在俄罗斯服过刑，并被纳入法律盗贼的行列，这可不是小事，这让他更合法。但他也有赌博问题，惹恼了其他法律盗贼……法律盗贼？

法律盗贼？无论是什么。他最终因为这个失去了他们所称的王冠，并离开了苏联。

去美国。他被认为是那种冷酷的人。他穿着像律师一样。他带着妻子去交响乐团等等。他在1975年到达美国。1980年，他第一次被枪击，之后还有很多次。通常他们称他为布莱顿海滩的第一任教父。他在埃尔加勒比或埃尔加勒比社交俱乐部活动，该俱乐部至今仍然存在。我想它仍然存在，但在五六年前是存在的。迈克尔·科恩与特朗普的名声有关。

但他是个天才。他经营了大量的骗局、抢劫等等。此外，我认为在第一集里，我们谈到他被传闻喜欢用电击器在海滨散步。但根据鲍里斯的说法，这是夸大其词，实际上只是个电击枪。好吧，这很正常，完全合法的行为。我的意思是，这些角色太棒了。我

我对这个故事太感兴趣了。太精彩了。是的，当你拍电影时，你就把它拍成电击器，你知道吗？是的，是的，是的。鲍里斯并没有立刻加入他的团队。他开始时像个自由职业者。珠宝盗窃、纵火、抢劫，基本功。他在1981年去欧洲进行一些抢劫。他回来后继续专注于偷珠宝，然后偷了一些艺术品。但他的一些工作进展不顺，最终决定加入阿格龙的团队。道格拉斯·森特里对此的引用如下。

布莱顿海滩的俄罗斯犹太黑帮，由埃夫西·阿格龙领导，常常在媒体和官方FBI文件中被称为“组织”。但这个标签是个误称。几乎没有组织，没有像科萨·诺斯特拉家族那样的等级结构。在布莱顿海滩，总是有许多竞争派系，每个团体往往是模糊的，独立罪犯的集合，机会主义地聚集在一起，为共同的目的而工作。

这更像是一个兄弟会，而不是一个结构化的犯罪组织。鲍里斯确实说有一个领导者，其他人算是兄弟，但那些兄弟，他们会像黑手党一样尽一切可能赚钱。诈骗、骗局、抢劫，尤其是因为那些离开苏联的移民，他们不去警察局。他们不说话。如果你认为停止告密文化很重要，那就和这些移民打交道。他们根本不谈论任何事情。

而且这不仅仅是性感的珠宝盗窃和类似的事情。这些家伙学会了如何在共产主义国家中利用系统。所以，你知道，他们像小孩子玩耍一样，诈骗保险公司赚大钱。我的意思是，诈骗保险公司算是一种无受害者的犯罪。或者也许我只是想为鲍里斯辩护，因为他是我新的英雄。我真的很喜欢关于自由职业者赚很多钱的故事。所以我支持。

你知道，70年代和80年代的不同市场条件。但当然，他们最大的事情之一是保护勒索，他们称之为“屋顶”。

那是他们最大的收入来源。鲍里斯是阿格龙的主要打手。他在布莱顿海滩、康尼岛、希普斯海德湾、47街收钱。事情进展得很好，以至于兄弟会接管了埃尔加勒比，那座巨大的餐饮大厅、健身俱乐部，无论它是什么。意大利黑手党也是常客。它成为了纽约俄罗斯黑帮的中央枢纽。这也是俄罗斯人和意大利人有时聚在一起的地方。

到那时，鲍里斯和他的表弟，谈到80年代中期，他们作为执法者的名声令人畏惧，倾向于暴力，根本不怕任何事情。他们也是大个子。1983年8月，一场斗殴爆发，一名18岁的孩子被杀。鲍里斯说，那个孩子对他的表弟拔出了刀，在随后的混乱中，他被刺伤。罗伯特·弗里曼在他写的关于美国俄罗斯黑帮的书《红色黑帮》中讲述了这个故事……

鲍里斯的表弟用一只手像提着破布娃娃一样把那家伙举起来，另一只手刺入他的心脏。你知道，我说过，我认为所有的红色黑帮的东西都是夸大的。我不太信任他的工作。但我们不知道发生了什么真相。表弟以自卫为由被判无罪。那个孩子的父亲显然也不是什么善茬。他开始在鲍里斯的表弟头上悬赏。所以鲍里斯与他会面，他说，引用：“我告诉他，如果我的表弟发生任何事情，你需要明白一件事。什么？”

“我们会让你整个家庭付出代价。为什么要开始争斗？发生的事情就发生了。结束了。更何况，我看到你表弟的表现。你的儿子行为不当。”

那个孩子的父亲明智地决定放弃。是的，这是个好主意。而且也非常明智，可能还带有政治家的风范，来自鲍里斯。我是说，我可能真的会试图让他参选下届美国总统。他听起来很棒。我不，像，我怀疑直接引用是“你的儿子行为不当”。但，你知道，这就是书中所说的。

与此同时，埃夫西·阿格龙不断扩张。他与洛杉矶等城市的其他俄罗斯黑帮分子建立联系。到80年代全面展开时，俄罗斯黑帮在布莱顿真正迎来了他们的时刻。该地区有许多奢华的晚餐俱乐部，里面充满了他们。钱源源不断地涌入。暴力不断发生。枪支被拔出。鲍里斯和埃夫西为大多数这些俱乐部和餐馆提供保护，他们过着奢华的生活。

鲍里斯在一个晚上遇到了他的第二任妻子，一个来自哈尔科夫的漂亮乌克兰犹太女孩，那是个伟大的城市。现在正经历艰难时期。我在2022年4月回到那里。是的，希望哈尔科夫很快会有更好的日子。鲍里斯实际上是通过他的舞厅舞蹈技巧认识她的。

显然，他在过去上过舞蹈课，而且非常非常擅长。这就是这些家伙的特点，尽管他们是流氓，都是大个子、可怕的人，但他们在某种程度上也很优雅，他们聪明。他们不是典型的暴徒。他们读陀思妥耶夫斯基，而不仅仅是罗伯特·格林的书和《战争的艺术》。是的，伙计。我是说，女孩们喜欢一个能读书并在帮派争斗中把人打得半死的家伙，对吧？这就是我为什么如此吸引人。

你会很快再去乌克兰吗？你在……你在哈尔科夫为……是《名利场》做的那篇报道吗？那真疯狂。我在哈尔科夫做过一些报道，但那不是你所说的那篇。但，是的，老实说，我不知道我是否会再去那里。我需要在这里更多地考虑工作。

但，是的，我认为你在那方面也错过了，你不会跳交际舞。你跳得很糟糕。所以如果你学会了，那可能会对你有好处。我在纽约上过林迪霍普的课，那可能是我一生中做过的最无聊的事情。但，是的，我不是鲍里斯。但，是的，鲍里斯的生活并不全是林迪霍普和狐步舞。

总有人在追杀埃夫西。他经历了不少枪战，阿格龙和一个名叫鲍里斯·戈德堡的家伙之间正在酝酿一场保护勒索战争，戈德堡在切尔西曼哈顿经营一个所谓的“牛仔团队”，进行抢劫、敲诈和毒品贩运。1984年，埃夫西再次遭到暗杀。他实际上被一颗.25口径的子弹击中头部，但幸存下来。

这改变了一切。美好的时光结束了。他们认为是鲍里斯的团队干的，但他们不确定。不，是另一个鲍里斯。鲍里斯·戈德堡的团队干的。所以也应该说，我们从鲍里斯·奈费尔德的叙述中得知这一切。所以请记住这一点。我认为森特里尽力进行了事实核查，但这一切仍然来自鲍里斯。所以另一个需要记住的事情是，鲍里斯声称他从未杀过人。所以我们不知道在所有这些战争中究竟发生了什么……

以及在那次枪击后的复仇，究竟发生了什么。无论如何，埃夫西·阿格龙在此之后逐渐淡出，而一个名叫马拉特·巴拉古拉的家伙出现了。他是一个出生于43年的乌克兰移民，在黑帮天堂敖德萨长大。他学习经济学，在一艘苏联邮轮上工作，并于1977年移民到美国。很棒的简历。我已经被吸引住了。

是的，我不知道这是否是像，虽然它说是邮轮，但我认为他指的是一艘苏联军舰，你知道的，他在那里控制物流。我不知道，类似的东西。是的，我的意思是，他们确实有，他们有庞大的邮轮产业，苏联人。就像，有一艘著名的船在威灵顿海岸沉没，奇怪的是，发生在80年代或其他什么时候。那家伙，也许是……

飞行员在他妈的苏联被判死刑。是的，他们是个大人物。听起来真是个糟糕的假期。

关于巴拉古拉和他疯狂的苏联关系以及疯狂的国际犯罪行为有很多传说。我们知道的一件事是，他非常非常聪明，但显然他并不完全是一些记者最初描绘的全球大师。他最终确实与人建立了联系，但鲍里斯开始认识他是通过为他纵火汽车。他在康尼岛拥有一家汽车修理厂。所以，嗯，可能一开始并不是个犯罪大师。

他看起来像个书呆子。他就像一个真正的商人类型，显然很紧张，不是个硬汉，不是个强壮的家伙。但他在餐馆和夜总会生意中也赚了不少钱，你知道的，在那个领域你必须坚强。他和埃夫西·阿格龙不喜欢彼此。鲍里斯有点像调解者。阿格龙在80年代初期处于巅峰，但巴拉古拉在扩张，正如我所说，他是个非常精明的商人。他有真正的犯罪头脑。

他是臭名昭著的FuelTech骗局的发起人之一。我想我们谈过很多次，可能有两万部关于FuelTech骗局的迈克尔·弗朗泽斯视频。但基本上……

有一大堆空壳公司，燃料在纸面上转移。俄罗斯黑帮和意大利黑手党弄清楚了如何从美国政府那里骗取汽油税，赚了数千万甚至数亿美金。根据一些估计，每年高达十亿。这被称为链式骗局，发生在1982年一项法律将税收从零售转移到批发供应商之后。

弗朗泽斯曾说这是禁酒令以来最大的赚钱项目。我的意思是，我觉得在这一点上，这么久以来，我们应该就此排除让他上节目的可能性。就太明显了。而且这可能会给我们带来更多的听众，这就是，呃，

显然不是我们这样做的目的。是的，我们想尽可能少赚钱，尽可能多花时间做这个。这一直是我们从一开始的目标，我们正在实现它。我们正在做到，是的。所以巴拉古拉成为俄罗斯方面的主导角色。他与臭名昭著的黑手党杀手安东尼·加斯派·卡索合作，后者来自卢凯斯犯罪家族。显然，运作方式是，加斯派保护他免受其他意大利人的威胁，而鲍里斯则保护他免受其他俄罗斯人的威胁。

鲍里斯说，他们需要那些已经做了很久的意大利人，你知道的，作为黑手党。他们在所有机构中都有自己的人，从仓库到工会，再到政治家和警察，所有一切。某个时候，五个纽约家族中的四个最终都参与了燃油税骗局。它的赚钱能力如此之强。每个人都在发财。

鲍里斯记得和巴拉古拉一起去大西洋城。他会在赌桌上输掉10万美元，他们会得到最好的套房、白兰地，或者如果你在商业上就是“congiac”，龙虾、牛排，所有这些。但美好的时光，再次没有持续太久。

1985年5月4日，他去接阿格龙去桑拿。他们喜欢早上去。阿格龙从未到达鲍里斯的车旁。他在走廊里被杀，案件从未解决。许多人怀疑他可能惹恼了一些错误的意大利人。其他人认为可能是巴拉古拉或奈费尔德自己把他干掉了，以便他们能够上位。

鲍里斯说他绝对不会杀了他。他与此事无关。他说阿格龙对他就像父亲一样，像导师一样。他确实透露巴拉古拉自己对此感到高兴，因为他从来不喜欢阿格龙。鲍里斯说他爱阿格龙。他对阿格龙的怀疑是另一个名叫弗拉基米尔·列兹尼科夫的杀手干掉了阿格龙。

尽管如此，巴拉古拉和鲍里斯最终在许多犯罪活动中合作。鲍里斯是打手，巴拉古拉是智囊。他们在安特卫普进行了一次大规模抢劫。他们抢了大约150万美元的钻石，这是他们第一次大规模合作。不错。我是说，安特卫普，哦，我的天，真是个酷地方。我认为那里有世界上最好的建筑。那里火车站真是疯狂。

我想念欧洲。欧洲真好。是的。我是说，他们在新西兰有那些蛇和蜘蛛，这也得算什么。不是，伙计。那也在这里。我肯定会被什么东西吃掉。哦，那是你所在的地方。今天，我肯定会。

然后在85年12月，鲍里斯把一把乌兹卖给了某人，几周后那人用那把乌兹试图杀他。他们冲进办公室。他和他的表弟，还有一个朋友或合作伙伴在一起。是列兹尼科夫，鲍里斯认为是他杀了阿格龙。他用乌兹扫射一切。他们反击，但鲍里斯被击中。他的伙伴被杀。鲍里斯恢复后，开始寻找射击者和他的团队，想要杀了他们。但在任何事情发生之前，他被巴拉古拉说服去塞拉利昂。

去监督一个与一名与将军关系不好的KGB特工一起的钻石矿。是的，这确实发生了。这个KGB特工也是巴拉古拉的朋友。我认为他是个黑手党KGB特工，双重间谍。你知道，我没有深入研究。

鲍里斯最终生活在丛林深处。我去过塞拉利昂。即使在2014年或2015年，那里也是个艰难的地方，生活在丛林中没有电，没有自来水。嗯，

他在那里监督钻石矿，但大多数情况下都是灾难。鲍里斯确实赢得了一场赌注，赢得了12500瓶白兰地，来自另一名俄罗斯黑帮分子，价值约60万美元。最终，他被召回纽约，准备对付列兹尼科夫，他们终于找到了他的行踪，但他们无法接近他。鲍里斯需要飞往德国，出售几公斤可卡因，哦，是的，他现在在贩毒。这……

真是疯狂。我是说，我不是在开玩笑。我们必须写这个。我知道有几个制片人听这个节目。所以，是的，还有什么比由两个仇恨的、但也很棒的记者写的真实犯罪传记电影更好呢？我不知道。这算是一个推销吗？这是个好电梯推销吗？我想这已经在筹备中了。我认为这本书是以成为剧本为目的而写的。所以我相信有人已经在做了。但如果没有，我们就在这里。

在那期间，当鲍里斯在德国时，列兹尼科夫对巴拉古拉采取了行动，记住，他并不是个硬汉。他要求支付60万美元的燃油税骗局款项。他认为自己应得的。鲍里斯听说了这件事。他想结束这一切。但在他能做到之前，巴拉古拉让加斯派知道他们的生意受到威胁，加斯派让列兹尼科夫被杀。他实际上是个真正的疯子。我想我们也许会做一期关于他的节目。他杀了几十个人。

与此同时，鲍里斯与一位被称为波兰阿尔·卡彭的环球黑帮分子联系上了。他一半是波兰人，我想一半是意大利人。里卡多·范基尼。是的，绝对不是个波兰名字。我们肯定会做一期关于他的节目。他是个非常圆滑的操作者，在布莱顿和欧洲之间移动。从一个抢劫专家变成一个在比利时经营大型进出口业务的人。我想主要是电子产品，但他就像《十一罗汉》中的角色。只是全球超级犯罪大师，乘坐游艇。

更多的是商人而非谋杀者，但绝对仍然是个黑帮分子。鲍里斯为他做安全工作，他们开始在柏林墙倒塌后向东德运输货物。他们赚了很多钱。他还在安特卫普进行钻石骗局，现在住在那里。鲍里斯，过得很开心。他实际上称这是他最好的时光之一。他在狂欢，过着奢华的生活。

只是装满钱的袋子。尽管如此，在1990年，他决定参与海洛因交易。他在80年代向西德走私可卡因，以每公斤15000美元的价格购买，让骡子带到德国，以55000美元的价格出售。你知道，偶尔赚点小钱。但他无法与直接从哥伦比亚获得货物的大经销商竞争。

然而，范基尼可以直接从源头获得鲍里斯的海洛因。来自泰国的中国白，而不是到处都是的劣质土耳其货。他们会获得20到30公斤，并将其藏在他们在曼谷购买的日本和韩国电视机的后面。他们将其走私到波兰。从波兰，他们再走私到美国，这样做效果很好，因为没有人怀疑海洛因是从波兰进来的。我的意思是，贩卖海洛因可能是鲍里斯迄今为止做过的唯一让我稍微不喜欢他的事情。所以，嗯……

是的，让我们从这件事上移开吧。是的，但投资回报率是很高的，你知道的，你得理解这就是关键。忘掉可卡因。在1990年，他基本上是美国最具主导地位、最强大的俄罗斯黑帮分子。但他与莫尼亚·埃尔森发生了冲突，埃尔森是他的前朋友。埃尔森在1950年代初出生于摩尔多瓦的犹太贫民区，后来在70年代末搬到布莱顿海滩。

他走上了从扒手到诈骗者再到敲诈者的熟悉路线，以及涵盖的一切。在某个时候，他因可卡因指控在以色列被捕。他服刑六年，但在1990年回到布莱顿开了一家夜总会。到那时，他身边有一群叫做“莫尼亚的旅团”的流氓，他决定想要强行进入奈费尔德主导的海洛因市场，尽管他们是松散的朋友。这

导致了战争。就他而言，鲍里斯·科斯莫尼安，算是个假冒者，试图假装自己是法律盗贼，并在俄罗斯服过刑，但他实际上从未这样做。好吧，我的意思是，我们知道大多数摩尔多瓦人都是懦夫，对吧？我可以证明这一点。我的意思是，他们、印第安纳州的人，以及那个费城吉祥物，我不知道，他们都可以一起去垃圾堆。我不知道最近我还惹恼了谁，但

那是肖恩·威廉姆斯，拼写为W I L L I A M S。如果你在找，不是丹尼·戈德，肖恩·威廉姆斯，他说这就像，肯定是个事情。因为摩尔多瓦在大屠杀期间非常艰难，那里真是糟糕。对吧？我认为它是每人死亡人数最高的地方之一。对吧？所以，像这样的历史背景下，这些家伙出来也不奇怪。

是的，我只是觉得没有惊讶，对吧，这些家伙来自这种可怕的历史。他们真的，我想他们只是非常聪明。是的，我的意思是，摩尔多瓦，不仅仅是摩尔多瓦，还有白俄罗斯、俄罗斯本身、敖德萨，你知道的，任何来自那样的社会的人，在一个残酷的威权社会中处于边缘，像，你知道的，如果你活得那么久，你就会成为一个粗暴而灵活的人，懂得如何生存。

在1991年除夕夜，他的一名杀手试图用汽车炸弹杀死鲍里斯。但炸弹是个哑弹，他幸存下来。作为回报，鲍里斯随后对埃尔森下了悬赏。这些家伙来回交锋，1993年，埃尔森在大白天被射中五次，肚子中弹，但他幸存下来。这两个人都被多次射击。很难跟踪。

鲍里斯在书中声称是其他人下的对莫尼亚的悬赏，但在国家地理的纪录片中，他后来将他们的冲突描述得像《汤姆与杰瑞》中的一集。引用：“老实说，我一直想杀了他。他是个非常幸运的家伙。”他在那部关于他们在布莱顿海滩的战争的纪录片中说。我想我们需要再来一次。你最好的俄罗斯口音。

我不认为你会因为做俄罗斯口音而被取消，对吧？不，我认为你仍然可以做民族白人的口音，对吧？你被允许吗？我相信。你可以做意大利人或爱尔兰人。老实说，我一直想杀了他。他是个非常幸运的家伙。这是我能做到的最好。我对口音很糟糕。那相当愉快。是的。

<context>美国所知的最危险的俄罗斯黑帮分子：鲍里斯·奈费尔德 鲍里斯·奈费尔德的生活就像电影中的情节；他在前苏联成为孤儿，曾在一个残酷的监狱服刑，之后成为顶级街头罪犯，最终逃往美国。他对暴力并不陌生，在1980年代，他参与了布鲁克林布莱顿海滩兴起的俄罗斯黑手党派系。但他远不止是一个二流的黑帮分子。他参与了从敖德萨到泰国再到安特卫普的有组织犯罪，经历了五次暗杀未遂，在美国和前苏联都曾入狱，并参与了钻石抢劫、海洛因贩运、敲诈、枪战，与俄罗斯法律盗贼纠缠……他的名字分量十足。在这一切中，他奇迹般地存活下来，而几乎所有与他一起成长的人都没有。了解更多关于您的广告选择。访问 megaphone.fm/adchoices</context> <raw_text>0 鲍里斯还雇佣了一名刚到美国的特种部队俄罗斯黑帮分子来杀掉他，酬金为100,000美元。结果发现，莫尼亚实际上试图杀死鲍里斯，因为一名对鲍里斯拒绝与他交易而心怀不满的柏林俄罗斯黑帮分子已经下了合同，而莫尼亚正试图完成这个任务。他想要在美国的海洛因生意，而柏林的黑帮则想要那笔进出口的欧洲生意。

是的。

是的，我的意思是，现在你的声音在我脑海中回响。你听起来像《巴里》中的诺霍·汉克。这种来来回回的对话有点浪漫。太棒了，太棒的角色。我是说，这家伙真是个伟大的采访者。想象一下能和他坐下来聊聊，那将是不可思议的。

梅拉尼亚最终给鲍里斯的头上悬赏500,000美元，后来据称高达一百万，这些数字在除非你是德雷克在歌中编造的情况下是闻所未闻的。更多的枪击事件，更多的暗杀未遂，涉及大牌俄罗斯法律盗贼，鲍里斯试图在波兰出售炸药。一切都是混乱。不过到1994年初，忘掉俄罗斯黑帮战争和他头上的悬赏吧。他有真正的问题，这意味着DEA正在盯着他。

他的驮运者在JFK被抓，人们开始谈论，果然，他在斯塔滕岛的大豪宅被抓，不仅因毒品被捕，还面临RICO指控。他实际上最终接受了一个交易，承认试图杀死莫尼亚，但他也出卖了莫尼亚，后者也接受了交易。不过，世纪引用了一些消息来源称他可能出卖的不止是莫尼亚，但我真的不知道那里的细节。是的，我的意思是，你知道，告密……

告密并不是世界上最糟糕的事情。我不知道，也许我可以在这个节目中推动另一个观点，告密是可以的。

我不知道。人们甚至像那些最奇怪的人似乎都讨厌告密者。为什么？为什么？因为他们在假装。但我只想说我没有使用“告密”这个词。那又是肖恩·威廉姆斯。我可能会见到这个家伙。所以W.I.L.L.I.A.M.S. 但但我认为90年代也是有组织犯罪崩溃的时期。你知道，有很多意大利黑帮分子在达成交易。你知道，也没有什么规则。俄罗斯人也是一样。每个人都在试图拯救自己。是的。

所以他在监狱里，似乎享受美国的监狱系统。他说与苏联的监狱相比，这里简直是轻松。他对监狱里的酒赞不绝口，说他在那里遇到了很多有趣的罪犯，食物也很好，他只服了四年刑。当他出狱时，他试图收回一些他所欠的旧进出口钱，但他的一个合作伙伴声称公司破产了。这不是真的。

那家伙很快就被枪杀了。鲍里斯被怀疑，但从未被指控，但在那时他也被禁止离开美国，更不用说离开国家了。所以，我的意思是，被禁止离开州，更不用说离开国家了。所以很难对他提出指控，证明他有罪。他，然而，根据他自己的说法，破产了。所以他开始做一些他所称的钱提取工作，也就是解决一些问题，调解争端，完成付款。

他基本上还开始为按摩店提供保护。他招募了一群刚移民的年轻格鲁吉亚人作为他的妓院的保护伙伴。他们最终成为所有这些妓院的保护伙伴。

他还参与了为前往俄罗斯做生意的人提供保护的敲诈。现在国家开放了，大多数人都是在苏联时期离开的俄罗斯人。现在他们回去试图发财。正如我们所知，90年代的莫斯科，俄罗斯就像是一场血腥的屠杀，疯狂的谋杀案，呃，

非常可怕的人在进行非常可怕的商业交易和战争。他首先与臭名昭著的亚朋奇克合作，后者是一名在俄罗斯监狱服刑九年的法律盗贼。当我们在布莱顿海滩的那一集首次谈到他时，我们提到过有报道称他被招募到美国来监督所有俄罗斯黑帮活动，并且他带来了数十名在阿富汗作战的前俄罗斯特种部队成员。

这不是真的。根据鲍里斯的说法，事实是他在监狱出狱时在俄罗斯有很多敌人，所以他单独来到美国赚钱，尽管他确实有一种相当酷的声誉。但没错，他来到纽约。我没有提到这一点。他们在那里联系起来，帮助那些前往俄罗斯开设这些业务的人提供保护。

正如我所说，保护是非常需要的。这只是说明鲍里斯有多强大和危险，如果你是那种能够在90年代的俄罗斯提供保护并活着讲述的人，你绝对不是可以轻视的人。是的，90年代的俄罗斯是一个小心翼翼的自由区。我是说，我也喜欢鲍里斯对亚朋奇克的微妙贬低。他当时不就是俄罗斯最大的黑帮分子吗？

他并没有贬低他。他并没有侮辱他。他只是说一些事情不是真的。我认为他们曾经是合作伙伴，我认为他尊重他。但他不知道。我是说，我假设是这样。但他并没有侮辱他。他只是说这些关于他来到美国监督一切的疯狂夸张故事，带着数百名特种部队成员显然是编造的。但我确实有一种印象，他尊重他是谁以及他所做的事情。

不过在他们达成交易后不久，鲍里斯就被捕了。亚朋奇克被捕。最终，他被送回俄罗斯，然后被谋杀。鲍里斯与之在一起或与之相关的许多人最终都被谋杀。他的生存能力真是令人难以置信。在他出狱后，他几乎与一名臭名昭著的库尔德雅兹迪黑帮分子达成了同样的保护交易，后者被指控是有史以来最强大的法律盗贼之一，这个家伙叫德德·哈桑。哈桑？哈桑？德德·哈桑？我不知道。

但他后来也像亚朋奇克一样被狙击手的子弹杀死。他与其他一些黑帮分子在索契奥运会的敲诈上发生了战争。

什么，像建筑合同之类的东西？是的，是的。我想是那样，甚至还有餐饮之类的东西，你知道，那里有大量资金流入。我认为显然其中很多都是腐败。但没错。所以鲍里斯在2000年代初仍在进行交易。因此联邦调查局对他密切关注。所以他现在专注于更多合法的生意。

他在俄罗斯出售了一些财产，赚了接近几百万。他在莫斯科、圣彼得堡、敖德萨过着奢华的生活。莫斯科出现了大量赌场，鲍里斯认识很多老板。所以他过得很愉快，参加狂欢派对。他的生意做得很好，生活得很好。但他很快又与范奇尼重新联系，在敖德萨出售假冒香烟并为他洗钱。

这几乎没有持续多久，整个事情就被摧毁了。鲍里斯因参与范奇尼的毒品贩运、香烟贩运、欺诈、洗钱行动而被DEA和英国有组织犯罪特别小组逮捕。他被指控洗钱。我认为这与香烟有关。他实际上是在他60岁生日庆祝的第二天早上被捕的，这真是太糟糕了，伙计。这对警方来说真是不公平。

几乎所有人都最终接受了认罪协议，因为显然这个案件会让人头疼，因为它涉及世界各地的许多人。范奇尼只被判10年。鲍里斯对与香烟相关的洗钱认罪。他被判五年，部分时间被隔离，因为联邦调查局将他归类为这种高级俄罗斯超级黑手党。所以他在2014年服满五年后被释放，返回纽约市。部分时间被隔离，因为联邦调查局将他归类为这种高级俄罗斯超级黑手党。

67岁，职场上没有太多优势，这时他卷入了冷开场的故事，谋杀雇佣、敲诈等所有这些事情。我假设他是美国公民，因为他怎么能进入这个国家？是的，是的。他作为难民来到这里，所以我假设他是公民。啊，对。就像—

所以是的，他必须是公民。是的，因为他逃离了苏联。他们在技术上是难民。

所以他在2018年最后一次出狱时，我们看到了一轮新闻，标题来自美联社，像“臭名昭著的俄罗斯黑帮分子说他只想回家”。但不幸的是，他有三年的缓刑。以下是那篇文章中的一段引述。纳塔尔在布鲁克林布莱顿海滩附近的一家餐厅里，喝着伏特加，带着浓重的俄罗斯口音说：“我什么都做不了。”自1970年代以来，这里一直是前苏联移民的避风港。给我一个机会，开始新生活。

纳塔尔告诉美联社，他渴望回到一个他的技能能够连接各类商人的家乡，那里的回报会更好，这无疑是对他技能的委婉描述。那么，鲍里斯现在在哪里？我最后听说他回到了俄罗斯，偶尔会回到美国，我想至少是这样。也许不再是，但这就是我几乎获得那次采访的方式。

我相信，正如我所说，他们正在出售生活权，或者他们已经出售，或者已经为道格拉斯世纪的书买下了这些权利，你们都应该买这本书，叫做《布莱顿的最后一位老板》。嗯，我想它是几年前出版的。老实说，如果没有人试图把鲍里斯的生活，至少是80年代和90年代布鲁克林的俄罗斯黑帮战争，拍成HBO迷你剧，我就不明白好莱坞的意义和运作方式，但，嗯，

买下这个家伙的权利，把它做成一部电视剧。是的，或者更好的是，付钱给我们来写，因为我们很棒。哇。我是说，那真是……

那是一段旅程，伙计。那真是一个疯狂的故事。你认为你获得与他采访的机会现在已经死了，还是你认为还有一丝希望？我的意思是，我们看看他是否会回到美国。也许还有机会。我知道我联系的那个人希望听到这一集。所以我们看看会怎样。但你不是也称他为告密者吗？我想象的？天哪。

伙计，我甚至不知道该如何处理你。你真幸运你在新西兰，兄弟，在澳大利亚。无论如何，肖恩·威廉姆斯，拼写是S-E-A-N-W-I-L-L-I-A-M-S。如果你生气，给我发私信。我会给你他的地址。无论如何，patreon.com slash the normal podcast，获取额外剧集，YouTube，TikTok，等等，所有这些东西。还有Spotify，iTunes，每月五美元。帮帮我们。直到下周，谢谢大家的收听。

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