Feds Say Russian Crime Syndicate Ran Illegal Poker Games In New York CityCharges Announced Wednesday Against Nearly Three Dozen People |
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The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it has indicted 33 people with a variety of racketeering, fraud, narcotics, firearms, and stolen property offenses, including the organizing of illegal poker games in New York City.
Some of the defendants also allegedly hacked casino slot machines.
The illicit poker games were in Brighton Beach, the government said.
“The indictments include charges against the alleged head of this national criminal enterprise, one of the first federal racketeering charges ever brought against a Russian ‘vor,’ said Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Joon Kim.
“The dizzying array of criminal schemes committed by this organized crime syndicate allegedly include a murder-for-hire conspiracy, a plot to rob victims by seducing and drugging them with chloroform, the theft of cargo shipments containing over 10,000 pounds of chocolate, and a fraud on casino slot machines using electronic hacking devices. Thanks to the remarkable interagency partnership of FBI, CBP, and NYPD, we have charged and arrested 33 defendants allegedly involved in this criminal enterprise.”
The alleged scheme to defraud casinos in Atlantic City and Philadelphia involved electronic devices and computer servers to predict and exploit the behavior of the slot machines.
Many of the defendants face decades in prison if convicted.
The alleged leader of the syndicate was a man by the name of Razhden Shulaya.
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