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USDOJ: Russian-American Organized Crime Enterprise Operating International Sportsbook That Laundered More Than $100 Million
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U.S. Attorney's Office
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ANATOLY GOLUBCHIK was sentenced yesterday in Manhattan federal court to five years in prison, and VADIM TRINCHER was also sentenced today to five years in prison for participating in a racketeering conspiracy in connection with their roles as members of a Russian-American organized crime enterprise. GOLUBCHIK and TRINCHER were also each ordered to forfeit more than $20 million in cash, investments, and real property. They were charged in April 2013 along with 32 other alleged members and associates of two Russian-American organized crime enterprises in an indictment that included racketeering, money laundering, extortion, and various gambling offenses. GOLUBCHIK and TRINCHER were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman.
Southern District of New York
(212) 637-2600
April 30, 2014
Two Defendants Sentenced for Participating in Racketeering
Conspiracy with Russian-American Organized Crime Enterprise
Operating International Sportsbook That Laundered More Than
$100 Million
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ANATOLY GOLUBCHIK was sentenced yesterday in Manhattan federal court to five years in prison, and VADIM TRINCHER was also sentenced today to five years in prison for participating in a racketeering conspiracy in connection with their roles as members of a Russian-American organized crime enterprise. GOLUBCHIK and TRINCHER were also each ordered to forfeit more than $20 million in cash, investments, and real property. They were charged in April 2013 along with 32 other alleged members and associates of two Russian-American organized crime enterprises in an indictment that included racketeering, money laundering, extortion, and various gambling offenses. GOLUBCHIK and TRINCHER were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said: “The sentences
meted out to Anatoly Golubchik and Vadim Trincher are just
and appropriate penalties for the roles the defendants
played in this far-reaching, Russian-American organized
crime ring. I’d like to thank the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the New York City Police Department, and the
Internal Revenue Service for their tireless efforts in
working to ensure that the members of this underground
enterprise were held to account for their crimes.”
According to the indictment, other documents filed in
Manhattan federal court, and statements made at various
proceedings in this case, including today’s sentencing:
The Taiwanchik-Trincher Organization (the “Organization”)
was a criminal enterprise with strong ties to Russia and
Ukraine. The enterprise operated a high-stakes, illegal
sports gambling business out of New York City that catered
primarily to Russian oligarchs living in Ukraine and Russia.
GOLUBCHIK and TRINCHER were U.S.-based participants in the
enterprise. GOLUBCHIK and TRINCHER booked sports bets that
reached into the millions of dollars and laundered the
proceeds of the Organization’s international sportsbook.
Between 2006 and April 2012, the enterprise laundered
approximately $100 million in proceeds from their gambling
operation in Russia and Ukraine through shell companies and
bank accounts in Cyprus; and of this $100 million,
approximately $50 million was subsequently sent from Cyprus
into the United States. Once the money had been transferred
to the United States, it was either laundered through
additional shell companies or invested in legitimate
investments, such as hedge funds and real estate.
The Taiwanchik-Trincher Organization operated under the
protection of Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, who is known as a
“Vor,” a term translated as “Thief-in-Law,” that refers to a
member of a select group of high-level criminals from the
former Soviet Union. Tokhtakhounov used his status as a Vor
to resolve disputes with clients of the high-stakes illegal
gambling operation with implicit and sometimes explicit
threats of violence and economic harm. Between December 2011
and February 2013, Tokhtakhounov was paid at least
approximately $12 million for his services by the
Taiwanchik-Trincher Organization. Tokhtakhounov is also
under indictment in the Southern District of New York for
his alleged involvement in bribing officials at the 2002
Winter Olympics held in Salt Lake City, Utah. Tokhtakhounov
is a fugitive and is still being sought.
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Twenty-eight defendants in this case have pled guilty and
two have entered into deferred prosecution agreements. The
defendants who have pled to date have agreed to forfeit, in
total, more than $68 million. The following defendants have
pled guilty, and have been sentenced or await sentencing:
- Bryan Zuriff pled guilty to gambling charges on July 26, 2013, and was sentenced on November 25, 2013.
- William Barbalat pled guilty to gambling charges on August 14, 2013, and was sentenced on December 16, 2013.
- Kirill Rapoport pled guilty to gambling charges on August 16, 2013, and was sentenced on December 19, 2014.
- Edwin Ting and Justin Smith pled guilty to gambling charges on September 4, 2013, and were sentenced on January 21, 2014, and January 6, 2014, respectively.
- Dmitry Druzhinsky and David Aaron pled guilty to gambling charges on October 4, 2013, and were sentenced on April 18, 2014, and February 14, 2014, respectively.
- Alexander Zaverukha pled guilty to gambling charges on October 10, 2013, and is scheduled to be sentenced on May 1, 2014.
- Nicholas Hirsch pled guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud on October 16, 2013, and was sentenced on February 25, 2014.
- Anatoly Shteyngrob pled guilty to conspiring to commit money laundering on October 17, 2013, and is scheduled to be sentenced on June 10, 2014.
- Yugeshwar Rajkumar pled guilty to gambling charges on October 18, 2013, and was sentenced on March 25, 2014.
- Stan Greenberg pled guilty to conspiring to commit racketeering on October 22, 2013, and is scheduled to be sentenced on May 2, 2014.
- Arthur Azen pled guilty to conspiring to commit money laundering and conspiring to collect extensions of credit by extortionate means on November 5, 2013, and was sentenced on April 9, 2014.
- Hillel Nahmad pled guilty to gambling charges on November 12, 2013, and was sentenced on April 30, 2014.
- Vadim Trincher pled guilty to conspiring to commit racketeering on November 14, 2013, and was sentenced on April 30, 2014.
- Eugene Trincher pled guilty to gambling charges on November 14, 2013, and is scheduled to be sentenced on June 9, 2014.
- Anatoly Golubchik pled guilty to conspiring to commit racketeering on November 15, 2013, and was sentenced on April 29, 2014.
- Illya Trincher pled guilty to gambling charges on November 15, 2013, and is scheduled to be sentenced on May 8, 2014.
- Ronald Uy pled guilty to structuring financial transactions on November 25, 2013, and was sentenced on March 27, 2014.
- Moshe Oratz pled guilty to gambling charges on December 3, 2013, and was sentenced on April 9, 2014.
- Michael Sall pled guilty to interstate travel in aid of an unlawful activity (illegal gambling) and Jonathan Hirsch pled guilty to gambling charges on December 4, 2013. Sall was sentenced on April 18, 2014, and Hirsch is scheduled to be sentenced on May 9, 2014.
- Noah Siegel pled guilty to gambling charges on December 5, 2013, and was sentenced on April 10, 2014.
- Molly Bloom pled guilty to gambling charges on December 12, 2013, and is scheduled to be sentenced on May 2, 2014.
- Alexander Katchaloff pled guilty to gambling charges on January 16, 2014, and is scheduled to be sentenced on May 20, 2014.
- Donald McCalmont, John Jarekci, a/k/a “John Hanson,” and Abraham Mosseri pled guilty to making a fraudulent tax statement, to failing to file a tax return, and causing a financial institution to participate in a lottery related matter, respectively, on January 24, 2014, and are scheduled to be sentenced on May 29, 2014, May 28, 2014, and May 21, 2014, respectively.
- William Edler and Peter Feldman entered into deferred prosecution agreements on April 11, 2014.
Mr. Bharara praised the investigative work of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, the New York City Police
Department, and the Internal Revenue Service.
The case is being prosecuted by the Office’s Violent and
Organized Crime Unit. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Harris M.
Fischman, Joshua A. Naftalis, Peter J. Skinner, and Kristy
J. Greenberg of the Violent and Organized Crime Unit are in
charge of the prosecution. Assistant
U.S. Attorney Alexander Wilson of the Office’s Money
Laundering and Asset Forfeiture Unit is responsible for the
forfeiture aspects of the case.
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Obit: UC Berkeley chief legal counsel dead in hit-and-run near Guerneville
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| UC Berkeley’s chief legal counsel, Christopher Patti, was killed in a hit-and-run accident Sunday. (Alain McLaughlin/Impact Fund) |
Westbound Highway 116 at Summer Crossing, west of Guerneville.
SONOMA COUNTY — A member of UC Berkeley’s legal team died Sunday after being hit by a car in a hit-and-run crash near Guerneville, authorities said.
The Sonoma County Coroner’s Office confirmed Monday that 59-year-old Christopher Patti, the campus’ chief legal counsel, died Sunday morning. He was stopped on his bike on the right shoulder of westbound Highway 116 around 8:45 a.m. when a BMW slid onto the shoulder and hit him, according to a statement by the California Highway Patrol.
“I speak for the Berkeley community in saying how grief-stricken we are at Chris Patti’s untimely death,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ said in a statement. “He was an extraordinary colleague. He loved the university, and he had a deep core of integrity that motivated everything he did. He was smart, he was compassionate. He was everything you wanted the counsel of the campus to be. We offer our sympathy to his family and his friends for this tragic loss.”
Patti joined the university in 2010. Before that, he worked for two decades in the general counsel’s office at UC’s Office of the President.
“Chris was a wonderful colleague and friend who cared about people and doing the right thing. He was an extraordinary lawyer to whom we all turned for advice and counsel. His loss is unfathomable,” Charles F. Robinson, general counsel and vice president of legal affairs with UC, said in a statement.
The CHP on Monday identified 28-year-old Jonathan Ritter, of Rio Nido/Monte Rio, as a person of interest. The driver of the vehicle that hit Patti continued west on Highway 116, then turned around and went back past the scene in the eastbound direction, the agency said.
Police want to find out if Ritter was driving the car.
Officer Jon Sloat told the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat that Patti was about 20 feet to the right of the highway, and that evidence at the scene indicates the vehicle drove fast and perhaps recklessly.
“He was well off the road,” Sloat told the Press-Democrat. “He should have been safe.”
Patti earned his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and his law degree from the University of Virginia. Before joining UC, he worked as a litigation associate in San Francisco. He is survived by a wife and two sons.
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