see the full moon above the hole. It provided enough light for me to watch the wolf without using what was left of the batteries in my flashlight. There would be no sleep tonight. The wolf is hungry and Lord knows where the snake is!
Chapter 15
Law enforcement in the United States has determined that there is a clear relationship between Russian Organized Crime (Russian Mafia) and groups of La Cosa Nostra, the Italian criminal network. Cooperative efforts between these two groups are centered in Miami , Chicago and Houston. The Russian Mafia is considered by the FBI as very brutal, but they are also very sophisticated. They are computer literate and blood-thirsty businessmen.
Miami presents a gateway to both the USA and Latin America, and Houston is the gateway from the USA to Mexico. Chicago provided a central management location coordinating the two. The politicians in Chicago are more open to bribes than the other two cities. Major drug transactions have taken place over the past fifteen years. The FBI has determined that as many as twenty-seven Russian Mafia groups are operating in the United States. The actives of these groups, with the cooperation on certain occasions with La Cosa Nostra, are centered around major cities such as San Francisco, Los Angles, Miami, Chicago, New York, and Houston.
The Russian Mafia is involved in money laundering, illegal money transactions, and narcotics trafficking. Human trafficking and other related illegal activities are other sources of income for them. One of the most prominent Russian Mafia Families in the United States is commanded by Sergey Ivanova.
Sergey Ivanova came to America to work at the docks in Houston. He swiftly rose in the ranks of the longshoreman’s union. He was cunning and ruthless and at six-feet-five, with blond hair and blue eyes, he was a very handsome man. He smiled frequently, which was disarming, especially to his enemies.
After ten years of destroying his competition in any way possible, he became the president of the local unit of the International Longshoremen’s Union. He used this position to recruit other like-minded Russian immigrants. After amassing forty recruits, he quit the union and formed his Russian Mafia family. His connections with the dock workers proved profitable and drug smuggling grew into a very lucrative business for him.
Allisa didn’t know or care where Sergey earned his money. She just enjoyed the elegant lifestyle he provided. She passed on to Veronika her love of the arts and music, and taught her daughter all the social skills that were needed to be held in high esteem in the world of the affluent. Veronika was a debutante and her coming-out party at age sixteen was the talk of Chicago. Sergey hired the most popular rock band in the country to perform. Nothing was too good for his Veronika.
After graduating from the exclusive Harrison’s School for the Art’s, Veronika enrolled at the University of Wisconsin as an art student. Sergey made a $600,000 donation to the University to help secure his daughter’s position with the professors and administration on campus. He purchased a large vacation home in Milwaukee so Veronika would only be a short plane ride away from home.
It was common knowledge among Sergey’s associates that Veronika was “off limits” for any of Sergey’s criminal activities. However, Veronika was a very intelligent girl. She never let on to her father that she was well aware of how he made his fortune. Actually, she was proud to be the daughter of such a tough, rich, and feared man.
Sergey’s world crumbled when Veronika’s mangled body was recovered on Lookout Mountain. The cause of death—a gunshot wound to the head. Consumed with uncontrolled rage and sorrow, only one thought occupied his mind. Find out who killed Veronika and why, and then watch the killer die a long and painful death. He wanted everyone who had anything to do with his daughter’s death to be punished his
Chapter 15
Law enforcement in the United States has determined that there is a clear relationship between Russian Organized Crime (Russian Mafia) and groups of La Cosa Nostra, the Italian criminal network. Cooperative efforts between these two groups are centered in Miami , Chicago and Houston. The Russian Mafia is considered by the FBI as very brutal, but they are also very sophisticated. They are computer literate and blood-thirsty businessmen.
Miami presents a gateway to both the USA and Latin America, and Houston is the gateway from the USA to Mexico. Chicago provided a central management location coordinating the two. The politicians in Chicago are more open to bribes than the other two cities. Major drug transactions have taken place over the past fifteen years. The FBI has determined that as many as twenty-seven Russian Mafia groups are operating in the United States. The actives of these groups, with the cooperation on certain occasions with La Cosa Nostra, are centered around major cities such as San Francisco, Los Angles, Miami, Chicago, New York, and Houston.
The Russian Mafia is involved in money laundering, illegal money transactions, and narcotics trafficking. Human trafficking and other related illegal activities are other sources of income for them. One of the most prominent Russian Mafia Families in the United States is commanded by Sergey Ivanova.
Sergey Ivanova came to America to work at the docks in Houston. He swiftly rose in the ranks of the longshoreman’s union. He was cunning and ruthless and at six-feet-five, with blond hair and blue eyes, he was a very handsome man. He smiled frequently, which was disarming, especially to his enemies.
After ten years of destroying his competition in any way possible, he became the president of the local unit of the International Longshoremen’s Union. He used this position to recruit other like-minded Russian immigrants. After amassing forty recruits, he quit the union and formed his Russian Mafia family. His connections with the dock workers proved profitable and drug smuggling grew into a very lucrative business for him.
Allisa didn’t know or care where Sergey earned his money. She just enjoyed the elegant lifestyle he provided. She passed on to Veronika her love of the arts and music, and taught her daughter all the social skills that were needed to be held in high esteem in the world of the affluent. Veronika was a debutante and her coming-out party at age sixteen was the talk of Chicago. Sergey hired the most popular rock band in the country to perform. Nothing was too good for his Veronika.
After graduating from the exclusive Harrison’s School for the Art’s, Veronika enrolled at the University of Wisconsin as an art student. Sergey made a $600,000 donation to the University to help secure his daughter’s position with the professors and administration on campus. He purchased a large vacation home in Milwaukee so Veronika would only be a short plane ride away from home.
It was common knowledge among Sergey’s associates that Veronika was “off limits” for any of Sergey’s criminal activities. However, Veronika was a very intelligent girl. She never let on to her father that she was well aware of how he made his fortune. Actually, she was proud to be the daughter of such a tough, rich, and feared man.
Sergey’s world crumbled when Veronika’s mangled body was recovered on Lookout Mountain. The cause of death—a gunshot wound to the head. Consumed with uncontrolled rage and sorrow, only one thought occupied his mind. Find out who killed Veronika and why, and then watch the killer die a long and painful death. He wanted everyone who had anything to do with his daughter’s death to be punished his
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