Evsei Agron, the Glossary
Evsei Borisovich Agron (r; 25 January 1932 – 4 May 1985) was a Soviet-American mobster and boss of New York City's Russian mafia during the 1970s and 1980s.[1]
Table of Contents
48 relations: Americans, Blue-collar crime, Boris Nayfeld, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, Carjacking, Cattle prod, Contract killing, Crime boss, Digby (blogger), Donald Trump, Dunes (hotel and casino), Extortion, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Gangster, Genovese crime family, Hamburg, History of the Jews in Russia, History of the Jews in the Soviet Union, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Kirkus Reviews, Kommersant, Las Vegas, Lower Manhattan, Marat Balagula, Medicaid, Michael Cohen (lawyer), Morris Shenker, New York City, Pickpocketing, Prostitution, Protection, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, Riegelmann Boardwalk, Robert I. Friedman, Ronald Greenwald, Russian mafia, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Saint Petersburg, Salon.com, Skimming (fraud), South Brooklyn Health, Soviet people, Soviet Union, The Moscow Times, Thief in law, Travel visa, White-collar crime.
- 20th-century Russian criminals
- Criminals from Saint Petersburg
- Deaths by firearm in Brooklyn
- Murdered Jewish American gangsters
- Murdered Russian gangsters
- People from Brighton Beach
- People murdered by Russian-speaking organized crime
- Russian crime bosses
- Russian shooting survivors
- Soviet criminals
- Thieves in law
Americans
Americans are the citizens and nationals of the United States.
Blue-collar crime
In criminology, blue-collar crime is any crime committed by an individual from a lower social class as opposed to white-collar crime which is associated with crime committed by someone of a higher-level social class.
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Boris Nayfeld
Boris Mikhailovich Nayfeld (Russian: Борис Михайлович Найфельд, Belarusian: Барыс Міхайлавіч Нейфелд) also known as Biba (Russian: Биба, Belarusian: Біба) is a former Belarusian/Russian mob boss and heroin trafficker, who operated out of Brighton Beach, New York City. Evsei Agron and Boris Nayfeld are American crime bosses and Russian crime bosses.
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Brighton Beach
Brighton Beach is a neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the greater Coney Island area along the Atlantic Ocean coastline.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.
Carjacking
Carjacking is a robbery in which a motor vehicle is taken over.
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Cattle prod
A cattle prod, also called a stock prod or a hot stick, is a handheld device commonly used to make cattle or other livestock move by striking or poking them.
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Contract killing
Contract killing (also known as murder-for-hire) is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or people.
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Crime boss
A crime boss, also known as a crime lord, mafia don, big boss, gang lord, gang boss, mob boss, kingpin, godfather, crime mentor, criminal mastermind, or boss lady is the leader of a criminal organization.
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Digby (blogger)
Digby is the short name of American political blogger Heather Digby Parton from Santa Monica, California who founded the blog Hullabaloo.
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Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Evsei Agron and Donald Trump are American shooting survivors.
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Dunes (hotel and casino)
The Dunes Hotel & Country Club was a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada.
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Extortion
Extortion is the practice of obtaining benefit (e.g., money or goods) through coercion.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
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Gangster
A gangster is a criminal who is a member of a gang.
Genovese crime family
The Genovese crime family, also sometimes referred to as the Westside, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City and New Jersey as part of the American Mafia.
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Hamburg
Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.
History of the Jews in Russia
The history of the Jews in Russia and areas historically connected with it goes back at least 1,500 years.
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History of the Jews in the Soviet Union
The history of the Jews in the Soviet Union is inextricably linked to much earlier expansionist policies of the Russian Empire conquering and ruling the eastern half of the European continent already before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
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John F. Kennedy International Airport
John F. Kennedy International Airport is a major international airport serving New York City and its metropolitan area, in the United States.
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Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviews is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus.
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Kommersant
(Коммерсантъ,, The Businessman or Commerce Man, often shortened to Ъ) is a nationally distributed daily newspaper published in Russia mostly devoted to politics and business.
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Las Vegas
Las Vegas, often known as Sin City or simply Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the seat of Clark County.
Lower Manhattan
Lower Manhattan, also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York City, is the southernmost part of Manhattan, the central borough of New York City.
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Marat Balagula
Marat Yakovlevich Balagula (Мара́т Я́ковлевич Балагула; 8 September 1943 – 19 December 2019) was a Russian-American organized crime figure, crime boss, and close associate of the Lucchese crime family and Colombo crime family. Evsei Agron and Marat Balagula are American crime bosses, criminals from Brooklyn, gangsters from New York City, people from Brighton Beach and Soviet emigrants to the United States.
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Medicaid
In the United States, Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources.
Michael Cohen (lawyer)
Michael Dean Cohen (born August 25, 1966) is an American lawyer who served as an attorney for former United States president Donald Trump from 2006 to 2018.
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Morris Shenker
Morris A. Shenker (January 10, 1907 – August 9, 1989) was an American lawyer best known for his connections to labor leader Jimmy Hoffa and Teamster funding of Las Vegas in the 1960s. Evsei Agron and Morris Shenker are Soviet emigrants to the United States.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Pickpocketing
Pickpocketing is a form of larceny that involves the stealing of money or other valuables from the person or a victim's pocket without them noticing the theft at the time.
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Prostitution
Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.
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Protection
Protection is any measure taken to guard a thing against damage caused by outside forces.
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Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization.
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Riegelmann Boardwalk
The Riegelmann Boardwalk (also known as the Coney Island Boardwalk) is a boardwalk along the southern shore of Coney Island in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, facing the Atlantic Ocean.
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Robert I. Friedman
Robert I. Friedman (November 29, 1950 – July 2, 2002) was an American investigative journalist.
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Ronald Greenwald
Ronald Greenwald (January 8, 1934 – January 20, 2016) was an American Orthodox Jewish rabbi, who was a businessman and an educator.
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Russian mafia
The Russian mafia, otherwise referred to as Bratva, is a collective of various organized crime related elements originating in the former Soviet Union (FSU).
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The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I. was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR..
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Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.
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Salon.com
Salon is an American politically progressive and liberal news and opinion website created in 1995.
Skimming (fraud)
A form of white-collar crime, skimming is taking cash "off the top" of the daily receipts of a business (or from any cash transaction involving a third interested party) and officially reporting a lower total.
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South Brooklyn Health
The hospital's Behavioral Health Clinic NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health is a public teaching hospital located in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.
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Soviet people
The Soviet people (sovetsky narod) were the citizens and nationals of the Soviet Union.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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The Moscow Times
The Moscow Times is an independent English-language and Russian-language online newspaper.
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Thief in law
A "thief in law" (or thief with code, translit) in the Soviet Union, the post-Soviet states, and their respective diasporas is a formal and special status of "criminal authority", a professional criminal who follows certain criminal traditions and enjoys an elite position among other members within organized crime and correctional facility environments and who has informal authority over lower-status members. Evsei Agron and thief in law are Thieves in law.
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Travel visa
A visa (lat. 'something seen', pl. visas) is a conditional authorization granted by a polity to a foreigner that allows them to enter, remain within, or leave its territory.
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White-collar crime
The term "white-collar crime" refers to financially motivated, nonviolent or non-directly violent crime committed by individuals, businesses and government professionals.
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See also
20th-century Russian criminals
- Aleksey Sukletin
- Alexander Pichushkin
- Alexander Ushkalo
- Alexander Vasilyev (serial killer)
- Alexey Falkin
- Alexey Gromov (serial killer)
- Anatoly Utkin
- Andrei Golovachyov
- Andrei Melyukh
- Andrei Roldugin
- Andrei Yurkin
- Antonina Makarova
- Artur Kitaev
- Boris Gusakov
- Denis Gorbunov
- Dmitry Kuleshov
- Evgenia Iaroslavskaia-Markon
- Evsei Agron
- Felix Yusupov
- Forest Maniac
- Fyodor Kozlov
- Fyodor Prodan
- Igor Churasov
- Kegashbek Orunbayev
- Mikhail Malyshev
- Mikhail Popkov
- Nikolai Litvin
- Oleg Naumov
- Pavel Spiridonovich Medvedev
- Peter Ermakov
- Pyotr Shabelsky-Bork
- Ramses Gaichayev
- Sergei Mavrodi
- Sergey Maduev
- Sergey Sedov
- Sergey Taboritsky
- Sergey Tsukanov
- Sulim Yamadayev
- Tyumen Maniac
- Viktor Bolkhovsky
- Vladimir Dolin
- Vladimir Oidupaa
- Yevgeny Prigozhin
- Yuri Sparikhin
Criminals from Saint Petersburg
- Alexander Yebralidze
- Andrei Kiyko
- Dmitry Borovikov
- Evgenia Iaroslavskaia-Markon
- Evsei Agron
- Felix Yusupov
- Kizaru
- Leonid Karnov
- Mikhail Makarov
- Nikolay Radkevich
- Pavel Shuvalov
- Tamara Samsonova
- Viktor Petrik
- Vladimir Kumarin
- Yevgeny Prigozhin
Deaths by firearm in Brooklyn
- 2014 killings of NYPD officers
- Al Davis (boxer)
- Al Indelicato
- Arnold Schuster
- Bill Lovett
- Bobby Boriello
- Carmine Galante
- Chris Rosenberg
- Costabile Farace
- Dinny Meehan
- Dominick Napolitano
- Dominick Trinchera
- Ernesto Rossi (gangster)
- Evsei Agron
- Frank Amato
- Frank Bowes
- Frankie Yale
- Gerard Pappa
- Half a Mill
- Irma Lozada
- Joe Masseria
- John D'Amato
- Joseph C. Amberg
- Kelvin Martin
- Killing of Akai Gurley
- Killing of Gidone Busch
- Killing of Randolph Evans
- Killing of Timothy Stansbury
- Max Zwerbach
- Morris Kessler
- Murder of Russel Timoshenko
- Murder of Yusef Hawkins
- Philip Giaccone
- Philip Mangano
- Philip Tisson
- Richard Lonergan
- Robert DiBernardo
- Robert Perrino
- Roy DeMeo
- Sam Parrilla
- The Yellow Dogs
- Thomas Eboli
- Vach Lewis
- Vannie Higgins
- Vito Bonventre
- Vladimir Reznikov
- Wilfred Johnson
Murdered Jewish American gangsters
- Abe Reles
- Abraham Friedman
- Abraham Weinberg
- Allen Dorfman
- Arnold Rothstein
- Benjamin Tannenbaum
- Bernard Rosenkrantz
- Bessie Starkman
- Bugsy Siegel
- Charles Solomon (racketeer)
- Chris Rosenberg
- Dutch Schultz
- Evsei Agron
- Gus Greenbaum
- Harry Greenberg
- Herbert Blitzstein
- Hooky Rothman
- Hyman Holtz
- Irving Feinstein
- Isadore Friedman
- Jack Zelig
- Jack Zuta
- Jacob Orgen
- Johnny Spanish
- Joseph C. Amberg
- Louis Amberg
- Louis Cohen
- Max Greenberg
- Max Zwerbach
- Morris Kessler
- Nathan Kaplan
- Otto Berman
- Philip Kovolick
- Shapiro Brothers
- Shondor Birns
- Spanish Louie
- Whitey Krakow
- William Morris Bioff
Murdered Russian gangsters
- Alexander Solonik
- Aslan Usoyan
- Evsei Agron
- Nikolay Suleimanov
- Otari Kvantrishvili
- Roman Tsepov
- Vladimir Reznikov
- Vyacheslav Ivankov
People from Brighton Beach
- Alan Wagner
- Alex Steinweiss
- Alexander Vindman
- Alfred Harvey
- Arthur Pine
- Barry Melton
- Ben Uretsky
- Bernie Glassman
- Dave Newmark
- David Hollander (rabbi)
- Eddie Daniels
- Eugene Vindman
- Evsei Agron
- Gail Brodsky
- Harvey Keitel
- Herbert London
- Howard Greenfield
- Jack Carter (comedian)
- Jack Kirby
- Jerry Wurf
- Lea Bayers Rapp
- Marat Balagula
- Mike Salter
- Mosina H. Jordan
- Neil Sedaka
- Paul Zweig
- Peter Steele
- Rick Sklar
- Sergei Kobozev
- Seymour Siwoff
- Steven Cymbrowitz
- The Tokens
- Vladimir Reznikov
- Vladislav Davidzon
- Vyacheslav Ivankov
- Willi Tokarev
People murdered by Russian-speaking organized crime
- 1998 abduction of foreign engineers in Chechnya
- Akhat Bragin
- Andrey Kozlov
- Bayaman Erkinbayev
- Evsei Agron
- Kazbek Pagiyev
- Kotlyakovskoya Cemetery bombing
- Kushchyovskaya massacre
- Nizhny Tagil mass murder (2002–2007)
- Paul Klebnikov
- Paul Tatum
- Raatbek Sanatbayev
- Rysbek Akmatbayev
- Sergei Kobozev
- Tynychbek Akmatbayev
- Vitaly Karayev
- Vladislav Listyev
- Yevhen Shcherban
- Yury Sokolov (judoka)
Russian crime bosses
- Anatoly Bykov
- Aslan Usoyan
- Boris Nayfeld
- Evsei Agron
- Nikolay Suleimanov
- Semion Mogilevich
- Sergei Mikhailov (businessman)
- Viktor Bout
- Vitali Dyomochka
- Vladimir Kumarin
- Vyacheslav Ivankov
- Yevgeny Prigozhin
- Zakhariy Kalashov
Russian shooting survivors
- Alexander Barkashov
- Alexander Nevzorov
- Dmitri Feodorovich Trepov
- Evsei Agron
- Rasul Mirzaev
- Vladimir Lenin
Soviet criminals
- Alexander Tikhonov
- Berta Borodkina
- Dmitry Voronenko
- Evsei Agron
- Sergey Maduev
- Stanislav Rogolev
- Viktor Bolkhovsky
- Yuri Krinitsyn
Thieves in law
- Aslan Usoyan
- Bagman
- Bitch Wars
- Evsei Agron
- Gldani prison scandal
- Jaba Ioseliani
- Kamchy Kolbayev
- Otari Kvantrishvili
- Rovshan Janiyev
- Tariel Oniani
- The Mark of Cain (2000 film)
- Thief in law
- Thieves by Law
- Vitali Dyomochka
- Vyacheslav Ivankov
- Zakhariy Kalashov