| 词条 | Potato Bag Gang |
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The Potato Bag Gang, a manifestation of the Odessa Mafia,[1] was a gang of con artists from Odessa that operated in New York City's Soviet emigre community in the Brighton Beach area of New York City in the mid-1970s.[2] Criminal activityPosing as merchant sailors, they would offer to sell victims bags full of antique gold rubles for thousands of dollars each. In reality, only the sample coin was authentic, and the bags were full of potatoes.[3] See also
References1. ^{{cite book |author1=Orleck, Annelise |author2=Elizabeth Cooke |title=The Soviet Jewish Americans |year=1999 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing |isbn=978-0-313-30074-5 |pages= 116 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=r-5OeuOLjl4C&pg=PA116&dq=%22Potato+Bag+gang%22&num=100&client=firefox-a&sig=ACfU3U2SwtARZM2IfmplwLt4r21J7iPWXA |accessdate=2008-09-13 }} 2. ^Blumenthal, Ralph (04 June 1989). "Soviet Emigre Mob Outgrows Brooklyn, and Fear Spreads", The New York Times. 3. ^{{cite book |author=Manning, George A. |title=Financial Investigation and Forensic Accounting |year=1999 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-0-8493-0435-4 |pages= 179 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hzs_qLCDLIcC&pg=PA179&dq=%22Potato+Bag+gang%22&num=100&client=firefox-a&sig=ACfU3U3w50sI4aIdSTEbCmgUXeCyKsA1QQ |accessdate=2008-09-13 }} Further reading
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