The Last Boss of Brighton: Boris "Biba" Nayfeld and the Rise of the Russian Mob in America

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In the first half we tried to give the dynamic that [gave] us the success with a number of goals, which is the connection with Son. Also: anonymous hardworking men like my maternal grandfather, Willie Smith—born Velvel Schmid—who’d fled from Bialystok in 1914 to avoid the Czar’s draft at the start of the First World War. Born in Soviet-era Belarus, abandoned by his parents in infancy, Biba’s brutal upbringing left him hungry for more—more power, control, and money. In a book so enjoyably mayhem-crammed as to make Howard Marks’s drug-smuggling memoir Mr Nice read like Barbara Pym.

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The Monday Night Club discuss whether Jude Bellingham is England's best talent since Paul Gascoigne, after he was named best young player at Monday's Ballon d'Or ceremony.De Zerbi joined Brighton from Ukrainian side Shakhtar Donetsk following spells in charge of Italian clubs Palermo, Benevento and Sassuolo. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected.

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But three wins in their past four games in all competitions - including three clean sheets - suggests the Seagulls are starting to find the form they need to pull away from the bottom three. No doubt they'll scrounge the league cup against City and Spurs fans will claim Mourinho is a club legend.Century, the author of Hunting El Chapo and other bestselling true-crime books, thrillingly chronicles Nayfeld’s criminal career in the Soviet Union, where stealing from the state was a main source of illicit income. True-crime fans will find this one irresistible, and the lengthy glossary of terms is a welcome addition. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.

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For me, Boris represents a throwback: a walking reminder of the hardscrabble origins of Russian Jewry in America—the world that produced a cohort of muscular, savvy, steely-eyed men, men for whom survival often meant doing the things that were necessary—difficult, unsavory, oftentimes outside the law. Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. His most recent book, No Surrender,coauthored with Chris Edmonds, was published by Harper One and was the recipient of a 2020 Christopher Award.

Still teenagers, traveling alone, sometimes lying in the official paperwork about their ages, they escaped the pogroms and the Czarist conscription of World War I and, later, the scorched-earth devastation of the Nazi invasion of the USSR, the Shoah that took the lives of almost all their older siblings and their families—landing in Ellis Island several years before the 1917 Revolution. Their criminal genius lay in exploiting the unseen weaknesses within the economic system right under our noses. The enclave known as “Little Odessa” was a hotbed of drug smuggling, money laundering and inter-mob brutality. This was the 11th time a side managed by Jose Mourinho had one shot or fewer in the first half of a Premier League game; six of those occasions have come while in charge of Spurs. During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world.

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Of course, none of my grandparents were convicted criminals—let alone headline-making heroin traffickers, money launderers, or suspected murderers.

These are Jewish guys who possess a dangerous combination: the willingness to fight—and shoot—coupled with a hair-trigger temper. He eventually served three stints in US prisons, with his most recent release in 2018, but one of the reasons he avoided jail for many years was his embarrassment at his poor English; he largely kept silent at meetings where jobs were planned, so FBI bugs never picked up anything that could incriminate him).