DoomsdaysCW[Thread] A while back on the bird site, I posted some articles about #Spetsnaz and #NightWolves -- #Russian biker gangs that are terrorizing other countries in Europe (including #Ukraine). The really f*cked up thing is that Spetsnaz has connections to other biker gangs -- including one in #Florida that has members connected to #PoliceOfficers and #Trump. Again, I'm not telling people how to vote, but please consider how really evil Trump and his "friends" are...
Where to begin... Well, let's start with this "oldie but goodie" from 2017:
[#Trump's] #Russia Scandal Was Desperately Missing a #BikerGang Subplot. Well, Here It Is.
Paging Hunter S. Thompson.
By Charles P. Pierce
Published: Jun 26, 2017
"[#Mangushev] helped found a biker club called #SpetsnazMC. #Spetsnaz is a group of motorcycle-loving #SouthFlorida expatriates who named themselves after the Russian equivalent of Delta Force or Seal Team Six.
"Spetsnaz members once asked for official recognition from Russia's biggest biker gang, the #NightWolves, an infamous group that has strong ties to Russia's security services. The Night Wolves played a role in the Ukrainian uprising, once had their flag flown in outer space by Russian cosmonauts and are under U.S. sanctions.
"So this Mangushev character starts a motorcycle gang among his fellow Russian expats that he names after the Russian equivalent of the special forces. This gang, named after the Russian special forces, seeks the imprimatur of an actual Russian biker gang that, unlike their American brethren, doesn't settle for tearing up small towns along the California coast. This bunch helps overthrow governments. This is not a guy I'd do business with but, then again, I'm not #IgorZorin, with his millions buried in coffee cans in his backyard.
"Zorin and Mangushev have ties in both Russia and the United States: In Russia, security firms that have been linked to Mangushev have won $2.4 million worth of contracts from Zorin's agency since 2015. In Miami, Mangushev once transferred a Florida company that owned a $1.5 million condo out of his name and into Zorin's. No deed of sale was recorded, meaning the price paid — if any — is unknown. The condo is one of three units Zorin owned at Trump Palace, a ritzy tower in Sunny Isles Beach built by a local developer and branded by the Trump Organization. Their total value? $5.4 million. Zorin still owns two condos there, plus a $3.3 million home in Bal Harbour… Zorin was not an original buyer at #TrumpPalace, meaning his funds would not have gone to the #TrumpOrganization, which signed lucrative deals to brand several condo towers in South Florida in the early 2000s. The Trump name is attractive to Russian buyers and helped turn Sunny Isles Beach into a high-rise condo haven sometimes called 'Little Moscow.'"
Read more: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55879/russian-bikers-trump/
#Russian official linked to #SouthFlorida biker club spent millions on #Trump condos
Lily Dobrovolskaya and Nicholas Nehamas
July 15, 2017
"#Mangushev is a former officer in Russia’s security service, the #FSB, the successor agency to the #KGB. He first appeared in Miami around 2010.
"In Russia, he ran a group of companies called #AlphaAnticriminal that provided security for some of Russia’s biggest state-owned companies and government agencies. The Alpha-Anticriminal companies were listed under the name of a relative until 2014, according to Russian corporate records.
"#AlphaTeam is an elite #Spetsnaz counter-terrorism unit that operates within Russia’s security service. Mangushev told Russian media that he is a former Alpha Team officer and that many of his employees are veterans of Russia’s security service."
Russian official linked to South Florida biker club spent millions on Trump condos
MOSCOW — Out-of-town money pouring into South Florida real estate is as old as Henry Flagler. But the tale of Igor Zorin offers a 21st-century twist with all the weirdness modern Miami has to offer…
Found this gem from 2015. Hmmmm.... The source is Sputnik News
#Russian-American #Police #MotorcycleClub to Meet in New York
"#SpetsnazMC that unites former employees of the #SpecialForces, retired and current #police of the #UnitedStates and the former Soviet Union plans to participate in numerous charity events and races in an effort to donate proceeds to families in need.
"A motorcycle club consisting of past and present Russian-American police officers will hold its first annual meeting in New York City, Spetsnaz Motor Club President German Bickbau told Sputnik on Friday.
"'On August 10, we will hold our first annual meeting of the club Spetsnaz LE MC in New York City,' Bickbau said. 'We invite all fans of motorcycles, all those wanting to do good deeds and not remain in the shadows, to join us.'
[...]
"The club is headquartered in the US state of Florida, where #Bickbau serves as a deputy sheriff in #BrowardCounty, #Florida.
"The club is currently in the process of negotiating the establishment of branches in #NewYork, #NewJersey and other US states."
Russian-American Police Motorcycle Club to Meet in New York
Spetsnaz Motor Club that unites former employees of the Special Forces, retired and current police of the United States and the former Soviet Union plans to participate in numerous charity events and races in an effort to donate proceeds...
From 2018:
Feds Charge #Russians for Staging Pro-#Trump Rallies in #Miami and #SouthFlorida
The FBI today revealed the biggest news yet in the ongoing investigation of Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russian agents: A grand jury charged 14 Russian nationals with interfering in the U.S. electoral system beginning in 2013 or earlier.
By Jerry Iannelli
February 16, 2018
"The FBI today revealed the biggest news yet in the ongoing investigation of Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russian agents: A grand jury charged 14 Russian nationals with interfering in the U.S. electoral system beginning in 2013 or earlier.
"How'd they do it? The bureau contends Russians used false identities and tried to stage pro-Trump rallies — and even flash mobs — in multiple undisclosed Florida counties. The feds say the Russian agents allegedly fooled the real 'Trump for #Florida' campaign into working with them. Russian agents also allegedly paid for rally organizers to hire an actress to play Hillary Clinton wearing a prison uniform.
"The FBI says the Russians also wired a Miami pro-Trump activist money to set up a Trump rally September 11, 2016. That activist is not named in the indictment.
"On or about August 2, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the false U.S. persona 'Matt Skiber' Facebook account to send a private message to a real Facebook account, 'Florida for Trump,' set up to assist then-candidate Trump in the state of Florida," the indictment reads."
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/fbi-indicts-russians-for-miami-south-florida-rallies-10094593
Feds Charge Russians for Staging Pro-Trump Rallies in Miami and South Florida
The FBI today revealed the biggest news yet in the ongoing investigation of Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russian agents: A grand jury charged 14 Russian nationals with interfering in the U.S. electoral system beginning in 2013 or earlier.
More recently (from 2023)...
Days after mysterious FBI raid on #Russian’s #Trump Towers III unit, the reason is revealed
By Jay Weaver
Updated May 16, 2023
"Last Thursday, a squad of FBI special agents, assisted by local police, descended on #TrumpTower III at 15811 Collins Ave. to carry out a search of unit 4102. It’s owned by a similarly named shell company, MIC-USA LLC, that is controlled by two Russian businessmen, Patsulya and Agunda Konstantinovna Makeeva, according to state corporation records. Makeeva was not arrested in connection with the Justice Department’s crackdown.
[...]
"If convicted the two Russians faced up to 20 years in prison for violating the export laws and up to 20 years in prison for conspiring to commit international money laundering.
[...]
"Before becoming president in 2016, Trump signed a deal with the developers of the 45-story condo buildings to name the property after him to help promote sales. Foreign buyers, especially from Latin America and Russia, flocked to Trump Towers, as they did with other Trump-branded properties in Sunny Isles Beach."
Archive:
https://archive.ph/JL0D4
#MICUSALLC #Florida #TrumpOrganization #RussianOrganizedCrime
#SpetsnazMC is very much still active.
"The first, the one, and the only Russian-speaking Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club in the United States — SPETSNAZ LE MC is proud to announce the change of our main patch from the old Russian two-headed eagle to a star covered by a thin blue line."
More about what Putin's Night Wolves are all about. Sounds a lot like the other Fascist / NeoNazi movements that have crawled out from under a rock in recent years...
Russia Is Co-opting Angry Young Men
Fight clubs, neo-Nazi soccer hooligans, and motorcycle gangs serve as conduits for the Kremlin’s influence operations in Western countries.
By Michael Carpenter
August 29, 2018
"Deep in the forests of Slovakia, former Russian #Spetsnaz commandos trained young men from a right-wing paramilitary group called the Slovak Conscripts. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014, some of these freshly-minted paramilitaries went to fight with Russian forces in eastern Ukraine while others stayed at home to agitate against NATO as a 'terrorist organization.'
"On the streets of the French city Marseille, Russian soccer hooligans sporting tattoos with the initials of Russia’s military intelligence service, #GRU, brutally attacked English soccer fans in June 2016, sending dozens of bloodied fans to the hospital. Alexander Shprygin, an #ultranationalist agitator and the head of the All-Russian Union of Supporters (a soccer fan club that he claims was established at the behest of the Russian Federal Security Service, or #FSB), was arrested during the melee and deported from #France.
"In Budapest’s Fiumei Road Cemetery in May 2017, a Russian motorcycle gang carrying giant red flags displaying the Soviet hammer and sickle rode up to a World War II memorial. Somewhat incongruously, the tattooed bikers, accompanied by pinstriped Russian Embassy diplomats, disembarked from their motorcycles to lay red carnations in front of the memorial and then posted a video clip of it online.
It seems almost too strange to be true: fight clubs, #NeoNazi soccer hooligans, and motorcycle gangs serving as conduits for the Kremlin’s influence operations in Western countries. It sounds more like an episode of The Americans with a dash of Mad Max and Fight Club mixed in. Yet this is exactly what is happening across #Europe and #NorthAmerica as Russia’s intelligence services co-opt fringe radicals and angry young men to try to undermine Western democracies from within. And not just in the virtual world, but in real life."
Archive:
https://archive.ph/zOwww
D's lack of faith in humanity@DoomsdaysCW @OldSquida2 Sounds not unlike the Boogaloo Movement, Proud Boys, and Patriot Front but w/o the war. Incels are gonna incel.
Knut 🏳️🌈 🇳🇴🧸@DoomsdaysCW @OldSquida2 Wut? European biker gangs? That's a thing? I mean I've heard of the soccer hooligans, and fight clubs, apparently that movie missed the mark with them...but...Eurotrash...Biker...gangs? What the fuck does that look like? I'm American. I couldn't take them seriously. At all. I can barely take the American ones seriously.
In #Bulgaria, An Open Road For #Putin's Favorite Biker Gang, The #NightWolves
By Genka Shikerova and Tony Wesolowsky, September 04, 2022
https://www.rferl.org/a/bulgaria-night-wolves-russia-putin/32017720.html
In Bulgaria, An Open Road For Putin's Favorite Biker Gang, The Night Wolves
Because of their friendly ties to the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin, the Russian bikers, the Night Wolves, face roadblocks across the EU. But in Bulgaria, a branch of the gang is cruising along, meeting and greeting Russian officials and blessed by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.
@DoomsdaysCW @OldSquida2 _these_ things? Those are angry teenagers with rich parents who have summer homes in Barcelona. Motorcycles are outrageously expensive anywhere. Here our bikers are rich lawyers and doctors who pretend they're homeless. These are teenagers who need porn https://www.newsweek.com/putin-night-wolves-biker-gang-spotted-bosnia-1772408#slideshow/2176034
