"[A] ... 1999 article by... Knute Royce... cited a 1994 FBI file characterizing Kislin] as a "member/associate" of the mob organization headed by ... "godfather of Russian organized crime in the United States." ...Kislin had started Trans Commodities Inc. ..."...known to have laundered millions of dollars from Russia to New York." ...Trans Commodities, and Anton Malevsky... contract killer for the , were... allegedly tied to... Mikhail Chernoy... a major figure in the... Aluminum Wars... marked by embezzlement, money laundering, and murder. ...[T]he report said... Kislin was... a "close associate" of... arms smuggler Babeck Seroush and that he... cosponsored a visa for Malevsky."
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Ref: Knute Royce, "FBI tracked alleged Russian mob ties of Giuliani campaign supporter" The Center for Public Integrity (Dec 14, 1999)
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Craig Unger
(b. March 25, 1949) is an American journalist and writer. He has served as deputy editor of ' and was editor-in-chief of Boston magazine. He has written about George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush for ', Esquire magazine, and Vanity Fair magazine. He has written about the and .
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