Potato Bag gang

Potato Bag gang

The Potato Bag gang, also called the Odessa Mafia, [cite book |author=Orleck, Annelise |coauthors=Elizabeth Cooke |title=The Soviet Jewish Americans |year=1999 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing |isbn=9780313300745 |pages=p. 116 |url=http://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 ] was a gang of con artists from Odessa operating in New York's Soviet emigre community in Brighton Beach in the mid-1970s. [Blumenthal, Ralph (04 June 1989). [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE0DC153DF937A35755C0A96F948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=3 "Soviet Emigre Mob Outgrows Brooklyn, and Fear Spreads"] , "The New York Times".] Posing as merchant sailors, they would attempt 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 actually full of potatoes. [cite book |author=Manning, George A. |title=Financial Investigation and Forensic Accounting |year=1999 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=9780849304354 |pages=p. 179 |url=http://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 ]

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