[Shadow_Group] Fw: International Jewish Slave ring

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NEWARK, N.J. -- A man admitted Wednesday he was part of a ring that
forced Russian women to dance in New Jersey strip clubs while extorting
money by threatening to harm their families. 

Lev Trakhtenberg is the second person to plead guilty in the case. He
implicated his wife, Viktoriya I'lina, who has not made a plea deal with
federal prosecutors, Assistant U.S. Attorney Leslie F. Schwartz said. The
couple are naturalized U.S. citizens. 


 
Their co-defendant, Sergey Malchikov, pleaded guilty in August, also to a
single charge of conspiracy to commit forced labor, visa fraud,
immigration fraud and extortion. 

Trakhtenberg and Malchikov, both of Brooklyn, N.Y., face up to five years
in prison on that charge. 

Trakhtenberg, answering questions before U.S. District Judge John C.
Lifland, said the scheme induced about 25 Russian women to come to the
United States from the summer of 1999 to August 2002. The women had visa
petitions that falsely stated they were part of internationally
recognized show groups, he admitted. 

The women were forced to dance nude up to 10 hours a day, six days a
week, at clubs in Lakewood, Manville and South Amboy, he said. 

The women paid Trakhtenberg and his wife $200 a day even if they did not
earn that much, he admitted. 

Trakhtenberg faces up to 20 years in prison on a related guilty plea,
made in New York last month, to conspiring to extort a Russian woman. In
that case, he admitted placing the woman in prostitution and demanding
$5,000 when she attempted to quit. When she did not pay, he arranged for
her family to be threatened, he admitted. 

The plea by Malchikov, who is Russian, related to that woman, the U.S.
attorney's office said. 

The three were indicted in August 2002. 

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On the Net: U.S. Attorney's Office in Newark: 

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