Announcement

Collapse

Forum Rules (Everyone Must Read!!!)

1] What you CAN NOT post.

You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this forum to post any material which is:
- abusive
- vulgar
- hateful
- harassing
- personal attacks
- obscene

You also may not:
- post images that are too large (max is 500*500px)
- post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or cited properly.
- post in UPPER CASE, which is considered yelling
- post messages which insult the Armenians, Armenian culture, traditions, etc
- post racist or other intentionally insensitive material that insults or attacks another culture (including Turks)

The Ankap thread is excluded from the strict rules because that place is more relaxed and you can vent and engage in light insults and humor. Notice it's not a blank ticket, but just a place to vent. If you go into the Ankap thread, you enter at your own risk of being clowned on.
What you PROBABLY SHOULD NOT post...
Do not post information that you will regret putting out in public. This site comes up on Google, is cached, and all of that, so be aware of that as you post. Do not ask the staff to go through and delete things that you regret making available on the web for all to see because we will not do it. Think before you post!


2] Use descriptive subject lines & research your post. This means use the SEARCH.

This reduces the chances of double-posting and it also makes it easier for people to see what they do/don't want to read. Using the search function will identify existing threads on the topic so we do not have multiple threads on the same topic.

3] Keep the focus.

Each forum has a focus on a certain topic. Questions outside the scope of a certain forum will either be moved to the appropriate forum, closed, or simply be deleted. Please post your topic in the most appropriate forum. Users that keep doing this will be warned, then banned.

4] Behave as you would in a public location.

This forum is no different than a public place. Behave yourself and act like a decent human being (i.e. be respectful). If you're unable to do so, you're not welcome here and will be made to leave.

5] Respect the authority of moderators/admins.

Public discussions of moderator/admin actions are not allowed on the forum. It is also prohibited to protest moderator actions in titles, avatars, and signatures. If you don't like something that a moderator did, PM or email the moderator and try your best to resolve the problem or difference in private.

6] Promotion of sites or products is not permitted.

Advertisements are not allowed in this venue. No blatant advertising or solicitations of or for business is prohibited.
This includes, but not limited to, personal resumes and links to products or
services with which the poster is affiliated, whether or not a fee is charged
for the product or service. Spamming, in which a user posts the same message repeatedly, is also prohibited.

7] We retain the right to remove any posts and/or Members for any reason, without prior notice.


- PLEASE READ -

Members are welcome to read posts and though we encourage your active participation in the forum, it is not required. If you do participate by posting, however, we expect that on the whole you contribute something to the forum. This means that the bulk of your posts should not be in "fun" threads (e.g. Ankap, Keep & Kill, This or That, etc.). Further, while occasionally it is appropriate to simply voice your agreement or approval, not all of your posts should be of this variety: "LOL Member213!" "I agree."
If it is evident that a member is simply posting for the sake of posting, they will be removed.


8] These Rules & Guidelines may be amended at any time. (last update September 17, 2009)

If you believe an individual is repeatedly breaking the rules, please report to admin/moderator.
See more
See less

Armenians Gangsters Charged With Largest Medicare Scam Ever

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • #31
    Re: Armenians Gangsters Charged With Largest Medicare Scam Ever

    Originally posted by ara87 View Post
    The Republic of Armenia has apologized for the scam
    Why?
    Did Saudi Arabia apologise for the actions of its citizens after 9/11?
    Plenipotentiary meow!

    Comment


    • #32
      Re: Armenians Gangsters Charged With Largest Medicare Scam Ever

      Originally posted by bell-the-cat View Post
      Why?
      Did Saudi Arabia apologise for the actions of its citizens after 9/11?
      Armenia's apology is rather odd and not in keeping with protocol. Maybe you should be more like your southern neighbors and deny everything.

      Comment


      • #33
        Re: Armenians Gangsters Charged With Largest Medicare Scam Ever

        why deny it?
        Muslims don't want to admit anything about their retarded religion, because they would look bad. Why should Armenia be like that? that's just silly, which is what bell-the-cat is.

        Comment


        • #34
          Re: Armenians Gangsters Charged With Largest Medicare Scam Ever

          Originally posted by arakeretzig View Post
          why deny it?
          Muslims don't want to admit anything about their retarded religion, because they would look bad. Why should Armenia be like that? that's just silly, which is what bell-the-cat is.
          Why deny what, exactly? We know what Saudia Arabia was denying, but what would Armenia be denying if it had not apologised? Do think the Armenian republic was complicit in the scam?

          I know your reasoning: you think every Armenian should always think and behave according to your idea of what a proper Armenian should be. And when they do not, you feel it reflects badly on you and brings shame on you, like they were children behaving badly because of your parental failure: and for that you feel the need to apologise.

          Maybe in some way the origin of their criminality was in the "bad parenting" of the Armenian state, or of Soviet Armenia - but a glib "apology" delivered by today's Armenia in no way indicates that ROA understands what it is apologising for, or indicates that it understands why failings in the state might lead to some of its citizens or former citizens being predisposed to commit criminal acts, or suggests that it wants to fix those failings. In an earlier post you correctly did make a comparison between these Armenian criminals in America and Armenia's own corrupt politicians and their mafia backers. But I bet those politicians, their oligarch allies, as well as those US-based Armenian criminals all think of themselves as being "good Armenians", just as you think you are. And you can bet the Armenian Church will get it cut of the proceeds through donations, and think nothing wrong in it. You apologise for the wrong thing, and decline to face up to the deeper failing.
          Last edited by bell-the-cat; 10-18-2010, 11:26 PM.
          Plenipotentiary meow!

          Comment


          • #35
            Re: Armenians Gangsters Charged With Largest Medicare Scam Ever

            I don't see any reason for any apologies either. Does the US apologize to its own citizens for all the criminal acts that US citizens get involved in every day?
            Does Mexico apologize for ms-13 and ms-19? Do black people apologize for the fact that many blacks are involved in criminal activity that mainly involves drugs and murder? Did the j3ws apologize for Bernard Madoff who literally stole $18 billion? So why should Armenia apologize for some white-collar criminals who stole a total of $35 million.

            Comment


            • #36
              Re: Armenians Gangsters Charged With Largest Medicare Scam Ever

              If anything this shows how ingenious and dangerous Armenians can be......and a message that Armenians are xxxxing done playing nice.

              You (the world) allow blockade of people, what you expect, flowers?
              I say too bad they got caught....screw the system.
              B0zkurt Hunter

              Comment


              • #37
                Re: Armenians Gangsters Charged With Largest Medicare Scam Ever

                Originally posted by Eddo211 View Post
                If anything this shows how ingenious and dangerous Armenians can be......and a message that Armenians are xxxxing done playing nice.

                You (the world) allow blockade of people, what you expect, flowers?
                I say too bad they got caught....screw the system.
                Srsly? defending a bunch of scamers? that's a new low for this forum.
                Armenia apologised because there were many Armenian _citizens_ involved, otherwise it would seem Armenia is somehow supporting this. This is how a civilised society behaves, nothing more, nothing less.

                Comment


                • #38
                  Re: Armenians Gangsters Charged With Largest Medicare Scam Ever



                  ALARMING RING

                  By David Petrosian

                  October 18, 2010


                  It seemed that the absolutely unremarkable morning of October 14
                  would pass unnoticed in Yerevan, but for two news reports that
                  appeared in several print media outlets and the Internet. The matter
                  is that:

                  - according to pro-opposition newspaper Haykakan Zhamanak
                  (Armenian Times), the Russian law enforcement bodies have submitted a
                  list of 32 representatives of Armenia's political and business elite
                  to the prosecutor general Aghvan Hovsepian and the head of the
                  National Security Service Gorik Hakobian. The Russian law enforcement
                  agencies insist that the persons put on that list are mainly connected
                  with human and drug trafficking and money laundering. Among those
                  included in the list are: parliament deputy Alexander (Sashik)
                  Sargsyan (the Armenian president's full brother), speaker of the
                  parliament Hovik Abrahamian, head of the State Revenue Committee Gagik
                  Khachatrian, deputies of the faction "Republican party of Armenia"
                  Ruben Hayrapetain, Samvel Alexanian and Levon Sargsyan, and Gagik
                  Tsarukian (leader of the Prosperous Armenia party),

                  - literally the day before over 40 members of a crime syndicate,
                  whose backbone is made up of Armenian immigrants, were arrested in New
                  York and Los Angeles. They have been charged with stealing personal
                  data of thousands of doctors and patients. By means of identity theft,
                  the criminals took no less than $35 million from Medicare, a federal
                  system of health insurance for people over 65.

                  U.S. Federal Attorney Preet Bharara called the disclosed criminal
                  group "international", underlining that its leaders had close links
                  with Armenia, regularly visited this country and purchased real estate
                  there with money gained by illegal means in the U.S. Bharara compared
                  the Armenian-American criminal group with the "classical Cosa Nostra",
                  adding, however, that "in terms of profitability, geographic scope and
                  sheer ambition this emerging international organized crime syndicate
                  would be the envy of any traditional mafia family."

                  According to investigators, the principal leader of Armenian
                  mafia was Armen Kazarian (nickname Pzo), a "vor v zakone" - thief in
                  the law, who was arrested in Yerevan on 7 April 2009 and handed over
                  to U.S. authorities, whereas his main associates were Davit Mirzoyan
                  of Los Angeles and Robert Terdjanian of New York.

                  The indictment also says that the criminals used to mislead
                  U.S. immigration authorities, and with the help of representatives of
                  a foreign government, they arranged it so that this government refused
                  to accept persons deported from the U.S., thus depriving U.S.
                  authorities of the opportunity to expel them from the country to
                  their homeland.

                  In the second case, it can be assumed with a strong probability
                  that one should understand Armenia's government and the whole ruling
                  administration by the term "foreign government". These events can be
                  considered as an alarming call for official Yerevan.

                  The abovementioned events took place against the background of an
                  extremely worrying and ambiguous foreign political situation for Serzh
                  Sargsyan and his administration.

                  The open sources confirm the information that at the summit of
                  leaders of OSCE states to be held in Astana on December 1-2, 2010, the
                  co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group intend to submit a 17-clause
                  document to the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan for signing. The
                  document currently being drafted is likely to contain two sets of
                  issues, coordinated and not coordinated between Armenian and
                  Azerbaijani leaders. The coordinated clauses include the clause, under
                  which official Yerevan gives the go-ahead to withdraw troops from a
                  certain number of regions of the "security zone". Thus the matter
                  concerns the preparation for signing a peculiar "roadmap" on the
                  Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement.

                  It should be mentioned that in case of this document's signing by
                  president S. Sargsyan or foreign minister E. Nalbandian, official
                  Yerevan will violate the legal act passed by the Armenian parliament
                  on 5 July 1992. According to this legal act, official Yerevan has no
                  right to sign any document on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement
                  if the signature of the official representative of the Nagorno
                  Karabakh Republic is absent on that document.

                  Most probably, at the summit of heads of NATO member states to be
                  held in Lisbon in November, Washington and its partners will make yet
                  another attempt to persuade the Armenian president to sign the
                  "roadmap".

                  Moscow's position is also quite tough. And not everything here is
                  related to the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. The point
                  is that those in Russia are apparently displeased with the excessive
                  rapprochement between Yerevan and NATO and the expanded military
                  cooperation with the North Atlantic alliance. At the same time,
                  despite the signing of a treaty on prolongation of the Russian
                  military base's presence in Armenia and the extension of its
                  responsibility zone, the military cooperation between Yerevan and
                  Moscow shows a persistent tendency to decline. Thus:

                  - as of mid-autumn 2010, Russian defense minister Anatoly
                  Serdyukov and his Armenian counterpart Seyran Ohanian have met only
                  twice since early 2010 (and both meetings were mostly official ones),
                  whereas the number of A. Serdyukov's meetings with Azerbaijani defense
                  minister Safar Abiyev amounts to five. This circumstance indirectly
                  shows that Russia is increasing its military-political and
                  military-technical cooperation with Azerbaijan,

                  - the latest joint Russian-Armenian military exercises in
                  Armenia's territory were held in the autumn of 2005. Those command
                  and staff exercises were the jubilee tenth and last ones (the final
                  part of the exercises took place at the firing range after Marshal
                  I. Baghramian with the participation of 1,300 military servicemen from
                  both sides and 294 units of war equipment), i.e. those exercises were
                  annual, traditional and included in the schedule of joint combat
                  training of staffs and units of the two countries. Over the past five
                  year, such exercises have disappeared from the combat training plans
                  of Armenia's Defense Ministry and the General Staff and Russian
                  military structures. This circumstance causes considerable alarm among
                  Armenian experts who believe that problems are being hushed up amid
                  much fanfare about cooperation and friendship.

                  Such tendencies cannot but worry the Russian side. This fact is
                  partly related to the increased social and political activity of the
                  Russian embassy in Yerevan in September-October of this year.

                  We should note that in his speech during the October 15 rally in
                  Yerevan, the leader of the joint opposition - the Armenian National
                  Congress, first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosian put stress on
                  the corruption theme. And this theme was announced earlier, i.e. prior
                  to the arrests in the U.S. and the publications in Hayakan Zhamanak.
                  It only remains for us to suppose that all these coincidences
                  (arrests, publication, and the theme of the main speech at the
                  opposition rally) can hardly be accidental by their time and subject.
                  Politics is not about the pursuit of morality nor what's right or wrong
                  Its about self interest at personal and national level often at odds with the above.
                  Great politicians pursue the National interest and small politicians personal interests

                  Comment


                  • #39
                    Re: Armenians Gangsters Charged With Largest Medicare Scam Ever




                    FAR RESIGNATIONS AND NEAR PROBLEMS

                    By David Petrosian

                    October 17, 2010


                    The resignation of the Moscow Mayor - 74-year-old Yuri Luzhkov, who
                    led the municipality of the Russian capital for 18 years, has had loud
                    repercussions in the top echelons of the Armenian authorities as
                    well. At first glance, this would surprise an outsider. Yet this loud
                    echo has not come as a surprise to the well-informed journalistic
                    circles of Armenia.

                    The point is that Armenia has long been one of those corners of the
                    world where the mayor of the Russian capital has laundered large
                    amounts of money through various nontransparent clannish-criminal
                    schemes. The inflow of money from Moscow found reliable partners in
                    Armenia - at first within the staff of president R. Kocharian, then
                    that of the current president, S. Sargsyan. Not only the presidents,
                    but also Yerevan mayors Yervand Zacharian and later Gagik Beglarian
                    had cooperated closely with Y. Luzhkov on the construction of elite
                    residential complexes in the capital city of Armenia.

                    The main investments, made from Moscow under the patronage of
                    Y. Luzhkov and his partners from Armenia's top leadership, have been
                    attracted for the construction of upscale buildings in Yerevan, mostly
                    in the city center. There were other projects as well, including the
                    construction project of the Noragyugh complex, for which land plots
                    have already been allotted and the respective designs prepared.
                    However, following Y. Luzhkov's resignation, not only the Noragyugh
                    project, but also the financing of several other large and still
                    incomplete construction projects in Yerevan are likely to be
                    suspended. This will lead to some problems with GDP growth, business
                    activity and, in general, the stabilization of the economic situation
                    in Armenia which has not yet overcome the consequences of the 2009
                    economic downturn. In this connection we should also remind that in
                    the past 7-8 years capital construction has been the driving force of
                    the economic growth in Armenia.

                    However, these are not all the problems awaiting the Armenian
                    authorities in connection with Y. Luzhkov's retirement. Another
                    problem is that the famous businessman Samvel Karapetian - a full
                    brother of Karen Karapetian, the head of Armenian president Serzh
                    Sargsyan's staff - was "tied" to a large extent to the personality of
                    the Moscow mayor.

                    S. Karapetian heads Tashir Group consisting of manufacturing and
                    construction enterprises, trade centers, supply and sales agencies,
                    health resorts, and a chain of hotels and restaurants. In all, he owns
                    about 200 companies engaged in various sectors of economy and
                    employing a total of over 30 thousand people. Besides, in 2007 Tashir
                    Group was in 12th place on the list of owners of Russian real estate
                    published by Forbes.

                    Through the S.Karapetian-Y.Luzhkov association, the Armenian
                    leadership has had an informal "access" to the Kremlin for many
                    years. After Luzhkov's resignation, this informal channel will cease
                    functioning for the Armenian leadership.

                    Luzhkov's resignation will cause some shocks in neighboring
                    Azerbaijan, too.

                    It is no secret that Y. Luzhkov is a partner and patron of many
                    Azerbaijani businessmen. To all appearances, Y. Luzhkov's retirement
                    will hit the businesses of Moscow-based Azerbaijanis. If the office of
                    Russian prosecutor general starts an investigation into the ex-mayor's
                    case, then both Armenian and Azerbaijani businessmen closely connected
                    with him will seriously suffer.

                    In connection with Y. Luzhkov's retirement, a number of Azerbaijani
                    businessmen will have to close their businesses, while others will
                    have to regroup.

                    In this situation, much depends (for both Armenians and Azerbaijanis)
                    on who will become the new mayor of Moscow.

                    Those in the Kremlin have apparently decided to ease the situation as
                    much as possible, and most likely, Vladimir Resin - a man from
                    Y. Luzhkov's team will become the next mayor of Moscow. This supposed
                    appointment can be considered as an interim one. The truly new mayor
                    of Moscow will be appointed after the presidential elections to be
                    held in 2012.

                    Meanwhile, V. Resin has already demonstrated that he is ready to do
                    everything possible to avoid great shocks in matters connected with
                    the resignation of his predecessor. Thus, one of V. Resin's first
                    orders was the appointment of Fazil Ismailov (full brother of
                    Azerbaijani billionaire Telman Ismailov) to the post of prefect of
                    Moscow's Northern District. This was a peculiar message to the
                    Azerbaijani Diaspora of Russia: "Don't worry, everything is OK. The
                    good traditions (formed during Luzhkov's tenure) of mutual respect
                    between the city authorities and the Azerbaijani Diaspora will remain
                    in the future too".

                    One should assume that similar calming messages will also be sent to
                    businessmen from other Diasporas, including the Armenian one.

                    On the whole, it can be noted that the retirement of Y. Luzhkov has
                    demonstrated once again that in case of a political force-majeure, the
                    part of Russia-based Armenian Diaspora's business which is "tied" to
                    criminals constantly runs high risk.

                    Yet there are representatives of big Armenian business in Russia who
                    are not connected with criminals and shadow economy. For example, it
                    is Ruben Vardanian (Troyka-Dialog OJSC) - person who is not "tied" to
                    one or another political figure. The businesses of such people
                    incurred much less risk in case of Y. Luzhkov's resignation.

                    In conclusion, we should note the following: the joint business
                    schemes functioning in the Armenian direction under Y. Luzhkov will be
                    frozen for a while, and then these schemes will be transformed
                    somewhat. We suppose that later the schemes for laundering money from
                    Moscow will be revived and, as previously, be channeled for elite-type
                    construction and trade in Armenia.
                    Politics is not about the pursuit of morality nor what's right or wrong
                    Its about self interest at personal and national level often at odds with the above.
                    Great politicians pursue the National interest and small politicians personal interests

                    Comment


                    • #40
                      Re: Armenians Gangsters Charged With Largest Medicare Scam Ever

                      Top criminal would loose respect if they do not after their fellow bretheren.

                      That is the whole reason for being in politics it seems.
                      For the majority anyway.



                      .
                      Politics is not about the pursuit of morality nor what's right or wrong
                      Its about self interest at personal and national level often at odds with the above.
                      Great politicians pursue the National interest and small politicians personal interests

                      Comment

                      Working...
                      X