Olga Lautman on the Russian Mafia
September 11, 2019
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Olga Lautman on the Russian Mafia
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you are on Twitter, you know that there is no one more deeply versed on the Russian mafia's incursion into American business and politics than New York's</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/olgaNYC1211"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Olga Lautman</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a freelance researcher and analyst who worked on</span> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40728633-house-of-trump-house-of-putin"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Craig Unger's</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">House of Trump, House of Putin</span></em></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and on Malcolm Nance's</span> <a href="https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/malcolm-nance/the-plot-to-betray-america/9780316535762/"> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Plot to Be</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">tray America</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, among other projects. Raised on Brighton Beach and fluent in Russian, Lautman was wise to the danger of Donald Trump from the start.</span></p>
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