David Davidian
Sep 1, 2018 · 2 min read

Ms. Neufeld, you took great pain in exposing a vast and intricate web of crime and corruption between the groups you mentioned. In contrast, however, you failed to demonstrate your claim of a “Russian/Armenian Mob” connection in all this. Yes, the Termendzhyan family is ethnic Armenian, but that is where it appears to end. You claim “The Russian mafia and the Italian Mafia were actively involved in gas tax scams in the 1980s-1990s” yet your reference neither mentions Russians or Italians, but instead is about the 1989 shooting of Michael Markowitz who was guilty of tax evasion. Further, 1989 was before the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the Russian Mafia infrastructure, as it is known today, didn’t exist in the US.

If there is something hidden deep in the www.corporationwiki.com site, you should have made a specific reference to it as I could not locate a Russian Mafia connection. Your two charts contain no additional information. If proof, not inference, of your claim is burred someplace, you did a disservice to your readers by not clearly referencing it, considering the prominence you awarded the epithet.

Your claim of a “Russian/Armenian Mob connection,” relative to the lack of evidence is dwarfed by the clear evidence you provided on former US government officials, Turkish agents, and other associated low-lives engaging in apparent in criminal activity. Based on what you didn’t provide in this article one can conclude that you did “make this shit up,” quoting from your title.

Regardless of your lack of clear evidence regarding a Russian/Armenian Mob, the Termendzhyan family, Utah’s Kingston group, individuals and groups you noted, and perhaps many more, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Yerevan, Armenia

    David Davidian

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