UNITED STATES v. GERSHMAN

Docket Nos. 20-30, 20-754 August Term, 2021.

31 F.4th 80 (2022)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Leonid GERSHMAN, aka Lenny, aka Lenny G, aka Lyonchik, aka Lyonya, Aleksey Tsvetkov, aka Pelmin, aka Lesha, aka Lyosha, Defendants-Appellants, Viktor Zelinger, aka Vitya, aka Vityok, Renat Yusufov, aka Ronnie, aka Ronik, Igor Krugly, Vyacheslav Malkeyev, aka Steve Bart, Isok Aronov, Yusif Pardilov, aka Yosik, Librado Rivera, aka Macho, aka Max, Eric Bobritsky, aka Mamaz Boy, Artiom Pocinoc, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: April 12, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin Trowel ( Audrey Spektor and Mark J. Lesko , on the brief), Assistant United States Attorney, for Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, for Appellee.

Steven Yurowitz , Newman & Greenberg LLP, for Defendant-Appellant Leonid Gershman.

Murray Singer, Murray E. Singer, Esq. , for Defendant-Appellant Aleksey Tsvetkov.

Judge Jacobs concurs in part and dissents in part in a separate opinion.


This appeal involves the convictions of two members of a Brooklyn-based crime syndicate. Like a well-run business, the syndicate diversified its activities: arson, extortion, illegal gambling, marijuana distribution, firearms trafficking, and wire fraud. After several members of the syndicate pleaded guilty, two members,...

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