“What 15-year-old do you know who has to come out of his house with a gun?” he asked. He stood trial in federal court in 1992 and was convicted of felony assault on a federal employee. Mr. Rudaj and others were later charged and convicted of racketeering, illegal gambling and extortion. “They didn’t want to make money the old-fashioned way,” a prosecutor said in 2005 during closing arguments at the trial. He was introduced to Mr. Brown when the filmmaker, who had become intrigued with Albanian gangsters after reading about the Rudaj mob case, arrived in the neighborhood and started asking questions.

Source: New York Times April 17, 2019 06:56 UTC