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Alec Baldwin and Michael Madsen on set of Back in the Day. (Photo by Bobby Bank / bobbybank.com)Hollywood heavyweights Alec Baldwin and Michael Madsen spent some time in Sheepshead Bay yesterday, filming inside Romanoff Restaurant [http://romanoffny.com/] (2670 Coney Island Avenue) for the upcoming movie Back in the
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Michael and Marina Levitis (Source: James Edstrom)Michael Levitis [/tag/michael-levitis/], who owned Rasputin restaurant until it was seized by authorities [/michael-levitis-rasputin-fraud/], and who was also a castmember of the failed television show Russian Dolls [/confessed-criminal-and-kruger-croney-to-star-in-brighton-beach-reality-show/], was sentenced to nine years in federal prison yesterday for a fraudulent debt collection
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Levitis (Source: Facebook)Stories about crime and corruption featuring Eastern European perps are juicy material for members of the “Russian Insider – News, Reviews and Gossip” group on Facebook, but the page has gone silent on one of the juiciest of stories: the guilty plea of former Rasputin owner Michael Levitis,
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Source: BayResidentOf all the weird and wacky stories coming across our desks about Sheepshead Bay’s quirky business scene, this is easily my favorite. Rasputin Restaurant, at 2670 Coney Island Avenue, has reopened with new ownership and a new name: Romanoff Restaurant. Like Rasputin, it will be a Russian-themed banquet
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Michael and Marina Levitis (Source: James Edstrom)Three of the six individuals charged in connection with an alleged debt settlement fraud scheme have pleaded guilty, with the latest one ratting out his former boss Michael Levitis as the mastermind. The offices of Mission Settlement Agency at 2713 Coney Island Avenue,
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Rasputin, the windowless, mausoleum-like restaurant and nightclub at 2670 Coney Island Avenue, has been shuttered and padlocked. There is a notice taped near the entrance that shows it was closed by city marshals and turned over to the landlord. It’s unclear if this is related to the criminal case
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Marina Levitis (Source: New York Magazine/ Dina Litovsky)Though Russian Dolls [/tag/russian-dolls/] was ripped from us at an all-too-early-time, the true spirit of Russia’s pageantry remains alive on the pages of New York Magazine. Recently, as part of their style series, New York Magazine profiled several Russian women