Was that takedown really luck? or something else. I seem to recall something about the Russian Mafia coming into their own sometime after this.

https://www.newsweek.com/giuliani-mysterious-ties-russia-former-soviet-union-decades-1215349

E.g.,

“One of Giuliani’s earliest associations was with Semyon ‘Sam’ Kislin, who donated money to both his 1993 and 1997 campaigns [for mayor] and was appointed by Giuliani to serve on the New York City Mayor’s Council of Economic Advisors,” Olga Lautman, an investigative reporter who spent three years tracking ties between the Russian mafia and Trump’s associates, told Newsweek.