Citations:Redfella

Noun: "(informal) a member of the Russian mafia"

 * 1997 — Philip Kerr, A Five-Year Plan, Simon & Schuster (1997), ISBN 067102471X, page 37:
 * "All Russian wise guys, the Redfellas, are connected there. Brighton Beach. You should see it. Fuckin' rooskie home away from home. Little Odessa they call it.
 * 1997 — "Redfellas", The Economist, 13 March 1997:
 * What the case shows, the agents say, is that Russian mafiosi--police like to call them "Redfellas" --have quietly established a beachhead in south Florida, already home to organised crime gangs from Jamaica, Colombia and Italy.
 * 1999 — James R. Richards, Transnational Criminal Organizations, Cybercrime, and Money Laundering: A Handbook for Law Enforcement Officers, Auditors, and Financial Investigators, CRC Press (1999), ISBN 0849328063, page 10:
 * Posing as a geological company looking to map the Caribbean floor, the Redfellas were negotiating the purchase of this Russian submarine, complete with an 18-man crew, when they were caught in a sting operation.
 * 2000 — Joseph D. Pistone, Mobbed Up, New American Library (2000), page 14:
 * For this assignment he must become an honorary Redfella.
 * 2000 — Robert I. Friedman, "Land of the Stupid", The New Yorker, 10 April 2000:
 * A strip club he owned in a warehouse district near Hialeah Race Track — Porky's, inspired by the film of that name — attracted so many Russian mobsters, from Tashkent to Brighton Beach, that local policemen referred to it as Redfellas South.
 * 2007 — Linda Castillo, Overkill, Berkley Sensation (2007), ISBN 9780739488386, page 183:
 * Maybe posted photos on the Internet so everyone would remember the Redfelllas were a force to be reckoned with.
 * 2007 — Arthur Rosenfeld, The Cutting Season, YMMA Publication Center (2007), ISBN 9781594390821, page 58:
 * The rape of Russian resources after Yeltsin was the greatest theft in the history of the world, and the rapists rode all that money right out of the country. We've got our share of Redfellas here in Miami.