Opinion ID: 6330595
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Heading: Other Extortions

Text: People also came to Gershman and Tsvetkov for assistance in collecting nongambling debts. Gershman and Tsvetkov would oblige, extorting victims with threats and violence to collect debts. For example, Gershman punched a debtor named Denis Dulevskiy in the face, threatening Dulevskiy that he would “break [his] fing mouth” and that Dulevskiy would end up worse than his mother, who was hospitalized at the time. Id. at 62. Tsvetkov punched another debtor in the face after Tsvetkov, Gershman, and Yusufov met the man in an alley. Gershman put a blade to another man’s face and told Yusufov that they “should . . . give [the man] a 150” (a threat to cut across the man’s face so that he would require 150 stitches). App’x 464-65. And Tsvetkov took a gold chain off another man’s neck and later beat the man, including kicking him three times while he lay helpless in the middle of the street. 6