Not many filmmakers would embed themselves into a prison, let alone a Panamanian prison notorious for human rights violations, to hear a story. But when a DEA agent told Tiller Russell that it was one ...

Ever hear the one about a Russian gangster, a Miami playboy, and a Cuban spy conspiring to sell a Russian submarine to a Colombian drug cartel? It’s no joke. Operation Odessa tells a true-crime story ...

Ludwig “Tarzan” Fainberg was hard to miss—standing six feet tall, refrigerator-thick, with long wavy hair. He was driving a white Jaguar convertible in January 1997 when police stopped him. Drug ...

Seven years ago, filmmaker Tiller Russell was preparing to meet with the former Russian mobster at the center of Miami’s craziest true-crime caper of the ’90s. And he was hoping – or more like praying ...

It was a stranger than fiction bromance that brought together Russian gangster Ludwig “Tarzan” Fainberg, black market luxury car importer Juan Almeida, and international drug trafficker Nelson “Tony” ...

The man who tried to buy a Soviet submarine to transport drugs is fast becoming an internet celebrity from his prison cell in Panama. By Graham Phillips Speaking out from her cell in Kharkiv, jailed ...

Everyone knew Tarzan Fainberg was full of it, and nobody knew it more than Tarzan himself. Get a few drinks in him, he admits, and he’s liable to say just about anything. He lied to the customers at ...