Scarfo's Lawyer Points To Russian Mob In FirstPlus Case

By George Anastasia
For Bigtrial.net

There might have been some mobsters lurking behind the FirstPlus Financial fraud case, a lawyer for lead defendant Nicodemo S. Scarfo said in legal papers filed recently, but their drink of choice would have been vodka not vino.

In an apparent attempt to distant himself from co-defendant Salvatore Pelullo -- and also ge…