Russian Spies Sunnyside Connection
Much of the ring’s activity — and the FBI investigators’ surveillance — took place in and around New York. The alleged agents were spotted in a bookstore in Lower Manhattan, a bench near the entrance to Central Park and a restaurant in Sunnyside, Queens.
Secret exchanges were made at busy locations like the Long Island Rail Road’s station in Forest Hills, where FBI watchers in 2004 spotted one defendant who is not in custody, Christopher R. Metsos, the charging papers say.
From CRIMINAL COMPLAINT– Read portion below relating to Sunnyside
2001 through on or about April 17, 2005, METSOS and RICHARD MURPHY, the defendant, met together at a restaurant in Sunnyside, New York (“Sunnyside Restaurant”). Pursuant to a series of judicial orders, law-enforcement agents conducted audio and visual surveillance of these Sunnyside Restaurant meetings. 50. On or about March 31, 2002, CHRISTOPHER R. METSOS and RICHARD MURPHY, the defendants, met at the Sunnyside Restaurant. Pursuant to a judicial order, the meeting was recorded and video-taped. During the meeting, MURPHY expressed a series of frustrations about his work, to which METSOS responded: “Well, I’m so happy I’m not your handler.” METSOS and MURPHY also discussed the amount of money that MURPHY received in salary from “our office,” and, at the end of the meeting, METSOS stood up and said: “there’s forty [unintelligible] black bag.” Based 18
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