Soviet Connections Lead to American Dream

So how exactly does an electronics store end up being the portal to billions of dollars’ worth of riches? When it’s within walking distance of the Soviet embassy quite a while until the Soviet Union’s collapse, that’s how! While midtown Manhattan has generally been host to vendors dabbling in electronics like a Lafnac Digital Computers here or there, it hasn’t had a Tamir Sapir at the helm, Georgian-born and apparently a guru at developing the appropriate relations with all the right people – high-ranking diplomats, as it ended up, who must have recently been instrumental in assisting him secure his exclusive license to sell Russian petrochemicals, which proceeds he parlayed into a multi-billionaire-dollar empire as one of New York City’s wealthiest landlords.