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The two men took turns waling on Jeffrey Worstell. A gold chain danced against the skinny one's white tank top as he beat the 29-year-old mechanic senseless with a nickel-plated .357 Smith & Wesson. When the skinny guy needed a breather, his partner a hefty six-foot man in a sloppy white shirt and jeans added some shots with an aluminum bat.
They traded weapons, attacked, hotels at heathrow airport and traded again. Worstell, bruised and bloody, crumpled in the grass on the side of the road in Boca Raton. The skinny guy pressed the gun to Worstell's head, motioning him toward the popped trunk of a green 1995 Infinity J30. Worstell grappled with his attacker. Then a pain exploded on the right side of his head.
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The June 2011 assault would initially be characterized as a random act of violence against an out-of-towner. But the incident turned out to be just one thread in a scheme much larger hotels at heathrow airport and more sordid.
hotels at heathrow airport Worstell would be tied to a web of sketchy auto dealers who dealt in used and sometimes stolen luxury cars and bounced between South Florida and Atlanta. Currently, the entire crew is being investigated by the Secret Service, and one of them is awaiting trial for murdering a rapper. The whole tale is proof positive of a Florida maxim: Colorful hustlers from elsewhere inevitably drip down south.
Mani Chulpayev arrived in New York City from Russia in 1989 at age 12. The family hotels at heathrow airport settled in Queens, where his father owned food carts. The younger hotels at heathrow airport Chulpayev ducked straight work, instead forming an extortion crew with six fellow countrymen. They squeezed $500 weekly tributes from small-store owners, keeping business hotels at heathrow airport coming with threats of violence and arson. Chulpayev also worked hotels at heathrow airport Medicaid hotels at heathrow airport fraud schemes and pimped out prostitutes.
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Facing up to six years in prison, Chulpayev again cooperated with authorities. He turned over other members of his car ring and helped police in a South Carolina murder-for-hire case. This time, his service earned Chulpayev a two-and-a-half-year hotels at heathrow airport sentence. He returned to the Atlanta luxury car business upon his release.
It's not clear how they met, but by the summer of 2011, Chulpayev had become acquainted with Lyle Livesay, a boyish-looking 23-year-old with a honey-smooth Southern drawl. The younger man also bought and sold used luxury vehicles like Hummers and Lamborghinis through a business variously called Global Assets Consolidation, GACMotorInc, hotels at heathrow airport and Exotics Today, based in the Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody. Mechanic Jeffrey Worstell began working on Livesay's fleet that same year.
Worstell claims he had limited knowledge about GAC's business and doesn't know exactly what Livesay and Chulpayev's roles were. "My workings with them strictly involved mechanics," he says. "I don't know what they were doing. It's weird because they come off as very well-spoken hotels at heathrow airport and nice."
Livesay, like Chulpayev, had some stains on his reputation. An Atlanta hip-hopper named Diamond had inked a deal with GAC for a yellow Camaro in early 2011. The lady rapper was shocked when the car was repossessed a week after she'd made a $15,000 payment. A video of the tow made it onto WorldStarHipHop.com , seriously denting Diamond's baller cred. When she confronted Livesay on video to clear her reputation, he said it was all a misunderstanding. The rapper signed a new deal with GAC for a red Camaro. But after Diamond hotels at heathrow airport made $5,800 in payments, the Camaro was also repossessed.
Diamond, now thoroughly pissed off, went to an Atlanta TV station with her story. The station investigated and found that Livesay's company claimed to get its inventory from car owners who couldn't shoulder their payments. GAC would theoretically act as a middleman, hotels at heathrow airport guaranteeing the car payments, then renting out the cars to third parties. But instead of giving its customers a standard lease, GAC had customers sign what it called "closed end use agreements." Apparently, payments never got to the institutions that held the notes on these cars, and they would move to repossess, leaving the third-party renter with no legal recourse. According to an Atlanta 11Alive television report, police had received 50 complaints about Livesay's business, hotels at heathrow airport and an investigation was opened by the Dunwoody Police Department. According to the department's Officer Tim Feck, that investigation was eventually handed over to the Secret Service, which is tasked with investigating certain financial crimes. The TV station reported that Livesay was also being investigated by the FBI regarding an online electronics company he'd run.