Brooklyn gangster helped friend after escape from Rikers jail barge: feds

A high-ranking Eastern European gangster who terrorized Brooklyn tried to help a member of his crew after he escaped the city’s floating jail, federal prosecutors said in a Tuesday court filing.

Roman Nikoghosyan planned to wire money to fellow KavKaz Nation member David Mordukhaev after his July 10 escape from Vernon C. Bain Correctional Facility, a barge near Rikers Island on the East River, prosecutors in Brooklyn federal court said. Nikoghosyan was heard on police wiretaps pushing his own mother to take up the fugitive while he tried to set him up with a car to get out of New York, a memorandum of law from Acting US Attorney Jacquelyn M. Kasulis said.