Russian mobster convicted in Brooklyn slay helped feds win fraud conviction: docs

An ex-Russian mobster convicted in the gruesome 1995 slaying of a Brooklyn boxer helped the feds secure the conviction of a banker accused of fraud, according to new papers filed in the Manhattan federal court case.

The former gangster, identified by defense attorneys as convicted murderer Natan Gozman, worked with the FBI as a confidential informant in a financial fraud case against former bank manager Herode Chancy. Chancy, along with co-conspirator Michael Albarella, pleaded guilty in March of conspiring to fraudulently obtain business loans of more than $1 million and to not repay them, prosecutors in Manhattan federal court said.