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| “ | Tell them American cops are pathetic. No one is afraid of them. | „ |
| ~ Osinski telling his wife in Russian to insult Max Greevey and Mike Logan |
Sasha Osinski (Ukrainian: Саша Осинський/Russian: Саша Осинский) is the secondary antagonist of the Law & Order episode "The Serpent's Tooth". He is a Russian gangster who, along with his partner-in-crime Alex Petrovich, launders money from a printing company, murders the owner and wife, and frames their sons for the crime.
He was portrayed by Olek Krupa, who also portrayed Constantin Volsky in a later Law & Order episode, as well as Alexander Strizhov in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Sergei Ivanovich Petrofsky in Eraser, and Petr Beaupre in Home Alone 3.
Early life[]
Osinski was a low-level member of a Russian crime syndicate in his native Kyiv before he moved with his wife and three children to New York City. There, he continued running small-time scams for his bosses back in Kyiv, while laundering the money through a discount goods store, which he ran with his wife.
Alex Petrovich, one of his fellow Russian gangsters, approached him with a plan to launder money he had embezzled from Jarman and Sons Printing, the company where he worked as a manager, kill its owner, Karl Jarman, and frame his sons Nick and Greg for the crime. Petrovich paid him to purchase ammunition out of state, and then break into the Jarmans' house with them and gun the Jarmans down.
"The Serpent's Tooth"[]
Petrovich and Osinski kill Karl and Evelyn Jarman, and Petrovich steers suspicion toward Greg and Nick when Homicide Sergeant Max Greevey and Detective Mike Logan, who are investigating the murder, question him. He says that he was eating dinner with Osinski and his wife at the time of the murders, an alibi that Osinski confirms. Due to circumstantial evidence, along with the fact that Jarman was an abusive father who beat both of his sons mercilessly, Greevey and Logan arrest Greg and Nick for the murders of their parents.
Executive Assistant District Attorney Ben Stone and Assistant District Attorney Paul Robinette find inconsistencies in the case against Greg and Nick, however, so they investigate Petrovich just to make sure that they are not prosecuting the wrong people. They discover that Petrovich took out loans from a bank owned by the Russian crime syndicate in Kyiv so that Jarman's company would go bankrupt, and the debts would go back to the bank, and thus the Russian mob; Petrovich, meanwhile, would take over the company. They also discover that Osinski had purchased the ammunition used to kill the Jarmans, so they have him and Petrovich both arrested and charged with second-degree murder.
Realizing that he needs Osinski's testimony to convict Petrovich, Stone makes a deal with him to give him immunity for any crime he committed in New York County in return for telling the jury what he and Petrovich did. Osinski agrees to the deal and testifies that he and Petrovich conspired to murder Jarman. Petrovich is convicted, and Osinski is arrested moments later, Stone having tricked him; when Osinski made the deal with Stone, neither he nor his lawyer realized that Brooklyn, where he committed his crimes, is in Kings County, not New York County, meaning that he can still be held legally responsible for what he did. Osinski and Petrovich are both sentenced to life in prison.
External links[]
- Sasha Osinski on the Law & Order Wiki
