A Brooklyn man, Michael Khodorkovskiy, 45, was sentenced to 10 years in prison followed by five years of post-release supervision, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney announced in his office’s last news update of May 2025.
Back in April, Khodorkovskiy pled guilty to a second-degree offense: trafficking Cocaine from his Brooklyn stomping grounds to an elite clientele base docked in Long Island’s East End.
“Khodorkovskiy’s operation was not only expansive, it was sophisticated and targeted,” DA Tierney said. “His arrest followed a long-term investigation that uncovered over a kilogram of cocaine, hidden compartments in his vehicle, and nearly $140,000 in cash and gold coins linked to drug sales.”
Court documents and Khodorkovskiy’s own admissions confirmed that, between July 2023 and Aug. 2024, he sold large quantities of cocaine to an undercover police officer near his Brooklyn domicile.
Under the belief these drugs were to be distributed throughout Suffolk County, the defendant next traveled to the area himself. He sold cocaine directly to another undercover police officer in East Hampton—with designs on reaching both the aforementioned town and Montauk to satiate tourist hotbed activity.
From the onset of the investigation, undercover operatives were able to successfully penetrate Khodorkovskiy’s network by posing as customers. The undercover officers would then contact Khodorkovskiy or his “associates” to arrange for cocaine purchases.
He was arrested on Aug. 2nd, 2024th by members of DA Tierney’s East End Drug Task Force. At the time of his arrest, a kilo and a quarter of cocaine was found on his person.
A hidden “trap” compartment was also discovered in his Mercedes Benz. Here, police recovered additional cocaine and the narcotic MDMA.
Following a search warrant, $38,5550 in cash and 39 gold coins with an estimated value of $100,000 were recovered from Khodorkovskiy’s Brooklyn apartment.
$395,055 in U.S. currency was later seized from various bank accounts linked to Khodorkoyskiy.
The investigation was conducted jointly by the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office’s East End Drug Taskforce (EEDTF), East Hampton Town Police Department, the Suffolk County Police Department, the New York State Police, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Office of Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York.
“Our communities deserve to be safe from the violence, addiction, and destruction that follow in the wake of drug trafficking,” Tierney added.