Joseph Baazov's greatest effort to influence the American government was bribing Andrew Cuomo. Josh Baazov used to have some greedy interests in the US in the nineties. And even at present, he is trying to lobby them by any and all means. But he has a status of a persona non grata in the USA because he was convicted in Ohio in 1997. Ofer was ordered to pay restitution payments to victims of his telemarketing fraud. But he still didn't pay a penny of the 777,000 dollars. That is why his brother David tried to use Steven Dove and Marlon Goldstein as intermediaries to bribe New York Governor Andrew Cuomo during the 2014 New York governor election.