"Rabbi/Government "Culture of Corruption"
"Mayors, rabbis arrested in corruption probe
"These complaints paint a disgraceful picture of religious leaders heading money-laundering crews, acting as crime bosses. They used purported charities ... as vehicles for laundering millions of dollars in illicit funds," Marra said. The rabbis named in the criminal complaints are accused of setting up charitable tax-exempt organizations at their synagogues that they used to launder money.
"Israel Kills Palestinian Boys, Steals Organs For Transplants
"The organ of last resort
"America's "disappeared": The homeless of the big cities
"FLASHBACK - Moldova's desperate organ donors
"‘I Am What You Call a Matchmaker’
"FLASHBACK - Presumed guilty
"FLASHBACK - Israeli organ traffickers shift operations to China
(Also see: China investigating illegal transplants for 17 Japanese tourist; Organ transfers for foreigners banned in '07)
"Organ Trafficking: A Fast-Expanding Black Market
"FLASHBACK - ISRAEL: Still a destination for human trafficking
"NJ official steps down amid corruption arrests The mayors of three New Jersey cities, two state legislators and several rabbis were among more than 40 people arrested Thursday in a sweeping corruption investigation that began as a probe into an international money laundering ring that trafficked in goods as diverse as human organs and fake designer handbags.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, the investigation initially focused, with the help of the cooperating witness, on the money laundering network that operated between Brooklyn, Deal, N.J. and Israel. The network is alleged to have laundered tens of millions of dollars through charities controlled by rabbis in New York and New Jersey.
This is shaping up to be a modern-day horror story.Also see MSM Miracles: One-Day Israeli Wonders (and related links within)
Now the MSM one-day, can't ignore it but never follow up on, piece of cover-up s***.
"3 NJ mayors, lawmakers arrested in corruption case" by David Porter, Associated Press Writer | July 23, 2009
NEWARK, N.J. --An investigation into the sale of black-market kidneys and fake
Even for a state with a rich history of graft, the scale of wrongdoing alleged was breathtaking. An FBI official called corruption "a cancer that is destroying the core values of this state."
And this nation. Is the FBI finally fighting back?
Federal prosecutors said the investigation initially focused on a money laundering network that operated between Brooklyn, N.Y.; Deal, N.J.; and Israel. The network is alleged to have laundered tens of millions of dollars through Jewish charities controlled by rabbis in New York and New Jersey.
Prosecutors then used an informant in that investigation to help them go after corrupt politicians. The informant -- a real estate developer charged with bank fraud three years ago -- posed as a crooked businessman and paid a string of public officials tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to get approvals for buildings and other projects in New Jersey, authorities said.
Among the 44 people arrested were the mayors of Hoboken, Ridgefield and Secaucus, Jersey City's deputy mayor, and two state assemblymen. A member of the governor's cabinet resigned after agents searched his home, though he was not arrested. All but one of the officeholders are Democrats.
Thank the Lord I'm a Republican!
Also, five rabbis from New York and New Jersey -- two of whom lead congregations in Deal -- were accused of laundering millions of dollars, some of it from the sale of counterfeit goods and bankruptcy fraud, authorities said.
In rounding up the defendants, FBI and IRS agents raided a synagogue Thursday morning in Deal, a wealthy oceanfront city of Mediterranean-style mansions, with a large population of Syrian Jews.
Glad to see they are doing that instead of working the mosque!
Those arrested included Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn, who was charged with conspiring to arrange the sale of an Israeli citizen's kidney for $160,000 for a transplant for the informant's fictitious uncle....
The politicians arrested were not accused of any involvement in the money laundering or the trafficking in human organs and counterfeit handbags.... The informant, whose name was not released, was the hinge between the two investigations. He gave prosecutors information about the money laundering operation, and later, at the direction of the FBI, drew on his background to go after politicians.
Now, THESE are the GOOD TYPES of INFORMANTS!!!
Way better than the instigating agitators that frame Muslim patsies!
He found a particularly receptive ally in Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano III, according to prosecutors. The 32-year-old Cammarano, who won a runoff election last month, was accused of accepting money from the developer at a Hoboken diner....
Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini was charged with conspiracy to commit extortion by taking $20,000 in illegal campaign contributions. State Assemblymen Daniel Van Pelt and L. Harvey Smith were also accused of taking payoffs.
Mike Winnick was praying inside the Deal Synagogue when it was raided. He said four FBI agents escorted a rabbi into his office and blocked the doorway. "Everyone was looking at each other, like, 'What's going on here?'" Winnick said.
Busloads carrying those arrested were brought to the FBI's Newark office....
Globe's "update":
"Authorities arrest 44 in N.J. corruption case; 2 lawmakers, 3 mayors, and rabbis accused" by David M. Halbfinger, New York Times | July 24, 2009
A two-year corruption and international money-laundering investigation stretching from the New Jersey shore to Brooklyn to Israel and Switzerland culminated in charges against 44 people yesterday, including three New Jersey mayors, two state assemblymen, and five rabbis, authorities said.
The case began with bank fraud charges against a member of an insular Syrian Jewish enclave centered in a seaside town. But when that man became a federal informant and posed as a crooked real estate developer offering cash bribes to obtain government approvals, it mushroomed into a political scandal that could rival any of the most explosive and sleazy episodes in New Jersey’s recent past.
It was replete with tales of the illegal sales of human organs; of furtive negotiations in diners and parking lots; of nervous jokes about “patting down’’ a man who turned out to indeed be an informant; and, again and again, of the passing of cash - once in a box of Apple Jacks cereal stuffed with $97,000.
“For these defendants, corruption was a way of life,’’ Ralph J. Marra Jr., the acting US attorney in New Jersey, said at a news conference.
Related: Olmert the Thief
The authorities laid out two separate schemes, one involving money laundering that led to rabbis and members of the Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn and in the Jersey Shore town of Deal, where many of them have summer homes....
Linking the two schemes was the federal informant who was not named in court papers but who people involved with the investigation identified as Solomon Dwek, a failed real estate developer and philanthropist who was arrested in May 2006 on charges of passing a bad $25 million check at a bank in Monmouth County, N.J.
Early on, Dwek led investigators to an extensive network of money launderers including rabbis in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, where the Syrian Jewish community is based, and in Deal and Elberon, shore towns where many in the community spend their summers.
Dwek, a member of the Syrian Jewish community whose parents founded the Deal Yeshiva, never concealed that he was facing bank fraud charges, instead telling targets, which included three rabbis in Brooklyn and two in New Jersey, that he was bankrupt and trying to conceal his assets, according to people involved in the case. The targets, in turn, accepted bank checks Dwek made out to charities that they oversaw, deducted a fee, and returned the rest to him in cash.
Much of the cash came from Israel....
As a result of the money-laundering scheme, the rabbis arrested included Saul Kassin, 87, the chief rabbi of the Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn and New Jersey; Mordchai Fish and Lavel Schwartz, both rabbis in Brooklyn; and Eliahu Ben Haim and Edmund Nahum, who lead congregations in Deal.
Another man in Brooklyn, Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum, was accused of enticing vulnerable people to give up a kidney for $10,000 and then selling the organ for $160,000.
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The Racketeering Rabbis
Welcome to Israel, the land of White Slavers, Body Snatchers and Drug Mules
Busted: The Orthodox Criminal Network
"11 Suspicious Letters With White Powder Sent to N.J. Government Offices The FBI is investigating 11 suspicious letters containing a white powder that were sent to various New Jersey government offices this month
Israelis deep into organ trafficing
Is Israel harvesting organs of Palestinian youths?
ISRAEL NOW HARVESTING PALESTINIAN BODY ORGANS
Two Haifa men sentenced to jail for organ trafficking
Anyone counting the homeless lately? Are any missing?
"Prof says she told FBI about kidney trafficking"
"Rabbi Busts Stun World's Largest Jewish Enclave Brooklyn In Awe As FBI Hauls Off 1 Prominent Figure After Another Allegedly Connected To N.J. Corruption Probe
"The big New Jersey bust - What they're not saying
What the TV news is NOT reporting is:
1. The FBI was advised of this organ traffciking ring SEVEN YEARS AGO by a totally credible source (a university professor) and it's MUCH larger than a single potential transaction.
2. Law enforcement in Brazil and South Africa acted immediately on the information and went after the criminals.
3. This was not just organ dealing. It was organ stealing. Impoverished people were flown in and told if they didn't go through with the deal, they'd be shot. Some had no idea the details of what they'd agreed to.
Organs were "bought" for $10,000 and re-sold for $150,000 and more. It took the FBI SEVEN YEARS to get themselves in gear and get an indictment.