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N.J., N.Y. rabbis caught in federal money laundering, corruption sweep

July 23, 2009 | Pulaski, Pennsylvania | Vetting explained

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The days of crying victim are over!

 

Finally the world is seeing these mental midgets that live with the fantasy fairytale belief that they are God's chosen people, superior to all others and above the law as the criminals they truly are....

 

The days of the zionist stealing that which belongs to others in order to enrich themselves is coming to an end. They need to be treated as the world's parasites that they are!

 

Note from the article that the money was laundered through the criminal state of Israel.

 

"Orthodox rabbis, acting more like crime bosses than religious leaders, laundered millions through synagogues and yeshivas in Deal, one of the state's wealthiest towns. And a Realtor tried to sell an informant a black market kidney for $160,000."

 

"The charges note that Ben Haim, the principal rabbi of Congregation of Ohel Yaacob in Deal, would take checks ranging from tens of thousands of dollars up to $160,000 made payable to a charitable, tax-example organization associated with his synagogue, and return it in cast less a cut that was typically 10 percent.

The complaint said his source for cash was an Israeli in Israel.

Kassin, a revered figure in the Syrian Jewish community, similarly handled money exchanges, according to the complaint. In October 2007, the informant met with Kassin at his home in Brooklyn - a modest, two story brick home with a small patch of manicured grass and air conditioners in several windows - giving him a $25,000 bank check made out to one of the rabbi's charitable organizations. He said the check "is from some partnerships that I have with people where I'm not - I don't show up too much." He said he was looking to shield the money from an ongoing bankruptcy proceeding.

According to the criminal complaint, Kassin retrieved a large volume from another room and began to write out a check from his charitable organization to the informant, minus 10 percent.

Julio LaRosa, acting special agent in charge of the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, said traditional money laundering was once confined to narcotics traffickers and organized crime."

 

"Rabbis from the Syrian Jewish enclaves of Deal and Brooklyn were also arrested and charged with laundering $3 million through religious non-profit organizations in the past two years through a witness that cooperated with FBI and IRS investigators, Marra said.

"These rings, led by clergymen, cloaked their extensive criminal activity," Marra said. "The rings were international in scope, connected to Deal, N.J., Brooklyn, Israel and Switzerland. The victims are the average citizens and the honest businesspeople of this state," ..."

 

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/new_jersey_corruption_sweep_re.html

 

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/nj_officials_ny_rabbis_caught.html

 

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/blackmarket_kidneys_traffickin.html

 

"According to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Newark, an undercover FBI agent teamed with an informant -- who cooperated after a 2006 bank fraud charge -- to uncover the scheme. The document tells the story of how the partnership allegedly snared Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, a self-styled real estate dealer from Brooklyn. Over the course of about 18 months, the complaint says, Rosenbaum worked out a deal with the agent to obtain a kidney from an Israeli donor.

He planned to give the donor $10,000, federal authorities said, and charged his client a handsome fee: $160,000.

"I am what you call a matchmaker," the complaint quotes Rosenbaum as telling the undercover agent.

Had the transaction been real, federal authorities said, it would have been the most recent chapter in Rosenbaum's 10-year career as an illicit middleman. In each case, he would take a blood sample from a prospective recipient and give it to an associate at an insurance company who could analyze it at a lab without arousing suspicion. The sample would then be shipped to Israel, and the necessary people paid off to find a match.

"He prayed on vulnerable people, " said assistant US district attorney Mark McCarron.

Rosenbaum would then arrange the donor's flight to New York, including obtaining a visa, authorities said. Once the donor arrived in the US, Rosenbaum would help fabricate a relationship between donor and recipient -- a story both would repeat during interviews with medical professionals. The two might pretend to business associates, for instance, or close friends from a religious congregation."

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