The mob goes where the money is, though this time it’s not Italian …
Dozens Arrested in New Jersey Corruption Probe - WSJ.com
… The alleged money-laundering operations run by the rabbis laundered about $3 million for Mr. Dwek since June 2007, according to the court documents and a person familiar with the matter. The rabbis used charitable, nonprofit entities connected to their synagogues to "wash" money they understood came from criminal activity, prosecutors alleged.
Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn was charged separately with conspiring to broker the sale of a human kidney for a transplant, at a cost of $160,000 to the transplant recipient. According to the FBI's complaint, Mr. Rosenbaum said he had been brokering the sale of kidneys for 10 years…
"The rings were international in scope, connected to Deal, N.J., Brooklyn, N.Y., Israel and Switzerland," said Mr. Marra, the U.S. attorney, at the news conference. "They trafficked in the cleaning of dirty money all across the world."
Rabbis doing money laundering in New Jersey is mildly interesting. The organ trade angle is truly interesting.
Update 7/24/09: TPM is tracking the organ trade angle.
Update 9/2/09: I'm getting some creepy comments on this post, of the Protocols of Zion sort. They're all being rejected, so don't bother.
curious about the creepy comments, from which side of the protocols are they (presumptively) coming?
ReplyDelete1) jews would never do this, you are a nazi liar and this is medieval blood libel?
or
2) all jews do this read the protocols
?
Just curious about this sort of stuff, the war for hearts and minds through the modern media.
Thanks for reading my comment :)
-googler
The comments I've rejected are anti-semitic, similar to the "blood libels" of traditional anti-semitism.
ReplyDeleteThe Organ Trade is hardly an Israeli phenomenon, it's world-wide but very big in the far east.