Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn landlord Menachem Stark might have been killed over a single $20,000 debt.
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The NY Daily News is reporting tonight, that a contractor Stark owed “about $20,000” to is being eyed as a suspect in his death.
The contractor has been linked to the van that was used in Stark’s kidnapping.
Police are waiting for forensics on the car and tracking his calls.
It’s not clear if an arrest is imminent.
This makes no sense whatsoever.
is there a cover up here?
Omg for $20,000 they had to do this? Gevald!
Omg
I owe my contractor 20 k do i need to hire body guards?
Is this a cover up from big banks?
So what are the police waiting for ? Isn’t it 1+1 ? That guy deserves to be hanged.
Prob bc police are too scared to go after the Russian mafia.
Not surprised. The guy he owed 20k, was desperate and needed the money. The guy he owed 30 million was living just fine.
It depends WHO is the ‘contractor.’
another smoke screen !!!!!!
first it was his partner, then a privet lender, Chicago bank, a business man, international bank etc…
then they have the van..oh wait a minute they don’t, the list goes on and on…..
they will only tell truth after an arrest has been made
Possible what they write is true And I bet they weren’t meant to kill -got botched up BUT kill them murders
O my! A heartbroken almanah with seven gorgeous children for 20 grand????? What a shrekliche tzaar!!!! Hashem Yinkom Domom!
if you read the daily news it states the following: “Detectives believe the abduction might have been carried out to scare Stark, 39, into paying the debt, and that his death by suffocation might have been accidental.”
maybe the guy who did this watched to many movies and thought this is the way to do things in the real world. Now just to retain a lawyer will cost him 100k and still he will end up doing life in jail
why is everything public. this doesn’t hinder any ….
Probably a local contractor.
Let’s wait till all the facts are verified before you all write crazy statements.
There are lots of lies that have been reported. ie, Ohio plates, Pa. plates, 1 million dollars missing from his bank, etc…
Not that its justified in any way shape or form, but you can only imagine how mad a contractor can get when he keeps on working and when he’s all done with his job, he can’t get paid for his work so that he can pay his bills or put food on his table. I can assure you plenty of our achaini bnai yisroel do this to this their contractors and feel its justified not to pay a man for his work, but wouldn’t think of walking out of a grocery without paying for a bottle of milk.
Go figure, perhaps its worth thinking about.
Oh Please no; this van was rented in a heimishe community…. No please…
I saw from the way the kidnapper was dressed he looked like an Israeli, or maybe a Russian Jew. They do not make you sign anything and just do the work, and if you do not pay up, uch in vey they could beat you to a pulp. But this setting fire makes no sense, or the stalking for weeks. Nope, not jiving. Maybe they hired a contractor to do it, and he got paid 20k to do so. Who knows though. people kill for pocket change too. Point is you must know who you are dealing with. How was Stark giving Bonei Olem huge funds and ignoring a contractor who did work already? Community should be careful not accept tainted blood money.
A tenant, a partner, a banker, now a contractor. How did he die? Still do not have facts.
Yea and i am president of Yugoslavia! How foolish can we be , to think even , of course its a cover up! But than again , and we will believe anything ! Yeah the cell , oops he forgot it by mistake : oh but the different cars and how every trace of evidence its eliminated; where are we – believing such a well thought out malicious and ruthless act – that it was simply
A botched and amaturian style hit job
And anything to find closure be it however , but so long we could lean on any shred and possibility and y not to fall over it and wrap our anguish around it !
Nebech when ושב מאחריך
Our current merits hides from us , the ability of seeing things with her full magnitude and scope ! Fear is nebech our driving force
למה לנצח תשכחינו
Kudos to the NYPD under Bill Bratton for quickly solving this case!
Something doesn’t add up, this is released to the media why???
As everyone else has said, this does not make sense. I would think it would cost much more than 20k to hire people to trail someone for days and to kidnap him, even if there was no intent of murder.
I would assume it costs at least that much to hire a “hitman”. Why are the police and Daily News letting the suspect know that they are on to him. Doesn’t that guarantee that he’ll flee the country?
When are we going to learn that the Issur of “Loi Solin”, pertains to every person you hire to do work, regardless of ethnicity.
Its just Tzedek V’yoisher to pay your workers timely.
How much does it cost to have someone killed? The creditor probably came out with a net zero gain!
I just cant believe that people really have such a lok IQ that they will argue all those comments on VIN withouy any knowledge on the case….
Some of the postings on this board are absurd. On television (i.e. NCIS, Hawaii 50, CSI, Dragnet, etc.), homicides are solved within an hour; however, it doesn’t work that way in real life. Successful homicide investigations, can take weeks or even months, until all of the facts have been ascertained. Therefore, the public is going to have to be patient. Incidentally, I can’t believe the naïve comments which stated “only for $20,000, it doesn’t make sense”. Yidden, there are criminals who would kill for pocket change, of less than $1.00. How many times have people been killed when approached for money by strangers, which they either didn’t have, or refused to give?
They haven’t made an arrest because the guy is probably out of the country already.
17 is right on. Try and get a contractor to even price a job in Monsey or parts of Williamsburg. They won’t even come out to look anymore.
20,000 can be and is a lot of money to many people. He has bills to pay workers suppliers etc.
in addition, it is one thing is the person really has no money to pay back the person, some can understand that. However when the person has a reputation for charity giving in their community that same person will say, hey that is my money you are giving to others and taking credit for it. And saying you do have money PAY ME.
For all those posting along the lines of “oy, they did this for $20,00”, it is a bit of achzariyus. As if to say, that it would be more understandable if it happened for $20,000,000. It shows a need to work on one’s hashkafos, that their is some justification for murder.
Why are people buying rumors from the same newspapers that reported a hundred different versions from the color of the vehicle to the people involved to the “shady” business practices. Wait for the official announcement, and don’t cook anything until then.
“…
Police found the 2002 Dodge Caravan used in the kidnapping in Brownsville on Tuesday. They questioned the driver, who’s the son of the van’s owner. Sources said the owner is not a suspect, but the driver had ties to the contractor. One source said an arrest is not yet imminent. “We’re waiting for forensics on the car and tracking his calls. But he owed this money, the guy picked up in the Caravan knows him and the phone under [Stark’s] car has ties to the contractor,” the law-enforcement source said.
Detectives believe the abduction might have been carried out to scare Stark, 39, into paying the debt, and that his death by suffocation might have been accidental.
A source close to the Stark family said that despite his numerous real estate holdings, the father of seven didn’t leave behind a will.
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I have a different twist to all theories. The NY post received this info from any speculator out there and and took it as if believinng to improve their image after its title of who didnt….. Meanwhile, hamokom yenachem eschem besoich sheor aveilei tsion vyrusholym. It gets sadder and sadder.
It seems obvious the killers did not mean to kill him. If so, they would have shot him as soon as they got his hands on him. Who would kill someone by suffocation?
If he owed someone money (and in his business, how could he not owe a lot of people a lot of money?) killing him would not make him pay. Holding him for ransom or scaring him into paying would make him pay.
So all in all, a botched job. Well who botches a job? Someone who has seen too many movies and decides to do the job himself. An amatuer who is now way over his head and will soon be caught.
I hope.
This whole thing is balony no one hires people to kill for $20,000 even the shvartzes know not to steal when there’s a cop or if the risks are not worth the money
The fact that the car might have been linked to this contractor was part of the criminals plan
Th criminals always knew their stuff better than the police and then later the police learnt new stuff and that’s how they make arrests but like I said being a criminal is a mentality