Brooklyn, NY – Three Chasidic men from Crown Heights were arraigned this past Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court after attempting to purchase 50 pounds of marijuana from an undercover FBI agent.
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According to reports in the New York Post, Boruch Rapoport, 47, Moshe Horenshtein, 27 and Menachem Jacboson, 30, will be facing charges in a Texas federal court in two weeks.
According to the criminal complaint filed in the case, Rapoport met with an undercover FBI agent who posed an El Paso drug boss last April, telling him that he would need 50 pounds of marijuana weekly.
The marijuana was delivered on Tuesday to a warehouse on Atlantic and Nostrand Avenues. Rapoport met with the undercover agent to arrange payment on Wednesday at a Brooklyn hotel and was arrested after giving the undercover agent $95,000 in cash to pay for the marijuana.
Horenshtein and Jacobson went to the warehouse to inspect the merchandise. Horenshtein paid agents $3,000 to cover shipping costs for the marijuana, taking two bricks of marijuana as samples before he was arrested.
The trio were released on $500,000 bail. Horenshtein’s bail was posted by members of the Rubashkin family. Jacobson was bailed out by Rabbi Boruch Jacobson of Hunter College.
All three men are due in a Texas court on September 26th, the second day of Rosh Hashana.
Dear VIN News “Staff,”
Can you please ‘splain to us common folk how come they are due in a Federal Court in Texas, if the alleged crime took place in NY which is a different district?
Gives new meaning to the name High Holidays
I found out the details through a source. Apparently they were going to set up a service where they were going to repackage the marijuana in bricks with a Bodek label.
What a major chillul hashem! Throw away the keys
Holy smoke !!!
Please stay in NY to buy your drugs.
TO POST # 1 ITS VERY SIMPLE IF THE TAKE IT OUT OF NYC
THEN YOU GET REDNECK JURY LIKE THE RUBASHKIN CASE
THEN THEY CAN THROW THE BOOK AT THEM FOR A LONG TERM SENTENCE
They will all be in Israel in no time. Then their families will follow.
This is a big misunderstanding. These talmidim just wanted to raise quick cash for tzedoka so many more families can celebrate upcoming holy days.
Strange that no one commented negatively on the fact that these men are religious and obviously making money selling this crap to other religious people in and out of the Chabad community.
I personally am sickened that there are ‘religious’ people who do such things. Especially in Chabad who are a) known for their good example in outreach, and b) who learn Tanya that teaches to not get involved in pleasures of this world things.
Why does Chabad bail these guys out? Let them face the music behind bars. People barely have money for basic need in Crown Heights and the Rubashkins are bailing drug dealers out of prison?
I just don’t get it. Do they not understand the severity of their crime, buying and trying to sell this? Is there no other way to make parnassa these days, just by getting yourself into prison. I just don’t get it. Please…could someone explain why our people need to resort to this. What a chillul Hashem and what? try to sell it to heimishe people ? this is beyond absurd…just beyond my mental capacity to understand…………….and I got a
big open minded brain.
Help……………..what a yom tov…
P.S. wonder if their spouses are aware….or if they even care………….or maybe they don’t have any……..hope they are all single………why should people suffer because they use poor judgemeng. I’m sure the Rebbe would be real proud of them. What a shame.
I have never touched the stuff, but Marijuana is only illegal as an excuse to put people in jail. Obama said it isn’t any worse than Alcohol. When it finally is legalized nationally, people will look on our age how we look on Prohibition
he has money for a deal like this but is on who pays $108 in rent for his subsidized $1,400 apartment — produced $95,000 in cash to pay for the pot before he was arrested.
a little side not another shameful fraudster
Anyone who has 95k in cash should not be on Section 8. I hope they go after them for welfare fraud also. They’re lucky the Feds got them before another competitive mafia drug dealer got them. We could have had another Stern case.
This is what happens when you don’t teach yungerleit a trade.
Rabbi Yehuda says whoever does not teach his son a profession teaches him to become a criminal (he will end up stealing because he will have no other way of earning a living: Rashi).
So long as parents and schools keep turning out kids with no ability to perform an honest day’s work to earn a living, we’ll see more of this, welfare fraud, tax evasion, etc.