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![Dina Wein-Reis, with hubby David Reis, yesterday at the fed court in Indianapolis. [credit photo:nypost]](http://www.vosizneias.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/dina2.jpg "dina2")
Dina Wein-Reis, with hubby David Reis, yesterday at the fed court in Indianapolis. [credit photo:nypost]
There's also an art collection valued at $35 million and seven homes, one of them newly purchased - in Jerusalem.
Add that to her dozens of bank accounts and a missing, expired passport, and it adds up to a very substantial flight risk, according to the feds.
The astonishing wealth of Dina Wein-Reis, 44, had Indiana prosecutors arguing that she should be kept locked up until she can be transferred to the Hoosier State, where she'd been indicted on charges of bilking as much as $20 million from consumer-products companies.
But a Manhattan federal judge thought otherwise, and on Tuesday, sprung Wein-Reis - stunning the Indiana authorities.
In a "very unusual" move, Judge Shira Scheindlin reversed a colleague, who ordered last Thursday that Wein-Reis be detained until she was shipped to Indiana.
In the first ruling, Magistrate Judge Michael Dolinger said he didn't have "sufficient assurance" that bail would ensure Wein-Reis' return to face the charges.
But Scheindlin flipped the ruling on Tuesday - and let her go after her lawyer brother Hershel Wein put up a $10 million bond and three homes.
Whitney Museum curator Barbara Haskell was one of the latest upper-crust pal of Dina Wein-Reis that urged the judge to go easy on the mother of three.
"I have always regarded Dina as a person who cared about others," Haskell wrote in a letter to the judge. "She certainly has cared about me. I am prepared to stand as a character witness should it be helpful to her."
"Our three boys - Joshua, 18; Jacob 14, and Joseph, 8 - are falling apart by the day," Wein-Reis' husband, David Reis, wrote Scheindlin. "Dina is a great woman; she has helped the sick, needy and less fortunate."
Wein-Reis' parents, Solomon and Vivian, also appeared in court to deliver the property records to support the bond.
But Indiana prosecutors raced to file a motion to stay her release, and a judge there signed papers at around 5:30 p.m. They got to Manhattan 15 minutes later, but Wein-Reis, who faces up to 17½ years in jail, was already out.
The Election Day move - conducted while the court was closed to the public - was described as "very peculiar" by a legal expert, who added that Scheindlin's actions were "very unusual."
"Since the case is from another jurisdiction, it would make sense for the entire matter to be brought to that jurisdiction and for the court there to make all the decisions," said the expert, a former prosecutor who teaches law.
"It's almost like [Scheindlin is] pre-empting the court and the prosecutors out there. "[Scheindlin] is acting in contravention of what the Indiana prosecutors want and the Indiana judge wants, and that's not a good situation."
Wein-Reis showed up in Indy yesterday - arriving before dawn with her husband, David Reis. After a brief court appearance, at which she offered just two words - "Yes, sir" - as a judge read the charges, she was ordered to return today. She's expected to argue that the New York decision should keep Indiana from locking her up.
Wein-Reis' lawyer John Meringolo urged reporters to respect the family's privacy.
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Nov 06, 2008 at 08:08 AM Nitpickin Says:
I'm just speechless
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Nov 06, 2008 at 08:07 AM Chana L.schochet Says:
please post her full name, so we may say tehillim for her.
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Nov 06, 2008 at 08:23 AM Anonymous Says:
How can an expired passport help her? Unless she would get it copied. What a crazy world.
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Nov 06, 2008 at 08:29 AM Anonymous Says:
I find it difficult to believe that Dina is guilty. I've read the stories and they are just not plausible.
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Nov 06, 2008 at 08:33 AM Anonymous Says:
im sorry. but people dont get labled for nothing. I DONT KNOW THIS CASE. but people are doing crazy and wrong stuff and then everyone is crying to help i dont get it.
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Nov 06, 2008 at 08:46 AM AuthenticSatmar Says:
The prosecutors got what they wanted. She is now in front of a judge in Indy. They wanted her to come in cuffs, and she came on her own free will. What are they complaining about?
Our courts and juries have hated people with opulent lives. What does her opulence have to do with the alleged crime? Nothing, yet they choose to bring it up constantly in hopes of turning poor hard working jurors against them.
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Nov 06, 2008 at 08:45 AM Anonymous Says:
“ im sorry. but people dont get labled for nothing. I DONT KNOW THIS CASE. but people are doing crazy and wrong stuff and then everyone is crying to help i dont get it. ”
ever heard of pidyan shveeyim?
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Nov 06, 2008 at 09:27 AM Anonymous Says:
say tehilim for her? are you serious? she may have stolen millions of dollars and maybe even from fellow jews? dont you think she should be punished?
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Nov 06, 2008 at 10:09 AM Allan Says:
I don't know of her story or possible guilt or not...but this does show that the very well off in America can sure get more than the poor or lesser well off. Equal justice for all...I think not!!
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Nov 06, 2008 at 10:13 AM Anonymous Says:
Regardless if innocence or guilt, I still think it was poor judgment at this time to show up carrying a Burberry bag. Obviously that is so a part of this woman that she didn't realize how inappropriate it was, considering many suspect she bought these high priced luxury goods with stolen money. Once she is cleared she can spend her money however she pleases, but at this time she should be more aware of perceptions and public image. At the same time, note her husband is not wearing a black hat, but a baseball cap-- recall the uproar when Jack Abramoff wore his black hat to court and was labeled a mafia gangster. Image is important!!!!
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Nov 06, 2008 at 10:38 AM Chana L. Schochet Says:
There are so many Gatekeepers of hell around. Pidyon shvuyim, Dan Lkaf Zechus, and a little ahavas yisroel are in order. Please come forward with her name for tehillim.
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Nov 06, 2008 at 10:35 AM Anonymous Says:
pidayn shveeyim is not a free pass for stealling in life.
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Nov 06, 2008 at 10:49 AM EY Says:
“ The prosecutors got what they wanted. She is now in front of a judge in Indy. They wanted her to come in cuffs, and she came on her own free will. What are they complaining about?
Our courts and juries have hated people with opulent lives. What does her opulence have to do with the alleged crime? Nothing, yet they choose to bring it up constantly in hopes of turning poor hard working jurors against them. ”
I was in Federal court in White Plains for a hearing about letting a British Jew out of Jail. People were there as charachter witnesses saying what a big Baal Tzedakah he was, the Judge screamed and said "with stolen money!" and sent him back for another 2 years.
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Nov 06, 2008 at 11:03 AM FVNMS Says:
Crime is wrong. There, I said it. Now for the rant:
#'s 5, 8, 12:
The Jewish instinct is to be rachmonim bnei rachmonim. If this is is how you typically react to a Jew being in trouble, you might want to look into genetic testing. I take some comfort in believing in the possibility that you aren't one of ours.
#'s 9:
What do you care? Your man got elected- CHANGE is coming. Very soon all her stuff will be redistributed to you. So rest your green eyes for a bit and let the rich enjoy their preferential treatment for just a few more weeks..
I'll end by saying that some of the ppl on VIN scare me.
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Nov 06, 2008 at 11:47 AM Anonymous Says:
“ I was in Federal court in White Plains for a hearing about letting a British Jew out of Jail. People were there as charachter witnesses saying what a big Baal Tzedakah he was, the Judge screamed and said "with stolen money!" and sent him back for another 2 years. ”
your right. but people dont want to see it that way and get it into there HEADS. and what good is it if they are making a big chilul hashem
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Nov 06, 2008 at 11:45 AM Anonymous Says:
She will be fully exonerated
the exec that sold the merchandise knew what he was doing with a "wink in the other direction" this has been going on for years I hope they throw the execs "under the bus" and then the Dina and David should retire!.
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Nov 06, 2008 at 01:16 PM Anonymous Says:
“ I find it difficult to believe that Dina is guilty. I've read the stories and they are just not plausible. ”
She is guilty.
And, she deserves EVERYTHING coming to her. She makes me sick to my stomach from her actions in her business life to her personal life. Her life of excess goes beyond what any of these stories portray. Actually, they are quite kind.
I was elated beyond words to hear she had to spend at least 7 days in jail. She is not a nice person.
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Nov 06, 2008 at 02:03 PM vildechaia Says:
Wow! That smirk on her face just screams for a zetz. And, just because her passport is "missing" or "expired," that does not mean she does not have the wherewithal to get another one, as well as other fake identification documents. If I were a betting person, I'd guess she'd flee the U.S. a.s.a.p. And, a new home in Jerusalem? What a coincidence.
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Nov 06, 2008 at 02:28 PM fed up Says:
i hate when all of a sudden people start ranting about pidyon shviim and have rachmonus. I am not perfect thats for sure but when you lie and deceit why the hell should i have rachmonus i am not a posek but thats not what the inyun of pidyon shviim is all about it was more for when nebach the goyim would just throw yidden in jail just because they were jews not when you do crime.... how can someone say oy she is a mother of 3 so let her out i feel terrible for the kids yes they are the nebach but did she ever once think of the consequences or was she only thinking of herself and being greedy i am not saying am heartless but not when ur dealing with criminals... you know who deserves that money instead of bailing her out ppl that are nebach starving and ppl that lost their jobs................ its a disgrace why the hell is she smiling
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Nov 06, 2008 at 03:24 PM Anonymous Says:
“ i hate when all of a sudden people start ranting about pidyon shviim and have rachmonus. I am not perfect thats for sure but when you lie and deceit why the hell should i have rachmonus i am not a posek but thats not what the inyun of pidyon shviim is all about it was more for when nebach the goyim would just throw yidden in jail just because they were jews not when you do crime.... how can someone say oy she is a mother of 3 so let her out i feel terrible for the kids yes they are the nebach but did she ever once think of the consequences or was she only thinking of herself and being greedy i am not saying am heartless but not when ur dealing with criminals... you know who deserves that money instead of bailing her out ppl that are nebach starving and ppl that lost their jobs................ its a disgrace why the hell is she smiling ”
what about hatzneah leches : bettr to invest all the koichus in avoidas haboray thats the eiker
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Nov 06, 2008 at 05:35 PM Anonymous Says:
Dont realy understand what she is being charged with?
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Nov 06, 2008 at 09:22 PM Anonymous Says:
“ what about hatzneah leches : bettr to invest all the koichus in avoidas haboray thats the eiker ”
Excuse me...but what language is this?
A little yeshivish is okay but this is nutz!
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Nov 06, 2008 at 09:15 PM Anonymous Says:
“ Crime is wrong. There, I said it. Now for the rant:
#'s 5, 8, 12:
The Jewish instinct is to be rachmonim bnei rachmonim. If this is is how you typically react to a Jew being in trouble, you might want to look into genetic testing. I take some comfort in believing in the possibility that you aren't one of ours.
#'s 9:
What do you care? Your man got elected- CHANGE is coming. Very soon all her stuff will be redistributed to you. So rest your green eyes for a bit and let the rich enjoy their preferential treatment for just a few more weeks..
I'll end by saying that some of the ppl on VIN scare me. ”
Dude...you are the scariest of them all.
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Nov 06, 2008 at 09:36 PM Anonymous Says:
please note many courts look at websites such as these, everyone deserves a fair trial and we should not be so fast to judge anyone....does it not say JUDGE EVERYONE FAvorably!!!Who do we think we are.. a little Ahavas Yisroel will go a long way and if people are wrong put youself in thier shoes!!!!!!
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Nov 06, 2008 at 10:40 PM Anonymous Says:
Silly me. I thought "Innocent until proven guilty."
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Nov 06, 2008 at 10:45 PM disgusted Says:
“ She is guilty.
And, she deserves EVERYTHING coming to her. She makes me sick to my stomach from her actions in her business life to her personal life. Her life of excess goes beyond what any of these stories portray. Actually, they are quite kind.
I was elated beyond words to hear she had to spend at least 7 days in jail. She is not a nice person.
”
Wow, anonymous. So happy that you know for a fact that she is guilty! I didn't realize you were her lawyer! Oh! Wait! Are you an FBI agent? Nah, you just must be one of those kind-hearted people, always wanting to believe the best in everyone. . .
I'm so happy this personal vendetta is working out for you. Let's be best friends! You sounds awesome!
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Nov 07, 2008 at 04:41 AM Anonymous Says:
“ please post her full name, so we may say tehillim for her. ”
Dina Bas Chaya Hen'a
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Nov 07, 2008 at 02:05 AM Robin Says:
This is the type of selfish person that gives other decent law abiding Jews a bad name. Here's a few words I can think of...gonif, shonda. Robin Hood took from the rich and gave to the poor, this woman was beyond self indulgent. For shame!
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Nov 07, 2008 at 12:49 AM Anonymous Says:
“ She is guilty.
And, she deserves EVERYTHING coming to her. She makes me sick to my stomach from her actions in her business life to her personal life. Her life of excess goes beyond what any of these stories portray. Actually, they are quite kind.
I was elated beyond words to hear she had to spend at least 7 days in jail. She is not a nice person.
”
wow u are crazy i am glad u know she is guilty if the court does not know yet whtvr it is her family needs privacy it not right on her husband and kids and i smell tht u are jelous bec there no other way u can talk like tht
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Nov 08, 2008 at 08:25 PM dave Says:
“ say tehilim for her? are you serious? she may have stolen millions of dollars and maybe even from fellow jews? dont you think she should be punished? ”
I have never heard such stupidity in my life i dont know anything but well you certainly said one trhing right you no nothing indictments are wasy to get since you do not have the right to challenge the fed. attny. getting a conviction is some thing else
we are in gulous because of peole like your self
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Nov 08, 2008 at 08:37 PM dave Says:
“ wow u are crazy i am glad u know she is guilty if the court does not know yet whtvr it is her family needs privacy it not right on her husband and kids and i smell tht u are jelous bec there no other way u can talk like tht ”
may god grant you the same experience that you wish on others
be scared of what you wrote very scared
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Nov 08, 2008 at 08:33 PM Anonymous Says:
I have never seen more disheartening and disgusting starements why didnt her husband wear a black hat did she have to carry a burbury bag insanity. a major bal stiducor that supported many of our yeshiva's and organization was accused of what reselling items she P-A-I-D for. before you cast your stone learn something about the truth in this case.
Many people are indicted and most never get convicted because the case should never have been brought to court
But what i see here isnothing more them a greoup of jealiouse people casting stones at someone that may actually be innocent hey but i'm frum so lets just kill her now
oh yeah to the idiot that stated she's from lawrence actually she's from flatbush and nyc
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Nov 09, 2008 at 04:43 PM Anonymous Says:
“ She will be fully exonerated
the exec that sold the merchandise knew what he was doing with a "wink in the other direction" this has been going on for years I hope they throw the execs "under the bus" and then the Dina and David should retire!. ”
Oh my gosh someone who really does know something. Thank you! Yes the companies are all in on this and all the other ways they move product around the Robinson Packman Act. They are the whores crying rape! All the miserable people that are convicting her are just jealous and need to get their own lives. Yes the FBI and the Atty Gen. do lie, do over indict and do go after headlines where they can and do not always get convictions and even get people to plead guilty when they are innocent just to keep from being driven into financial ruin. Some of the people writing need to grow up and read alittle to understand the true "justice" system. Start with the Wall Street Journal and move on from there. Avoid the Post!
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Nov 09, 2008 at 06:36 PM Anonymous Says:
Oh well. Prospect Park Yeshiva High School will have to find some other alumnus to honor this year. For all of you defenders of Dina, go ask any girl who graduated Prospect Park High School around 1980-1981 what an eishet chayil Dina was.
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Nov 09, 2008 at 06:32 PM Anonymous Says:
“ say tehilim for her? are you serious? she may have stolen millions of dollars and maybe even from fellow jews? dont you think she should be punished? ”
who the hell do you think you are? G-d? you decide who should get punished? You dont know anything other than whats smeared in the papers and even if you knew for a fact she stole you still are supposed to pray for her!
Do us all a favor, next time you want to post a comment think before you post!
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Nov 10, 2008 at 07:48 PM Anonymous Says:
David Reis Is a wonderful father to his children,has a respectable job as a licenced contractor and has never pretended to be a rabbi.