Deal, NJ – Jewish Community Feels Betrayed By Informant [‘moser’] Dwek

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    Solomon Dwek [Photo: Tim McCarthy/staff Asbury Park Press]Deal, NJ – Inside the shops and the Syrian synagogue, few would talk about Solomon Dwek, the man they feel is a turncoat to his own people.

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    “To do something like that to the community is a disgrace,” Syrian community member Joy Abboud said.

    Some in the Jewish community in Deal, New Jersey feel burned after five rabbis were among the 44 public servants rounded up by the feds, arrests only possible with Dwek’s help.

    “Dwek was such a good source for the government, and such a good cooperating witness, because he had that personality that made him very non-threatening to people,” said Ausbury Park press reporter Jean Mikle.

    Dwek was a government informant, some say, who was just saving his own skin.

    At Dwek’s home, there’s no sign of the informant – and no guarantee, says one former prosecutor, that he’ll join witness protection.

    “There have been Mafia informants who didn’t put themselves in the Witness Protection Program, so if ever there’s a circumstance where one would fear for their personal safety, that would be it,” former prosecutor Randy Mastro says. “These are principally financial crimes.”

    In a culture where one can be shunned for marrying outside the faith, it seems a fair bet that Dwek is now an outcast in the Syrian Jewish community, and perhaps even with his own family.


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    I have heard (second hand) that his parents tore kereia for him, and are in mourning.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Dwek may turn out to be the “hero” of this whole affair. Their is no sense of shame or embarrasment among these yiddin. They are angry that their rabbis were caught engaing in these alleged crimes. Where is the sense of “we need to be doing T’shuva”?? If this moser serves as a catalyst for cleaning up this mess, it will have been worth it.

    hershel
    hershel
    14 years ago

    He has the Halacha of a Musir who is Chayev Misa even in gulis. I hope that he won’t find anyone to share or talk with and there should be hard protests in front of his house so he ends up like an outcast he is. Shame on u. U have done the worst thing the Jewish community has heard of. U have no place in yiddishkeit

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Is it true that their were more ares sts friday?

    zoly
    zoly
    14 years ago

    He is a real monster and a heartless thug who set up his own rabbi just to save himself for some crooket financial stuff he commited shame on him, if u combine all the alleged crimes commited by all the ppl round up, its not even gonna add up to a tenth of what the “drewk” crook was charged of ganvening 2 yrs ago b4 he became the biggest “muser” of our time!

    Lost in Space
    Lost in Space
    14 years ago

    Doesn’t anyone feel shame about what these “rabbanim” and other “Orthodox Yidden” have been doing? Why blame someone who recognized that he had cheated others and sought to do a tikkun by showing systematic corruption and lying? Our mosdos are supposed to be teaching klallim like “dina d’malkusa dina” – and we’re “embarrassed” by someone who shows how yeshivos are laundering money for Mobster?

    Jack
    Jack
    14 years ago

    Where is this shagetz hanging out these days?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    how many og us wouldnt squeel if our lives depended on it.
    I bet you 90 percent of us would do the same if our neck was onthe line.
    before everyone curses me out think hard about it then writw away

    Dwek - Drek
    Dwek - Drek
    14 years ago

    The entire community is ashamed of such A Drek (Dwek) was able to cause so much pain by Enticing Inocent (yes otherwise inocent) people to take money from this Crooked Frank / this animal had to beg people to take his dirty stuff – most people didn’t want to take it even . this is so called corroption ……

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    In Iraq it is customary that if they find an informer who gave out resistance fighters to Americans, his own family kills him as to avoid bloody multiyear feuds with families of informer’s victims. Something for Dweks to think about…

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Yes, the FBI will forgive him for his crimes that he did, but the family’s whom he stole from and robed will not forgive him, How can the FBI give him such a deal on behalf of the people he stole from, we cannot stand still and let this crook be free…..

    cool masmid
    cool masmid
    14 years ago

    There’s one point to this story that needs to be brought to everyones attention – and I don’t think it has so far, and that is that as much as the feds and the media will like you to believe otherwise, the fact of the matter is they (the feds) did not infiltrate an existing money laundering scheme that’s been in the works for many years – what the feds were able to do with Dwek’s help was to prey on otherwise innocent people,people who had never previously engaged in money laundering. Furthermore Dweck used his situation that he is looking at long prison time and he needs away to launder money. In many cases people were hesitant but he begged them and out of rachmnus they did it – even if they took a percent.You can see how hard he tried to pull people down. My sources tell me that he was out to get certain people and

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Even if every one of the accused is 100% guilty, there is no possible excuse for Meseira. Would you be meshaddach with his children (forget Sefardi/ Askenazi)? To be a moser is to be an immediate outcast. My sympathies are with his family.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Clearly…regardless of the crime, the three weeks means nothing to you guys…take a hint from all the horrible things that have been happening in jewish communities all over the world and do some teshuvah! Yes, no one is fault free here but do you people not sense an underlying message?! Creating more sina’a is NOT going to help solve things…note to the vosizneias website administrators: You might think twice about allowing for comments…it’s not helpinig to unify the jewish people as a whole…

    inside scoop
    inside scoop
    14 years ago

    Just for the record, rabbi kassin at first told him to take his crap elswere, only after drek begged him to “help” him and said that he can’t put bread on the table did rabbi kassin try to help the bastard! Hope drek can’t live with himself and commits suicide!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Hey #16 , Youre a self hating jew that would do just what this monster did. You know good and well that this is not the way to “TEACH” our community lessons. And besides mayne the government should stop eating the rich people’s money,…..than they wouldnt feel the need to do these things…How about rage towards that, as apposed to your OWN PEOPLE. SIKO

    chuchem Lazer
    chuchem Lazer
    14 years ago

    Talking in bais hamidrash is also a chilul hasem so evry one should tighten their own belt. As far the rabonim goes it not right for what they did the did geniva, I need to suport my family so is it right to steal? How woul you like if I walk in to you hous taking your wallet? I will say I NEED TO SUPORT MY FAMILY! This is exactly what these “Rabbis” did including the spinka

    Robert
    Member
    Robert
    14 years ago

    wasnt it just 2 or 3 years ago the spinka group in calif or brooklyn got messed up in a similar disgrace.money laundering tax fraud etc…..regardless of dweck why arent the rabbis leading by a moral example?? even if dweck enticed them i still see a moral failing if all that is alleged is true…i am far from perfect myself however there is a difference between ones own failings and institutionalizing this kind of behavior..

    i know
    i know
    14 years ago

    Its funny how the fBI claim it was ten years in the making. Firstly, ten years ago mayer camarano was 22 and in college, and some of the accused were in their teens, secondly if it was actually a work-in-progress for ten years, that’s shamefull, beacause the whaole stink is about 3 million divided by 44 ppl! That’s nada! They may as well put half of america b-hind bars! The FBI would be more usefull chasing down REAL criminals like dwek then shaming themselvs by making a small time bust into a career highlight. Disgust!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    both sides in this business ought to be ashamed. if the accused are guilty, then jail is where they ought to be, and informing on them was the right thing to do; the problem is that dweck is a crook himself, and did not do this out of any desire to do the right thing, but rather to cut a nice deal for himself, in which case, he had no right to be moser.

    Loshon Hora
    Loshon Hora
    14 years ago

    An important point has to be made.
    The FBI felt that we have crooks between us, and they couldn’t infilterate, they can’t stand the high standard of honesty by us.
    I had problems with crooks in business someyears back I called the FBI, because it was across state lines, they explained that due to understaffing they can’t take on cases less than 6 figures, divide this money =
    The stock market is riddled with corruption, from the top down. Goldman Sachs has software to practically front run, they just had someone arrested fearing it would get into the wrong hands, that was said without shame in court. Goldmans men & cronies are in all government possitions, most small retail stock holders have been wiped out or close to it over the last two years. If you complain, the feds will say they are under staffed, & here they had staff to set up a sting on previously unsuspected people.
    “THAT SAID WHO WAS THE INFORMANT? !!THE ONE & ONLY TO EVER GET A BANK TO GIVE HIM 25 MILLION WITHOUT ANY COLLATERAL.
    IF HE WAS ABLE TO CONVIMNCE A BANK HE HAD SOME POWER THAT OTHERS DON’T HAVE. HIS TAPES WERE ILLEGALLY MADE & WHO KNOWS HOW THEY WERE ALTERED, AS WE CAN READ FROM THE INDITMENTS THE RABBIS HAD PURE RACHMONUS ON THIS MANIPULATIVE MONSTER.ESPECIALLY THE OLD RABBI.
    I will add that I personally wouldn’t do business with a crook like that, if he claimed hunger, I would tell him that he could apply for charity.
    I will BL”N try to be even more careful, than I am to stay away from people who don’t conduct honest business.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    He approached dozens of shulls, and yeshivas, however most of them said no to illegal deals. And something that we should all be proud of, most of our shulls and yshivas are in desperate need of funds and yet they had the honesty and integrity to say NO. And the ones that said yes were mostly doing him a favor they fell for his sobbing heart breaking story.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    I am not her to defend nor to offend Dwek. Dwek was here before a big test (nesoyen) all he wanted was to save his A%# and maybe he should of be stronger then that but who am I to judge I was and should never bee in such a situation. But, unfortunately we live in a time where mesirah became so easy there is tens of musrim in our shuls that are mosrim just because they want to get even with people. I think this story should serve as a wake up call. I believe that hashem is a rachim vechanun more then any one of us and this whole thing is a gezeirah min hashumayim let us all be misboinen for what sin this was I think that anyone with brains will agree to me that there is strong grounds to believe that it was for the sin of not expelling real open speaking mosrim according to hallacha. Don’t get carried away with emotions please

    the truth
    the truth
    14 years ago

    If everything is so corrupt. How do u know that the fbi is not corrupt. Maybe he spoke to them for hrs asked for mercy and then the last 2 or 3 conversations he recorded. I know several who were arrested. they would never do such a think especially when u walk up to them “hey mr’ I need u to do this crime’ no one in their right mind would do it. Even if they would they would never talk openly. Let’s do a crime. Om yisroel is a ppl who love to help ppl in despair.. And he got a hold of ppl who can’t stand fast with his begging for mercy. I know of someone he was running after over a year to help him. but he refused.

    a shame for all
    a shame for all
    14 years ago

    I just cry for all the shame that is out there for the world to see. I am thinking about trafficking of human organs….What can motivate people to do such things and yes I know it is money but I cry when I think my fellow Jews would do such hideous crimes.You are focusing on the masser and while I find him despicable, I cannot help but think about what the others were doing and I am talking about the organs. I hope we as Jewish people have higher morals and can put H’ in front of us before the temptation of selling your soul to the “sutton”. How low can we go?Yes I cry over everything here and not just Dweck.I cry for the what Jews have lost and how our children must look at these “frum” individuals who have lost the fear of Heaven.How Gd must have been put aside for greed.Is this not the real tragedy here?Eicha will have special meaning for me because our B.H has once again been contaminated and soiled by these crimes. As soon as I saw their photos,I broke down and cried- for the Tzizis hanging out in such a disgraced way-because it symbolized a Jew who has lost his way and got caught up in a dirty business where we do not belong.Our tzizis is supposed to symbolize our uniforms of being a light unto other nations.I think we have much to cry about.Don’t you think so?It hurt my children to see this-we look down in shame.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    When a police officer shoots radar he is waiting for someone that is speeding and breaking the law. The FBI and IRS in this case, were not looking to catch people that were breaking the law. they enticed and convinced innocent desperate people to break the law so that they can make advancement in there own career they also waited until they had a large number of people to arrest and tried to link them all together as a large international money laundrying and body parts mafia so that they could make a large splash and news conference. They deserve the same that Dwek has coming to him.

    ..........gevaldig
    ..........gevaldig
    14 years ago

    good…let them go to court and say what they did was legal….let’s see how far they get with that LUDIKREOUS idea

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Many of the people that were ensnared by dwek could legitimately claim “temporary insanity”. Dwek first came to public attention in 2006 when he was arrested for trying to scam PNC Bank out of more than $50 million. He deposited a phony $25 million check and then spent $22 million of it before he was caught. He allegedly tried a similar scam soon after.
    Solomon Dwek was well known in the Syrian community .Inasmuch as the people arrested from the Syrian community knew about his past fraud and still trusted a person like Solomon Dwek means that they were temporarily insane at the time dwek ensnared them. A sane person would not trust or have any business dealings with such a criminal.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    why is this dwek’s fault and why be harsh on him? these rabbis and yiddin are an embarrassment for the jewish people… now everyone hates us. Dwek didn’t make them do anything illegal – they did it themselves. they all deserve the justice they are given IF THEY ARE PROVEN guilty by a court of law.

    i’m sorry, I still don’t understand how people could possibly find an illegal organ transplant ring possibly ethical.. and why it’s dwek’s fault just for being involved with them. they still broke the law and did things highly illegal. dwek might be wrong but everyone else has free will.

    berniesboy
    berniesboy
    14 years ago

    This seems to a story we have to really learn from. Daven and learn better

    moishela
    moishela
    14 years ago

    What’s so wrong with trafficking organs? It helped ppl and the donors agreed for the money? Were exactly is the crime?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    i read that he tried to cash a 25M check at the bank drive-through. 25m? I’m not going to suggest sitting at the desk, but at least go see a teller! a tipish!

    Pioneer Bear
    Pioneer Bear
    14 years ago

    So this is what someone does to try and get himself out of trouble. Let him “DREK” sleep in a tent all year, and have the local animals enjoy him.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    remember Obama Couldnt find a treasury secy. its impossible to be 100% legal

    shocked
    shocked
    14 years ago

    I am amazed that people see nothing wrong with human organ trafficking.I wrote about what this chilul H’ is on this site-another article and someone called me a self-hating Jew. I am really amazed that people do not know the laws? first of all and do not see how much profit was being made at the expense of poor and desperate people.And I am called names because I said it is horrible.?People think cheating on taxes is not so bad?I also think Dweck is awful but those who did business with him also committed a sin.Forget the FBI- how about doing things like that as frum Jews?How about being aware that H’ sees everything?Is anybody seeing what I see?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    I don’t understand why everyone is blaming “rabbonim” for organ trafficking. It was ONE person doing it not even a rabbi. I also don’t want to justify crime, but how in the world are moisdos supposed to survive doing everything legally? The economy is down, parents aren’t paying… It seems some are FORCED to cheat in order to survive.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    The East Coast Robert Kasiser

    vestin
    vestin
    14 years ago

    Look up the halacha in Rambam, Hilcohos Chovel U’ mazik, perek ches and Shulchan Aruch Siman Shin Pay Ches. There is no heter to be a moiser period, a moser is called a rasha, and Aiyn lo chelek b’olam Haba. For what is permitted to be done to a moiser, look up the halacha yourself, he is basically considered a rodeif,

    And for those who say that say this doesnt apply to our democratic governments, see igros moshe choshen mishpat chelek aleph, ches.

    He is a moiser, rasha, rodeif, and at a minimum should be put in a world wide cheirim.

    mesirah
    mesirah
    14 years ago

    dont be so excited about dweck. i know some chassidishe rabbis with the full levush that are real mosrim! big time! why should’nt he be one?

    Lipa
    Lipa
    14 years ago

    A bissel koosher gelt, mit mitzvos oif der vevlt……

    ASHAMED
    ASHAMED
    14 years ago

    Oy vey! Yidden wake up! We are in Golus, and we can deal with all types of situation, we can deal with anti semitism, goyim that claim to like us and then proven otherwise, goyim that hate us from the start, people that want to kill us arabs that want to kill us, all that we can live with and unfortunately have dealt with it throughout our existense, the one thing klaa yisroel has to really fear is a Moiser! He is the guy that officially belongs within our communities and unfortunately our gedolim at times are not strong or not able to solve such problems as the only solution is our tfillar of three times a day that Velamalshiniml Al Tehi Tikva!!! If this Dwek is a malshin he is chayev misa, I hope tha the SY community will defend the Syrian Community and their leaders better than us Ashkenazim who dont have the guts!
    And to the parents, if its true that they tore kriah, my heart shudders and shares their pain!
    How low can we go????
    Witness protection programs are not easy for a Yid, a moiser should never be accepted anywhere chas veshalom. Even what is termed an ed median (witness of the state) is brought down that he is still chayev!

    Learned About Mesirah The Hard Way
    Learned About Mesirah The Hard Way
    14 years ago

    yes, mesirah is a very serious crime. I learned my lesson the hard way. i had a neighbor who was blocking my driveway constantly. After numerous times of asking him not to do so, I finally called the cops who had his car towed.

    That did it. I was called a moser, I was kicked out of shul and eventually had to leave brooklyn because I was made an outcast wherever I went. Eventually, I had my name changed and my family moved to a new city to get a new start.

    Now, if I suffered all this (and probably lost my olam habah) over a blocked driveway, you can bet what’s gonna happen to this guy.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Does he have children? Where could they go?

    e hy
    e hy
    14 years ago

    After reading about 100 postings, I come away feeling even worse than I did before reading this article. Two thirds of the postings defend the criminals who engaged in money laundering, bank fraud and organ sales and blame it all on Dweck for “entrapping” them or being a Moser. Where is the sense of outrage about the behavior of these people themselves. Dweck will rot in XXXX but these ehrleche yidden may not be headed directly to gan aden.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Threatening a federal witness with death is a crime. Keep that in mind when you leave comments.

    Victor S.
    Victor S.
    14 years ago

    Can someone explain? I fail to see why everyone is so mad with Mr. Dwek? all he did, was that he helped the US Govmt. to get criminals of the streets so what??

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    oychit a moseret a gita shidduch for dweck

    formally
    formally
    14 years ago

    most posts are very funny. Everybody wants to blame Dwek, get real. The reason the rabbonin got arrested was because they where involved in criminal activities Also Moser does not apply in our times if one looks at the reason for the for Mosser. Also what the rabbonin did is probably a Torah prohibition and moser is a rabbinic prohibition.

    I an sorry to say but I think people just do not want to admit that this rabbonon where involved in criminal activities (you guys always give excuses no matter what a frum person was arrested for, and if found guilty you say antisemitism) therefore all your venom are against Dwerk, and not ant the people who committed the crime.

    For those who say innocent until proven guilty, the same should be applied to Dw erk

    formally
    formally
    14 years ago

    The headline is wrong it should be

    Jewish Community Feels Betrayed By Rabbonem (who are accused of doing criminal activities)

    Don’t forget if the rabonem behaved the way a frum person is supposed to behave there could not be a mosser.

    Sephardim
    Sephardim
    14 years ago

    to 118. Excuse me, but what are you saying?Does it matter if someone is from Syria or Europe?WE ARE ONE PEOPLE and we have the same Torah.I lived on Ocean P’kway and I always heard people say “I am Syrian”and I always asked the same cliche”- Do the Syrians consider you Syrian? You are a Jew first and we need to love and support one another as ONE nation. We are ALL going through this nightmare because we as Jews feel the pain of what some of them did. Stop talking so ugly just because someone else did.It is wrong. We are ONE nation.You should love your brother no matter where he comes from.