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Jul 27, 2009 at 06:36 PM
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2410 Central Avenue in Union City. Authorities say the money laundering was in a second-floor office while people laundered their clothes below.
The man described as a real estate developer in Hudson County, worked out of an office above JP Laundromat, at 2410 Central Ave. in Union City. In the criminal complaint, the man even jokes about it. When an associated says the FBI informant has so much money to be laundered that he "needs a laundromat."
They "got one down here," the man says, according to the complaint.
The feds allege that one of the charities that the man used to launder the money was a Gemach in Union City. the man is accused of laundering $668,000 for the FBI informant, Solomon Dwek, over a two-year period from 2007 to 2009.
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Jul 27, 2009 at 06:53 PM Anonymous Says:
Is every last detail about Dwek going to be then only news for the next few months...this is worse than the way the media covered Michael Jackson's death.
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Jul 27, 2009 at 07:31 PM its a kidush H!!!! Says:
out of 24000 Rabbis in the tri state eria only a .001% were tempted to clean $$$
besides the big attention goes to proov that even the ultra liberal media think that jews are superior race by virtue of their PRETENDING SHOCKED!
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Jul 27, 2009 at 07:10 PM Sam Says:
What a Shame how could a jew this to another, there is no heter In the torah to do that, and we have to belive they are all inicent until a jewish baith din say otherwise
Our treasury secretery did the same and no one had a problam with him
We live in a cummunist country where this goverment taxing the hell out of you
Dina D'malchusa is not written in shulchen Urach anyware,
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Jul 27, 2009 at 07:01 PM cub fan Says:
everyone seems to write and comment about this one guy, do you think for a minute the feds would only rely on him, they knew about the others they just needed someone to help and confirm the entire situation, what i wonder is did any of this money actually go to help those in need or were they lining their own pockets? will those who borrowed from these G'Machs be investigated as well? and who will help those that really need the loan's?????
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Jul 27, 2009 at 07:01 PM Anonymous Says:
I personaly have a friend who was approched by Dwek one afternoon and Dwek begged him for an emergency loan of $25,000 in cash. Dwek claimed that if he is not getting that amount till 4:00 he is going to loose a lot of money. he promised to pay it back by the next day with a third party check!
Burich Hashem my friend refused to do it for him!
How can you blame the people who did have pity on him and tryied to help a poor jew from loosing his investments...
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Jul 27, 2009 at 08:42 PM Anonymous Says:
“ I personaly have a friend who was approched by Dwek one afternoon and Dwek begged him for an emergency loan of $25,000 in cash. Dwek claimed that if he is not getting that amount till 4:00 he is going to loose a lot of money. he promised to pay it back by the next day with a third party check!
Burich Hashem my friend refused to do it for him!
How can you blame the people who did have pity on him and tryied to help a poor jew from loosing his investments... ”
How can we blame...very easily. If its a scam, 99% of those approached will tell him to take a hike...the ones who didn't were lured in the by the promise of easy money, albeit illegal. They deserve what they get.
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Jul 27, 2009 at 08:44 PM Anonymous Says:
No 1. displays the typical degree of cynicism that many of the frum commenters here do. Instead of making cheshbon nefesh he/she wants to sweep it under the rug. The chilul hashem here is so big there is enough to talk about for months. People would flock to see a movie about illegal organ trafficking let alone it happenning in the rela world.
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Jul 27, 2009 at 08:35 PM Anonymous Says:
“ out of 24000 Rabbis in the tri state eria only a .001% were tempted to clean $$$
besides the big attention goes to proov that even the ultra liberal media think that jews are superior race by virtue of their PRETENDING SHOCKED! ”
Superior race? You are a fool, biget and racist. It is jews like you that cause all the Chillul Hashem?
Don't knock others to bring yourself up. Be an ethical, moral, and upstanding human being and you will be respected.
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Jul 27, 2009 at 08:31 PM Anonymous Says:
“ out of 24000 Rabbis in the tri state eria only a .001% were tempted to clean $$$
besides the big attention goes to proov that even the ultra liberal media think that jews are superior race by virtue of their PRETENDING SHOCKED! ”
Stop talking about Jews as a race. I recall some Germans who thought that in the 1930's. The only race is the human race and the rat race.
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Jul 27, 2009 at 08:29 PM Anonymous Says:
“ out of 24000 Rabbis in the tri state eria only a .001% were tempted to clean $$$
besides the big attention goes to proov that even the ultra liberal media think that jews are superior race by virtue of their PRETENDING SHOCKED! ”
Where do you get the 24,000 figure from?
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Jul 27, 2009 at 06:56 PM berniesboy Says:
What next? So hard to read this stuff. Oy mosiach
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Jul 27, 2009 at 09:03 PM Anonymous Says:
“ Is every last detail about Dwek going to be then only news for the next few months...this is worse than the way the media covered Michael Jackson's death. ”
Yes. It would be in the news for months even if it were just the politicians that were nabbed. It's going to come up every time there is a court hearing, a plea agreement or a trial so get used to it. The only question are we going to give more fodder to the media by rabbis and jewish editors and bloggers writing about snitching and saying things like the crimes they are accused of aren't so bad or aren't against Halacha so it doesn't matter or the fbi are a bunch of anti-semites, or are we going to work on self-improvement.
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Jul 27, 2009 at 09:31 PM esther the 2nd Says:
“ How can we blame...very easily. If its a scam, 99% of those approached will tell him to take a hike...the ones who didn't were lured in the by the promise of easy money, albeit illegal. They deserve what they get. ”
Uch, I can't stand when you love to blame. It is so ugly!
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Jul 27, 2009 at 09:25 PM sofmaarav Says:
For #1: This news will go away but here in sof maarav we know how the families will suffer for a long time. They will need close to one million dollars each to defend themselves and then maybe make a deal that they will go away for a couple of years!! The real news will start when everyone else forgets. This lowlife saw that another one got away with this behavior and figured he will as well. We can't allow that this to just die away when so many people will suffer. Even the meaningless news is better than everyone to just forget. He will come back to his family and it will be our fault the next time someone does this C'V!!
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Jul 27, 2009 at 10:35 PM Anonymous Says:
are we going to have to pay to get these people out of prison - is there an obligation of pidyon shevuyim? help with the legal fees? the only ones who do well with this is the lawyers....
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Jul 28, 2009 at 08:38 AM Legal Fees Says:
“ For #1: This news will go away but here in sof maarav we know how the families will suffer for a long time. They will need close to one million dollars each to defend themselves and then maybe make a deal that they will go away for a couple of years!! The real news will start when everyone else forgets. This lowlife saw that another one got away with this behavior and figured he will as well. We can't allow that this to just die away when so many people will suffer. Even the meaningless news is better than everyone to just forget. He will come back to his family and it will be our fault the next time someone does this C'V!!
”
Assuming they cop a plea the legal fees for competent counsel should not cost more than 200k. If they go to trial it could be as much as million bucks. I have a feeling that alot will cop a plea.
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Jul 28, 2009 at 08:33 AM third party checks Says:
“ I personaly have a friend who was approched by Dwek one afternoon and Dwek begged him for an emergency loan of $25,000 in cash. Dwek claimed that if he is not getting that amount till 4:00 he is going to loose a lot of money. he promised to pay it back by the next day with a third party check!
Burich Hashem my friend refused to do it for him!
How can you blame the people who did have pity on him and tryied to help a poor jew from loosing his investments... ”
Are you saying that if he would've done it, that it would constitute money laundering? I had no idea about that. If anyone knows the "nuts and bolts" of money laundering, please elaborate on this issue.
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Jul 28, 2009 at 09:50 AM Aryeh Says:
How may of you have loaned money to our friends or family? How do we know what they did to repay us? Nobody can condemn anyone for these allegations. Any Jew with a heart would give in to a crying father pleading for a loan or for us to cash a check for him, that is not a crime, it is a frame-up! Don't blame the CW either, he was under duress of imminent and lengthy incarceration, and chose his children over others. The real crime is the FBI policy of cooking up crimes in order to uncover criminals.
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Jul 28, 2009 at 11:16 AM platzing Says:
“ What a Shame how could a jew this to another, there is no heter In the torah to do that, and we have to belive they are all inicent until a jewish baith din say otherwise
Our treasury secretery did the same and no one had a problam with him
We live in a cummunist country where this goverment taxing the hell out of you
Dina D'malchusa is not written in shulchen Urach anyware, ”
There's no question that dwek is machalal shem. However,condemning him without b eibg in his shoes and walked a mile is also a BIG aveirah. The F. B. I's are definetly a b unch of dreks. They act and are leagally above the law.