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What Brooklyn Developer Pleaded Guilty To Money Laundering Charges?
January 20, 2010 by Neil · Leave a Comment
A Brooklyn developer arrested in July, 2009 in a federal corruption sting pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder money in order to bribe a Union City, NJ official. By most reports, this official appears to be Sen. Brian Stack, who is also mayor of Union City.
Shimon Haber, 34, of Brooklyn, was arrested in July in the federal corruption sting pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to launder money.
Haber is the 10th to plead guilty of the 44 people charged with conspiracy on July 23, 2009.
In pleading guilty, he admitted meeting with failed Monmouth County developer Solomon Dwek and co-conspirators Michael Altman, 39, of Monsey, N.Y., and Isaac Friedlander, 42, of Union City, to launder money.
Haber admitted conspiring with Altman and Friedlander to accept funds from Dwek and using the Union City charity Gmach Shefa Chaim to funnel the funds to a Union City official in exchange for development approvals for a project Haber and Dwek were partners in.
Hat Tip: The Jersey Journal
Jewish Whistle Blower posted a list on the Failed Messiah Blog of the members of the Orthodox Jewish community charged in this corruption probe:
1) Rabbi Eliahu Ben Haim, of Long Branch, N.J., the principal rabbi of a synagogue in Deal, N.J., charged with money laundering of proceeds derived from criminal activity
2) Rabbi Saul Kassin, of Brooklyn, N.Y., the chief rabbi of a synagogue in Brooklyn, New York, charged with money laundering of proceeds derived from criminal activity.
3) Rabbi Edmund Nahum, of Deal, N.J., the principal rabbi of a synagogue in Deal, charged with money laundering of proceeds derived from criminal activity.
4) Rabbi Mordchai Fish, of Brooklyn, N.Y., a rabbi at a synagogue in Brooklyn, charged with money laundering of proceeds derived from criminal activity. His brother, also a rabbi, was charged as well.
5) Rabbi Lavel Schwartz (Fish’s brother)
6) Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, with conspiring to broker the sale of a human kidney for a transplant
7) Levi Deutsch, an Israeli living in Israel.
Moshe “Michael” Altman, a Hudson County real estate developer.
9) Charles “Shaul” Amon, previously worked for the cooperating witness managing properties in Lakewood. Amon aided in the Lakewood payoff scheme by introducing Williamson to the cooperating witness. Amon described how he had previously made payoffs to Williamson to go light on housing inspections.
10) Arye Weiss – operated cash house from his residence in Brooklyn for Haim money laundering transactions; charged with supplying $300,000 in cash.
11) Yeshayahu Ehrental- operated cash house from his office in Brooklyn for Haim money laundering transactions; charged with supplying $300,000 in cash.
12) Schmulik Cohen – operated cash house from his residence in Brooklyn for Haim money laundering transactions; charged with supplying $850,000 in cash.
13) Binyomin Spira – operated a cash house from a bakery in Brooklyn in which he received cash from Levi Deutsch and supplied cash for Fish money laundering transactions, charged with supplying $200,000 in cash
14) Yolie Gertner – acted as a cash courier for Fish money laundering transactions, charged with moving $185,000 in cash
15) David Goldhirsh – acted as a cash courier for Fish money laundering transactions, charged with moving $100,000 in cash
16) Abe Pollack – operated cash house from his office in Brooklyn (which he shared with Naftoly Weber) for Fish money laundering transactions, charged with supplying $125,000 in cash
17) Naftoly Weber – operated cash house from his office in Brooklyn (which he shared with Abe Pollack) for Fish money laundering transactions, charged with supplying $125,000 in cash.
18) Shimon Haber
19) Itzak Friedlander
In the interests of fairness, and the “shanda fur die goyim” concern, here is a link to Jewish Nobel Prize winners.
Not listed: Dr. Bernard Madoff.
